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Ummm, you're not in a paid position, right? So what is she going to do? If it were me, I'd call her out at your next HOA meeting and ask some of the members if they want the board president to have full authority for the community. HOA's are not dictatorships, if someone gets elected to the board and lets the title go to their head, its up to the members to put them in their place.
Ummm, you're not in a paid position, right? So what is she going to do? If it were me, I'd call her out at your next HOA meeting and ask some of the members if they want the board president to have full authority for the community. HOA's are not dictatorships, if someone gets elected to the board and lets the title go to their head, its up to the members to put them in their place.
And what is it you feel this HOA President did that warrants putting her in her place? She failed to respond quickly enough to a resident who failed to keep her dog properly contained?
We are VERY happy with it, other than the fact we kind of wish it was anywhere from 5 to 20 acres instead of the 1 2/3 we have. More room, and more distance between neighbors would be wonderful.
One problem with having so much space between neighbors is that you become more vulnerable to home invasion crimes, because the neighbors are less likely to see. If there are trees giving you privacy, the same trees give the criminals privacy, and make them more likely to choose your home to invade.
Having guns doesn't really solve the problem, because the criminals are likely to steal the guns and use them against you. Using an alarm system while at home causes an alarming number of false alarms.
Our whole criminal justice system is based on the idea that criminals should spend just enough time in prison for it to be crime university where they learn how to become hardened criminals with advanced crime techniques, then release them to practice their trade on helpless victims. A much better system would be to make all minor crimes civil instead of criminal, with no prison time but just mild-to-harsh civil penalties, and make the sentence for all major crimes life in prison, such that nobody who attended crime university would ever get out. Then you could get your 20 acre home and live in peace.
Meanwhile, as a compromise, don't buy a 20 acre home unless you can afford an expensive security system, which includes a tall strong fence all around the property, a gate that doesn't let anyone in who isn't invited, and a lot of dogs. But if it goes wrong, and turns against you, you might not be able to go home. And if the dogs turn against you, you will wish you bought a condo.
Someone please tell me why any organization should have control over what color I can paint my front door.
Let's say I live across from you and your door is painted Pepto Bismol pink and visible from my living room and upstairs bedroom window. If polled on the subject, I may not personally care what color you paint your door. But someday, I'm going to put my house up for sale, and when that happens, your door is going to be an eyesore that causes some buyers to look elsewhere.
I don't want to confront you about your eclectic taste in door colors, so I'd rather live within a community with rules that keep me and my neighbors from turning parts of our homes into eyesores.
The problem with HOA's is that they aren't just for enforcing rules. They're for making new rules, harassing people, giving power to busybodies, etc. If they were just for enforcing rules, and did nothing else, the only complaint would be that they wouldn't enforce the rules equally, but would favor some members over others. But, because they do all that other stuff, the complaints are much worse, and often well-founded.
The problem with HOA's is that they aren't just for enforcing rules. They're for making new rules, harassing people, giving power to busybodies, etc. If they were just for enforcing rules, and did nothing else, the only complaint would be that they wouldn't enforce the rules equally, but would favor some members over others. But, because they do all that other stuff, the complaints are much worse, and often well-founded.
Is that the way your HOA Board of Directors works? They just randomly change the rules however they please? Around here, any change to the CC&Rs requires a quorum of 60% and a majority of 67%. It's like turning a cruise ship; it takes a great deal of effort. But back to a point I made earlier, the primary role of an HOA Board of Directors is fiduciary. Unfortunately, it seems that many posting to this thread think it's all about the color of your front door and where to store your garbage cans. It makes me wonder if any of you have ever actually attended an HOA meeting.
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Once again someone (you) has completely missed the point of an HOA !!!!
An HOA community can increase the value of your property as much as 20%, did you know that !!!
Communities that don't follow the HOA rules or they have management companies the don't enforce these rules loose as much as 40% property value, did you know that !!!
What??? Give me specifics. What markets? Where do you get your numbers? I am an executive at a global single family residential company and we definitely haven't seen anything that would support such a strong statement. While an HOA can be nice, it definitely isn't something that everyone values or desires. When I purchased my home I specifically excluded all neighborhoods with HOAs.
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