We are Staging a Coup!

One of the most frustrating things about living in a townhome isn't the neighbors, it's the HOA. The Home Owners Association, always evil, they boost a aura of ill-will wrapped in the intention of providing a nice neighborhood that keeps home values high. Ours is a new level of evil because it is manned by morons that don't actually live in their units. The by-laws allow anyone that owns a unit to be on the board and they don't have to live there.

 

This annoys me to no end. The President of the Board has been it for 9 years despite there being a 3 year term limit on the job and has vetoed every resolution that would improve the community. He has shot down the leash resolution, turning the community into a gated one, requiring the owners that rent to get a background check before hand, and eliminating the ability to rent to registered sex offenders. In essence he has vetoed any and every bill that would make it so he couldn't rent his units to any pond scum that has money in hand.  Now I am between a guy that sells pot, and a guy that went to jail for lewdness with a minor under the age of 14! Lovely right???

 

So what is a girl to do? We are staging a coup! C has secured a position on the board and there are 2 new spots opening up that we along with the majority of the tenet owners have set up to get filled by like minded people. Then it's time to oust the President and start work on making our little paradise one that's found instead of a Paradise Lost.

 

We are working to get the following done:

 

1.     a playground for the kids - there was a park but the President had it taken out after he received noise complaints from his renter. As he was the only person on the board at the time there was no one to say no!

2.     lights that work around the community

3.     stricter rules on who you can rent to - i.e. no one with felonies!

4.     Gates on the backyards that don't fall off every time they are opened!

 

I'll let you know how it goes.