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
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