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HeatherC6 (Washington)
Posts: 19
Posted:
Our HOA Community was built in a wheat field, we are surrounded by fields and the builder is still building, so not all of the property has even been developed yet. A homeowner who lives on the edge of the development, where the builder is still working, is having issues with voles and field mice eating up his yard. The HOA owns a stip of land between his home and the area where the builder is beginning to build the next set of homes, this area has signs of field mice, as do other areas of our common ground, and many homeowners yards(including myself- and I do not live on an edge, my yard is well cared for, I have dogs, and the pests are still here).

Do you believe the HOA has a responsibility to try to irradicate voles and field mice from a field? I am not even sure it could be done, and I am fairly certain it would be extremely expensive if it is possible. I feel for the homeowner, but don't know what to say? Any chance someone has dealt with a similar situation? Thanks for your responses.
GlenL (Ohio)
Posts: 5,491
Posted:
No it is not an HOA responsibility unless the CC&R's say it is, this is what happens when man invades.

The complex next door was in limbo for many years and homeowner's here got used to watching deer forage on the cleared parcels. They finally got their third or forth developer and started building again, one of the new age tree-huggers on the Board started whining about how unfair it was that the deer's habitat was being destroyed. She shut up when I reminded her that OUR complex used to be part of the same tract of land and asked her if she was willing to have her home torn down to return the land to the deer.

Studies show that 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions
KellyM3 (North Carolina)
Posts: 2,239
Posted:
No, you bought a house in a development that was once a field....an rodents live in such places. Besides, that isn't practical.
JohnC46 (South Carolina)
Posts: 14,265
Posted:
WTF?

Are you telling me that I moved to a locale that has alligators and one of them ate my darling fluffy dog (Sweetie) when I let Sweetie run off the leash and she went close to that pretty pond?

Laugh? We had this issue come to the BOD.

My reply was...appetizer...

HeatherC6 (Washington)
Posts: 19
Posted:
Thank you all for your responses, all the members of our BOD agreed as well and informed the homeowner that he would need to find ways of keeping them out of his yard or irradicating them if they do enter his yard.

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