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Originally Posted by bbbbbb
You may or may not like this: On the complaining etc. Or as defined here, Bitching?
We had a friend on the West Coast, a lawyer, he and another like minded person did a paid formal study on the events that go on (good and bad) in a large development under the umbrella of a "Homeowners Group". And by the way contrary to many persons, there IS a Homeowners group here in the Villages. It is the VHA or Village Homeowners Advocacy and I understand the name is changing to Advocacy rather than Association. They have an interesting monthly newsletter.
So back to the West Coast Lawyer and his group that studied Homeowners groups. Let's face it, no matter the name it is really a group of people living close by in a semi closed area, mostly retired, with some rules and regulations, commonly called CC and Rs. The results of that study was really interesting. Their conclusions:
A Homeowners group is typically made up of senior citizens from many walks of life. Some have accomplished a lot in life and some have not. Most of them tend to keep this to themselves. Well, the ones who have not been able to rise to something supervisory in their past have at this time decided to take their last fling at it, their last Hurrah, and they usually do not do well because they did not rise to that competency level when they were working. However, those who did get into something formerly related to supervision, did OK at work and now cannot give up that urge to continue directing the trains and the train tracks selected by others.
Interesting and this is a true story. Hope you enjoy this and it clarifies things a bit. Please do not fire back at me for this example.
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Please don't take this as a complaint/negativity/rumor/ulterior motive/anti-developer. But, there is only one real HOA; the POA (Property Owners Association). This organization is truly the property owners advocate. The VHA is a developer initiated and pro developer counter response to the quite effective POA, which won a $40,000,000 settlement from the developer for the property owners north of 466. I consider the VHA as an advocate for the developer, not the property owners.