I guess you were there when I signed the rental agreement with the owners, huh? Funny, I don't remember that...

Dad always had a saying...if you don't know what you're talking about, STFU.

When buying a house, you have to sign plenty of disclosures about the HOA, escrow dues and sign for receiving a copy of the CC&Rs. If renting, it's probably in the lease that you have to comply with all CC&Rs. I have it in my lease. It'd be crazy to have a lease without that in it.

So here is a question... How did you serve the notice of claim on him before the court date? Does he even know that here was a court date and now a judgement against him?

Hugh -- post # 17 from Christien is good advice. I suggest that you send a PM to MRM to ask how to do this, and for any other ideas that he might have.

If you find out where they work, you can garnish their wages; that would be the best result. If you get their Soc Sec numbers, you can attack their credit records thru a collection agency and possibly ultimately win a settlement that way.

Best to keep it legal and impersonal...

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Only HOA I've seen that makes sense are built around non-.gov provided and of true benefit to every resident. Coworker has one that is for maintaining a shared unpaved road - it gets graded every 4 months. And, a little extra, going into a fund to have said road paved, and once that is done, to maintain it. Another that I've seen was to form a neighborhood ISP with a T-1 line coming in (no cable or dsl, and sat sucked at the time).

I had him served at his house as soon as I found out it had been sold at public auction. That was 2-3 days before he bugged out.