Persuading HOA Board Members
happs
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Elmer J Fudd
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Comments (7)I want to add that if my neighbor planted, or allowed to grow, any "False Sumac" or "Tree of Heaven", I would become the one that was invasive! I inherited a piece of property that had been unkept and there is simply no way to get rid of them except with years of determination. They spread across property lines through root and seed. IMHO the Sumac should be called the "Tree of Hell". The one tree that was allowed to mature on the property (and it was beautiful, btw) now has babies on the far opposite side that had also been allowed to grow between the crack in the sidewalk and the garage. The whole structure is cracked now. The property is 100 feet by 75 feet. There is no safe place from one of these. Because I want to use the space as a vegetable garden once they are removed, I am having to sift the soil up to 18 inches deep to get at all the tiny root pieces. Even still I miss many and have had to go back and dig up the left overs. Ironically, now that I am trying to eliminate the trees I find it impossible because the neighboring property is not well maintained. While the original tree was on what is now my property, the trees are coming back from the neighboring property. It's just a nightmare. If you like fall color there are other more suitable trees. While I am focusing mostly on "False Sumac", the other Sumac do spread in a similar fashion. Please don't plant it. Here is a link that might be useful: Tree of Heaven...See MoreHOA & Management Farce
Comments (3)Yes, I did call the cops when they messed up my car. But we had no idea who it was. That same day we had to buy a camera,& tv video.Installed it as soon as we came home.Within the next week we got 3 girls cutting up my neighbors car with a pen knife.He viewed our tape and said it was an old car!! I told him to at least go speak with the parents of the girls.He didn't want to,because then he would have to give up my camera!I told him just say you saw it,you don't have to tell them you saw it from my tape. Next day another neighbor got the same treatment done to his car.He also said his car is old!!! He did write the management company,he needed to call the cops it's his property. Four more cars where sliced up,no one reported anything to the police but my husband & myself about our own car.Oh yeah,by the way my cars are old,but at least I called the cops.Well no one around here wants to face anyone,they are all scared of the little 9 to 13 year old girl gang,& the parents. I believe it is a conflict of intrest,her being vice president and owner of management company,but the entire board say's no it's not.She told me the only way to fine anyone was for me to get a time & date stamp for our camera.Did that still no fines and I'm going back to July. 5 months of video and nothing. Now we told the owner of the management company the camera is down,& we are not helping any more. More leaks because the kids went right over to my car the side that the camera can't pick up and just to mess with me looked like they were drawing on my car!Camera is so up,i'll not take it down. Well it's going to be a long winter,as I can not put my unit up on the block until April or May.Found out junkie has gone to contract with her unit so hopefully she will be gone soon. My husband is handicapped so this move for us is going to be a nightmare. But we can't stay here and fight,we are not rich people.But I will call the cops if they mess with my cars ,& maybe then the parents will wake up.Doubt it....See MoreHOA lawsuit
Comments (5)We have home in Florida in an HOA and the people on the board are decent and responsive---much better than most of the neighbors who try to evade the HOA deed restrictions and are frankly nutty as so many people in FL seem to be. We had previous home in neighboring TX town and Board there was fair--only made one really bad mistake when they let family everyone like build new fence after their house burned and they had to rebuild from ground up. They rebuilt same plan but put in 10 ft ceilings vs 8 on second floor and wanted taller fence to balance out design...bad move for two houses who faced that fence... There have been legitimate reasons to grant variances in this current subdivision in the past and some variances that were questionable--either because they were granted or were refused. The problem is not so much with the rules themselves---but as mentioned --with the people enforcing them... We travel too much back and forth to be Board members. My husband would be great--calm, fair, doesn't jump,to conclusions...I am too plain-spoken....See MoreHOA's...homeowners associations
Comments (42)Bad taste is bad taste. At my secondary home, the developer made an effort to break up a degree of uniformity of detached but closely proximate homes by not putting similar models adjacent to one another, changing superficial features and trim to provide some variety, using a wide range of different roofing materials and colors, AND, most importantly, varied color schemes for walls and trim for each one. All to good effect, it doesn't look like a cookie cutter neighborhood like so many do. The HOA at that location decided the easiest way to keep up that good effect was to require new roofs use the same material and color as was originally used and to restrict the paint color schemes of units to the original colors used by the developer. Not just the original colors, but also requiring that only the same brand of paint and the exact same color formulae must be used. When a homeowner wants to repaint their home, they have to contact the HOA to get the exact colors to use and where to use them. The development is >20 years old, most places have been repainted multiple times. and it looks fresh and interesting. I don't care if that's seen by some to be heavy handed, the result is worth it....See Moregyr_falcon
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