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What do you do with a Naked Neighbor?

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guest blog by Dave Russell (Arizona community manager)

While HOAs are usually the most disastrous organizations ever created, can they ever really be useful? Well the residents in the Cardinal Glenn Homeowners Association, in North Charlotte, NC are hoping their HOA will soon come to the rescue.

Seems this HOA has a major issue with one of their kookie residents and can’t get any help from city leaders or the police. It seems that one of Cardinal Glenn’s residents likes to wear his birthday-suit while standing outside of his home talking on his cellphone. This, according to the neighbors.

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Being an HOA Board Member Could Get Dicey!

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There’s a case awaiting a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that could increase the risk for individual HOA board members and property managers. It involves passive and overt discrimination against certain protected classes. Overt discrimination needs no explanation. But passive or indirect discrimination, which often happens when no one intentionally means to discriminate, can lead to huge lawsuits and massive judgments against individual board members and homeowners. More and more protected classes have been filing lawsuits based on easier-to-prove passive discrimination.

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A change of heart for one HOA President?

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guest blog by Deborah Goonan

Every once in a while, the unexpected happens.

Remember David Schneider, the former president of McKamy HOA, Dallas, Texas? He was the one who sued a small Jewish congregation and the owners of a home in the HOA, arguing that using the home for Jewish religious services was against HOA restrictions. The local judge dismissed that case about a month ago.

Then the City of Dallas sued the Congregation, citing city requirements to make $200,000 worth of improvements to the property in order to obtain a certificate of occupancy. Without the Certificate of Occupancy, the Congregation faces steep fines, and may be forced to find another location for worship after all.

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Shocking Nastiness in Arizona HOA

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A regular reader of our Neighbors At War blog sent along this link about how a certain Arizona HOA does business. They use HOA funds to hire a well-known character assassin to ruin the reputations of homeowners who oppose board members or policies of the board.

As you read this, just recall that Arizona is the same state where a frustrated homeowner once gunned down members of his HOA board.

http://www.ahwatukee.com/opinion/article_52193ac4-c751-11e4-b1a4-2364a670117b.html

 

 

 

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