Christine
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 31, 1999
Our HOA takes care of the trash & manages the pool(which is open 3 months a year) they don't seem to do much of anything else. A neighbor had a total POS wrecked truck parked in his drive for nearly a year. The HOA contacted them several times but he refused to do anything about it. This leads me to think the HOA has no teeth.
The open garage door thing is counter intuitive, isn't this just asking for people's stuff to get stolen? And then the people sue the HOA.
Our HOA does not enforce anything that happens to be against the law on the books of our country. This includes abandonded/unregistered cars and noise complaints. That's not their job. A quick call to the county police takes care of issues like the one your described. Our HOA will definitely send out reminders in their newsletter that this are county violations and a board member *may* call the county, but a homeowner can do that as well.
Our HOA only concerns itself with the degradation of the property that causes property values to decrease: broken shutters, siding needing repair, driveway that have holes in them, etc. Certainly an abandoned car is an eyesore but they don't spend enforcement funds on things that are up to the local police department to enforce.