<VV> Homeowner Association Rules (No Corvair)

[Bill Elliott]

I lived in an older (late 50's) neighborhood of nice home near 
Barrington, IL... there were some pretty stringent HOA rules, but they 
had been in place since the beginning and were only really enforced on 
building rules (one horrible rule: no detached garages) and visible junk..

But one home in the community was a real garbage dump... I mean 
industrial building stuff piled around, huge piles of old appliances, 
equipment, etc.  External garage, etc.

I asked my neighbor (an original owner) why no one enforced the rules on 
this one guy.  She laughed and said that his means of support was filing 
lawsuits against companies, organizations, etc... he filed a couple 
hundred a year and enough folks settled out of court to support his 
lifestyle. The HOA had once tried to force him to clean up his property 
and he sued them... and the HOA caved because they couldn't afford to 
fight him.

While we were there, the town annexed us (for more taxes). I was 
extremely amused to discover that on the annexation maps, a line was 
drawn around his property... the town annexed every house in our 
development except for his...

So while I have serious issues with folks like this who "game" the 
system, it did keep him free of unwanted regulations and taxes...

Bill

Roger Gault wrote:

>Some of us are luckier.  I live in a 20 year old neighborhood of 2000+
>square foot houses (nice ones).  The 6 or 7 block area that makes up my
>"neighborhood" doesn't have a neighborhood association.  Last year, the
>neighborhood association adjacent to us put flyers out stating that they
>were annexing us (more dues money for them).  Major uprising.  Three
>different people gathering signatures in my neighborhood to stop them.  I
>think they got 100% signatures.  The association went away mad, but they
>went away.
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