AnnaB5 (Wisconsin)
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About 6 months ago we purchased a home within a very small HOA. The HOA has lake rights, a private launch with 6 members. We have spoken to a few of the neighbors now trying to find out how to become part of the HOA which the home was listed as having before we purchased it. We want to be able to launch our kayaks their - no other reason. The first neighbor (year round retired resident) told us they don't want any more members (he didn't know why) and refused to tell us when the next meeting would be. Our direct neighbor is a weekender in the summer months and is also the Treasurer... nice guy. He doesn't understand why we cannot join the HOA. He told us that the woman in charge of the HOA is the one who doesn't want any more members, that no one else has a problem with more members. We spoke with that woman who also refuses to tell us when the next meeting is. Now, this neighborhood is private gravel roads that are kept up by the HOA. The road is in bad shape and no one appears to want to fix it and of course we live at the end of the road and have to hit all the pot holes on the way home. About half of the neighborhood are vacationers who visit their homes on summer weekends, including our other direct neighbor who comes to the home 2-3 time per summer. The yard is not kept. The grass is overgrown which makes our already bad mosquito problem even worse. These people are part of the HOA, have yet to launch their boat once this year and don't maintain the property.
Are they breaking any law by not giving us the option to join? Is there a leg we can stand on when it comes to the neighbors yard not being maintained (I mean the grass is above my knees!)? Apparently the previous home owner had elected to join the HOA but never paid their dues, and our one (nice) neighbor said that's why they don't want to let anyone else in. But in the mean time, we live on a private road maintained by the HOA and they won't fix the road which means come winter, they also will not pay to have our part of the road plowed (which is all in the same block). It's our road to and we don't have a voice on what needs to be done with it? I just feel that somehow this isn't right.
Are they breaking any law by not giving us the option to join? Is there a leg we can stand on when it comes to the neighbors yard not being maintained (I mean the grass is above my knees!)? Apparently the previous home owner had elected to join the HOA but never paid their dues, and our one (nice) neighbor said that's why they don't want to let anyone else in. But in the mean time, we live on a private road maintained by the HOA and they won't fix the road which means come winter, they also will not pay to have our part of the road plowed (which is all in the same block). It's our road to and we don't have a voice on what needs to be done with it? I just feel that somehow this isn't right.