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Texas: Hoa

November 1, 2009 - 05:30 pm
NEWS FEED: Bay Area Houston

HOA given go ahead to file suit against Hurricane Ike victims.

By johncoby@sbcglobal.net (John Coby)

The homeowners of the Pineloch Community Association has spoken, sort of.

Saturday a farce of an election was held to give guidance to the board members of the association on whether to file suit against 40 homeowners who re-roofed their homes with the wrong colored shingles. The community was asked by the board to vote on changing the deed restrictions which required 1700+ yes votes out of the 2040 homes. It wasn't going to happen and it didn't.

This now gives the board members the right to spend thousands of dollars on filing suit against the victims of Ike for selecting the wrong colored shingle.

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October 25, 2009 - 09:40 am
NEWS FEED: Bay Area Houston

Houston HOA goes after homeowners for hurricane repairs

By johncoby@sbcglobal.net (John Coby)

It is bad enough that a hurricane swept through the Clear Lake area causing record damage to homes, but now a homeowners association is going after those who re-roofed their homes with the wrong color of shingle. It's unreasonable action like this that makes homeowners refer to HOAs as "Nazis".

Pineloch Community Association
The Pineloch Community in Clear Lake has about 2000 homes ranging from $150,000 to about $250,000. The community is over 20 years old. Hurricane Ike was our first major storm and according to the President of the Association about 40 homes are in violation of the deed restrictions because they used the wrong color of shingle.

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