Arizona Capitol Times - Lawsuit says Casa Grande HOA run like a racket – community suffers : "The two swimming pools have been filled in with dirt. One clubhouse has been leased out to a volunteer fire department. Trash has piled up in an adjoining lot. The other clubhouse has been closed off with a chain-link fence and razor wire. What’s left of it was covered with graffiti. The streets were overgrown with weeds. Stop signs, utility boxes and a half-built house were all covered in graffiti. A back road from the main entrance into the community dead ends at a large flood-control canal. The last flood washed out the road. It was never repaired. “They didn’t do anything with the assessment money,” Neisent said. “They didn’t maintain the roads, the facilities that were promised. We have no clubhouse. We have nothing.” No new homes have been built for a few years, largely because the DC Lot Owners Association — the community’s HOA — outlawed septic tanks. No new sewer hookups are available. “It could have been a really nice area,” Neisent said. In another interview, she added: “It just deteriorated before your very eyes.”
The deterioration can be traced to the homeowners association, she said."
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Fred Pilot sent this link. The photo shows a dilapidated clubhouse and a patch of dirt that once was a swimming pool.
2 comments:
Just goes to show that HOAs have NEVER been about preserving property values for the homeowners. Those statements about "preserving property values" are equivocal in nature. The homeowner is lead to believe he is the beneficiary of any such value. In fact, "value" is preserved for everyone EXCEPT the homeowner. A Board always acts in the best interests of the Board members or a majority of its members. Those interests are not aligned with the residents, that's why membership is involuntary.
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