HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - January 13, 2012
Published: Mon, 01/09/12
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"Get Out!" Is that Something You Can Suggest to an Owner?
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In this week's tip, we lend some advice to consider before
you bellow to an owner, "You obviously don't belong here.
Maybe you should get out!"
"It's perfectly true that there are a number of people--and
I've seen this time and again--who just should not live in
a condo, HOA, or co-op because they're just not
psychologically prepared to share their housing decisions,"
says Robert Galvin, a partner at Davis, Malm & D'Agostine PC
in Boston who specializes in representing condos and co-ops.
"That doesn't make them bad people. Those people should
simply own a detached single-family home."
If you've been tempted to tell owners they should just pack
up and move to a place where there are no rules, you're not
alone. "I think we've all thought that at one point or
another," says Duane McPherson, Addison, Texas-based
western region division president at RealManage, an
association management firm that oversees properties in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada,
and Texas.
"When people buy into an HOA, the governing documents are
there for them to review, and it shouldn't ever be a
surprise that you have to comply with the rules. But in all
the years I've been doing this, which is way too many, I've
never said that to anyone."
McPherson has gotten the point across more politely. "HOAs
are restrictive by their very nature to keep property
values in place," he says. "There are people who don't want
to live by those restrictions and certainly should think of
moving to another place. There have been times I've said
that to people. For those who don't want to live by HOA
rules, you can tell them in a nice way that maybe they
should consider living in a place that doesn't have these
types of rules."
Getting much more forceful could be dangerous. Find out why
in our new article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/670.cfm
Best regards,
Matt Humphrey
President
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