TaraE (New York)
Posts: 32
Posts: 32
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My townhouse community is realitively small. We have seven buildings and my building has only five townhomes attached. My next door neighbors are horrible. They do what they want when they want. My husband and I have always tried to be good neighbors and don't want arguments. So we would go to them very nicely and ask them to stop a specific behavior. Our By-laws says that we have a reserved parking space per unit. My neighbors constantly have their guests dropoff and pickup in my spot, where there have been many of times that I had to wait for them to move for me to park in it. When I politely (and trust me I am polite- I have it on video and have asked third parties confirming that I was polite) asked them to not park in my space that the homeowner they are visiting's spot is open pull in there. They have nastily said to me things like, " why there was no car in the spot or you were supposed to be at work etc. " so my husband and I on several occasions asked our next door neighbors to please tell their guests to not pull into our spot. They said on two times that it would never happen again. I have on video and pictures from I phone at least ten times it has happened since then. I also have two community spigots on my unit.
My next door neighbor, whom doesn't EVER pay their common charges on time- was put onto the HOA board because a board member resigned. For one year, the majority vote on the board were my neighbor and two or her buddies. They scammed money (I cannot legally prove) and the management company would do as they asked. 1) my neighbor never was put on lien -regardless she should have never been on the board per our code of conduct. 2) never received a letter 3) the board would retaliate against anyone that complained about them.
So this year, May- I ran for the Board per my attorney's suggestion. Get the community involved to back you. SO I won by a landslide and got her off the board. So the "good guys" became the majority vote. So we according to our by-lawys switched to a different mgmt company and then one of the "bad guys" resigned but first said bad things about the board on social media.
sorry this is so long, but I need you to have background to hopefully help me in my situation. My neighbors keep parking in my spot. Mgmt sent them a letter to stop or they would be fined. They then had their people park in my spot more and linger and they played loud music for hours, but before the noise ordinance for our town. So cops wouldn't do anything. They received the second violation with a $50 fine. They posted the violation letter on Facebook and began to ridicule me (not by name) on how ridiculous I am for complaining about people just dropping off and picking up and getting other people in the community against the Board- In addition they said that the Board "mind as well send them the $250 fine as they are not stopping" . They continued and each time I showed proof and they just received the third violation of $100. They then have outright meetings in the parking lot laughing and pointing at my unit (childish I know) but I will not leave my house during this time as I am afraid what will come at me. Also, one of their minions verbally attacked me in the parking lot when I was throwing garbage out and even though I was defending myself - nobody was around to comfirm she called mgmt to say that I attacked her. Thankfully before I even knew that she called the mgmt company- I wrote a report on the attack and sent it into the mgmt company.
My neighbors are 90 days past due on their common charges. Our mgmt company will not allow us to make it known to the community. We have sent them a 10 day letter and because we weren't sure if the mgmt company sent it certified we took too long to say yes send it to the attorney. So on day 15 they asked for a payment plan. that was last night, where my next door neighbor then went outside to the back of my unit and played very loudly bagpipes (not sure if bagpipes can be played softly) and not very well either. I was at home trying to work and it went on for three hours. The cops couldnt do anything since it was only 3 in the afternoon. my management company said that they are afraid if they give them another violation they will only attack me more. Then at 8pm, my neighbor began to play his electric guitar very loud and screaming at the top of his lungs. The police finally came when we called, but said that he couldnt do anymore even if he didn't stop playing. My eight year old daughter could not sleep and my neighbor said to the cop that he thought it was 9pm. It is quite obvious that he is taking out the Board decisions out on me. Everyone keeps telling me that the Board and management company should be able to do something to stop them. But it seems like nobody does besides sending violations. HELP! we are being harrassed and I do not know what else to do. We can no longer have neighbor to neighbor conversations with them as we are not sure how they will twist it. Your help would be greatly appreciated. We live in upstate New York
My next door neighbor, whom doesn't EVER pay their common charges on time- was put onto the HOA board because a board member resigned. For one year, the majority vote on the board were my neighbor and two or her buddies. They scammed money (I cannot legally prove) and the management company would do as they asked. 1) my neighbor never was put on lien -regardless she should have never been on the board per our code of conduct. 2) never received a letter 3) the board would retaliate against anyone that complained about them.
So this year, May- I ran for the Board per my attorney's suggestion. Get the community involved to back you. SO I won by a landslide and got her off the board. So the "good guys" became the majority vote. So we according to our by-lawys switched to a different mgmt company and then one of the "bad guys" resigned but first said bad things about the board on social media.
sorry this is so long, but I need you to have background to hopefully help me in my situation. My neighbors keep parking in my spot. Mgmt sent them a letter to stop or they would be fined. They then had their people park in my spot more and linger and they played loud music for hours, but before the noise ordinance for our town. So cops wouldn't do anything. They received the second violation with a $50 fine. They posted the violation letter on Facebook and began to ridicule me (not by name) on how ridiculous I am for complaining about people just dropping off and picking up and getting other people in the community against the Board- In addition they said that the Board "mind as well send them the $250 fine as they are not stopping" . They continued and each time I showed proof and they just received the third violation of $100. They then have outright meetings in the parking lot laughing and pointing at my unit (childish I know) but I will not leave my house during this time as I am afraid what will come at me. Also, one of their minions verbally attacked me in the parking lot when I was throwing garbage out and even though I was defending myself - nobody was around to comfirm she called mgmt to say that I attacked her. Thankfully before I even knew that she called the mgmt company- I wrote a report on the attack and sent it into the mgmt company.
My neighbors are 90 days past due on their common charges. Our mgmt company will not allow us to make it known to the community. We have sent them a 10 day letter and because we weren't sure if the mgmt company sent it certified we took too long to say yes send it to the attorney. So on day 15 they asked for a payment plan. that was last night, where my next door neighbor then went outside to the back of my unit and played very loudly bagpipes (not sure if bagpipes can be played softly) and not very well either. I was at home trying to work and it went on for three hours. The cops couldnt do anything since it was only 3 in the afternoon. my management company said that they are afraid if they give them another violation they will only attack me more. Then at 8pm, my neighbor began to play his electric guitar very loud and screaming at the top of his lungs. The police finally came when we called, but said that he couldnt do anymore even if he didn't stop playing. My eight year old daughter could not sleep and my neighbor said to the cop that he thought it was 9pm. It is quite obvious that he is taking out the Board decisions out on me. Everyone keeps telling me that the Board and management company should be able to do something to stop them. But it seems like nobody does besides sending violations. HELP! we are being harrassed and I do not know what else to do. We can no longer have neighbor to neighbor conversations with them as we are not sure how they will twist it. Your help would be greatly appreciated. We live in upstate New York
