February 11, 2010<\/p>\n
To the Editor:<\/p>\n
The recent letter characterizing HOA\u2019s as harmless volunteers ignores a mountain of evidence to the contrary.\u00a0 A Google search of homeowner association lawsuits reveals the not-so-neighborly nature of these private governments.<\/p>\n
In the mainstream they are content to oversee the maintenance of community facilities and abide by the terms of the founding documents i.e. deed restrictions.\u00a0 The more left-leaning HOA\u2019s however are leading the charge to fundamentally change the nature of established developments.\u00a0 (Specifics available at www.ledgesofhiddenhills.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n As part of a special interest coalition of trade associations, real estate industry lobbyists and lawyer\u2019s private governments remake the terms and conditions property owners bargained for initially by adding new restrictions on the use of private property and imposing special assessments to purchase and develop amenities not part of the original community.\u00a0 This remaking of established neighborhoods is done ostensibly for the common good (to protect property values) but the end result is a nanny state.<\/p>\n The liberals in our nation\u2019s capitol don\u2019t have a monopoly on activist government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 11, 2010 To the Editor: The recent letter characterizing HOA\u2019s as harmless volunteers ignores a mountain of evidence to the contrary.\u00a0 A Google search of homeowner association lawsuits reveals the not-so-neighborly nature of these private governments. In the mainstream they are content to oversee the maintenance of community facilities and abide by the terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ledgesofhiddenhills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}