HOA Nut House

The FL Mandatory HOA that we exist in via it's newsletter is conducting this poll: "This will be a regular section that will give you an opportunity to voice your opinion through a community survey. This edition's question:"........"What do you think is the one thing that can really bring this community together?"

To respond we are directed to call the newly elected secretary/treasurer or email our response "on or before Saturday, May 24th 2008." Our response is as follows:

It's our opinion that "the one thing that can really bring this community together" is more HOA disclosure and transparency, accurate, documented complete financial statements, much lower HOA "assessments," and the ultimate dissolution of the oppressive, unnecessary mandatory HOA operating here in the interests of the HOA Industry Service Providers.

We purchased and closed (in a lawyer's office) on this house in late November of 1997, and ever since then, we have had the most appalling and demeaning experiences with this HOA et al. The incomplete "financial statements," the gross errors, threats, harassment, and maliciousness have been overwhelming!

My husband and I are listed as the "owners" - titleholders on both the mortgage and deed. However, due to the incompetence and/or outright ignorance of the HOA et al, I have been characterized as a non-owner among other things, my legal name is consistently misspelled or wrong, and unbelievably, even a third name that neither of us recognize was added to our address by the HOA lawyers in their letter to us re: the petition drive I did in 2007 to try to lower the excessive and undocumented HOA "assessments" demanded here under penalty of lien and HOA foreclosure.

I characterize the operation of this mandatory HOA as typified by the "no swimming" sign(s), bogus undocumented overcharges for HOA "assessments," incomplete "financial statements," and the overall environment here of deception, harassment, and maliciousness. We are mandatory HOA titleholder "members" and as such, we are protesting, unwilling victims of this appalling, demeaning, mandatory HOA.

Our legal names as listed on our first mortgage and warranty deed are: (initials used here for privacy)LLO & KGK. We believe that you may be aware of some of the gross discrepancies, untruths, and conditions that exist in this mandatory HOA Planned Unit Development "community."

Please let's do something about the appalling mandatory HOA situation being imposed here. Let's not allow the excessive, ever rising HOA "assessments" that continue to defraud us; as the HOA et al requires us to pay the HOA "dues/assessments" owed by the numerous mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcies already in existance here in addition to making us pay the undocumented HOA nonsense costs, overcharges, and dubious fees that are being strapped on us!
Best Regards to You