Homeowners billed for clean-up of nearby homeless encampment

[StarSong]

It sounds to me that the HOA decided to submit the cleanup bill, rather than handing down an assessment. Either way, it may not be right, but if you want a respectable and clean development to live in, then pay the bill.

If the $300.00 is a problem for the homeowner, then alert the person in charge of the HOA and set up a payment plan. I know that if it were me, I may not be in agreement with the plan, but I would appreciate living in a clean, eye-pleasing development, especially if I had children.

Don't you think that the management company should have been on top of this? That's why I think they should be responsible for at least part of the bill. Presumably they're being paid to manage and oversee the property.

 

[911]

Don't you think that the management company should have been on top of this? That's why I think they should be responsible for at least part of the bill. Presumably they're being paid to manage and oversee the property.

If you sign a contract to sell your home with a realtor, he/she shows up and pounds a sign in your yard.

These guys go out and find 4 or 5 nice homes, bundle them, counterfeit fake deeds and sell them to private investors. This whole process only takes days.

Then, they may leave that state and go to a neighboring state and do it again. They can do several states and complete several deals in less than a month. The private investors are already lined up.

 

[rgp]

Don't take it personal, if it does not apply to you.

I took nothing personal....I merely asked a question.

 

[Butterfly]

Don't you think that the management company should have been on top of this? That's why I think they should be responsible for at least part of the bill. Presumably they're being paid to manage and oversee the property.

Yeah, in a perfect world. But the law says (at least it does here) that the property owner is responsible. So that's the way the county would see it. The county doesn't care about any deals between the parties and the HOA -- they just know that the law says the property owner is responsible.

SO, the only recourse the property owners have is to pay the charges or fine or whatever it is and then go after the HOA separately.

It is very much like in a divorce, where the court may say in its order that the husband has to pay the wife's mastercard bill. But if he doesn't, the mastercard people will still go after the wife because it's her mastercard, not his, and mastercard isn't bound by any deals or orders between the parties. The wife's only recourse is to take the husband back to court and get the court to try to force him to pay it.

 

[StarSong]

Agreed, Sunny. The property owners should sue the management firm for at least part of the expense. Had the management firm been on top of their game, the homeowners could argue that the cleanup would have been faster, smaller, and far less expensive.