Yay. My Home Owner's Association, 8 months after I left the board, 16 months after I first started wondering how the management comapny was stealing our money, finally booted the management company (Alliance).
They're now a self-managed HOA.
They're growing up so fast.
Sniffle.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Partial victory
I moved.
So I rapidly lost interest in my evil HOA.
I hear from the new Vice-Chancellor from time to time, and he tells me all sorts of things are planned for the HOA and Alliance.
Alliance tried to nail me with a couple lawn violations as soon as I moved away (I still own the property there). It didn't take much to convince the new HOA Board to either charge me the fine and see me in court, or drop the fine and pretend it didn't happen.
How petty.
Anyway, anyone want to buy a house in a lovely neighborhood?
:)
I'll probably tear down this blog (Gorbachev style!) in a couple more months, unless I see comments clamoring for its continued existance.
So I rapidly lost interest in my evil HOA.
I hear from the new Vice-Chancellor from time to time, and he tells me all sorts of things are planned for the HOA and Alliance.
Alliance tried to nail me with a couple lawn violations as soon as I moved away (I still own the property there). It didn't take much to convince the new HOA Board to either charge me the fine and see me in court, or drop the fine and pretend it didn't happen.
How petty.
Anyway, anyone want to buy a house in a lovely neighborhood?
:)
I'll probably tear down this blog (Gorbachev style!) in a couple more months, unless I see comments clamoring for its continued existance.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Our first foreclosure action
And so the decent into pure evil begins.
I got e-mail today to vote on pursuing foreclosure with our vampiric attorney's office. My response was:
Which resulted in the reply from El Presidente:
No discussion. Just foreclose on the motherfucker.
I don't understand why this homeowner's association board exists if it's just going to rubber stamp every suggestion from the management company and the attorney.
It would be more efficient to dissolve the board completely and just give control directly with these parasites.
So, we'll see if this pops our HOA's foreclosure cherry. There have been plenty of bank foreclosures (looks like our neighborhood is one of those you read about in the paper with the subprime mortgages all over the place), but AFAIK, no HOA-originated foreclosures. I guess these real-estate-centric puppetmasters are starting to feel the crunch from the credit crisis and need to generate some income off our backs.
PS, why haven't I posted lately? Because I moved! I still own a house in my HOA, though (see credit crisis, above), and I'm renting it out. But because I'm not physically in the neighborhood anymore, my level of caring about the festering evil there has dropped off considerably.
I now live in a neighborhood with no HOA. And amazingly, my neighbors are out doing lawn work like every weekend. How does that happen without an HOA nagging them? I don't understand -- I thought adults couldn't be trusted to maintain their property?
I got e-mail today to vote on pursuing foreclosure with our vampiric attorney's office. My response was:
HOA-originated foreclosures are a bad idea and will torpedo surrounding home values. We should sell the debt to a real collection agency and be done.
Also, this guy is not at the top of the list of debtors. I don't understand why foreclose on him and not the people who have over $1000.
Which resulted in the reply from El Presidente:
2 for sending to the attorney.
1 for selling the account to a collection agency.
No discussion. Just foreclose on the motherfucker.
I don't understand why this homeowner's association board exists if it's just going to rubber stamp every suggestion from the management company and the attorney.
It would be more efficient to dissolve the board completely and just give control directly with these parasites.
So, we'll see if this pops our HOA's foreclosure cherry. There have been plenty of bank foreclosures (looks like our neighborhood is one of those you read about in the paper with the subprime mortgages all over the place), but AFAIK, no HOA-originated foreclosures. I guess these real-estate-centric puppetmasters are starting to feel the crunch from the credit crisis and need to generate some income off our backs.
PS, why haven't I posted lately? Because I moved! I still own a house in my HOA, though (see credit crisis, above), and I'm renting it out. But because I'm not physically in the neighborhood anymore, my level of caring about the festering evil there has dropped off considerably.
I now live in a neighborhood with no HOA. And amazingly, my neighbors are out doing lawn work like every weekend. How does that happen without an HOA nagging them? I don't understand -- I thought adults couldn't be trusted to maintain their property?
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