Potential HOA issue, advice???

I wonder what 3 home home owners are behind? The president and vice president of the HOA?

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You don't pay for those three, they cut off all your water

How is that legally bound though from the homeowners association though and how does that get passed on to the people in the neighborhood if it's not said that you must pay your neighbors bill if he doesn't? I understand the city's point of view because it's a single meter, but they have 31 people behind that meter. I'm pretty sure that the meter wouldn't stay off for long.

I'm the OP, got banned for making the post and for my reply. Have to pay money to speak apparently! :-)

Anyways, I don't necessarily see that the corporation managing the HOA is doing anything nefarious, but something doesn't seem right about charging those of us who actually DO pay for those in the neighborhood that do NOT pay.

Usually an HOA has a contigency fund or "unexpected expenses" fund, and the portion not paid by the three homeonwners should be paid out of that and repaid into that same fund at such time that the homeowners pay or when their lien is cured.

Don't join a HOA under any circumstances.

All the advice needed...

HOA dues are only $30 a month. What I want to know is how it's legal to subsidize the non-payers if it's not written into the contracts you've signed.

I wouldn't even be blinking twice if there was something in there that said something to the layman interpreted tune of "I agree to pay my delinquent neighbors bills when he doesn't pay them".

Nothing even remotely like that exists. Quite the opposite actually. It says very specifically that being delinquent will result in fines, liens or other legal remediation's for you personally.

In the end I'm trying to get a better understanding of how the neighborhood HOA operates since we will very soon be allowed to elect our own officials ( new development, just now being populated enough that the current declarant wants out ). Before I put my foot in my mouth though I wanted to know what other peoples experiences were, like yours ( Thank you! ) to be better equipped to have a voice.

Why the hell would you ever think of moving into a one meter neighborhood in the first place?! OMG! Your an idiot! Sell and get the hell out.

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A lot of neighborhood developments are run this way. It's not ideal, but it has the potential of functioning well. I rented a house where we paid the water based on our own meter. We spent 30% more per month than we did when we moved in to this neighborhood. The cost of our water is split amongst everyone in the neighborhood.

Sucked for us in theory because there were only 3 people living in the house; my wife, myself and our 2 week old boy but it worked out that we spent about the same ( it felt like we saved more at first, but as time goes on it feels like we spend more... more because of the dead-beats who don't pay their bill ) because even though we were neighbors with a house of 4 and a house of 2 across the street it averaged out well.

Sure it sucks that the people with 7 kids pay as much as the people that have no kids, but we knew very damn well of those liabilities BEFORE we signed the line.

Distributing the cost of water / sewer amongst everyone in the neighborhood was very well agreed upon by everyone living in this small neighborhood. Picking up the tab ( potentially illegally? ) of the deadbeats is something we did NOT account for. This is what I'm researching.

Last Edited by The Mad Hatter on 12/06/2012 12:35 PM

Damn. I thought this was gonna be a thread about the Horn of Africa and I geeked out because I'm deploying there next year.

Anybody wanna start a thread on HoA for me to comment on?