Quote:
Originally Posted by meredith weekender
I am on the board of directors of an association in Manchester. We had similiar problems until we got very aggressive. When a unit owner gets behind we go ahead and revoke all of the common area privileges, I.E. parking, common water usage, pool usage etc.. This legally enables us to keep those services restricted even if the unit sells. The owner may park on the street and enter the building to get to their unit but they may not park on the property at all. We have gone into units and had the water service shut and pipes capped because the water is paid for from condo fees. These types of restrictions are severe but when a unit owner refuses to work with the board to resolve the issues the board must protect the interest of the other owners. Sheriff's sales do work, but then you have to deal with the property afterwards. Not always a pleasant task when taxes, mortgages and sometimes IRS liens exist.
|
You've got to be kidding me? I knew some of these condo and townhouse associations are pretty bad but what you just described is over the top IMHO. I guess that's why I would never buy into a situation like that, I'll be damned to have some association have that kind of power over me. That's nuts. When I moved back here I had to rent a place for a few months while my house was under construction and made the mistake of going into a townhouse where the association was totally and completely out of control. I got nasty notes for oh lets see, not having a black cover on my gas grill (mine was heaven forbid grey) and it not being on the designated concrete slab 24X7, "ugly" and "non conforming" chairs on the deck, my garbage cans were "ugly", washing my truck in my designated parking spot, I once changed my oil there and that was so far over the top you'd think I committed a homicide, I parked once to close to the divider line on the pavement, parked with my tires half on the grass, my wife planted a couple of flowers in a pot and left them on the front step, I mean really the list could go on and on. How anyone can live like that is beyond me. The Nazis that run around and complain about this **** really need to get a life. Maybe deep down inside they are miserable people, or they just wish they had a real job. Who knows. Anyways I digress.... but I will say I was happy as hell to get out of there and purposely broke every one of their stupid rules the last couple of weeks just out of spite.
The foreclosure thing is really frustrating. My former neighbor milked the system big time. He was confined to a wheelchair which is sad but he used that to his advantage to stay in his house for close to 5 years before finally the bank won out. All that time he remained in the house and it never seemed to bother him that he was living completely on the dole and had no job even though he did go through college on the tax payers dime. He did find enough money to buy himself a nice car though and was never short of cigarettes and beer. Thank goodness he's now gone.
I have heard from more than one person that banks are not so quick to kick people out of houses under foreclosure simply because having them sit unoccupied is a liability to them. You can bet that the banks are going to do what's in their best interest so if and when they think they can move a piece of property they will, in the mean time they may just let the current owner squat on the property. Maybe the market is soft right now for the place being referred to.