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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The HOA can enforce its own rules and assess rule breakers with fines.

FWIW I can understand why your neighbor is complaining.  Fire pits absolutely stink up a neighborhood and if you're using a fire pit all the time then no wonder your neighbor is unhappy.[/quote]

The HOA can't make up its own rules to enforce, though.  Unless there is a pre-existing bylaw re fire pits, it likely has to go to a vote by a quorum of homeowners before they can start money grabbing and threatening liens.

I mean, Jesus, most HOA boards are the neighborhood busybodies who are measuring other people's grass and timing trashcan pickup, can you imagine how out of control they would be if they got to make up their own rules on the fly, too?[/quote]

Maybe if varies by HOA, but our HOA board can make new rules or modify existing rules.  Just this spring, there was an uproar about people putting signs in their yard and leaving them there for too long.  Some claimed this was a way to stop others from displaying "Hate Has No Home Here" signs claiming the signs are divisive (If you don't have a sign does that mean you allow hate in your home?).  Anyway, 6 months later, we have a new rule about signs in yards.  Personally I find the new rules contradictory, but regardless of what I think, the HOA board voted on and enacted new rules.  There was an open meeting for residence to voice their position on signs, but there was no vote by the home owners.  [/quote]

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