CoffeeCat
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Thu Jun-23-05 05:33 PM
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Anyone had positive/negative experiences with a homeowner's association? |
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I'm wondering if anyone has positive or negative experiences with a homeowner's association?
We are having a really difficult time with ours. The board is a bunch of chumps. They do not take care of the lawn and grounds as they should.
Do most home/condo owners have to fight tooth and nail to get the bushes trimmed? Or is our homeowner's association a rare bad apple?
Our backyard and patio floods every time we get a heavy rain (several times a year). We usually have 2-3 inches of standing water on our cement patio. It's been 14 months since I reported this--and they're "still working on it."
I guess I'm just not getting the politics of homeowner's associations.
Anyone have any insight or experiences you'd like to share?
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Jon8503
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Thu Jun-23-05 05:35 PM
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1. Yeah, I know it is a tough battle. I think you can find some legal |
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help probably out on the Internet or at least some answers to your questions. About the only thing you can do is get some legal assistance from a firm that specializes or knows the ins and outs of the associations.
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izzie
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Thu Jun-23-05 05:42 PM
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2. Once I had problems. They would not plow so I would not pay |
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and they said I would have to pay even if they did not plow. They won and I payed and we got a truck and did our own plowing.I was mad but not worth a court case.
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Thu Jun-23-05 05:47 PM
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3. I have an EXCELLENT homeowner's association. I'm lucky. |
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We are a 30 year old neighborhood. Our condos can only be occupied by an owner (and a roommate or family members). In other words, you can't move out and lease your home. We live in a college town and this rule keeps our property values high by keeping out student partiers. We have several grad students who bought homes here and we've had a few undergrad homeowners who have their names on the deeds and lived here while in college. They were nice.
We have a neighbor who runs the day to day operations of the neighborhood. We pay her condo monthly fee and give her a cash gift at Christmas in return for her efforts. She is wonderful. There are 5 board members as well. We meet once a year and the board meets each month.
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