1) Promise local planning and development commissioners that your Utopian projects – including planned communities (HOAs) and condominiums – will increase tax revenues beyond their wildest dreams, without any fiscal impact to local government.
2) Dangle the carrots: wealthy domestic and foreign investors willing to provide capital financing to get the project going.
Most HOAs have a regulation about “No Home Businesses.” With so many people working at home on the web that’s an almost meaningless rule…except when Board Bullies want to throw their weight around.
Sure, nobody wants to live next to a neighbor who operates a sawmill in his back yard. But sometimes the local HOA Nazi gets out of control and too full of himself. You’re an author and you write books and magazine articles? That’s an illegal business. You use your computer to fill out medical forms? Illegal home-based business.
Those who follow this website know that I’ve been predicting this for years: Drones flying over your property taking video of your covenant violations. Now a mainstream HOA promoter is actually whispering about the possibility.
The link below is disguised as a ‘warning’ for HOAs to be cautious as they approach the subject of drone inspections of private property. But the real message is “Our time has come! Get your drones ready.”
AirBnB, VRBO, and online vacation rental sites have taken on a life of their own. Now condo owners can arrange to rent their units by the week, with the click of a few buttons. But some Florida condo owners are upset that their condo building has been overrun with tourists from all over the world, making their homes feel more like a hotel.
In the video report linked below, Michele Gillen, CBS4, Miami Beach, features Octagon Towers, just steps from South Beach. One condo owner laments that she no longer knows her neighbors, because they change every week. The problem has been ongoing.
“Embezzlement is so rare in HOAs that it’s almost non-existent.”
(What the HOA industry would have you believe.)
“Another embezzler hits an HOA for nearly a quarter million bucks.”
(What those of us at Neighbors At War would have you believe.)
Oh yeah, I almost forgot!
(link to another one of those thousands of embezzlement cases)
And another….
(link to another embezzlement the HOA industry just doesn’t want you to know about)
And the list goes on and on. HOA life is hazardous to your life savings. Believe it!
