Hello
Posted on: 2011-07-13
This is for all the fools who like to point fingers at the CMA and the HOA as over-zealous 'members' or attack dogs. I am a resident who moved to this neighborhood with the understanding there were some deed restrictions and that is part of the reason I moved here. I have found that a majority of the residents here care about the neighborhood as well as their neighbors. However, there are the residents that just want to piss and wine when they get a letter about something that is in the restrictions.
These people like to think they are being singled out and picked on. While they feel that nothing is wrong and the HOA is coming after them. It's your neighbors who are tired of the items that you are getting letters for and bringing up the issues.
Let's address the car issue. We seem to have people who are not happy that they received letters about parking on the street. They can't seem to be bothered with moving cars around in their driveways. To those people I can only say I am sorry if you received one and your car is only out for one instance or a real reason. For all the people who always have a car in the street (which was in the deed restriction when you moved to this neighborhood) I understand why you received a letter. I don't like having to wonder if a car is coming over the top of a hill that I might have to meet head on when there is a car in the street causing me to go around it in the oncoming lane. I don't like having to guess whether today is the day that I get hit because I have to go around a car in the street on a turn and can't see the oncoming traffic.
As far as the person with the 'Gaping hole in the street'. I am not one to preach about going to the meeting and be heard. With that being said, I would like to know, other than by your sharp posting, if you have brought it to the HOA attention. If you had gone to a meeting or contacted the HOA you may know that the drainage grates are being addressed with the city to be repaired. But I am guessing you just like to gripe and not follow up on anything.
As for the blog. I hope you think you accomplished your goal. As I see it you accomplished nothing but showing how disrespectful and uninformed you are. I honestly hope that you don't think that putting dictionary meanings in a letter proves a point or shows your intelligence. I finished the letter only thinking that I sure am glad I don't live next to them. Try next time to actually ask a question in your letter and wait for a response before being 'smart'.
My response:
Deed restrictions are fine, IF they were ever followed at all. There are many violations of the original restrictions that were ignored as a precedent and were allowed to go on through back-door agreements with the HOA and the builder - not exactly compliant, but more like cronyism.
This "fool" was not bothered at all by CMA or HOA in any way until this "fool" recently put up a sign for a friend's business and was hassled by a busy-body lady out of nowhere within 3 minutes! Unless this is the notorious Ally from CMA, it's as if some people in this neighborhood are sitting at their windows with binoculars.
I don't know where to start as far as the parked car issue goes. For the past 15 years, I've seen literal car lots in front of some yards and still do. I also know that kids need side-walks so they don't have to ride in the streets. With this recent "crackdown" on those malicious, dirty little car-parkers, kids have to ride in the streets - right into all these grates that are collapsing. You don't want to wonder if a car is over the hill? Are you kidding?! What if a kid is over that hill because the HOA and CMA is hassling people into their driveways and blocking sidewalks. Where do you get your reasoning skills?
Yes, that grate has been brought to their attention but like everything else in this neighborhood that is REALLY important, it took a back seat to car parking, fences, and people's out-buildings - just like the house with no brick and the like. Typical cronyism and "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours".
The blog brings CMA into the light so people can see what they've been dealing with behind the scenes so the HOA Board can remain anonymous and white as snow. As you read on the blog, "Ally" is more concerned with how her name is pronounced than the issues at hand or people's concerns with how intrusive they have become. We keep to ourselves, prefer to interact with neighbors only when necessary, and help those around us and elsewhere in many ways you don't need to know. So, if you step back a bit and see things through our eyes, you'll see we're fighting back against being singled out for harassment.
If you're bothered by the blog, imagine the publicity the HOA and CMA are going to get when/if the news organizations get my request. I literally despise organizations that have gotten a little power and go berserk as a result. Typically, they go after you by other means while they sit back and marvel at their civic righteousness.
On another note, I actually spoke with a neighbor that said it was CMA that had the police come out and specifically ticketed his child's cars. I wonder if our dues go towards the direct attack of a select few of our neighbors, while others are ignored like the vast amount of unlicensed vehicles and idiotic mothers pushing their babies in the middle of the street?
v/r
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