The HOA sold a home worth over $500k (almost paid off) for $85k at auction, to recover $6k of fines. Their response is that their "foreclosure rate represents less than 1% of their population". Too bad for those people. Unbelievable.
Either that, or I'd have to assume that the auction was not properly publicized, and the HOA is somehow profiting from the sale due to that fact. (eg, feeding info about the auction to people that bribe them, board members buying forclosed homes and selling them at a profit, etc).
I also assume most people who let their house go into foreclosure don't keep up with maintenance.
> Bauman says since [the new law's] passage, HOAs have had to spend more on certified mail, postage and legal counsel associated with the notification process.
Imagine the entitlement that this person thinks postage stamps are an issue worth whining about when foreclosing on a home and removing the occupants.
You've not run into many HOA sorts, then. They have this sliver of POWER and they are going to use it as much as they possibly can. And if you're in their way, well, you shouldn't have been in their way! They're the HOA parking enforcement agent and, golly, it sure looks to them like you haven't moved your car often enough (I solved this at one point by parking worse and no longer trying to keep my vehicle far enough forward on the street that someone else could park behind me in a section).
I mean, the people they're notifying are basically violating human rights by having damaged local property values, per the HOA way of thinking.
It's horrifying at all levels.
Also, the bill of rights has nothing to do with race and doesn't make any mention of it.
This alone smells as a fraudulent scam. Let me guess -- the person who bought the house is a friend of the HOA board and will flip the house shortly.