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Originally Posted by jyl
Neighborhood bodies, whether they be HOAs or traditional neighborhood associations like mine, are always in need of people who are willing to step up, get involved, and work with others. If you’re have that mindset, you can always get a role and start making things better.
My neighborhood is not a HOA, and we’ve been seeing the disadvantages of that in the last few years. The city doesn’t do jack all for us and is increasingly hostile to our needs and wants. Our park has 50-60 tents and homeless people doing drugs, spreading trash, acting hostile all over the place. The police have been ordered to do nothing, and our neighborhood officer was taken away. Last night a deranged homeless guy was pounding on one neighbor’s house all night trying to break in. They called the police who merely shooed the guy away, but he kept coming back, finally in the morning they arrested him, but he’ll be released in 24 hours. The houses by the park are $1MM+ and the folks living there are under siege. Times like this, you kinda wish you had a HOA.
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The HOA can't do much with a crazy person if the police can't or won't respond. We don't have those problems here. In the 21 years we have lived in this house I have had the police here twice. Once was a bad sensor on my alarm system. The cop was waiting for me to get there when I pulled up. I opened the house and he did a quick visual clearing of the house to look for intruders. The alarm said what the tiger point was, and I shut off the system until I fixed it that evening.
One other time some kids trenched up my front yard with a 4x4 of some sort. The only real damages was one sprinkler head, and some ruts in the grass. I wanted a police report of the incident. He came out took some note, and said he would file a report. He said most likely some high school kids thought some rival high school football team member lived here. The football player kid lived across the street.
So they will come out for petty incidents. and promptly. We have no homeless problems out here in the suburbs.