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0 pointsvel0city2y ago0 comments

How do you think people get on the boards of HOAs? They're elected by HOA members. Who are the members? The people who live in the HOA.

The people running the HOA almost always are accountable by polls, even more local polls than municipal elections.

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plagiarist2y ago· 3 in thread

What is the process to challenge an HOA fine?

vel0cityOP2y ago

What's the process to register a car? What's the process to challenge a service contract? How do I reserve a room at the municipal activity center? How do I challenge a water bill? It probably varies from places to place, doesn't it? You'd have to check the bylaws of a given HOA. There's probably some address you're supposed to write a letter to explaining the challenge, then it gets reviewed, etc. Eventually courts could get involved. But I doubt one could give a specific set of steps that applies to every HOA.

plagiarist2y ago

Seems like you need to bring up several unrelated issues to pretend you have a point.

The HOA is a contract which may include binding arbitration. You might not be able to bring it to court or appeal.

vel0cityOP2y ago

I bring up all those other things because there isn't a single "well you just do x dummy!" answer to any of those in the same way there's no single answer to how do you challenge an HOA fine. Maybe there's binding arbitration. Maybe there isnt. You'd have to look it up, you can't say that's the process every time. And hey, you can lobby your neighbors to change it, it's not set in stone. Just like if your city has some dumb ordinance nobody likes.

There wasn't any binding arbitration clause in any HOA bylaws for any house I was looking at buying, so suggesting that's some standard thing doesn't seem accurate to me.

I've got a super basic question. I'm sure you can give an exact answer to. What time does the restaurant close?

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