Comments | kirinn: vs. the HOA 2: drafting

kirinn

vs. the HOA 2: drafting

May 31, 2009 15:54

So I corresponded with someone I found on our neighborhood's online forum who'd had an issue with HOA rules-lawyering before. Unfortunately their experience was not encouraging. They said the actual board showed a tendency to want to defer to the management consultant, who encouraged them to be inflexible with the letter of the guidelines. Ugh ( Read more... )

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Talk to her! protension June 1 2009, 05:43:07 UTC

i'd definitely make contact with the person who sent you the notification first. "Hi, this is Ben, I'm calling about the citation I just got... thanks for sending it, I didn't realize I was violating a code... my wife and I have a bunch of plans for our yard and I want to check that what we're planning to do will take care of this and, if not, how we should modify our plans... so I have some questions about the specific rule and how it applies and what, if any, flexibility there is... can I discuss that with you or someone else?" Who knows, she might even resolve the issue for you with a reasonable answer ("oh those notices are just a formality, as long as we know you're paying attention and not making us look ghetto, it's cool."). More likely, it will be banging your head against the wall (ie not materially useful), but think of it more as nestling up to the wall and smiling at it coyly as you proceed to walk around it -- if you snub it, the wall may come back to bang itself against your head later ( ... )

Re: Talk to her! kirinn June 4 2009, 20:47:38 UTC

Took me a while to reply to this because I'm trying to compartmentalize spending thought cycles on this whole issue because I kind of hate it ( ... )

Re: Talk to her! akiko June 5 2009, 13:14:27 UTC

What they want by the end of this month is a plan. So you draft plan that includes the flagstone path on the left of the house, making the mulch pit under the cherry tree bigger & planting groundcovers like phlox there, a rain garden (do you think next to the neighbors' mulch pit is a good spot?), and the evidence that clover is good and broad-spectrum herbicides are bad, plus that we're on a single income now and don't really have money for it and they can kiss our asses if they want us to take out a loan to do it. (Except more nicely, of course.)