Every Day I Ask Myself...

...If the Home Owner's Association Isn't Liable or Responsible for This Bullshit...

   

...WHO IS?

When a Pricey Light Post is the BEST Dumpster Deterrent...

 

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Originally Posted by DMenscha 

CA has a law (Davis Stirling) that governs how HOA's conduct their business. Basically any HOA that doesn't adhere to the provisions of the law can be fined.

My parents Quit Claimed the "airspace" I own in CA due to harassment by Property Management (PM). My parents were on the Title because I was going through a divorce & when I sold my home and moved to "Hotel Hell," the interest was was 10% pts LOWER with them having a NOO loan than it would have been for the them to co-sign. So from 24 March 2003 until 26 March 2015 my parents were the "Owner's of Record" and I was considered a "tenant" even though I made the Mortgage Pmt until it was paid off in 2010.

Knowing that I know what kind of skeevy operation the HOA is running with the Property Mgt Co., the LAST thing they wanted was for me to OWN this own Toxic LLEH-Hole (literally) there is mold so bad in the livingroom ceiling from the 35+ y/o leaky tile roof, that I have COPD after 53 years of never smoking a day in my life. So when they started harassing my parents after I fell on the neglected cement & asked to file a claim, they starting sending pictures of my car backed into the stall next to a giant truck that was backed in also, but the tenant is a relative of the "illegal" gardeners.

It is that tenant, who on Easter Eve, shut off the water at the main that affected 8 condos, including mine. I called PM, got the answering service, left a message, they in turn called me back and told me I needed to call the Property Manager, to which I replied: "I did! You just called me!" There was only one other light on and the front door was open so I asked the resident if her water was off too? She shuffled to her kitchen in her slippers, turned on the faucet and said: "Yep, it's off here too." Went home and was back 'n forth with the answering service who called the PM "on call" who in turn called the onsite Prez of the HOA BoD. Around 9:45 pm I was told that (by some miracle) it would be on in the next 15 min., if it wasn't then I could call them back. At around 10:10 pm it was back on but when I went to brush my teeth at 11 pm it was off again. At midnight I still didn't have water so I called the answering service again and was told that "hot water" isn't on the "emergent list" and I could call a plumber at my own expense in the morning. Uh...I have NO WATER! When I went to the main at 7 am I noticed that there were a BUNCH of tied up trash bags with water bottles strewn on the grass (I took a couple pics because they have an infant but it looked like they were prepared for the "outage") the main is CLEARLY marked in BLUE on the wall with an arrow pointing down to the shut-off valve, also clearly painted blue with an area around it that was without leaves. I turned it, checked the water faucet, it dripped, so I went home. Still no water. I called the City's Emergency hotline, but for 13-15 hours I didn't have water and I was late to Easter lunch because there was no way I could go anywhere smelling like angry-sweat. 

By now you're asking: "Why the long-winded essay?" Glad you asked. I went to my first HOA on 21 April 2015 I brought it up because during one of my conversations with the answering service I was told that "noone else had reported it." Odd. The tenants on the end were home, their dually was in the stall next to mine and they lady in the slippers knew it was off but this idiot was talking to me like I was lying. So at the meeting when I asked about it, the PM dude & 4 of the 5 ladies on the BoD just looked around and shrugged me off. By this time I had spoken to a supervisor with the City Water Management Dept. and I know for a FACT that it's ILLEGAL to shut off the water, the City can't even do it unless there's an uber emergency without prior notice so everyone can prepare.

Come to find out the neighbor whose door I knocked on, with the shuffling slippers, is the President of the HOA BoD. I went to her place a couple days ago and asked her why she pretended like she didn't know? Why wasn't it on the minutes? Just why? Her response: 1. It didn't affect me; 2. I thought the City had turned it off for some reason; 3. It didn't affect me; 4. It's been a long time ago, you need to get over it (); 5. I talked to the tenants, it was an accident; and 6. It didn't affect me -- I told her I thought the PM dude was the bad guy, but it seemed he wasn't working alone. Then, with tears in my eyes, I asked for the vote and financials for the pricey light pole that was installed over a two-week period (by the gardeners on the cheap) to deter people from putting large items "next to" the dumpster as opposed to "inside" to which she replied: "You need to stop attacking people! You need to stop attacking ME! Stop ATTACKING ME! LEAVE!"

I went over to my son's house, cried like a little girl with a skinned knee and drank a beer. This is just ONE incident. PM made it clear to my parents that if "she [me] doesn't like it there, then she needs to move..." My dad agreed that it sounded like they're "targeting" me. Gee dad, ya think?! God love 'em... I need an attorney ASAP. Seriously... I can't stay here, but I can't rent it out let alone sell it. It's a sick condo with visible water damage and major mold, which by the way, was tested in 2010 by some dude in HazMat gear when the ceiling was replaced and left open to "dry" for 3+ days. The contractor that did the repairs doesn't have a record in their system, 5 or 6 other condos but not mine, the hardcopies are in a box, office chick can't reach the box, been asking Prop. Mgmt for "Spore Report" for 5 yrs. now... Dude won't even call me back -- he did attempt a "stare down" in May when I took my Fire Extinguisher to the clubhouse before the HOA mtg. because it was "TIME," and I wan't going to drive it across town for the 3rd time to have it inspected because PM didn't see fit to send a "notification" just a threat to fine my parents if it wasn't taken care of. Again, I digress. With regards to the ceiling repair, I'm pretty sure the HOA was supposed to move me and my daughter out and pay for lodging when they stirred up the mess. But I sent her to her father's and stayed in my room. The Prez of the BoD doesn't much care about the mold either, "...it doesn't affect her..."

HELP!

Villa del Sol Condominiums...

...It Sounds Friendly Enough But For the Gulag-Effect

Above, I refer to My Own Private Hell (MOPH) as the Gulag-Effect, really it's more like Dante Alighieri's descent into "The Inferno." After reaching the 9th Ring, Dante was allowed to leave and write about his journey. I, however, am stuck here in this unsellable shit-hole reduced to blogging about living conditions that are tantamount to those previously seen only in black-&-white photographs of Russian prisons. Complete with foul, diseased air and no release date in sight.

I know, I know... Be grateful you have a roof over your head! There are people out there who live in their car (she shall remain nameless) as well as people (not  just Trolls) who live under a bridge. 

The water stain on the -L- is the new, replaced ceiling (2010) only bigger, with a vengeance AND a sister-at-the-seam on the -R- where the new, replaced ceiling stopped. 

I don't know, you tell me -- Would you rather live: a) Someplace where you can see what evil fungi is rotting the roof over your head; or b) Someplace where you know something is terribly wrong, you feel like shit, your grandson had an allergic reaction that almost sent him to the ER but you're restricted by the greedy, corrupt and morally bankrupt HOA and a Property Management Co. with a less-than stellar reputation?

If you chose a, I'm with you. If you chose b, I've got nearly 1,200 sq. ft. that I'll sell you "AS IS," for a song, in an upwardly mobile and growing neighborhood in the Clovis Unified School District.