Hi David, Well that's interesting because here In Colorado your free to live in any part of the community that suits your needs. The cost or distance from work etc. Is your own cost to bare. It is a choice to live in a community which has an HOA or covenants as much as its a choice to move elsewhere like I did. I wanted high elevation and no covenants so I had to choose an older established neighborhood. I'm surrounded by new covenant controlled neighborhoods with HOA fees. Even the city I chose to live in has sufficient ordnances that require property maintenance, limit times vehicles can park in front of the house, etc. If I don't like the restrictions I can move to a trashy community, my choice. Those guidelines we're set before I moved in so no rights were lost. They weren't mine to have by choice.
I can't believe they came to you after you moved in and told you there was now an HOA without prior notice and a chance to vote or opt out. Makes no sense and you still have the right to move elsewhere although it sounds like you would not be happy either way. It could be Worse... Fast Tracks here in Denver metro has used emanate domain to force people from their ancestry homes. The cost of progress in society. Others lost property values while some gain in value. Just be thankful you have a home and can complain about such things, you could be in Haiti or the likes! Sent via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: David Holman <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:16:40 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy Hey Barry, Actually they did. The first freedom they took was your freedom of choice. And in some areas, its not a choice of living in an HOA controlled commune or not, its a choice of which one is worse, which is no choice. If you don't want to live in a commune, you have to move ridiculously far away (like here). We chose the school district. To live in the school district, we have to live in an HOA controlled commune. I didn't choose to join the HOA, I chose the house. HOAs are NOT voluntary membership organizations. The HOA was forced on me. They didn't give me a choice about whether or not I wanted to join. They took my freedom of choice. And until everyone starts to see it this way, we will continue to loose our rights daily. It is NOT OK, customary, normal or acceptable to take individual rights and freedoms, for any reason outside of the fact that a person has proven they can't handle them. You moved into a non-commune area, but you didn't give up any rights. You don't have the right to tell your neighbor anything about how to run his life, in the first place. If it is not health or safety related or somehow interacts with you, you have no right to force any your beliefs on your neighbor (what is pretty or aesthetically pleasing is a belief). If you are afraid of your neighbors, I would suggest moving into an apartment where the property owner does have the right to tell the residents what they can and can't do on his property. Become friends with the property owner. 73 David, AC7DS
