JayN (Maryland)
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We had our house built and moved into a community in 2006. We were told that the community had an association run by the builder and after the second phase of houses(where I live) was finished, they would turn over the HOA to the community. In 2008 the HOA was turned over and immediately our yearly fee's went from $480 a year to $1000 with the only explanation being that due to high gas prices, the trash service was charging more. We have a community pool that is only 3' deep and a guy who use to pick up trash on the roads in the neighborhood. Once the new HOA got in, the guy who picked up trash in the neighborhood was no longer there.
About 2 weeks after getting notified that the new HOA had taken over that the prices increase, we received a visit from one of the then board members, telling us that our section of homes were never annexed into the HOA. She handed us a form to sign and get notarized to be annexed into the HOA. She did advise us to first get a copy of the HOA bylaws before we signed anything.
The next day we made a call and asked to get a copy of the HOA bylaws prior to signing the document. We later learned that the board member was voted out for telling members not to sign until receiving a copy of the bylaws. We are choosing to keep this former members name out of this letter for the time being due to the fact that they still reside in the CharlesCrossing neighborhood.
It was not long after board member was removed that we received a visit from two CC HOA board members, one man and one woman, both of whose names I can’t remember, stating that if we did not sign and return the annex agreement, we would not be part of the CC HOA and would no longer receive services. We simply stated that we would like to receive a copy of the new HOA bylaws before signing anything. Approximately one week from that conversation, we never received trash pickup or access to the pool to this day 6 years later. We have never signed or returned any document to the CC HOA, so I can tell you with 100% certainty, that if they have anything of ours on file with a signature, this it is a forgery since we still have the original document that was given to us.
We were very surprised when the CC HOA came after us for HOA fee’s after stating to us in 2008 that we were not part of the CC HOA. How is it that they can charge us for something we never received services for or was a part of? To this day, we still not received a copy of the CC HOA bylaws.
Can someone out there please help and what recourse do we have?....
JN
About 2 weeks after getting notified that the new HOA had taken over that the prices increase, we received a visit from one of the then board members, telling us that our section of homes were never annexed into the HOA. She handed us a form to sign and get notarized to be annexed into the HOA. She did advise us to first get a copy of the HOA bylaws before we signed anything.
The next day we made a call and asked to get a copy of the HOA bylaws prior to signing the document. We later learned that the board member was voted out for telling members not to sign until receiving a copy of the bylaws. We are choosing to keep this former members name out of this letter for the time being due to the fact that they still reside in the CharlesCrossing neighborhood.
It was not long after board member was removed that we received a visit from two CC HOA board members, one man and one woman, both of whose names I can’t remember, stating that if we did not sign and return the annex agreement, we would not be part of the CC HOA and would no longer receive services. We simply stated that we would like to receive a copy of the new HOA bylaws before signing anything. Approximately one week from that conversation, we never received trash pickup or access to the pool to this day 6 years later. We have never signed or returned any document to the CC HOA, so I can tell you with 100% certainty, that if they have anything of ours on file with a signature, this it is a forgery since we still have the original document that was given to us.
We were very surprised when the CC HOA came after us for HOA fee’s after stating to us in 2008 that we were not part of the CC HOA. How is it that they can charge us for something we never received services for or was a part of? To this day, we still not received a copy of the CC HOA bylaws.
Can someone out there please help and what recourse do we have?....
JN