rangerbill
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- Joined
- Oct 14, 2003
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- 52
be very careful about these homeowners associations
they can and do go crazy.
sufice it to say we busted up the little click and closed the monster down with the 6 o'clock news team doing an expose.
it was pathetic. they tried to take 284 lots out of 325 total. for non payment of dues. we didn't pay dues because 7 years back the HOA quit maintaining anything at all, not even mowing the grass. the place was a shambles. there were never any by-laws written the board just made up rules as they went, often to only stengthen their hold on us. they bullied us lied to us etc. "we are legal we have a federal attorney working on this" they would say.
it was embarassing they had little coup attempts at the annual meeting with camcorders hidden in picnic baskets. property values were thru the floor. a lot in the subdivision ran about 1000.00. i bought a same size lot in another area with neighbors that lived in bus bodies and cars turned upside down in the yards for 4500.00.
these people filed leins on property and they had not had legal corporate standing in five years. why did we not sue? because it would take 5000.00 to start procedings. we had a good case. but the HOA had only about that much cash on hand and the little park area as assets. that would have all been spent in their defense so we would have won the case but lost monitarily as the HOA could not reimberse our legal fees.
luckily i got the 6 o'clock TV news team to do a story on the HOA that embarassed them into quitting. that plus i stole their corporate name, i became ********* park estates homeowners association. the twits on the board saw that and thought i owned the association land and all. i didn't realize that until after they had all resigned at the meeting. the ex-president asked how i came to own it. i explained i only owned the written word, not anything more. what a twit.
i got a look at the records that were left after the "burglary of the office" and got the cancelled checks. these people were writting them selves checks for 500.00 or 1000.00 dollars at a pop. and the leins were supposed to have been typed by a typing service for 8.00 a page, two pages each. total of around 5000.00. alright i found out the typing service was actually one girl. the presidents sons fiance. hmmm. i did send this to the state attorney generals office, anti-trust division. to which they did absolutly nothing.
thats how bad it can get. i regretfully had to live through it. the point i want to make here is YES an HOA can ban anything it darn well please's and treat you any way it pleases. they can do it if you either will not fight them, can't afford to fight them or its just not feasible to fight them.
they can and do go crazy.
sufice it to say we busted up the little click and closed the monster down with the 6 o'clock news team doing an expose.
it was pathetic. they tried to take 284 lots out of 325 total. for non payment of dues. we didn't pay dues because 7 years back the HOA quit maintaining anything at all, not even mowing the grass. the place was a shambles. there were never any by-laws written the board just made up rules as they went, often to only stengthen their hold on us. they bullied us lied to us etc. "we are legal we have a federal attorney working on this" they would say.
it was embarassing they had little coup attempts at the annual meeting with camcorders hidden in picnic baskets. property values were thru the floor. a lot in the subdivision ran about 1000.00. i bought a same size lot in another area with neighbors that lived in bus bodies and cars turned upside down in the yards for 4500.00.
these people filed leins on property and they had not had legal corporate standing in five years. why did we not sue? because it would take 5000.00 to start procedings. we had a good case. but the HOA had only about that much cash on hand and the little park area as assets. that would have all been spent in their defense so we would have won the case but lost monitarily as the HOA could not reimberse our legal fees.
luckily i got the 6 o'clock TV news team to do a story on the HOA that embarassed them into quitting. that plus i stole their corporate name, i became ********* park estates homeowners association. the twits on the board saw that and thought i owned the association land and all. i didn't realize that until after they had all resigned at the meeting. the ex-president asked how i came to own it. i explained i only owned the written word, not anything more. what a twit.
i got a look at the records that were left after the "burglary of the office" and got the cancelled checks. these people were writting them selves checks for 500.00 or 1000.00 dollars at a pop. and the leins were supposed to have been typed by a typing service for 8.00 a page, two pages each. total of around 5000.00. alright i found out the typing service was actually one girl. the presidents sons fiance. hmmm. i did send this to the state attorney generals office, anti-trust division. to which they did absolutly nothing.
thats how bad it can get. i regretfully had to live through it. the point i want to make here is YES an HOA can ban anything it darn well please's and treat you any way it pleases. they can do it if you either will not fight them, can't afford to fight them or its just not feasible to fight them.