Re: Need help preventing HOA formation

Re: Need help preventing HOA formation

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Need help preventing HOA formation Jason G 06-06-2006


"Jason G" <jrgusenet@yahoo.REMOVE-xx-THIS-xx-PART.com> wrote in message
news:e67k3t02ovj@drn.newsguy.com...
>
> In article <GLuhg.28449$QP4.12321@fed1read12>, azotic says...
>>
>>Your cost of living will go up because
> <snip list>
>
> Thanks for the info, that will be very helpful. I will have a list of those
> points in hand tonight.
>
>>Since you mentioned there was no active HOA for a number of years check
>>your
>>CCR's to see if they have expired.
>
> I do not have the CCR's in front of me here, but reading them last night it
> said
> that they expired in 30 years, which I think would be around 2010, the
> division
> being built 1980-84. However, there was a clause about automatic 10-year
> renewals after expiration or something to that effect that I cannot recall
> the
> exact wording of right now.
>
> We got a letter a year or two ago from the (long-gone) developer saying
> that the
> board, which was just three employees of the developer, was being
> dissolved.
> Not sure if it said the *corporation* was dissolved, I need to rustle up
> the
> letter if I still have it.
>
> Half the people that I talked to were shocked to find out that an HOA ever
> existed. I only knew because I was so persistent to my realtor prior to
> bidding
> that the HOA had to be dead or I wasn't interested. That was the best
> situation
> I could find, as I am in the San Diego area and virtually everywhere here
> has an
> HOA, most of them aggressive powertrips run by stay-at-home mommies and
> retired
> cranks.
>
> Weirdly, I got a meeting notice but most of my neighbors didn't. I called
> the
> guy who is organizing the meeting and found out that what he and another
> person
> did was send notices only to people next door to what he considered
> "problem"
> houses. Apparently my neighbor having several cars he is restoring in his
> driveway and side-drive qualified as "problem". Though none are on blocks
> and
> only one is ever on the street and it runs. I do not really care, it
> doesn't
> bother me and he doesn't rev motors at 2 AM or anything.
>
> You can be damn sure that if I do not kill this thing tonight, every house
> in the
> neighborhood will have an anti-HOA flyer by next weekend. I might ask
> here for
> help writing it since from reading past threads here last night you guys
> know
> this stuff inside and out. Or heck, just your list of points would
> probably be
> enough.
>
>
> --
> Jason G

Here is a good story you might want to mail to the HOA members if they
decide to go ahead with reviving the HOA. It will give them a glimpse
of how thier lives could change under the rule of a HOA.

http://www.ccfj.net/HOASaga.htm

Regards
Tom.





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