newsobserver.com | Autism can't bend subdivision rules: covenants anger parents who need fences to protect kids
Nancy Levy sent this along. I think people need legal protection against being treated like this. But the industry would say their only recourse should be to mobilize other like-minded residents and elect a new board of directors. Not so easy when only 1 out of 150 kids is autistic, according to the article.
CLAYTON - Hunter Guyader, 2, shows signs of autism, and he is a climber. He broke out of his crib when he was 11 months old. He almost fell from an upstairs window while scaling a couch. Michele and Rene Guyader hoped to build a 6-foot fence to keep their fast-growing boy from falling into a sewage drain hole at the back of their steeply sloping lot. The homeowners association of their Clayton subdivision turned them down.
4 comments:
Yes, people do need protection from being treated like this.
Maybe one answer is better pre-purchase mandatory disclosure so potential buyers realize all of the property rights they trade away when they buy property in an HOA.
Maybe what people really need is legal protection from the establishment of mandatory property owners associations, in the first place.
Mr. McGrew has done a wonderful job and more people should have the desire and courage to do the right thing. Too many of these groups are out of control, abusive, and use unthinkable acts of violence against the most vulnerable. In far too many of these cases, involving many of these groups, the underlying problem is intentional discrimination for profit. Hopefully, more states, like NC, will figure out what is going on and protect those whom reside within these groups, no matter the cost!
I think people have very right to enter into a binding contract to join an owners association with mandatory dues, nasty invasive rules and run by of oligarchy of idiots. But they do not have a right to sell their property in such an organization to an uninformed and unsuspecting buyer who thinks he/she is buying into a utopia of rational, reasonable, genuinely caring people. The sale of property in an HOA is almost always a fraud.
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