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Seminole, Florida -- The president of a neighborhood home owner's association got a startling response to a letter sent out to residents.
Earlier in the week, Gerard Esposito sent out a letter to all homeowners in the Windtree Oaks neighborhood that many mailboxes were non-compliant with deed restrictions. The letter said "appropriate action" would be taken against residents who did not install a brick mailbox as required.
I don't get this. The people CHOSE to live in a subdivision with an HOA. They AGREED to abide by the rules when they bought the house. If they didn't like the rules, they should not have bought the house.
Some people want to restrict themselves and should have the right to do so. That is all an HOA is. The right to restrict yourself. People are agreeing to be restricted when they live there.
The response is totally inappropriate. It's baby behavior.
I don't get this.
The people CHOSE to live in a subdivision with an HOA. They AGREED to abide by the rules when they bought the house. If they didn't like the rules, they should not have bought the house.
or... the only way they could buy was to accept a house with a price that reflected these conditions among other contingencies.
In Fl especially... HOA communities no longer attract the retiree types they were designed for.
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The response is totally inappropriate.
It's more than that. But it's still coming on strong.
or... the only way they could buy was to accept a house with a price that reflected these conditions among other contingencies.
I realize in some areas that HOA's are dominant for housing, but buyers still have a choice. No one is twisting their arm to buy a house. OR...they could buy the house and join the HOA board and then propose rule changes.
If the rules rankle someone so much to the point where they feel they need to blow up a mailbox, really they should pass on HOA communities.
Not as much as you might want/need to think...
and especially down there.
Disagree. If buyers stopped buying homes in HOA communities, builders would catch the clue train and stop developing them. Buyers have a voice, they just choose not to use it.
Buyers do have a choice and a voice in many places, but remember that some communities are requiring that all new communities be HOA communities, because they like passing off their responsibilities to the HOA. As this has been going on for some time, it does make the idea of "choice" a little more questionable.
I have more and more buyers telling me "anywhere but in an HOA community" these days. Now they just have to convince their city councils, planning departments, etc., to give them what they want. You're right, the developers will listen to their bottom line if buyers stop buying in those communities.
Using a bomb, though, indicates something more than just a dislike of HOA's.
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