Picking and choosing when to enforce hoa rules

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FranO (California)
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I live in CA and have lived on my condo for little over 3 years. I have 2 outside dogs in a kennel in my backyard, plus a sick little dog inside. We are being told now that you can only have 1 dog. We were told in the past by prop agent for our HOA this is ok. The people in our condo before us had 5 dogs at one time. The neighbor across has 2 or 3 dogs that bark all the time. Now the owner of the unit above us [she does not live there] has become president of the board and there is a new property agent. Old one quit because she will not work with this owner. The owner has harassed us since we moved in - due to her faulty plumbing job she had done - our home has had major water damage 5 or 6 times. Now we get a letter we can only have 1 dog. Isn't there now a precedent set of allowing more than 1? Shouldn't no one then be allowed multiple dogs? How can we fight this lady?

GeorgeR8 (Arizona)
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Posted By FranO on 10/07/2015 2:33 PM
I live in CA and have lived on my condo for little over 3 years. I have 2 outside dogs in a kennel in my backyard, plus a sick little dog inside. We are being told now that you can only have 1 dog. We were told in the past by prop agent for our HOA this is ok. The people in our condo before us had 5 dogs at one time. The neighbor across has 2 or 3 dogs that bark all the time. Now the owner of the unit above us [she does not live there] has become president of the board and there is a new property agent. Old one quit because she will not work with this owner. The owner has harassed us since we moved in - due to her faulty plumbing job she had done - our home has had major water damage 5 or 6 times. Now we get a letter we can only have 1 dog. Isn't there now a precedent set of allowing more than 1? Shouldn't no one then be allowed multiple dogs? How can we fight this lady?

What do your documents say about the number of dogs? That is what matters not what you did in the past or what your neighbor does. The board can always enforce things that were never enforced before. Your neighbor may have received the same letter.

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