Church deacons relative has cancer, but HOA says he cant park extra car in driveway

[TexasTowelie]

The four-bedroom, reverse one-and-a-half story house in Olathe seemed like the perfect setup for Stuart and Marsha Holland.

Marsha’s father had just undergone his fourth cancer surgery, and the couple decided it was time to move her parents from Florida to Kansas so they could more closely monitor their care.

“They could live on the main level, and we’d live on the lower level,” Stuart Holland said. “And we’d heard some great things about the neighborhood.”

But five years later, as Ed Majewski prepares for more rounds of treatment in his ongoing battle with cancer, the Hollands are entangled in a conflict on the home front — this one with their HOA.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/hoa/article169764467.html

[Hortensis]

1. Should have read the papers before he signed. There are reasons

why some people choose to live in controlled neighborhoods and others, like us, refuse to. These guys didn't break their own HOA rules for a few days but years, rules all other residents agreed to because they like what they do for the neighborhood. Sounds like the HOA board decided not to enforce the rule for them thinking mortality would solve the issue eventually. 5 years of decency. Wonder how many complaints they got over that period.

Don't like self-imposed fascistic controls? Don't self-impose them and then complain.