Well I think some people here are missing the obvious. While I agree he was "supposidly" breaking the rules by having brown grass in his yard, but some people forget he was TWO months behind on his mortage payments. Most right thinking people would say ......... "I'd rather have a roof over my head before my grass is green and I dont live in the house cause I didnt make my three mortage payments." And then there is the HOA who says ........... "We don't care about your mortage, we want your grass green or be fined."
Yeah its a BRILLIANT idea to fine someone who is obviously finacially distressed to start with to lay another $1000 fine on him for his grass. It makes perfect sense to me! If you cant feel my sarcasism in those two sentences, then you are as blind as that guy's HOA. I am sure he is not the only one currently in this same situation with the given housing situation.
In all seriousness, I know there are rules you are suppose to abide by in HOA ruled area, but a little common sense goes a long way to make life easier for everyone. Granted he did mess up when he failed to appear for the court hearing. At least there he could have stated his case and probably got an extension to make the needed repairs to his grass. That part is on him. But it is also wonderful how the community around him helped to chip in to correct the problem started by the HOA.
HOA's are good for some things, but way worse for other things. I never understood paying for your mortage, then paying your property tax and then paying for your utilities and then to top it off to pay for some HOA fee..........for what? The HOA in his community could have used the money they horde each month from their homeowners to help pay for the new grass and then had the home owner repay them. But I guess that would make to much sense...........so that wont fly
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