HOA forces owners to keep garage open during the day

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Pulsar

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I am the president of a HOA by default, a pretty shtty job when some residents believe they are perfect snowflakes. Anyhow, that person would have been easily dealt with by having the building inspector tell him to take the unpermited cover down. The cover would be unpermitted, because it would require HOA approval letter first for the permit. Me...2 minute phone call to report him. Him...hours of jumping through the bureaucratic process if he's so determined. An attorney, if he could find one, will just steal all money in this situation. We've trashed all angry letters threatening to sue.

I'm dying to know..... as I recall you are the same female poster in the love and relationship subforum who constantly insinuated that men are the root of all evil. Am I remembering that right? Because from what i remember of your personality, you would totally fit as an HOA head who gets off on telling people how to live.
 
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Tell them that since the garages are not usable that you want the HOA to pay for the removal of the garages to reduce the owner's tax burden.
 

snoopy7548

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When I say taken care of yourself I don't mean you literally doing it yourself. I mean like everyone else that doesn't live in a HOA and pays someone to mow their lawn, clean up around their house, pay their own internet etc.

Around here, HOA fees for townhome communities (there aren't many single-family detached home HOA communities, and if there are they're usually only like $40/month and just cover the main street plowing) tend to start out at $350/month with most being around $400-500/month for your average $300k unit. The fees themselves are more expensive than the real estate taxes! They only include master insurance, exterior maintenance, clubhouse, street plowing (I think you still have to do your own driveway and walkway), and sometimes cable TV. Totally not worth it considering you can pay people to mow/fertilize your lawn for far less, which is really the only benefit you're getting. Public neighborhoods not in an HOA are always plowed by the town.
 

Six

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It's funny... There's no sense of power and/or enjoyment in making someone followed the rules. It's exhausting. It's like telling a squatter to get off your property. It's work.

Power, for the unacquainted, is going to a Vegas, and a major casino picks you up from the airport, drops you off to a beautiful hostess waiting at the private entrance to your 10,000+ whatever sqft penthouse suite. The hostess can then magically read your mind as to what you want to do for the weekend. And all the while, you're slipping champagne that taste like tiny, little firecrackers of air off a glass that never drops more than 20%. That's power - other people doing work for you that you could have done yourself.

Anyhow, thanks for the entertainment.
 

GagHalfrunt

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It's funny... There's no sense of power and/or enjoyment in making someone followed the rules. It's exhausting. It's like telling a squatter to get off your property. It's work.

Power, for the unacquainted, is going to a Vegas, and a major casino picks you up from the airport, drops you off to a beautiful hostess waiting at the private entrance to your 10,000+ whatever sqft penthouse suite. The hostess can then magically read your mind as to what you want to do for the weekend. And all the while, you're slipping champagne that taste like tiny, little firecrackers of air off a glass that never drops more than 20%. That's power - other people doing work for you that you could have done yourself.

Anyhow, thanks for the entertainment.

ROFL!! That's not power. Anyone can hire prostitutes and that's all pampering in Vegas is. You're paying people to be your whores for a brief period. You're just paying them through losses at the tables rather than directly.

You get off on telling people what to do, otherwise you wouldn't do it.
 

boomerang

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IDK but boomerang said they played in the nude and had high speed cameras for the replays.....

Well, they tried it once but the old guys kept tripping over their sacks and the old ladies kept tripping over their... well you get the picture. The cameraman got so excited he had the camera 180 degrees off and all we got were a few pictures of him and then the bocce court afterwards.
 

Kaido

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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...a_soldiers_home_was_foreclosed_on_by_his_hoa/

A case in point involves a soldier who, in 2008, was informed his fully paid-for $300,000 home in Frisco, Texas, had been foreclosed on and sold for $3,500 by his HOA over unpaid dues of $800 while he was serving in Iraq. In 2010, the case was settled and the soldier regained ownership of the home. Federal laws protecting military personnel may have been his defense; however, a gag order prevents details from being known.
 

Darwin333

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A case in point involves a soldier who, in 2008, was informed his fully paid-for $300,000 home in Frisco, Texas, had been foreclosed on and sold for $3,500 by his HOA over unpaid dues of $800 while he was serving in Iraq. In 2010, the case was settled and the soldier regained ownership of the home. Federal laws protecting military personnel may have been his defense; however, a gag order prevents details from being known.

Sold for $3,500 and there is a gag order as part of the settlement. I bet a months pay that it was sold to one of the board members.
 

KIAman

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Haha, I live right next to Placer County. This area is trying very hard to be the upscale suburban-like image and as a whole, very conservative in thought and politically. This does not surprise me one bit. It's a terrible approach but I guarantee a bunch of snobby ass neighbors reported the situation and not really witch hunt from the HOA.
 
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