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Norminn Norminn is offline
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Default Sue HOA when home value declines

AZ Nomad wrote:

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:10:07 -0500, HeyBub wrote:


"[LONGMONT, Colo] A Longmont couple has turned the legal tables on their
homeowners' association - suing it not for being too overbearing with rules
enforcement but for being too lax. [Plaintiffs] complain in their suit that
houses around them feature architectural inconsistencies, lawns are choked
with weeds and construction projects are allowed to go on longer than the
association covenants allow."



They can go sue themselves. ****ing lazy idiots.



I could write a book about boards not enforcing "rules" - our condo
"rules" include abiding by building
codes. With the wrong people on boards, it can go to extremes.....we
had board members (almost a
majority) who were chronically delinquent in their maint. assessments.
With one other owner on their
side, they accounted for half the association votes. Lazy? There were
elderly folks living here who had
to put up with no lighting whatever in the building atrium, stairs, and
walkways. There were open trash
containers infested with rats. One old couple, after both had passed
away, had an estate sale. I saw a
big rat trap on the shelf of the master bedroom closet. A roof beam
over the atrium was rotted and sagging
for years. The paint was peeling, the pavement in parking lot all
cracked and potholed. When one renter
complained to the city code folks about rat sounds in attic (above
second floor unit), the code inspector
found only "a dust ball in an AC duct". Had he looked in the attics
above all four wings of the building,
he would have found rat droppings. Most of this occurred prior to my
living here, but I know where the
bodies are buried ) There has been extreme abuse directed at those
who don't "go along". This is not
a bad neighborhood, as the term commonly applies - very "upscale".

Why should someone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a home and
have the value decline
ONLY because those vested with the responsibility for maintenance refuse
to do their jobs?