[John Rogers]

Back in the day, KUSI had a fellow named Turko and he was a trouble shooter type of person. He had at lease one session per week with HOAs and he really raised they so badly they would almost always give in! I imagine there are good HOAs but......When my wife and I first got together in 1980 she had a side of a duplex in an area with a really strict HOA. She wanted to cover the small back yard with a deck just off the ground and in reading the rules very careful showed you and do most anything in your back yard as long as it was below the top of the 6 foot surrounding the yard. We bought the redwood, was hammering away and suddenly a mans head appeared over the fence and he said he was one of the board members telling us we were no supposed to do that. I showed him the rules (new version just a month old) and he went away pissed but we were okay. About 5 months we sold the condo as our family got too large.