HOA gone nuts. - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

davidmash · #1 08-15-2008, 06:16 PM

Just saw this on the news.

There is a HOA here in the DFW area which is dictating what type of truck you can park in your drive way. Apparently if you have a high end 'truck' like a Lincoln mark V or Escalade you are fine, but if you have a F150 you cannot park in in your drive way it must be in your garage. It has nothing to do with the condition of the vehicle, just the type. Never mind that a Make V is a dressed up F150 or that a Escalade is a an Avalance or a Suburban. One of the home owners is sueing and for that kind of BS I hope he wins. I can understand if they say no trucks can be parked but to dictate randomly what brand of truck you can/cannot park is BS IMO.

I'll see if I can fin the link.

WVOtoGO · #2 08-15-2008, 06:33 PM

I sure hope that kind of BS isn’t spreading north like everything else down there seems to be.

Shelby

iwrock · #3 08-15-2008, 06:34 PM

Are you kidding me????

My HOA is pretty lax.... I did an engine swap in my driveway, and nobody really had a problem with it....

Until I drove it with open headers....

tankdriver · #4 08-15-2008, 06:40 PM

Old news in the DC area/No. VA. My old boss's HOA made him stop parking his little Nissan pick up outside years ago.

Before my parents moved, their HOA specified which plants were allowed in the yard.

Chad300tdt · #5 08-15-2008, 06:43 PM

I can understand the HOA stating what type of landscaping and home mods can be done, but specifying what type of vehicle you're allowed to have is weird.

Next they'll tell you what kind of people you're allowed to have in your yard.

jkoebel · #6 08-15-2008, 06:51 PM

Most HOA down here have a rule against "commercial vehicles" being parked in the driveway, visible from the street. This precluded semi-truck cabs, contractor vans/trucks with stuff hanging off, basically anything with a corporate logo on it or was not a commercial vehicle.

But saying a private owner can't have an F-150 vs. a Lincoln is insane.

MTI · #7 08-15-2008, 07:04 PM

Restrictions against commercial vehicles, including unmarked panel and cargo vans, have been upheld, but privately owned pickups would seem to fall outside of any reasonable restriction. It is the "house rules" that get boards into trouble, since they are generally put in place without an association vote and that unchecked exercise of power and discretion is very tempting.

Larry Delor · #8 08-15-2008, 07:17 PM

I propose that when the revolution comes and the politicians are lined up against the wall, we add HOA officers to the list. Since not all of them are as arrogant, self-righteous and pompous as the one mentioned above (they can shake hands with a few here in Sarasota Co.), a vote by a show of hands will have to be done right there, at the clubhouse. Cleaning of the walls used to line them up against, will be done by any surviving family.

Anybody in favor of said rule, declare "Aye"

MTI · #9 08-15-2008, 07:24 PM

Actually, I'd rather punish the HOA boards that don't enforce the CC&R's to the detriment of the community. Nobody is forced to buy a residence in a community with an association, but if you do, you should be able to rely on the enforcement of the rules.

davidmash · #10 08-15-2008, 07:38 PM

Here is the link to the story.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080815_lj_stoler.4dc09d95.html

Mister Byrnzoil · #11 08-16-2008, 07:08 AM

only nuts person here is the homeowner... he moved into a gated community where they do not allow pickups to be parked in the driveway.... then the HOA changed the rules to allow some pickup trucks in the driveway, but not his low-class Ferd.

From the article...
The HOA chairman says many Stonebriar homeowners own pickups, but they abide by the rules and keep them parked in their garages.

I have never and would never live somewhere w/ an HOA.... seems so un-american to live under such tyranny.

Mistress · #12 08-16-2008, 07:27 AM

Bush did it.

aklim · #13 08-16-2008, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTI

Nobody is forced to buy a residence in a community with an association, but if you do, you should be able to rely on the enforcement of the rules.

Bingo! Don't like those rules, don't live there.

davestlouis · #14 08-16-2008, 08:32 AM

The ass'n in an old subdivision where I lived said no commercial vehicles, so the people I knew who had lettering on their trucks went out and bought plain white magnetic signs that they hung on the trucks at night to obscure the lettering...the ass'n was fine with that. We also had a "no shed" rule that was interpreted to include doghouses and any other kind of non-attached structure.

Jim B. · #15 08-16-2008, 08:47 AM

I am getting ready to file a lawsuit against my HOA.

They have one person who is also a failed lawyer on their board of directors who has personally passed laws without a vote, directed against me PERSONALLY, and said he will revoke them ONLY if I give him a written apology, after he deprived me of homeowner services.

I even requested that he draft the apology the way he wanted it written, and this he refused to do. In stead he complained that he is "tired" of the back and forth correspondence between us.

The HOA at his behest, also complained to Photobucket about my mentioning a member of its organization by name in my private account and convinced them to shut down the account and I lost the entire account.

I view that as an outrageous invasion of privacy, bu this one out of control individual on the Board of Directors, who is pursuing some kind of a weird vendetta, which includes having a team of "Security officers" specifically directed to grab me by the collar and physically remove me from their computer room in the community lodge if I am ever seen there.

(This already happened once. The blue-shirt security man stated he was only "Following orders" from this man personally)

Clearly this leaves no recourse but Court to have the services for which I pay in the dues, restored.

This "important" individual is paid over $250,000 per year to run amok

It is a non profit, incredibly, established
with a particular duty of care to the over 55 yo residents, many of whom are vulnerable and fragile

Perhaps it is time also, to notify the appropriate State of California regulatory agency which oversees operations of this nature.

To the extent he is on the HOA board of directors, my monthly dues pay his salary PERSONALLY!!!!

It may also be time to identify and write to his superiors and set out the grounds for his dismissal for cause as a (HIGHLY) paid employee of this company for these abuses which are long standing and ongoing.

Withholding my monthly Homeowner Association dues is the fastest way I can think of to have a lien put on my house.

Therefore, Court is the only resource left.

And publicity ......LOTS of it. I would love to try this one in the newspapers.
It is a small town hungry for news of abuses like this.

People like that HATE publicity

"Condominium" (1968) by John D MacDonald, is a novel that depicts graphically, scenes of out of control HOA Nazis and a good read, also