Friday, January 19, 2007

Fred Pilot comments on the "Subdivision opposes maintenance tax" story (see below)
These are Fred's comments:
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I think this trend recognizes the reality (a refreshing change from the "HOAs protect property values" pap) that homebuyers are rejecting private local government in the form of mandatory HOAs and seek a return to traditional, public government. Local governments see the handwriting on the wall and are wisely preparing for a wave of defunct and dissolved HOAs. The trend holds a big plus for property owners: unlike HOA assessments, property taxes that fund special districts are income tax deductible.

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Fred also wants to know why I disabled the comments feature on this blog. The answer is because I got so many commercial spam posts and rage-filled, defamatory, screeds. Maybe I should enable it again and see what happens? What do you think, readers?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Re "rage-filled, defamatory screeds".... Only folks I know that would do that kind of thing are Community Associations Institute lawyers/lobbyists. Might be fun to share their idiocy with the public, eh?

Jan Jackson (a long-time friend of good ol' Fred Pilot)
Florissant, CO
wiwleb@netzero.com