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Press Release
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Are homeowner associations environmentally unfriendly ?
Reporter requests stories on restrictive covenants in Texas subdivisions
October 09, 2006
By
Asher Price
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Here ya go......"No HOA!!!" advertisement for new housing:
Posted Oct 10 2006 10:46PM CEST
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The only entity that believes that homeowner associations are environmentally friendly is the municipality. As long as the municipality doesn't have to deal with complaining property owners and they can continue to collect the entire amount of property taxes on that home, they could careless about environmental issues in HOA's.
That is why HOA's whose infrastructure are entirely private often have crumbling streets, poor drainage, shoddy street lighting, wood rotting due to overwatering, mold issues, can't hang laundry outside, must have dark colored comp shingles that attract heat in the desert climates, riddled with pesticides and poisons - that grass must be GREEN you know - P. Flamingo once said, "It's all in the name of the common area green$" The list goes on.
NONE of it makes sense.
With regard to suicidal tendencies. HOA PTSD is real. The mental abuse is real. The REAL article lies in the matter of the psychological abuse one endures while incarcerated in an HOA.
Environmentally unfriendly??? Perhaps.
Pyschologically unfriendly??? Absolutely.
Posted Oct 10 2006 10:41PM CEST
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Environmentally, socially or in direct conflict with the "bundle of rights" that comes with home ownership they do not qualify.
The purpose initially of homeowner associations was sound and made common sense....then builders saw it as another income stream....lawyers an unlimited income stream.
Ask all of the politicians who are pocketing money from the Texas Homebuilders Association and Attorney groups if they are environmentally friendly. The environment was never an issue in any of the restrictions.
Most associations are clique run with variances to those who are "in" with someone on an architecturial committee. Most cities have water restrictions and most HOA's have the "little junior commando's" calling on anything that resembles water going on.
There is a far difference between "rules" and law and most associations and especially management companies and board's need to learn the lesson. Are Board' exercising their "fiduciary responsibilities" without environmentally friendly policy?
In Arizona new subdivisions signs saying "NO HOA" - do you figure someone got the message?
The "mini Gestapo's" are what HOA's are for and most of them should be fined for the "bs" they are putting in the air.
Posted Oct 10 2006 9:02PM CEST
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mac silver
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I have sued my HOA for several reasons, one being the landscape regimen. I doubt this is what you're looking for, but the Villas Los Rios Homeowners' Association provides a stripped-down version of the service required by Declaration on file in Collin County, Texas
Among the landscape services is one that homeowners do not wish to have: the weed control and fertilizer regimens of TruGreen Chemlawn. For one, and herbicide is a growth retardent, even though it was designed for use on a specific type of turf. Our neighborhood is heavily shaded due to trees.
In these cases, the herbicides slowly eradicate all grass, washing down into low areas, creating toxic pooling of chemicals that defoliate everything in its path. Furthermore, as we are on a golf course, herbicide products cast out into the street and that run-off bare dirt (where grass one gree) wind up going into storm drains that dump DIRECTLY into a Cottonwood Creek, that in turn, runs directly into Lake Lavon...the source of our drinking water.
Our HOA is no exception to the rule. You will find that many HOAs apply herbicides, some know as "weed & feed" and other products that are extremely harmfull, environmentally. Furthermore, they will not remove the overcast granuals from the walks, allowing rainwater to wash the products out to the curb and down the storm drains.
Actually, this lawsuit I filed against the HOA and it's purported officers is far more than meets the eye is quite different than you'd imagine of a suit of this type. In fact, pre-hearing discovery determined the self-anointed "officers" were not duly elected at onset. Years back, the same circle of cronies refused to call for an election of a new, 3-member board and instead, consider the 3-member board and the officers as being the same persons. In other words...no oversight for those masquerading as officers.
After financial records were forced to be turned over, it was further found that the a suspiciously favored landscape company has been paid an off-the-scale exhorbitant price, three months in advance for services not received, for only a stripped-down, few services that goes so far as to exclude the shrub pruning required by the Declaration on file in Collin County.
Also, I have pics of before/after Chemlawn defoliation of lawns, shrubs, and ground cover.
I think you were looking for prohibitions again specific types of drought-resistant landscapes and drought-resistant turf. However, this subject seems to also fit...spreading toxic material (whether the homeowner wants them or not) on properties where unusual elevations cause the products to simply wash into storm drains, in this case, drains connecting directly to creeks only feet from Lake Lavon, our local water reservoir.
Homeowner
Texas
Posted Oct 10 2006 7:25AM CEST
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SOLAR WATER HEATING PANELS ORDERED REMOVED
In the heart of the dry hot desert of Palm Springs California, last year after a discussion at a HOA Board meeting they made a homeowner take down his commercially installed solar water heating panels because they were the wrong color.
His panels were black and they wanted terra cotta to match the tile roof. I was told by a technician after the fact that state law says if the Homeowner Association interference adds more then 20% cost to the project then the HOA has no authority.
Apparently no one knew that or cared to let anyone know they knew that law.
Posted Oct 10 2006 4:32AM CEST
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La Quinta, California |
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I cannot find the email address for the American statesman reporter, please send me his email address so I can send him the story about Arshia (the Texas homeowner who testified at the Senate hearing October 2, 2006 and said she wanted to kill herself because of the Homeowner Association bullying).
Thanks
Rich Craig
AHRC Response
Dear Richard:
Please click on the author name or the link at the end of the article to Email Asher Price directly:
Best regards
AHRC Staff
Posted Oct 10 2006 3:42AM CEST
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Richard Craig
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San Antonio, Texas |
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I have a Story for you -
This poor women being harassed with 17 violations over a clothesline and rock garden, and a board that refuses to negotiate. They want to foreclose on her home. She told the Texas committee that she doesn't know what to do. "I will kill myself", and then breaks into tears.
See the last 5 minutes of the live video:
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/avarchive/ and click on Oct 2, 2006 Intergovernmental Relations.
Arshia Khurshid
I do not have the HOA president's phone number but here are the email addresses for the board:
Crescent Oaks Homeowners Association
Lee Cowey-President for the Association
Paul Castleberry - Treasurer
Darrel Wakefield - Director
ddehls
B Buckley - Manager bbuckley@hillcountrymgmt.com
Keep in mind, this is not one HOA, but Two HOAs that are ganging up on her. If it were just one HOA it wouldn't be so horrible and confusing to this poor woman who simply tried to make her yard stop eroding away every time it rained.
This all started when she tried to solve a serious erosion problem in her yard by designing a rock garden.
Instead of assisting this homeowner and helping her get this problem resolved, these hateful people have turned a simple home improvement project into a nightmare. Put yourself in her shoes.
The sub-HOA (Crescent Oaks) is having its annual meeting tomorrow night at the Crown of Life Lutheran Church in Stone Oak (Knights Cross between Stone Oak Pkwy and Crescent Oak).
I'm considering going to that meeting and asking the HOA president why they cannot resolve a simple landscaping issue with neighborly recommendations, and why the refused to approve the driveway expansion she asked for originally. It is horrible how these people are treating a person for landscaping violations - it's so oppressive she feels like killing herself!! Put yourself in her shoes.
Stone Oak POA Buzz Buckley is the manager of Stone Oak POA - and he should ALSO answer to this outrageousness. Same for Michael Thurman - the lawyer for Stone Oak who is posing as the lawyer for the Sub Association too. Their email addresses are above...please send me an email and I can forward you pictures of other people who have driveway expansions and metal edging and rock gardens - 17 counts of Selective enforcement.
Hope this helps -
Rich Craig
Posted Oct 10 2006 3:40AM CEST
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Richard Craig
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