What a mess!

This is such a difficult problem, which has a simple solution, which will get more and more complicate in the future.

With the absurd behavior of some owners, HOA’s have a value. The neighborhood toe our East is packed with RV’s and trailers, with some properties having 3 or 4 rv’s. It is awful.

Our neighborhood is run by a group of close-minded autocrats, who have absurd rules that make no sense. The worst rule is the roofing requirement rule, which has everyone doing the same very expensive and very ugly stone covered metal roof which is installed improperly. Soar cannot be added as it voids the warrant, yet the association mandated it without consent. It is a voluntary association of owners, and they have a little clique that decides whatever they want.

If DORA had a committee I could complain to, it is possible that they would be flexible, but since that does not exist, I am helpless. Without spending $10,000 for an attorney.

As it is, without any reasonable government control of out of control HOA’s this problem will continue.

I have been on condo boards, and HOA boards. Certain rules are needed, but this power that the boards wield is out of control.

Simple: DORA needs an ombudsman with the power to say no. We have laws about contracts and the sale of properties, it is time to have control over HOA’s to keep them in a reasonable set of guidelines.

It is currently an absurd situation. I can’t put a roof on my house without using the one the hoa demands, which is installed incorrectly by every contractor.

And there is no one who can help.

This is not the way a civilized society should work.