12-12-2016, 01:42 PM
quote:That is one pesky issue, how is the prospective buyer going to know all this petty stuff even if they seat at one meeting? Call the office! Lol!
Originally posted by kalakoa
the impact of a recklessly managed "road association" will shatter any glossy predictions
This is exactly why I think there should be more mandatory real estate disclosures for any "private ag subdivision" -- yes, "buyer to perform own due diligence" but too many don't bother and/or are told shiny happy lies ("we intend to pave all the roads").
When we bought here we were told all roads would be paved. Then I attended the first meeting and a Board member snapped at a neighbor and said that dead end roads would never get paved. I stood up and asked him to clarify that, and he started to mumble and said he had not say that the roads would never be paved. I rebuffed that he had said so in front of the camera, and now we had documented testimony. At that point I realized we had been taken by the realtor and the HPP office.
We decided to hedge our investment in HPP by building a smaller house instead of what we had planned and invest the rest elsewhere. Glad we did that. Between the squatters, the meth zombies patrols, the ganja producer up the road with his police department clientele, but mostly the ever present issues with the roads dissipating under rain and overgrowth AND no attention by the manager has left us in plain disbelief.
But that was years ago, when at least the manager would still try to help and our fees were way lower than the new proposed blunder! Now disbelief has turned into plain outrage when we have to take turns to clear our roads and the Board clowns raise fees left and right like they are some kind of a God appointed court. I read the minutes, it is always a downer, most like some idiomatic vomit of sorts, rather than a legible community plan written by rational and awake individuals.
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