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Saturday, July 22, 2017.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009.
Shu
Bartholomew and her guest talk about the
mantra used by defenders of HOAs: "But you agreed!" We've
all heard it. The association industry members
use it when lobbying for greater powers for
associations. Attorneys representing HOAs in
court use it. Managers and other proponents of
the system spout it out ad nauseum every time the discussion revolves around the sorry state
of affairs in association-controlled residential
America
today. Technically and legally it may be
true that by buying into an association of some sort
or other we "agreed" to it. But what
exactly did we agree to? And what happened to
the alleged benefits of HOAs? We have also all
heard the other, equally tired mantra of HOAs
"protecting property" value. In this
topsy-turvy, economically upside down world today,
where are the values? How "affordable"
is all this luxurious living we have also been
promised?
Recently
town hall panel discussions on HOAs and a phone bank
and a marathon Internet chat session in
Orlando
, where the existing streams were maxed out "by a
few isolated incidents," showed that more and
more owners are seriously concerned about the
ever-growing problems in community associations
How well
are values really holding up in HOAs? Why are so many
people made homeless? What is on the minds of the
thousands of "isolated incidents: who called in
for help"? These -- and many other questions are
being discussed on this show. Don't miss listening!
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