Hoa! Bs!

[L8 APEX]

I came home to an invoice in the mail from "my home owners assoc?". When I bought my house in 1999 I specified and confirmed there was no HOA or dues etc... The builder KB said none at all sir only your standard deed restrictions. Well there are a few pesky nerds in the hood that got together and may have snuck a HOA up on us all. How leagally binding is this invoice for HOA grounds keeping dues etc? I didn't agree to jack **** and have lived here 6yrs with no HOA crap:flaming: :flaming: :flaming: !

[02BOLT]

Let me do some checking. I'll let you know what I find out.

[L8 APEX]

Let me do some checking. I'll let you know what I find out.
Here is a link to the website http://www.lakeportvillage.org/ , check the MISC and they list bylaws and decloration of covenants etc... Great now I am going to have to level an entire subdivision. If your zip code is 76002 you may want to relocate:evil . Just when I was at peace with everyone:hammer: .

[Wht95Lightning]

Does it say on the invoice that it is mandatory? In my neighborhood it is optional.

[Silver_2000]

Interesting Snippets from the site


Kaufman & Broad presented the Lake Port Village Community Association with a check in the amount of $15,000.00 to cover the expenses of the association for the first year. The funds were made available on August 11, 2004. The Board is currently reviewing bids for the landscape maintenance for a period of 1 year.
Kaufman and Broad is KB homes



There have been discussions and proposals for Annual Dues. An amount of $120 per year was suggested. Please check back with the website for details!

Discussion when ? Who approved it ?

Myt house before this had an HOA ... The details were in the deed paperwork
I would check yours - KB may have lied to you

[03LightningRocks]

It is optional in my neighborhood also....sort of....LOL. They put out an a$$hole list every year of the folks that don't pay up. I suppose if you made the list, nobody would call the cops if your house was getting robbed.;)



Rocks

[Wht95Lightning]

It is optional in my neighborhood also....sort of....LOL. They put out an a$$hole list every year of the folks that don't pay up. I suppose if you made the list, nobody would call the cops if your house was getting robbed.;)


I'm sure if there is a list like that in my neighborhood I'm on it. The reason I don't join is that they have no real power and they don't even enforce the rules that they make. :confused: A total waste of money.

[Mark #2]

In my experience these are the yard guards. Nothing better to do than walk around the neighborhood and squeel on you.


Funny thing last summer when there was a car thief running around the neighborhood and cops and helicopters everywhere, all these people were hiding in their houses. The bad neighbors and I were out in the alley spotting for the cops and they caught him.:)

I don't pay any HOA fees, and I actually know and actually talk to my neighbors

[wesman]

I'm in 76002 and hope we do get a HOA :)


I'd pay em $120 a year to mow my front yard...that's $10 bucks a month....I have a big a$$ front yard. Maybe they'll keep the foks on my corner from growing peanuts in their side yard right next to the road :Bullshit

--wes

[L8 APEX]

They took that KB starting fund and paid some company over a thousand bucks a month to maintain the small entrance grounds. We suggested the hood buy equipment with it and we take turns mowing the small grounds. Nope, they'd rather go broke paying the svc.. Also the frotn entrance looks like crap after being run over and not watered. Is this what I am suppose to pay for?

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/15CIMG1912.JPG
They just took it all down and planted cheap periwinkles. If they would have rebuilt it maybe I would have put in.

[Tex Arcana]

Check your covenants, it'll be in the fine print there. And be damned careful, unless you have the 800-lb gorilla lawyer, because if the deed restrictions and covenants have the provision for a HOA, they may also have provisions for those who fail to pay the dues, which can include then filing legal action against you and taking your home away from you. :eek2:

You read that right: you could lose your home.

Our home in Frisco is in a HOA division, and the covenants are clear: fail to pay, get your home taken. How that will hold up in court isn't clear (hence the 800-lb laywer comment), but it's a risk.

Now, on the OTEHR side of the coin, a HOA can be a good thing, becasue it prevents people from doing things like building shanties in their driveway, or covering all the grass with plastic and gravel, or the neighbor painting his house baby-sh*t green--which all helps keep the property values high, and prevents you taking a loss on selling the home. ;) So consider it from that perspective as well.

But, given it's KB homes, I'd be looking to move. :eek:

[98Cobra]

http://www.ccfj.net/HOATXforeclbill2.htm

http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/smflame.gif just not right.

[Tex Arcana]

http://www.ccfj.net/HOATXforeclbill2.htm

http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/smflame.gif just not right.
Positively unconstitutional. :mad: I'm with you on this one. Thankfully, I've moved to a place where what HOA tehre is has no dues and consists of only 14 people. :tu:

[Wht95Lightning]

Whoops, a grease fire. Sorry.