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Article is a few years old, but reminds us that even layered security guarantees nothing. Please do not get complacent because you have a gate guard and a guy rolling around in a Prius with a light bar on top.
I like my HOA neighborhood and would buy here again in a second. That being said, I don't find the board to be overly invasive or punitive. We have very reasonable covenants, and those out of compliance are given plenty of time to correct violations. To each, his own, but I've been very satisfied with the way our community is run. As for the linked article about keeping garages open, that's weird, and I don't think it will stand up to a lawsuit, which I'm sure is coming if it hasn't already.
Also, this is why it was made a requirement in the first place:
"James Croci, a landlord who owns two units at Auburn Greens, said people had a mistaken impression of what was happening there. The sprawling development was built 40 years ago as a collection of mostly fourplex apartment buildings with open carports beneath the upper units. The community’s lengthy rulebook lists the carports as common property to be maintained by the HOA, he said.
Over time, some owners had installed garage doors on their carports, enclosing them. Illegal tenants or transients sometimes slept there unnoticed, Croci said. They’d slip in through unlocked side doors or garage doors, he said.
“You’re not allowed to install garage doors,” he said. “The ones you see were grandfathered in.”
The development, originally built to attract retirees, had become plagued with crime but was being cleaned up, with rising property values, Croci said. Forcing all owners to open their garages for a time allowed property managers to see problem units and take steps, he said."
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Originally Posted by HokieFan
The requirement has been rescinded.
Auburn, California community can close its garage doors again | The Sacramento Bee
Also, this is why it was made a requirement in the first place:
"James Croci, a landlord who owns two units at Auburn Greens, said people had a mistaken impression of what was happening there. The sprawling development was built 40 years ago as a collection of mostly fourplex apartment buildings with open carports beneath the upper units. The community’s lengthy rulebook lists the carports as common property to be maintained by the HOA, he said.
Over time, some owners had installed garage doors on their carports, enclosing them. Illegal tenants or transients sometimes slept there unnoticed, Croci said. They’d slip in through unlocked side doors or garage doors, he said.
“You’re not allowed to install garage doors,” he said. “The ones you see were grandfathered in.”
The development, originally built to attract retirees, had become plagued with crime but was being cleaned up, with rising property values, Croci said. Forcing all owners to open their garages for a time allowed property managers to see problem units and take steps, he said."
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Originally Posted by jencam
Thanks for the update. This makes a lot of sense!
Didn't see that post! Thanks for the info.
ok, this makes a bit more sense.
I feel better now.
People weren't quite as spineless as I thought they were.
Diane, I'll be frank. I don't trust you enough to give you the power to put a lien on my house because I don't like the same flowers that you do. You act rational now, until when you decide that you like a certain kind of flower and you make up a rule to force everyone else to only have that kind of flower. If they don't agree, you put a lien on their house.
My cousin took my extreme position, too, after his HOA came up with a rule that said no car can be visible from 10pm to 6am. People couldn't even park in their own driveway overnight. What if your family had more than 2 cars? Well, too bad said his HOA. That rule was the last straw. He got the hell out of there soon after.
To me, HOA is like a position of dictatorship waiting for people who don't have anything better to do so they try to bully other people.
Sorry, again I don't trust you enough to give you the power to bully me around in my own home. I have always lived in homes that didn't have HOAs and we all kept our property values just fine. We have always respected our neighbors and their decisions on what color paint to put on their homes and what kind of flowers they put in their front garden.
It's been hit or miss for us but that's the problem, you never quite know if you end up dealing with sensible Hoa or an extreme one. The last one we had had a team go out Sunday afternoons looking for infractions and cited our neighbors for painting their garage doors a color that when the sun shone at a certain angle was offensive shade. They were ordered to repaint.
We have just put a bid on a house with no hoa and the neighborhood is lovely. I'm not against hoa's but am extremely wary of them.
I'm all for a good HOA & I've reached the conclusion that the reason we have HOAs is because of the folks who are so dead set against them. Those are the folks who are most likely to not properly maintain the real estate or paint the garage door purple or have junk cars sitting on the front lawn. If you want to live like that, go ahead, but please not in my neighborhood.
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