Reply With QuoteI think I'd attend the next HOA meeting and shoot every **** officer there.
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I would never live in a place where my neighbors can dictate to me what I can and can't do, but if this happened to me I would be in prison because someone would lose their life.
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I think I'd attend the next HOA meeting and shoot every **** officer there.
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What a crock. Either way the end result of this would be me having a place to live the rest of my life, whether in prison or my house.
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Gotta be more to the story than this. I can't imagine not paying a bill and then just a month later the house forecloses and sells right out from under your nose. Just has to be more than what is being reported. A 300,000 house that is paid for but couldn't pay the HOA fee?
If there's not, well then I don't know what to say other than avoid HOAs or pay the bills on time.
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I agree this is tragic but something stinks. How would they miss payments? They paid off a 300k house? Who does that? One would think wealthy, smart and agressive people would be able to do that. Was she aware of the payments? Did They have it set up as an automatic withdrawl payment? Sumtin is stinky...
I'm glad that they actually have some legal recourse.
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That's insane that they're able to do that. I'm not one of those that thinks that every new problem needs a new law to fix it, but I think it's pretty clear that something needs to changed. Sure HOA's need to be able to collect past-due fees, but that doesn't mean they need to have the power to confiscate and sell your home to do it! What a bunch of vultures! These people missed TWO payments, and if it weren't for the fact that he's in the military, they'd be SOL!
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The lesson here is to not let your wife take care of the Bills...
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No there doesn't have to be more than what was reported. I bought a house through a real estate agency and nobody told me that it had a homeowners association. You will not find a HOA that isn't made up of hotheads who run roughshod over the homeowners. That's the only kind of people who will serve on the board of directors. They are required by law to have a Charter but nothing is said about the rules changing with every meeting.Originally Posted by psprowler
We bought a new house and moved in, removed a side deck and added a carport. The president of the HOA drove by daily and didn't stop or say a word. When the job was finished he came by and asked me how much it cost me and I said, "None of your business." He said, "you were supposed to clear that through ME and get my approval before you made any changes to your house." That's when I learned of the HOA and that I was 2 months behind on my fees and they were making plans to sell my house. All hell broke loose and I backed the old goat up against a light pole and told him that he wouldn't live until the sun went down the day he sold my house. I pushed him down in a bush beside the light pole and told him to get his a** off my property and don't come back. I paid the back fees and paid on time every month as long as I lived there.
He didn't bother me again but he got the neighborhood bully to start harassing me during the middle of the night. He would go behind the house and shine a light on my bedroom window and damage lawn furniture. I hid in the dark and met him out there one night and unloaded a .357 Magnum right at his feet and told him I would aim for his chest the next time. Never saw that guy hanging around after that.
An elderly widow on a fixed income lived a block away. She had a heart attack and it took all her money to pay utilities and buy medicine. I bought food and carried it to her so she could eat. She couldn't pay her homeowner's fees for three months and they auctioned her house off for $5,000.
My advice to anyone moving into a gated community or where there is a HOA, is DON'T even think about it.
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I understood that her husband was in the military. I don't know what happened but wouldn't be surprised if he had a job making good money as a civilian, or there was possibly an inheritance that helped them pay off the mortgage. Chances are their financial situation went downhill when he went into the military. If they had recently bought the house the wife could have not known or forgotten about the homeowners fees.
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Capt. Clauer should take a flamethrower to the HOA - I don't want to believe that anyone would let something like this happen to someone serving our country.
And I hope that self serving politician gets everything thats coming to him too!
I'm glad to live in the country . . .
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Man I had no idea this kind of stuff existed. I heard of these associations before but never this kind of abuse and to think these are your neighbors. Isn't there enough grief out there without causing more in your own neighboorhood? Bug in your situation that bully would have crawled away cause he would have got the wrath of an angry man that mistook him for an intruder and was defending himself and family. No shooting just a good old arse stomping. Good grief!
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I agree that story sounds really bad, but also that it seems like there must be more to it.
I've been in a HOA, but my current house/neighborhood doesn't have one. I will say that they have their drawbacks, but also have some advantages.
The neighbor directly behind me cut his grass....well it's not even actual grass, it's all weeds - 3 times all of last year. Two houses down we now have a neighbor parking a camper on the grass at the back of the lot. Across the street, the neighbors park their trucks and machinery on the empty lot next to their house. Etc., etc.
I don't want an HOA, but people really need to learn to be more respectful of their neighbors and of how they can affect property values. Since I don't see them changing on their own, if an HOA is proposed, I will be in favor of it.
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