Condo Hitler!

[IROC]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Agreed. A full copy of by-laws is a required disclosure prior to closing on a condo or other property with an HOA. If you don't read them - entirely - ahead of time, you're an idiot.

While this is true, "things change". Our HOA has "compliance officer". This person has taken it upon herself to be the judge and jury when it comes to issues. It doesn't matter what the covenants say, she writes you up and then you're left to fight it out with the HOA board. My neighbor added a sunroom to his house. It was perfectly in compliance with the covenants - he obtained the proper approvals ahead of time for the plans, etc. and then the complaince Nazi has written him up (after it was completed) saying it didn't meet the standards of the neighborhood (it was built by the same guy that built all of the houses in our neighborhood and IMHO looks perfectly fine and I live next door). They are trying to fine him no for every day he is "not in compliance". He finally got the builder out there and he talked some sense into this woman and they dropped the issue.

It's just nuts.

[legion]

Originally Posted by IROC

We recently moved into a new neighborhood and I attended my first HOA meeting a couple of weeks ago. I was shocked at the arguing and pissing and moaning and the total disrespect (by the HOA president) for the rules of order and other people's feelings. What is going on here? Does power truly corrupt people this easily?

One older gentleman even talked for a few minutes about how the HOA board was in violation of TN law by holding HOA meetings in secret (not allowing HOA members to attend when business is being conducted) and also making decisions via email that are supposed to be voted on by the HOA members. He had well researched his position and presented his case very well. The president simply said, "Are you done talking yet?" and went on to something else.

A friend of mine is in a similar situation. The situation has degraded into the president making new rules, not telling anyone, and then issuing fines (which is when most people find out about the new rules).

One rule is you can't back into your garage.

Another rule is that condos that are for sale cannot have signs or lockboxes.

[Gogar]

George W. Bush hates HOAs.

[Hawktel]

Dude, I think screwing with another man's car is against the code.

I am all for making a mindless busy body pay, but you can't screw with his ride or kill his dog. Both are just too far.

I think a better revenge would be subscribing him to porn, then making it known. Also acid etching a nice swearword in his sidewalk. Or roundup on his lawn in a pretty pattern.

All not against the code.

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by Gogar

George W. Bush hates HOAs.

Everyone hates car vandals, grow up or move out.

[Jeff Higgins]

Sanford and Son was a great show.

[David]

A good friend at work became his condo HOA president because nobody else would do it. Boy is he regreting that decision. His biggest gripe is the folks that don't pay their dues, but still complain about everyone else. Second is that everyone treats him like their personal maintenance man. Of course he receives no compensation for his troubles.

[osidak]

hoa's are for the birds

that said never **** with a mans car - just not kosher

My previous HOA president was walking through back yards taking pictures - I met him in my back yard with a pick axe and and a shovel. I informed him my back yard was very dangerous and that I would not be able to insure his safety. I dropped the shovel and raised the axe up onto my shoulder - he got the message and never came back.

he did send me a nasty letter cause my 911 was smoking really bad one time after I worked on it (used muffler that was apparently loaded up with oil at some point)

make it appoint to make sure my car gets reved a little when going by his house late at night or early in the morning.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Hawktel

....I think a better revenge would be subscribing him to porn, then making it known. ....

Used to do something similar to our IT helpdesk guy.

Whenever I needed to enter an email address for something I wanted to eval but not want to receive junk mail from I'd put in his email address.

[trekkor]

Ah, yes. Vandalism.

The solution to life's problems


KT

[the]

Originally Posted by Hawktel

Dude, I think screwing with another man's car is against the code.

LANCE: Still got your Malibu?

VINCENT: You know what some ****er did to it the other day?

LANCE: What?

VINCENT: Fu(kin' put paint stripper on it.

LANCE: Oh man, that's ****ed up.

VINCENT: Tell me about it. I had the goddamn thing in storage three years. It's out five fu(kin' days -- five days, and some dickless piece of **** fu(ks with it.

LANCE: They should be fu(kin' killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

[the]

Originally Posted by Hawktel

Dude, I think screwing with another man's car is against the code.

LANCE: Still got your Malibu?

VINCENT: You know what some fu(ker did to it the other day?

LANCE: What?

VINCENT: Fu(kin' put paint stripper on it.

LANCE: Oh man, that's fu(ked up.

VINCENT: Tell me about it. I had the goddamn thing in storage three years. It's out five fu(kin' days -- five days, and some dickless piece of **** fu(ks with it.

LANCE: They should be fu(kin' killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

[widebody911]

Is this your building?

http://www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com/photos/silvery/143053448/

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by speeder

Wow. Someone confessing to felony vandalism on a public forum. That's a new one here.

Felony Vandalism?

Inventing new crimes are we?

[jeffgrant]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Felony Vandalism?

Inventing new crimes are we?

It varies from State to State, but over a certain $ value, vandalism becomes a felony charge.

[m21sniper]

It's not called vandalism anymore though.

[trekkor]

Somehow, I don't think this is the response mr normy was looking for



KT

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Is this your building?

http://www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com/photos/silvery/143053448/

LOL! I just "got" that one.

How the hell did that plan configuration get through the public hearing process?

[m21sniper]

Well it doesn't really matter, since they don't know, does it?

[the]

Originally Posted by Normy

Well, ladies and gentlemen the latest Condominium National Zocialist has reared his/her ugly hachencroize-tatooed head:

"John M. Madden will give up playing with his noisy 22-inch motorboat in the lake behind his Margate condominium, but that might not be enough to keep him afloat.

That's because the retired Boston police officer and great-grandfather plans to continue taking out his quiet, 22-inch battery-powered remote-controlled motorboat, he said Monday.

The noisy boat might have violated the city's code and resulted in fines of up to $250 a day. But playing with the quiet boat might violate Coral Gate Condominium documents that say no one may put a chair on the grass next to the lake or put a motorboat in the water.

Doing so could get him fined by his condo association, and at least one owner plans to press to enforce the bylaws.

Normy:

Why do we allow groups like this to exist? I sued a condo association in 1992 over the fact that they ripped out the screens on my patio...only to realize in court that they had very cleverly changed exactly one [1] paragraph of the condo bylaws the year before so that they weren't responsible for the expense of restoring my screens.

I lost that one, but I won in the end. The president of the board was this 72 year old man that I heard say "we don't want young people here!" one day. Me and him and the crew of workers that worked there went around and around, and eventually one of them made the mistake of telling me that he would "kill me" after an argument. I called the police, and they arrested him. THAT was the nail in the coffin for "Adolph" Ungarro, the condo national zocialist who thought that the whole complex was his property; He was thrown out of power a month later.

Someone poured acid on Ungarro's Mercedes 280 2-seat coupe. And at one point my girlfriend's Mazda was towed away from the parking lot, and the excuse:

"we didn't know it was hers!".

It's really sad that someone poured paint stripper on Adolf's Mercedes. That was such a nice car, and it appears that the culprit put just a little bit of stripper on each panel...



OH, he loved that car sooooo much!

N-

I'm not sure Fed Ex would be really happy about what one of its employees is going around doing, esp. one who is in charge of a huge, flying asset. I'd think you kinda would have to be a person of at least minimal good judgment to be in charge of something like that.