Boadlands OWNS "Living in LoCo"

My sympathies !! :agree:

 

In response to Kaos' acrimonious attack on the Farm.

Well then, I am glad we finally got rid of you. Just kidding we miss you.

For the record, flower planting is encouraged in Ashburn Farm and does not require, nor ever did require written HOA approval. You most likely are confusing the issue with bushes and trees which there are guidelines for.

For the record, permission is not needed from an HOA to sell your house. What is required by the law, as documented in the Commonwealth's Virginia Property Owners Association Act is a disclosure:

§ 55-511. Contract disclosure statement; right of cancellation.

A. Subject to the provisions of subsection F of § 55-512, a person selling a lot shall disclose in the contract that (i)
the lot is located within a development which is subject to the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; (ii) the
Act requires the seller to obtain from the property owners' association an association disclosure packet and provide it
to the purchaser; (iii) the purchaser may cancel the contract within three days after receiving the association
disclosure packet or being notified that the association disclosure packet will not be available; (iv) if the purchaser
has received the association disclosure packet, the purchaser has a right to request an update of such disclosure
packet in accordance with § 55-512; and (v) the right to receive the association disclosure packet and the right to
cancel the contract are waived conclusively if not exercised before settlement.

§ 55-511. Contract disclosure statement; right of cancellation.
A. Subject to the provisions of subsection F of § 55-512, a person selling a lot shall disclose in the contract that (i)
the lot is located within a development which is subject to the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; (ii) the
Act requires the seller to obtain from the property owners' association an association disclosure packet and provide it
to the purchaser; (iii) the purchaser may cancel the contract within three days after receiving the association
disclosure packet or being notified that the association disclosure packet will not be available; (iv) if the purchaser
has received the association disclosure packet, the purchaser has a right to request an update of such disclosure
packet in accordance with § 55-512; and (v) the right to receive the association disclosure packet and the right to
cancel the contract are waived conclusively if not exercised before settlement.

The HOA is required by law to provide you this disclosure, which then is provided to the buyer. It is not an "approval" to sell your property.

You'll find the same law applies to Broadlands. In fact, you should have gotten one as a purchaser when you moved into Broadlands.

Without additional details about your "severe safety issue", I can't comment.

p.s. one caveat on the flowers, don't put any rock mulch around them

 

I know about the disclosure form - it's so we can get the full packet of goop to hand to the new buyer. What I am saying is that there was (may not still be there) a form that had to be filed with the HOA informing them and asking permission to sell the home. It gave them the right to inspect the property and deny the ability to sell (at least that's how it was explained to me).

Anyway - as I know one of the folks on the board for AF I'm almost certain that it's the by-laws have been trimmed back to a more reasonable level. Not becuase I know him but because I know he's a reasonable kind of guy.

I will close with one more caveat - When we lived in AF there was still a LOT of construction going on and many instances of "No, you need to talk to the builder/HOA (depending on whom you were speaking with) about that." At one point I was even told by the HOA that my neighborhood was not part of the HOA. So. there was obviously, a lot of very comfuzzled folks.

"Acrimonious"! Indeed!

OK - hold on, I need to make some edits to a previous post.

 

OK, my comments about the AF HOA were based on past events and were unfair. I have edited the post to remove those comments and I apologize for any ruffled feathers.

 

You gotta love blogs! Real time editorial editing. You're a good man Kaos.

 

Kaosdad,

Very mature and admirbale response. If someone says something that is inadvertently offensive, the person generally apologizes like you did even if you maintain that you did not try to offend. It's just the right thing to do.

However, if someone is just trying to be offensive, they say something clearly offensive with the intent to incite and never back off. I'm glad to see that you are a stand-up type of guy as opposed to certain other people.

 

I try, really I do.

 

Kaos - I bet you just sleep so much better tonight.

 

We all appreciate it, and we're better off for having you as a neighbor!

 

You two are just too cute for words.

 

THANK GOD my lunch is mostly digested!

 

You all should go out side and play. Scoot! Get outta the house. As my mom used to say; "Go get the stink blowed off ya!"

 

Clearly some people could learn from Kaos on this issue and clearly some people still can't spell. (clearly I'm big on the word clearly)

 

Are you sure? Remember, Gryphon is "articulate" so he must be right!
But the rest of us who can't spell (or type) don't have any brains.

 

You actually may have a point there. I have horrible typing skills and that may or may not corelate to the loss of brain I have incurred. Or I may just be a bad speller.

 

Sorry

 

Oh come on... they're just having fun and we're having fun reading it.