Parking in front of garage

[Tom D]

Sputty, may i call you that. Yous all need an attorney to go before the hoa, and/or court to make them think about attorney fees going to a court. The hoa don't care what owners have to say, so what can you do complaining.

What is the purpose of hiring an appraiser right now, it will get you nowhere at this moment. It is not the value they want, it's the use of the driveway. Hey, the appraiser said i just lost $10,000 in value. Hoa, yea so what. It's sorta like arguing with a government official, just talking to yourself.

But, all this is current speculation as to the ownership of the driveway and/or the condo docs. And again, we will not know the final conclusion.

 

[Joe Flacco]

Without approval of owners sounds like you were not supposed to park right outside of the garage Bay in the first place. Do you have parking space lines outside of the garage bay?

 

[sputnam]

Sputty, may i call you that. Yous all need an attorney to go before the hoa, and/or court to make them think about attorney fees going to a court. The hoa don't care what owners have to say, so what can you do complaining.

What is the purpose of hiring an appraiser right now, it will get you nowhere at this moment. It is not the value they want, it's the use of the driveway. Hey, the appraiser said i just lost $10,000 in value. Hoa, yea so what. It's sorta like arguing with a government official, just talking to yourself.

But, all this is current speculation as to the ownership of the driveway and/or the condo docs. And again, we will not know the final conclusion.

An attorney may be needed if it comes to a fight. No attorney is needed to read the condominium documents to determine whether the area in front of the garage is common area or not. The OP asked about the impact on value and that is appraisal work. Please read the posts before you comment.

 

[Tom D]

Oh my gosh, i never read the post. I didn't realize that giving a better answer to their problem was not proper on this thread. I gave them an answer to their post, then a better answer to their problem.
Their issue is now walking from the parking lot to their house, not the value of that loss. The value hasn't affected them at this time, the walking does. I also told them what to read, but the hoa cares not what you read, or what it say, or what you say. When you get done banging your head on their wall, then you need an attorney. They are the rulers of the project.

Maybe you didn't understand the real problem/s. Having been a r.e. broker, builder, rehabber, mort broker, I don't just look at what they were asking, but why they were asking. The why is the real problem, not a potential maybe loss in value.

 

[J Grant]

Condo boards can impose rules and regs on OWNED properties, so the people talking about owning the driveway are wrong IMO.

The condo can tell a unit owner whether they can own a pet or not and if dogs are allowed, impose a weight limit on dogs (except for ESA or service dogs ) allow whether an owner can rent the unit or not and for how long, restrict what kind of work or additions are made to the unit ,, restrict vehicles parking etc.

Not everybody likes every rule, but a well-informed buyer is part of the Market value definition and assumes those buying a condo would be aware of the rules and regs.

The rules in a condo do affect value, sometimes positively and sometimes negatively, but those rules affect value on all the units, so how is an owner of one unit going to file a lawsuit that they individually were harmed?

 

[Mark K]

In 2016 the HOA decided (without the approval of owners) to prohibit owners from parking in front of their garages.

This happened 8 years ago. What was their rationale for this decision? I'd suggest running for the board to repeal this rule but if only 38 owners out of 198 total have garages you might have an uphill battle. It reminds me of the old definition of democracy..."Democracy is 4 wolves and 1 sheep voting to see who gets eaten for supper."

I'm guessing that the units with garages sell for more $$ than the units without but since this happened 8 years ago it might be very difficult to determine any diminution in value. Possibly find sales of units with garages 9 years ago and compare the value with units that sold 7 years ago to see if the value dropped. Find a good local appraiser and good luck.

 

[J Grant]

Attorneys will take ridiculous cases and bill by the hour, but they will get paid regardless of the outcome.

If the OP wants to waste money and time and get the folks on the condo board to hate them, then go for it.

 

[Tom D]

If it was called deeded parking, the hoa cannot stop you from parking there. But not sure what's written there, if anything was mentioned about driveway parking in any condo docs.

j Grant, i mention attorney for all the driveway owners as a group. But only if it's obvious that the condo docs say you can park on driveway. I read on my msn thread about unhappy condo owners and their hoa dictates. I don't think the hoa board cares about the owner's love/hate feelings. In this thread, nothing will happen cause the owner ain't paying to go further.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I used to have a townhouse in a community with not a lot of parking. I had one of the few townhouses with a garage and driveway, and also had an assigned parking space. The HOA voted to take away the assigned parking spaces for the townhouses with a garage space and turn them into guest parking spaces. The people without a garage outnumbered us 4-1 so there was not much we could do about it other than complain at the HOA meeting.

 

[Digger88]

Without approval of owners sounds like you were not supposed to park right outside of the garage Bay in the first place. Do you have parking space lines outside of the garage bay?

I was going to say this the units here have lines painted indicating they're for parking I'd like to see a pic though