Clarification: we have never signed the HOA agreement. We have made it clear that we do not want to be separated from the association. I was never invited to meetings before moving into the house. My workplace would not allow me or my husband (we work for the same company) to free up the days when some of the meetings took place. So it was either about losing our jobs and our home, or about participating in the meetings. No lawyer has read the crime. And I read the act, and there is nothing that has anything about a HOA. Half of the houses are rented to other families. In total there are 19 houses and only 6 of them are owners. No one wants to be at war with their neighbors, but in a neighborhood governed by an HOA, disagreements can become especially unpleasant. After all, it`s not just a he-said, she-said-situation; There are real rules and regulations that owners must follow, with financial consequences for non-compliance. Soon we received notes at our door indicating that there were meetings. It was believed that these were community meetings.
We have been heard to change the president and vice-president. We thought it was the people who would be responsible for taking our money and directing it where it needs to go. This is our first time as home buyers, and we never knew the HOA existed. We always thought all of this would happen because our community would be talking about things they would like to see. All the meetings took place when we had to work. So until last November, we couldn`t go to any of them to see what it was. It wasn`t until October that we learned there was an HOA. In November, a neighbor told us that there was a change that told us how many pets we could own. In November, we went to the first HOA meeting, which we were able to get to. After the meeting, I spoke to the president and vice-president and was told that I could keep my animals as long as I kept them „under the radar.“ I followed my end of this deal, even though I thought there were a lot of cops, since I never knew about the HOA until I lived 1 year in the house.
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