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Soulhacking
My old man owns a home in the town of Grafton WV. They want $50 a month in police/fire protection fees on his empty home which is used just for storage. Every home owner must pay this $50 a month extortion fee since the city provides water service or they will cut off your tap and send out the building inspector and declare your home Condemned Property and put you out on the street.
XTexan
Second, if your in an HOA get involved in it. I got involved in mine several months ago and have been slowly but surely dismantling it ever since, including removing the corporate management company. I guarantee you it's the management company doing this to her and not her neighbors.
Not a HOA. No contracts ever signed.
ownbestenemy
Soulhacking
My old man owns a home in the town of Grafton WV. They want $50 a month in police/fire protection fees on his empty home which is used just for storage. Every home owner must pay this $50 a month extortion fee since the city provides water service or they will cut off your tap and send out the building inspector and declare your home Condemned Property and put you out on the street.
Who wants $50/month? The city government or a HOA? If it is the city government, the ire should be on fellow citizens who allowed such a fee (read tax) be allowed. If it is an HOA, then it is on your "old man" for agreeing to the terms of the contract signed regarding that HOA.
To a town -- a different story and the recourse is much different. To an HOA? He probably signed an agreement that said he would pay X amount of $ per month for said services.
Soulhacking
Not a HOA. No contracts ever signed.
Its the same beast. The whole point is you own nothing. Ownership is a lie an illusion. Private or public they will use power to control you and what you do with things you are stupid enough to believe you own. I also wanted to show these HOA places charging fees is nothing compared to the government they just followed by example.
ownbestenemy
Soulhacking
Not a HOA. No contracts ever signed.
While your story is intriguing, how does it pertain to a story about HOAs then? I understand the threat you speak of, but it is completely not for this thread -- you are speaking of municipalities extorting; this thread is about private associations extorting.
Soulhacking
Its the same beast. The whole point is you own nothing. Ownership is a lie an illusion. Private or public they will use power to control you and what you do with things you are stupid enough to believe you own. I also wanted to show these HOA places charging fees is nothing compared to the government they just followed by example.
truthseeker84
I could be wrong when I say this, so please do correct me if I'm wrong.
But isn't it... I mean, technically speaking, no one in U.S. are land owners ... are we?
From what I understood, when you buy your house, you become the legal "tenant" of said property and said land. But... you're just a legal "tenant", not the legal "owner".
Again, I don't know how accurate this is but I've been told this before and I can't remember from who or what source.
So sucks to be us if it's true.