HOA Homeowners' Rights Task Force

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  A Question for Reprsentative Ricks

  by Robert Racansky, 12 months ago

  
  

  non sequitur. noun. A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5k8hRj6iNc

  HOA HOMEOWNERS’ RIGHTS TASK FORCE • DORA_ Division_RealEstate - DORA
  streamed live on October 24, 2023

  During the first public meeting of the H.O.A. Homeowners Rights Task Farce on October 24 2023, Colorado State Representative Naquetta Ricks (Democrat – Arapahoe County) asserted that the licensing of H.O.A. managers is necessary because of the financial crimes they commit.

  @ 1:16:26 The second regulation that is necessary right now based on all of the feedback from constituents and H.O.A. dwellers and... Continue reading
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  Making greving eaiser

  by camp, 12 months ago

  On October 16 2023 my father, Roger Povilus died. He owned two properties in Boulder CO which my sister and I will inherit. Unfortunately on October 26th one of his tenants discovered that the heat was not working, and I went over on the 27th to investigate. It turns out that there was a water leak that had dripped onto the unit’s boiler and made it inoperable. I immediately reached out to my insurance and the building’s HOA. My insurance told me that they needed the HOA docs. The HOA told me that they were unable to provide me with... Continue reading
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  H.O.A. Transparency : A Proposal

  by Robert Racansky, 12 months ago
  

  Current and potential investors can determine the value of a publicly traded company by its stock price. Current and potential homeowners have no way – zip, zero, nada, zilch – to determine the value of nor provided by an H.O.A. corporation. Or whether that value is even positive or negative.

  On May 31 2019 – more than four years ago – Governor Jared Polis directed the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) to consider and make recommendations to increase transparency within the homeowner associations that govern half of Colorado’s population.

  I hereby direct the Executive Director of... Continue reading
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  Task Force Observations II

  by gvito, 12 months ago
  I watched the second Task Force Meeting last week and just read other observations this morning. First, it is clear to me that the forgotten person is the homeowner who pays their assessments and follows the rules. It seems the entire thrust of the discussion is to cater to those who do neither. It was easy to watch the expressions of the Task Force members when told that the mandates in HB22-1137 were expensive and were passed on to all the homeowners via monthly assessments. There was eye-rolling and headshaking. But, who exactly, does Representative Ricks, et al, presume pays... Continue reading
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  Goats and HOA Board

  by I_Hate_HOAs, 12 months ago

  I live in an HOA with 5-acre lots in El Paso County, East of Colorado Springs, just South of Shreiver AFB. I was the first to build in 2011 in the Cottonwood Estates community of 24 lots. At the time of purchase, I was given the wrong covenants from the realtor - one from 1996 instead of the 2006 active covenants. The board formed in 2015. We had already broken numerous regulations. The HOA president's wife brought her grandchildren to visit our Nigerian dwarf goats on numerous occasions. The vice president's wife brought her children to visit our goats quite... Continue reading
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  Transparency, yet again

  by whoownsmyhome, almost 1 year ago
  I sat in the webinar, via youtube, yesterday and came away with the sense that I have little hope the exercise is worth it.

  First, the prevailing idea that as a home buyer, you will stop the closing proceedings for an hour and a half while you read the HOA governing documents, by-laws, rules and regulations is unrealistic. Let's be fair, you're excited to finally be at that moment and it may be one of the most important financial decisions you will make. What if, once the offer has been accepted by the seller, there is an immediate transfer of... Continue reading
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  HOA's only get money from the owners

  by JS1978, about 1 year ago

  There appears to be a real issue saying an association needs to do XYZ but then also trying to limit an association from being able to raise and or collect funds to perform those tasks. All of these tasks cost money and running an association costs money. The local government has stopped building parks, stopped building pools. They expect an association to have these amenities and to maintain them, but then are trying to limit the association's ability to manage these.

  Regardless whether a special assessment or regular assessment is issued the only way an association gets money currently is... Continue reading
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  Task Force Needs To Be Held Accountable

  by Ruth Carroll, about 1 year ago
  Lallis Jackson said that people choose to live in HOAs.

  She is dead wrong.

  NO ONE chooses to live in an HOA.

  The facts on the ground, simply, are: 1) there are few, if any, affordable properties that are NOT governed by HOAs and 2) No one is told they are moving into an HOA. Ever. (If they were told, they would look elsewhere. But there's no other place to live.)

  Lallis Jackson insists that "if people choose to move into an HOA, they should be responsible for obeying the rules, understanding their obligations, etc"--but this is misleading, wrong, and... Continue reading
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  2 Acre Rural-Residential Zoned Lots in an HOA - NO BACKYARD CHICKENS/PETS

  by LT, about 1 year ago

  Our HOA is located to the west of Berthoud, in rural Larimer County. All lots are zoned Rural Residential, and are all 2 acres in size. Each house is now estimated to be worth over $1MM dollars (a HUGE increase since people bought land/houses in 2004-2006).

  A subcommittee of four neighbors, each with recent chicken-keeping experience here in Colorado, was formed to research local codes along the Front Range to see how other towns and HOAs have adopted rules regarding backyard chickens. By "backyard chickens," we mean 8 or fewer birds, HENS ONLY, on these 2 acre lots.

  We liked... Continue reading
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  Task Force, Do You Have the Courage?

  by Ruth Carroll, about 1 year ago

  I quote from the last "story" written here.

  "The HOA model is unsuccessful because it does not reflect any balance between the homeowner and the Board and management company. When does the homeowner have legitimate recourse for non-performance? ... From my perspective, the HOA and community management have done more to dissolve communities rather than strengthen them."

  "Community" is not strengthened by HOAs--AS THEY ARE CURRENTLY RUN. Efficiency is not strengthened by HOAs, as they are currently run.

  Every single person I know who lives in an HOA is acutely aware that community--meaning a feeling of purpose, that 'we're all... Continue reading