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- UNLV law students get to help those burdened with misdemeanor cases. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Warring Clark County GOP factions–with a recent ruling by Judge Susan Johnson–plan separate meetings. [RJ]
- Nevada AG Aaron Ford joined an amicus brief in the DOJ suit challenging Texas abortion law. [Fox5Vegas]
- Who’s running your HOA? [Nevada Current]
- Will Thacker Pass be another Keystone? [Nevada Current]
Who runs my H.O.A.?
The same people that run almost everyone's H.O.A.
Retired people who need to fill their time, with a few younger control freaks thrown in who relish sanctioning and aggravating hard-working people because a couple weeds got a little too high.
Don't forget when you're actually trying to improve your home (and the neighborhood) and you get fined for having a pallet of pavers or roof tiles on your driveway for a couple days. Doin the lord's work.
Sort of true. It is a panel of biddies who have nothing better to do than impose their beliefs and want to remain remain relevant; however as the article points out it truly is actually a select number of management companies who charge exorbitant rates to generate fines and roil the waters in communities.
Don't forget the guy who got an entire new yard put in by a landscaping company which coincidently just got a contract from the HOA to redo all the landscaping in the common spaces. Mind you, this landscaping didn't need replacing, but what else is the HOA going to spend its money on? I'm sure that guy paid a fair price for his yard and didn't get it for free as a bribe or anything.
I joined my HOA because I noticed when I bought the house that it had considerably less power than normal, based on inartful drafting of the CC&Rs.
So I joined to keep it powerless. It does bug me that easily 50% of the monthly expenses go to the management company.
I was the first homeowner on my HOAs Board. I did it for 2 reasons: (1) I got to meet with 4 builder reps every month and could ask what was going on with my warranty service requests. (2) I noticed that HOAs never screw with board members. You just wink and nod at each other and promise that "Yeah I will get that taken care of." Management companies send friendly reminders rather than warnings and fines because they want to keep the contract.
Sorry, but 95 percent of the people on a HOA are assholes.
Totally agree. Especially if you disagree or have a different opinion than the whole board.
HOAs can lick my taint
If I remember my Real Property class, this would be classified under the "Taint Fair" Doctrine….
We moved out of Rhodes Ranch years ago because the developer continued to fight for control over the HOA. I believe their argument was that the original plan called for a huge number of units, which included high rises, and because they would never hit 90% of that original number, they would never have to turnover control of the HOA. The State of Nevada disagreed and ultimately the HOA was turned over to the homeowners. Friends of mine who still live there say that although they couldn't stand the amount of fees they were paying to the developer for its favored contracts, the place was managed better than now with the "biddies" (as they are called above) running the HOA. There was around 4,000 homes I believe, and at $155/month, that runs $620k/month just in HOA assessments, not including fines for having a weed too tall. Running an HOA is a lucrative business.
Holy crap, I'm in the wrong profession.
Yeah, but unless this is your first day here, you already knew that
Yeah but now Rhodes Ranch built some new homes on the golf course and they shortened one of the par 4s, so I have my best chance I ever have of hitting a hole-in-one on a par 4 of any course I regularly play. Thank you Jim Rhodes.
@4:35p – That one was a HUGE fight and is what got us to leave. They hadn't designated the golf course as open space, which required a lot of hoops to jump through to build properties on it (like the fight up at Queensridge for their course shutdown/rezone/build). The developer owned the golf course. They offered to sell it to the HOA for the land value plus a bonus equal to how much profit they were going to make off of the houses they were going to build on it if the HOA didn't buy it. It was a shit show.