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Originally Posted by MTUpower
Oh the humanity of Crocodile tears.
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Indeed.
Strange how some people's principles and stances on various social issues get dropped by the wayside when it has the potential to affect their pocketbook.
I wonder how some on here would respond to the following situation, involving neighbors and an HOA -
5 or so years ago, my younger sister and her husband bought a home in an existing subdivision, inside the city limits of a small city up in NC, with an already existing HOA. According to my sister, the HOA, and the city itself, were quite reasonable as far as their fees and regulations - far from the lawn gnome police described in some extreme cases.
About 2 years ago, the house beside them came up for sale, and was purchased by a certain family. Not long after moving in, they constructed a chicken coop and populated it with numerous birds, and also turned loose 3 goats in the back yard. After a period of time not cleaning up the waste from the livestock, the stench on a hot summers day from their backyard I dare say needs little description. The backyard was trash littered, and the only lawn maintenance done was that performed by the aforementioned goats.
This being a zoned residential area inside city limits, the keeping of livestock by itself was not only in violation of HOA rules, but also in violation of city and county law, not to mention the health issues from the accumulated animal waste. After several complaints, both the HOA and the local authorities contacted said family, informed them that they were in violation of both HOA reguations and local laws, and that they would have to remedy the situation to be in compliance with both or face legal action.
The family's response was to contact one or more, shall we say, particular ethnic "legal defense" organizations, who in turn contacted the HOA and local authorities. Their message was if either the HOA or local authorities took ANY type of actions against their "clients", they would do their level best to sue the HOA, city, and county into bankruptcy, over their "discrimination and harassment of our clients because of their ethnic background".
At that, both the HOA and local authorities caved. Last word from my sister is that the situation is still unresolved and no action whatsoever taken.
Given some of the comments I've seen so far in this thread, I'd be interested to hear some thoughts on this particular situation.