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WendyM5 (North Carolina)
Posts: 1,522
Posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDcSrmnLDUo
Letter says
Truck, trailers, Recreation Vehicles, RVs and/or commercial vehicles of any kind are not permitted to be parked anywhere in the Association/ Community except inside of your garage during overnight hours.
Please make alternate arrangements to park your vehicle.

2 take aways, the HOA president is a moron trying to enforce something that the state courts ruled against other HOA's in the past. Clearly meant to apply to utility trucks, etc.
when its dark no one can see the truck anyways. Shouldn't it logically be during the day time hours?


vis ta vie
MelissaP1 (Alabama)
Posts: 13,836
Posted:
Does this pertain to your HOA or do you you have a question about this? Otherwise this is NOT the website to randomly post complaints about any and every HOA out in the universe just for you to bring your misguided views here.

Former HOA President
KerryL1 (California)
Posts: 14,550
Posted:
Wendy, I rarely agree with Melissa and don't entirely here. But aren't there other sites where you can gripe about HOAs?
TimB4 (Tennessee)
Posts: 21,062
Posted:
Quote:
Posted By WendyM5 on 12/31/2022 6:17 PM

2 take aways, the HOA president is a moron trying to enforce something that the state courts ruled against other HOA's in the past. Clearly meant to apply to utility trucks, etc.
when its dark no one can see the truck anyways. Shouldn't it logically be during the day time hours?


My take aways:

1) Member admitted he never thought there would be a rule - meaning he didn't bother to read his governing documents even though he lived there for 27 years.

2) It's not known if this rule is in the covenants or somewhere else (makes a difference)

3) In the referenced case, that association had an outright ban. This association isn't banning the vehicle - they are saying it has to be parked in the garage. Hence, it's not known if the case is directly relevant or not to the courts.

4) The member said the rule needs to change but the reporter didn't even go into how to change rules like this, instead he interviewed an attorney and discussed a court case - because explaining how to change the rules doesn't attract the viewers

5) Your topic title is misleading. The Association has a ban on all trucks and was simply enforcing it on this one. Make and model is not relevant.

6) The main reason, in my opinion, this is an issue at all is that the member stated that there is no room to park the truck in his garage - if there was it likely wouldn't be a news story.

I also agree with the others. This is not the forum to continually post HOA horror story after horror story.

As the yellow banner says this forum is "a positive place for community association leaders to share ideas and learn".

SteveM9 (Massachusetts)
Posts: 3,699
Posted:
A SUV is also considered a truck. And how many people have those? Almost everyone.

Time to update the HOA documents......

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