HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - May 12, 2017
Published: Fri, 05/12/17
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Don’t Drive on HOA Sidewalks, and Other Absurd Things You Have to Tell Residents
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In this week’s tip, we have to warn you first that we’re not making this stuff up.
An HOA in Peoria, Ariz., is trying to figure out how to stop a renter from driving on the sidewalks to avoid the community’s speed humps.
Our experts are beside themselves.
“This is crazy because it’s like someone peeing in the pool,” says Joe Winkler, vice president of marketing at Keystone Pacific Property Management in Irvine, Calif., which manages associations ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 units—about 65,000 units in total in Southern California. “Of course you don’t pee in the pool! Of course you don’t hang-glide off the clubhouse roof! These are absurd things you don’t make rules about because nobody would ever do them.”
Equally blown away is Bob Kmiecik, a partner at Kaman & Cusimano LLC, which represents associations throughout Ohio. “Oh, I’d have a field day with this because you just can’t do things like this.”
Before you dismiss this as a freak, isolated incident, consider the call that came into Matthew A. Drewes, a shareholder at DeWitt Mackall Crounse & Moore S.C. in Minneapolis. “I was contacted not that long ago by a guy in Pennsylvania,” recalls Drewes. “He said he lives in an association on a lake in the Poconos, and they have a lot of vacation-type owners.
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“People in that association just drive fast,” explains Drewes. “They’ve got a suggested speed limit of 15 miles per hour, but people rarely follow it. The association tried to fix the problem by installing speed humps on the road, and somebody tore them out.
“On another occasion where they had a meeting, somebody complained and said, ‘The speed humps damage my car when I drive over them!” adds Drewes. “It’s like you want to slap your forehead and say, ‘Why don’t you just slow down?’ One member of the community also had his home vandalized because he was outspoken about the problem.”
The point: If you haven’t run into the absurd yet, don’t get too confident. It may just be a matter of time.
Our experts have all kinds of suggestions for stopping ridiculous behavior like driving on the sidewalks. Check them out in our new article: https://www.hoaleader.com/members/2547.cfm
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Matt Humphrey
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