20K and 2.5 yr fight secures a win over HOA for RV parking

Bumpyroad wrote:

mgirardo wrote:
They live in a gated community with an HOA that allows them to keep the RV at the house. That sounds like a pretty lenient HOA. Obviously, the author of this article is biased against HOAs as there is no reason to mention the HOA in this article. The local Parish has jurisdiction over setbacks, not the HOA.

-Michael

yea, in that respect it is a fairly lenient HOA. However, the HOA can impose anything it wants to more strict than the parish. My HOA wanted to hire an attorney to keep on standby. there were at least three attorneys that specialized in HOA issues. that shows me that there is way too much litigation between HOAs and the lot owners. probably due to too restrictive/crazy impositions by the HOA. I am reminded years ago that one of the neighborhoods in a development in the DC area had a beautiful landscaping prize and the house that won the award was found to not comply with the rules and the best looking yard had to remove the offending "stuff".
bumpy

Actually, a "standby attorney", can be beneficial to a multiple housing corporation. Particularly when several rule changes are being contemplated or a new set of directors has been elected.

There is of course an overwhelming reason why HOAs/coops/condos exist: to lower costs for the individual buyers. That of course comes with certain rules/regulations that some will not agree with after AND before the fact.