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We are charged large HOA fees about water damage etc. The management people are not afraid of losing their jobs. Therefore they run all over the owners. They will not show transparency with anything. We have now hired our own attorney.
Good people are moving out monthly because they have had it with the management. We pay thousands a month to live here. We want our building! We want to fire the management company. There has to be a law we pray coming soon that after a period of time, in our case 15 years, where the owner MUST give us control.
Our HOA was largely ignored for five years. Our Condo Association highrise board president has put forth an elaborate new violation and fine policy. The violations are many and most are petty. The violations could occur 10 days or 10 yrs apart and could be on 4 different infringements, e.
The policy seems outlandish, unrealistic, and unenforceable. The board is divided on this. See this site for a complete over-view. I live in a property owner association that raises our assessments whenever they decide to. We property owners have no rights at all. Who ever makes these rules is really not for the people who live in these subdivisions. All power has been given to the board. This is ridiculous.
All Texas homeowners should sign up on the site to receive information on bills so they can contact the Senate and House Committees as well as their own legislators. My HOA sends out certified letters at the drop of a hat. They never send warning emails or make any attempt to contact me or my neighbors before sending the certified letter. The letters are generally frivolous in nature citing a certain date a trash can was left out for example.
Is this a common problem with HOAs? What is the action that you need to take when you have a neighbor who has a fence that is peeling paint, missing planks, and leaning into the direction of the sidewalk. I along with others have been complaining about this said fence for 2 years and nothing has been done.
I spoke with he management company and the HOA and the response I received is that they have sent out a letter fining them. My question is what is the next step? Who is the governing body over HOA? For Two years I have had to look at this eye sore. It is also a safety issue as there are children who walk home from school daily and the fence at any moment could fall on one of them.
Super frustrating. Our HOA is trying to impose fire lanes on our subdivision streets. Our subdivision was started in when we had no city or county codes to follow. With the new Helotes TX fire code amendment, , new streets not wide enough will be designated fire lanes. This only applies to new subdivisions and we are not being mandated by the city to comply.
However the HOA board is insisting on doing this with the consent of the residents which is causing many problems. What or how can we stop this? This does not fall under the guidelines or the responsibility of the HOA.
It is a city issue. The new owner wants to make the mid rise building in Houston an all rental building. He stated that the building needs major rework. The minority homeowners feel that the majority owner is trying to force us out.
To all who have complaints, if we stand united and write our state representatives and call and call to voice the horrible HOA practices, something will have to change. If all we do is write our complaints here, nothing will change. I was verbally attacked by the management company and attorney at a HOA board meeting.
The management company ran the whole meeting. They also then changed the policy where they are not accepting payment towards your normal dues unless you pay your account, including these attorney fees, in full. This seems very shady to me. Our bylaws have nothing about attorneys fees for deed restrictions. I live in a condominium property that is governed by an HOA but is managed by a hired property management company. According to the rules and regulations set forth by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, specific to condominium lending, condominium properties are required to have a stand alone policy and not be included in a master policy with multiple unaffiliated properties in order for lending.
Our insurance as it is currently set up does not comply with the rules and regulations set forth my Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I went back and forth with the insurance agent, the property management company as well as our BOD. All of the parties mentioned refused to change our commercial property insurance to a stand alone policy.
If lenders are adhering to the government standard for lending, all of the homes in our community are not eligible for selling or refinancing. I must know my rights before I determine my next course of action against the property management company and the HOA of my community.
I live in Texas. I received my homestead exemption, no problem. After a few days, the management company at the time phoned me and said although I am not active duty military, they will waive HOA fees for me�. My HOA maintenance fund was paid when due but the Board has added a new fee called Service Fee which is due at the same time as our maintenance fee.
I should not be obligated to have to pay that. There is a cemetery in the back corner on the neighborhood that is not owned by our neighborhood that is neglected. Our HOA is spending our money to add park benches, yard maintenance and wrought iron fence.
Regardless of the period of declarant control provided by the declaration, on or before the th day after the date 75 percent of the lots that may be created and made subject to the declaration are conveyed to owners other than a declarant or a builder in the business of constructing homes who purchased the lots from the declarant for the purpose of selling completed homes built on the lots, at least one-third of the board members must be elected by owners other than the declarant.
If the declaration does not include the number of lots that may be created and made subject to the declaration, at least one-third of the board members must be elected by owners other than the declarant not later than the 10th anniversary of the date the declaration was recorded.
Amended by: Acts , 84th Leg. I live in a condo in Dallas, TX. However, the HOA is monopolized by 1 man and he and our corrupt management service continue to waste our fees paid and never do anything unless the entire community gets up in arms which is extremely difficult. Right now, our gas has been shut off to all 14 buildings for over a month. Since this only is used for fireplace logs and heating the hot tub, the manager says it is a low priority.
We continue to pay for this service and no one is even working on the problem. I have contacted Atmos Energy and they said they will turn the service back on immediately as soon as the minor leak is repaired by the management. In the interim, we the condo owners have already missed the use of our hot tub and fireplaces during Thanksgiving and now Christmas is approaching. We need help! Our next scheduled HOA meeting is in late February and our president refuses to call an emergency meeting or take any further action until then.
I live in Dickinson TX just south of Houston. I recently faced a lawsuit against my HOAs. I signed on my house on Jan 30th of I have documents in my closing papers that specifically state that the HOA and CIA were paid for outside of closing by the previous owner. At that point I thought it was the end of it until later in I received a call from a law firm saying I owed in excess of dollars for that bill.
I told them what the management company had told me. In I went through a refinance and was under the impression that that years dues in the sum of dollars would be rolled in the refinance. They were not. Once I realized the mistake I tried to pay those dues in late I was not allowed to pay those dues because they had sent that to the collection law firm as well and by that time was demanding more than dollars.
I tried to pay my dues on time and was not allowed to because of the pending lawsuit I would have to drive all the way to Katy and make the payment in person. They then rolled that dollars into the lawsuit. They are now demanding dollars to collect on the dollars that I owe, which I have attempted to pay several times. I was never offered a hearing or my day in court to explain what happened.
In fact the current state laws regarding HOAs allow HOAs and attorneys to file in court for judgments without the owners in attendance. I was forced to pay the dollars or face foreclosure.
The current HOA laws are not just and need to change. I am behind 3 months on my HOA fees. I am trying my best to catch up. I understand this is my fault but not intentional by me but a product of a new business and its costs. I am an owner in a high-rise where I have been for 14 years.
These last few months I am behind. The stress of their foreclosing on me or taking my home which is paid off about , value is causing me much distress. I would like to have a payment plan under laws and try to have some comfort. In addition, the management company is telling other people in my building about my situation, which is causing me more distress daily.
Yet our board did nothing until I called the City who demanded it be fixed. No pressure washing was done for at least 7 years. Fences are falling and metal rails stick out of the ground surrounding the jogging trail. I had to send in a request to the City to get several street lights turned on that were out for years.
We have the same guy running our HOA for appox 12 years. He did not get added to the deed of the house he has been living in until ???? What enables a homeowner to be eligible to be a HOA board??? Our latest issue is we sent in a request for financials and an over all audit of our HOA. The responses were insufficient at best. Then suddenly we fire our old management company while our request for an audit is going on. We have no e-mail list for our community that I am aware of, so how did they notify us for the meeting to vote for the increase?
Do they have to notify us? The money will be used to build a larger reserve for future needs. If I pay my association fees, but not the new community service fee, I am restricted from using all the amenities in the neighborhood pool, pier, tennis, etc.
They turn off my scan card. Is this new fee legal? My homeowners association sent me a past due bill in October. I have lived here for 2 years and they never had sent anything. The invoice said that they had been mailing notices since April but we never got anything until Qctober. Now we have to pay an unreasonable amount of late fees for notices we never got!!! When I called them just now the HOA said they had been sending the notices to the apartment where I had lived.
This was passed by Multi-lots owners, 50, 40, 30, 20 lots owners who slowly are buying out everybody in the neighborhood. Homeowners need to know what steps to take when nothing has been done to the property, pool, tennis court.
Boards are rotting and falling off the building. There are huge pot holes in the parking lot. The bigger ones pay more. This place should be plush.
We are told that there are no reserves either. Mad in Midland Texas. We are selling our house and the home owners association wants to enforce a bylaw that has not been enforced for 10 years and want us to cut down a 15 foot tree. Many many home owners have large trees like mine and have never been given a notice. My HOA keeps sending me notices on my boat parked on the public street in front of my house. Can they legally take any action towards me with this being public property?
Review your HOA docs. In addition, many cities have street parking prohibitions. Also consult your city ordinances. Most of these items are in the CCRS and deed restrictions which have not been updated with the county in 30 years. Where can we find information on people running for office in November that support positive HOA law changes? The best sources for this information are the candidates themselves.
Let all Texas homeowners contact the candidates and ask them if they will support homeowner rights. Tell them 30 years of industry control must end. That seems discriminatory to me. Some of the covered POAs might actually be smaller than those that reside in smaller counties.
So, why a population based law? Apathy and indifference to the legislative power resulted in decades of laws harmful to homestead protection.
Our HOA Board never publishes or just barely publishes when the meetings are held. In other words, I have not been given detailed info on when and where the meetings are held. I have only heard of 2 or 3 meetings in the past 5 years. And yet, decisions appear to be made. The annual fees were raised, no explanation given. The management company told a fellow homeowner here in Tomball area that the homeowners have to request to attend the meetings. The board has had vacant seats for years on end.
This board seems to have run completely amok, and the management company is going along for the ride. Our board of directors is not being responsible for fiduciary responsibilities. They are not adding to reserve,not pulling permits, not insured adequately, not having proper liability, not contracted properly, etc. We have been bullied by our HOA and the Board to keep quiet. We live in a town with rare HOA meetings only Board and we have to give them notice?
Both have slandered our family in emails and have stolen our money. We are right outside San Antonio. We have an HOA which has made decisions that changed the original bylaws of our subdivision with out allowing the homeowners to vote on the change.
They insist it is legal. Our fees were based on our homestead in the same section and there was one fee for the home. This is a very poor rural subdivision in Sam Houston National Forest. The board did this with out allowing the home owners a choice to vote on this massive grab for cash. There is a lot of anger and discontent among the owners who had no say in this.
I believe this was an illegal action. HOA Boards were given all power but no accountability. Homeowners must contact their legislators and demand they support bills that benefit homeowners and not the HOA industry. The new session starts in January.
Texas homeowners cannot be apathetic! How can we contact the legislators? When are the hearings and where? We must all get organized to fight back. I know that BODs can not have the past felony convictions for 20 years? They argued that all weeds were not removed, but they failed to send clear proof that the weeds belong to my home they have made wrong accusations in the past about leaving trash bins outside, when they belong to the neighbor.
The home is occupied by responsible tenants and I feel awful passing those fines to them, since they say they corrected the issue. This community keeps charging the same amount for the same violation. The residents are subjected to the interpretation of the ones in power to fine residents. The truck is not commercial and has no advertisement on it. I work remotely and need this truck for work. What can I do? It sounds encouraging. We would think that eliminating the 2.
I bought my home here 4 years ago and the problems began the first night we moved in. When we went to see the home for a potential purchase, we went during the day time. Little did we know that our HOA had not paid the electric bill for the street lights. We were in the dark for about a good 2 months until the power was finally restored.
I tried to visit the home Office that is listed online but the whole building is gated and seems to have no entry for anybody. When calling the phone number listed you never get an answer from anyone. I have left numerous messages with no call back at all. I have called his personal cell, the work phone, emails, and I even looked him up on Facebook to try to get something out of him and yet I get no answer at all.
Recently as of August 27th our HOA decided to cancel our trash services. Today is September 7th, , and we have not had any trash picked up because we simply do not know who our new trash provider is. We never received any notice to simply advise us to call and get our services started with whomever we have now. We have no idea what to do at this point and do not know how long our trash will sit on the curb. What can we do as the residents in order to get this resolved?
How can we change things with our HOA? Who can we get involved to help us? How can we remove him of power for this unreasonable control of a community he has? I am from Rockwall TX. I do maintain my cars and have a clean porch where I work on my car. I have 5 cars that are operable with up to date tags and are used by me, my wife and kids.
One car that is not operable is inside my garage never been out. They even took a picture of a car that they said is not operable and not registered but the truth is, it has an up to date tag and that car is what I drive daily. Instead of coming they gave me a penalty to pay. This association is stressing me much. We live in San Antonio. I received an invoice from the management company for HOA dues with a due date of July 29, , and scheduled it to be paid electronically by my bank by July One week later, I received an invoice from the management company for late fees and interest.
My bank confirmed that payment was sent Friday, July When I called the billing dept. I asked to speak to the Community Manager of our development who also insisted they meant July 1 even though the bill clearly states July She informed me only the HOA Board could reverse the late fees. I wrote the HOA President and included the bill with the due date of July 29, the bank confirmation that the bill was paid on July 29, and the late fee assessment.
He did not respond even though the Board was meeting the next day. The day after the Board met, the Community Mgr. More incredulously, the Board voted to change the due date from July 29 to July 1, retroactively.
I had to complain up the chain to the COO of the management company and sent him copies of the documents. My husband called him and asked if he even saw the bill with the original due date of July 29, which he had not. Nothing was mentioned about the incorrect bills that were distributed.
I emailed our HOA Board president to inquire why he had not responded to my direct request, which exponentially compounded my trouble with the management company. I expressed disappointment that he was not advocating for us. He sent us an angry response that he speaks to me through the management company. Legally, what is the due date? I am not being facetious. The management company and the HOA feel they have the right to change the due date after the bill has been sent? My bank says the bill was paid on the due date July What is the legal date of receipt?
What recourse do I have to complain about the unethical behavior of the management company and the HOA President and Board? We have lived here over 8 years and parked in the same manner and never had an infraction. HOA in San Antonio, would not allow me to replace my roof heavily damaged by spring hailstorms. I applied twice already.
The first time they denied the request claiming I was going to use the wrong type of shingles although I picked the one of the seven types of shingles allowed by HOA. After a week of trying to explain that it is exactly the same listed product, management stated that I need to change the shingle description on application to exactly the same wording as on the approved list. I complied and re-applied. I have not received any confirmation that my application was received and submitted to ACC committee.
I tried to follow up. I have not received any responses. If in 1 month I will not receive the response my request will be considered denied by HOA rules. My house desperately needs a new roof ASAP. Every rainy day I get more damage to my house. I have lived in my home for 30 years and this is the first time I know of this happening. There has been no notice to residents that there would be, what amounts to, a fine for being unable to pick these letters up.
Cost for postage has always been included in our POA budget. So, it seems I have already paid for any mail they send. Is this legal given a portion of our HOA fees are paying the attorney and the board works for us? I have asked the onsite representative numerous times. She states she will give me the documents and she never does. I have been following up with her a few times a week.
Today, she has decided to start ignoring me. I have no paperwork to fallback on to verify the information. I feel she is deliberately withholding the documents from me to try to exploit me for money. I am being harassed by the HOA at my condominium in Dallas. The HOA illegally had my car towed for no known reason. I had to pay to have it released. HOA repeatedly takes pictures of my car and stops me as I come through entrance.
We live in a new development in Austin. How long can they do this legally? They are making silly decisions. A requirement described by this subsection is not applicable during the development period.
We live in a community outside of Austin, Texas. Some of the bylaws they have revised have taken out any room to move for residents, and many residents have left the neighborhood instead of fighting. When we complain, we get repeated and frequent letters and harassment for things that seem to go ignored in other areas around the neighborhood.
We are also considering moving to an area without an HOA, but unfortunately finding one within reasonable distance to a metro area is quite difficult. I have lived one year in the United States. This association has many restrictions and no respect for homeowners.
There is no mail box to contact them and no office. I have many pictures to prove violations but I am the only Hispanic alien here. They have trespassed my land 4 times. The Texas legislature has not yet provided any oversight agency to aid homeowners in HOA problems. They have failed to send out payment statements to residents to pay dues resulting in late fee charges. I have been getting letters for my travel trailer being parked for less than a day to load and unload after family trips that occur once every few years.
This is infringing on my rights as a disabled veteran of armed forces to have this accessibility. After 24 hours, I can understand a violation. I had complained to the board about the misuse of HOA funds. Now I am receiving these letters from the board. Our HOA is totally out of control and chooses whom to cite when they make complaints. A semi is constantly parking and blocking a stop sign and they choose not to do anything about it.
Also, there are no benefits to having the HOA since they only collect fees and provide nothing in return. Many people have chosen not to move to Little Elm because of the location and the HOA makes it worse. Our HOA in Dallas does not enforce towing and noise compliance. I pay for 2 spaces and routinely some one will either park in one or both of them.
I have emailed, texted and called everyone to get them to do as they say. They never have for over three years. I have complained against them via the BBB website and they even admit that they do not and can not tow cars. Our HOA in the Rio Grande Valley was elected by the Developer voting his empty lots and they have given the Developer all of our money and contract language that was not in our best interest.
Plus they are oblivious to covenant language. In other words they do whatever they want to. Right now there is nothing we can do about it. After fighting with my board for 3. The State Statutes are the most worthless set of laws enacted. The insurer behind the attorney who represents my board KNOWS the board has refused and will not release docs. Think an HOA will protect the value of your community? Think again. They ruled that the Rules and Bylaws trumped Deed Restrictions. The ruling was for a business in the HOA and against the member.
Thanks for your comment. You mentioned before that there is a law against any board members with felony convictions. Is there any government run regulation body like the one in Nevada to watch over the runaway HOA boards in Texas? This same board member has violated a deed restriction and is still in violation.
He has had previous issues with other HOA boards. HOAs write the laws, issue citations, and render punishment. HOA or POA boards need to be punished or removed as well, if they act for CONflicts of interest and enforcing selective deed restrictions upon other members but themselves.
The HOA attorney even tells the Board that the meeting was not properly noticed. At this improperly noticed meeting they said we had to turn our votes in to see if we made quorum. This was done prior to nominations from the floor. A motion was made by a Board member to close voting, and then seconded. Minutes from our last annual meeting were also voted on to be accepted.
Since the meeting was not properly noticed, are the things that were voted on even valid? Some people did not receive the notice but would have had it been sent out in the proper number of days.
Texas should abolish HOAs. Our tax dollars pay for code compliance, animal control, health department, and local law enforcement. Agree with mfg. If neighbors just talked to one another, most issues would be resolved without an HOA. People are too separated from their neighbors as well as their responsibility to others. This needs to change.
We purchased the home for the incredible views and spend a majority of our time on the back patio. When our neighbor moved in next door, the issues began. The neighbor did not complete landscaping in the backyard leaving empty flower beds a mulched area for a deck.
Made improvements to the landscaping in the front yard changes to the irrigation system, by installing above ground soaker hoses, security lighting and has moved in a ton of plants that are not tied to the DCCR. We followed protocol and informed the HOA of the violations through a multitude of emails and correspondence with pictures to document the issues.
We finally received a call from one of the board members. If we want anything done then we might want to think about taking legal action of our own. Why have an HOA? In December of I won on all counts and am facing mediation and a trial in June for damages. The Association just draws it out as much as possible. They operate under the premise they can do whatever they want without regard to homeowners as the only recourse the owner has is to sue. Question is: What will I get?
Our HOA has determined that although the HOA rules stated they must have a website, the attorney they asked at the beginning of told then no they did not need to. So they refused. They fail to submit an agenda before each meeting to members, fail to send minutes and outcomes of the meetings.
They Hold special meetings without notifying members of the HOA. One committee chair over landscaping told me if your health does not allow perfumes, you might want to just stay home. I asked if we could just ask those attending to not wear fragrances I actually have a doctors note. Experts promote white roofs to save energy. Could HOA regulate the color of our roof simply for looking all the same?
Go to the following link to learn the powers of HOAs. Especially pertinent for you might be 6, or the HOA docs might control. As I am not an attorney, I cannot give any legal opinion. In Texas you have more legal protection from getting a bad hair cut than living in an HOA. A barber has to be licensed by the state, an HOA does not. We need the state to issue a license for each HOA and inspect them with the force of law by the Texas Attorney General.
Our deed restrictions say it takes 66 percent vote to make amendments to deeds. At the last meeting,the management company tried to intimidate me and said the deed restrictions really are not worth the paper they are written on because of the Texas Property code. Inequities abound in HOAs. Owners must abide by rules or suffer penalties. Boards flaunt rules and suffer no penalties leaving owners the costly option of filing a law suit to obtain justice.
As soon as homeowner laws are passed, the HOA attorneys seek ways to circumvent them. One method is to rename their actions. The blame for common interest community developments started with your state legislators.
Check their voting records. This will be the only permanent solution for this fiasco. She was corresponding with what I am assuming was the lawyer and was working out a payment plan. It is unbelievable that these people can threaten to foreclose on her house for being behind on an HOA payment, tacking on all these crazy fees. I live in Houston and am in the exact same problem.
I feel they have harassed me with letters almost every week and then charge outrageous fees for each letter and photo and on top of that the late fees and lawyers fees. Is there any way to fight this? I would like to build a covered front patio, so I asked the HOA for permission with their official form and pictures, drawings, e. Within 24hours I received the denial letter, because of the high arch of the house.
I submitted further pics from other homes, in my opinion comparable. I got lots of questions about the attachment to the house and also responded always with further information.
What can a homeowner do when the HOA does not approve it? I live in Granbury, Texas in an HOA that for the last 14 years has had many drainage issues and homes flooding. Pipes are crushed and plugged and will not allow the necessary flow of water which is causing my yard to wash out and develop large sink holes. Last year we filed suit and lost. The HOA said they would fix the problem, based on an Engineering Study completed in December, , but they have not taken any action.
They will not even talk to us about the problem with the sink holes. In the HOA did fix a problem with a sink hole developing in my neighbors yard, which was created by the same two 27 inch cracked pipes, but will not fix the pipes and it continues to wash my yard away.
What can I do� file suit again? In an annual meeting concerning election of board members should proxies be allowed to be hand turned in by individual owner?. What if the proxies were to be manipulated by the person turning them in? Section I am a new home owner in Bexar County. My HOA says we are not allowed to park on the street. There are four drivers in my house and not enough garage space to park all four cars. All vehicles are functioning and well kept.
The oldest is a Maxima. Can HOAs govern who parks in the street? The HOA does not provide any documentation of what they are spending the money on. Do we have the right to ask for the records? I have two houses and was paying the same monthly dues for each one. She is paying the dues rent free.
They state it is for her amenity usage however, no one was using the amenities tied to the monthly dues when it sat empty. The developer of our community formed an association which only has him as the board. We feel some of the expenses to maintain the property to be excessive but have no recourse since the developer makes all the decisions.
Does anyone have any advice how we can form an HOA so we can manage our own community? Regardless of the period of declarant control provided by the declaration, on or before the th day after the date 75 percent of the lots that may be created and made subject to the declaration are conveyed to owners other than a declarant, at least one-third of the board members must be elected by owners other than the declarant.
We are a new condo project and the builder is acting as the HOA. We have asked for copies of the bi-laws and the HOA is refusing to provide this information to the owners.
The investor group has requested that our board of directors give them an exemption from paying assessments. Proxies shall be filed with the Secretary of the Association at or before the appointed time of each meeting of the association.
Our Board does not care what the covenants or statutes say, they just do their own thing and get away with it. Oh yes, they were all elected by the developer voting his empty lots. The HOA of the neighborhood never holds meetings even though homeowners are constantly requesting them. Repairs also need to be done to the courts and walking path which have been ignored for years.
Where can I report the HOA? The devastation suffered by homeowners has been recorded in the foreclosure filings and in the lives of Texas homeowners, yet every effort to have laws demanding HOA accountability is vigorously and successfully opposed by the industry.
Theirs is a billion dollar industry living off the backs of homeowners. Homeowners united could bring change. Homeowners must unite. HOA in Dallas is still holding Board meetings without notifying the owners. The management company does not provide notice and actually takes steps to hide when the meetings are. They also do not hold regular annual meetings. My problem is on parking vehicles.
I have an RV � a 21 footer and it does not go over the sidewalk. Called the HOA office and told them there should atleast be a size limit as it fits perfectly. I asked other people here in the area if they would sign a petition; they said yes. An HOA does not improve the value of my property.
We are Senior citizens who retired to enjoy the rest of our lives in peace. I do not see any improvements with the HOA fees we pay to do something on the properties.
The board had to locate residents in order to have a quorum. We came home one day to a parking lot company installing speed bumps not the normal humps. There has never been an accident on our streets and no children have been injured as a result of speed. What was installed are asphalt speed bumps raised to well over 4 inches. Sports cars scrape and trucks bounce over them dangerously.
The asphalt is now cracking and scraping off and some are completely damaged. When approached, our board member stated that this was decided at the meeting. How could this have been discussed, decided, bid on and contracted with no involvement from the residents? Nothing was mailed out about this being done and it has never been explained.
After several weeks of hounding the HOA, they decided to set up a meeting on the other side of the city on a Friday afternoon. No notification was sent, other than a piece of paper being posted at the community pool.
This was also done without voting. Click to access PR. Question � Can a POA assess trash collection fees to all property owners when the majority of lots are undeveloped and only the few who have built many of whom serve on the board have need for this service?
Is this still considered a common property maintenance, if so how? This is a direct link to the Texas statutes, with the latest updates. I really feel for everyone who is writing and I am just like the rest of you. However, everyone who has 6 weeds in his front yard gets a letter. I offer my advice to any naive buyer: an HOA does not protect your property values and the board is likely run by tyrants who want to control your life.
An HOA has more power than any god. If you think your board wants you to get involved with the HOA, think again. What they want you to do is help at their direction.
Sit back, shut up, and be submissive. They work exclusively apparently with a local lawyer who regularly files foreclosure proceedings on home owners and fails to follow Texas Rules of Procedure AND then refuses to negotiate with the homeowner at all. A Bexar County Jury has already denied him relief in one lawsuit in To add insult to injury, the subdivision generated a considerable PROFIT this year and this subdivision does not have any common areas to maintain no pool, no fitness facility, no dog park, no yard work provided to homeowners.
I live in Desoto Texas. However we do not have amenities. Thereare no vacant lots and no common areas other than trees at the entry. I am wondering why we have an HOA at all. Recently some homeowners got into a dispute with our resident run HOA. I want out of this HOA. They claim this drastic increase is needed for repairs, though this is clearly a pretty abusive increase for condo owners. What can owners do?
We bought our condo in March of I am 67 and my husband is I feel SO trapped. I have to sell my first house because I do not want to deal with them. Now I have problem with my second house too. HOA signed contract to trash service company; trash service company sent me the bill. I called the trash service like I did with previous trash service companies and this company will not allow me to cancel.
Now I have to pay them even though this company did not pick up any trash at my house. They keep sending me the bill and add on interrupted service fee. I have to pay for service I do not need and use. All power has been given to HOA boards. Privatization means this HOA government denies homeowners their rights as American citizens. How many signatures required to change this law? Homes in and out of HOAs proved that during the housing bust and continue to prove it every day.
Repetition does not make it true. Homeowners have been controlled by fear, apathy, and rules. Homeowners must unite to regain the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and denied by HOAs. They must unite because HOAs target individuals. In union there is strength. The Power of the People united will get these bad laws changed. Homeowners must elect legislators who represent them � not the lobbying industry. Lack of transparency, an unwillingness to follow governing docs, and lack of honesty.
Until the courts know the full extent of the power given to these boards and the tyrants that run them there will never be any correction. I too am for dissolving my HOA if the board remain unwilling to act responsibly. After my experience here, I would never choose to live in another HOA. Just could not do it. I wish that could happen. I am shocked at what power HOAs are allowed. I have lived in my condo 13 years and have always paid on time. I had an inspector to look at the roof 4 years ago yet they have done nothing.
However many others have had repairs. I am being told that I owe a month in arrears and they have put 50 dollars on that.
It is important to always keep your payments current to avoid fines, fees, liens, and foreclosure even when one feels justified in withholding payment. As you mentioned, the HOAs have the power. In response to tcr: The injustices to homeowners are the reasons for this website.
The laws are neither reasonable nor just. All Texas homeowners must unite. HOAs are a billion-dollar scam perpetrated on the American people. I agree one must pay dues and not withhold them but when the board can change HOW these payments are applied and the result is the balance becomes past due because they applied your dues to something other than dues�.
Neither the Declarations nor the State impose any sanctions to keep them from foreclosing on your property. What about the white house petition site to get one rolling? She has taken every aspect of this community. The election meeting was scheduled for Feb. Then ten days before election day the BOD decided to change process of long and short term owners allowed to run. They now maintain they should not have even discussed changing the by laws with the members.
There is so much more. XXX Management manages our Subdivision or lack thereof. They have sent numerous letters complaining of holiday decorations, broken down vehicle, trash on the side of the house and grass growing in the cracks of the driveway and sidewalk. I have called a number of times. They have insisted it is my house and my address and will not prove to me what they are looking at with pictures. X who works there hung up in my face when I was telling her she had the wrong house.
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