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Originally Posted by asianthree
What many don’t realize the 100 complaints filed, by the same person, only a small percentage has deed compliance issues. The rest are not even in a grey area (20 pink flamingos for a birthday, or a cocktail sign for a driveway party on Friday).
That is where the waste of time. The person who came to our house, about the alleged infraction had a great sense of humor.
Laughed at what was construed as a “white cross”. His thoughts were if the handful of those who file hundreds of complaints had to pay a fee per complaint, with fee returned if it was a true complaint. It would cut his waste of time and grief down by 80%.
Well off to Brownwood for Hanukkah story telling.
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Actually - some kind of "nuisance fee" for people who file the complaints isn't a bad idea. Example:
Amos likes complaining, he's a "right-fighter" and feels like it's his duty to point out the inadequacies of everyone else.
He submits 3 complaints in one day, about three different properties in the same neighborhood. Community standards takes the call. Takes the first name, Amos's street *number* (not street name) and the phone number he called from. His assigned account name is now AS17215. This stands for A(mo)S 17(29) (515-777-7)215.
That is how Community standards will know him, and what the record will show if anyone questions the source of the complaint.
Three days later, account AS17215 makes another 5 complaints against 4 properties in a different neighborhood.
Community standards now notes the account as being a potential nuisance account, but does their due diligence and checks the complaints out.
The following week, account AS17215 makes another 4 accounts against 4 properties in his own neighborhood. Well - that's definitely a nuisance account now. He gets billed $1 per complaint, payable by credit card only, with the usual credit card fee because of course everyone in Florida charges extra for credit cards.
If he doesn't pay it, he is charged 29% interest on the full balance including previous credit card fees, compoundable daily, also including any new complaint fees.
If they get to $1000 total, they put a lien on the property.