WOODMOOR ELECTION — who do you believe?
It’s silly season, I mean election time again. New homeowners association boards are being elected all over the Pikes Peak region. An especially contentious race is for three seats on the Woodmoor...
View ArticleSMALL HOAS SEEK FAIRNESS FROM COLORADO LAWMAKERS
State Rep. Amy Stephens, R-Monument Rep. Amy Stephens, a Monument Republican, has introduced a little bill in the 2010 Colorado General Assembly that would have a big impact on small homeowners...
View ArticleLawmakers take on HOAs GONE WILD!!!
Colorado’s General Assembly is taking a hard look at homeowners associations again. Starting in 2005, lawmakers began trying to reform HOAs after more and more complaints about abuses by HOA boards...
View Article‘GUARD LLAMAS’ AT HEART OF COVENANT DISPUTE?
Prairie Vista Meadows is one of dozens of subdivisions scattered around the outskirts of Colorado Springs in eastern El Paso County. It’s just 63 lots, carved out of former ranchland, where folks...
View ArticleBET THIS GUY’S NEIGHBOR WISHES HE HAD COVENANTS
I don’t know the story behind this photo, which was emailed to me as spam. It’s pretty obvious there’s an intense political debate behind it. But it made me think. Often, people suggest to me that...
View ArticleIS IT A HOME OR A HOTEL?
. Folks across Colorado Springs are complaining that properties in their neighborhoods are hotels masquerading as single-family homes. I’ve heard the complaints from upscale areas like the Broadmoor...
View ArticleVILLAGE SEVEN FEUD DRAGS ON AND ON
Meet Bob Robella. He’s the guy on the bicycle with the two dogs running beside him. He’s riding onto the sidewalk outside the Village Seven home he bought in 2006. Only problem, the Village Seven...
View ArticleFINALLY, A PLACE TO REPORT YOUR ROTTEN HOA!!!
Finally, folks in Colorado have some place to turn besides Side Streets to report a rotten homeowners association! The state has opened its HOA Information Office and Resource Center within the...
View ArticleSHOULD HOA MANAGERS BE LICENSED, REGULATED BY STATE?
Michelle Green Michelle Green has worked in the homeowners association management business 15 years. She manages the Flying Horse Homeowners Association as an employee of Hammersmith Management. It’s...
View ArticleHOA’S $50 PARKING FINE BALLOONS INTO THOUSANDS
UPDATE — UPDATE —- UPDATE In 2009, I introduced Side Streets readers to Ron Pace under a headline: “Pace is loose!” In the...
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