Prestonwood Forest Homeowners Organization welcomes you

Last night (Tuesday, 16 June), Channel 2 News aired a Channel2 Investigates segment about HOAs.  The video is available on their website (Click2Houston.com) as is a blog.  Looking at the video and the blog, I'd say there are many angry homeowners out there who would like a change.  NOW.

Amy Davis' report revealed for the first time to many homeowners that their HOA has the legal authority to foreclose their home.  Let me put that a different and more straightforward way:  If you should fail to pay your dues, an HOA in almost every case will foreclose your house (force it sold) WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION OR KNOWLEDGE !! 

Did you know that?  Yes, Prestonwood's Maintenance Association BOD has seen fit to file foreclosures on about 30 of our fellow residents in the past 30 months for a variety of reasons.  All perfectly legal.  All perfectly despicable.

You may have been wondering what happened to us folks at PFHO.  We haven't left you.  We're still here and still watching out for you. 

We have decided to expand our services to the Prestonwood Family with articles on maintenance, upkeep, and gardening.   We will soon add a new section on Home Improvement articles.   This article on spring cleaning is the first installment in our Home Improvement section.  Keep checking back regularly for more articles and to refresh your memory on previous ones.  Welcome to our house.

 SPRING CLEANING

Friends, spring is here and summer's near.  Time to drag out your gardening and clean-up supplies and head outside to spiff up the outside of your house and make the  BOD happy at the same time. 

A special program will air on Houston's Channel 11 this Thursday night (February 5, 2009) at 10:00 p.m. on HOA's.  The topic is so important that everybody should watch.  It is supposed to help us determine whether HOA's improve/maintain property values or not.  It will be interesting to see just what they have turned up.

 PFHO staff

Regardless whether you believe that PFHO is good or bad for our subdiviison, you should read this.  HOA abuse is a growing problem across the US.  That does NOT mean homeowners are abusing HOAs... rather that the HOAs are abusing thier members.  So check this website out. 

http://www.21turtlecreekcondo.com/index.htm

 This poor condo owner has experienced the muscle-flexing attention of his HOA.  Much of it sounds 'way too familiar to some of us.  You really need to read this.

 PFHO

It's that time of year again.  When Prestonwood makes the electric companies smile.  The board in its largess has selected Saturday night as the official Night of Lites.  As if everybody was ready to turn the lights on even the second SUNDAY night.  Lots of people struggle to get lights out by Sunday.