Homeowner Carol Dietrick is handicapped but gets around great on her mobility scooter. Now, her HOA claims her husband’s truck which is equipped with a wheelchair lift is a commercial vehicle! And they’re threatening to fine Carol’s landlord.
WFTV-TV in Central Florida reports that the HOA could be in violation of federal law. Talk about understatements!
Carol…take your camera and get some pix of the rear ends of every board member’s car. Betcha you’ll see lots of commercial logos like…. Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and maybe even Cadillac. That’s all advertising.
That was just hypothetical. According to some religions we are ALL sinners. But what gives a Homeowners Association the right to determine who is a sinner and who is not?
I know, you think I’m just exaggerating again. But my regular readers know I NEVER resort to hyperbole, right?
Well, Bunky, take a look at the latest outrage in a Venice, Florida Homeowners Association. The Casa Di Amici Condo Association refuses to allow a condo sale to anybody it deems (in its own infinite wisdom) to be ‘living in sin.’ Now, if, as the Bible teaches, we are all sinners and no one is capable of judging one another, what in Hell is going on here?
Florida’s Jan Bergemman is one of the early heroes of the homeowners’ rights movement. For many years, he’s had his sights set on putting rules in place that would stop the mindless unregulated tyranny in Homeowners Associations. Jan describes himself as a “retired chef from Germany.” But he’s worked tirelessly in his state to try to wake people up to the organized crime syndicate behind the Homeowners Association Movement.
This blogger was skeptical, at first, when reading about proposed new anti-HOA laws in Florida. “Impossible!” I thought, when finding that common sense laws were being suggested in the original ‘tyranny state.’
Will wonders never cease? A young lady has been kicked out of her swimming pool by the Fishhawk Ranch Homeowners Association. That’s in Lithia, Florida.
Heck, who’s ever even heard of Lithia? Or cared about it?
But they’re on the map, now, after telling homeowner Eden Sirene that she’s violated the pool’s ‘no flippers’ rule. Board members want to keep their pool safe for the kiddies, of course, so swim fins are out.
Still, Eden Sirene doesn’t actually use swim fins. No, she entertains the kids by wearing a mermaid outfit in the water. In the strict sense of the word, is it a fin? Well, if you believe in mermaids then this outfit kind of looks like a fin.
With the national tragedy that is the death of a 17 year old boy at the hands of an HOA neighborhood watch volunteer, it’s only fair to examine why this case was prosecuted at all. As noted by this blogger before, there are many tragedies in this case, not the least of which is the killing of a boy on a rainy night as he zig-zagged through an unfamiliar neighborhood.
Still, the elements for a successful prosecution of the neighborhood watchman were never there. They were never, ever there. And exculpatory evidence that should have freed George Zimmerman immediately, was illegally withheld from defense attorneys.
