This is so funny...pay your money and we will let you clean up.

This is just like the mob, ...gives us your money, and we will let you clean up your neighborhood.

Don't pay your money and we will come down on you hard and make you pay...To CLEAN up your neighborhood.

Your dammed either way

I have a idea..Take all the money I pay and clean up the houses.

I have done everything to comply with the hoa.. They have done nothing, not even the lights in the park.

The lights have been installed in the park; they should be operational shortly. 

The City of Maricopa and/or Maricopa Meadows are not the only ones suffering the effects of all of the foreclosures!  Read the article posted just today on AZ Central.

Foreclosures force HOAs to cut corners on upkeep http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/03/20080403hoas0403.html

I have two others in PDF format if you are interested....I was unable to find them online. 

1. HOAs take foreclosure hit....Associations are struggling to make ends meet
2. HOAs get creative as foreclosures rise.....Solvency depends on volunteers, renegotiation

Quote:  Rising foreclosure rates are squeezing homeowners associations, leaving many in Chandler and across the Valley with dwindling cash reserves and growing numbers of unpaid assessments, management company executives say.....

Quote:  Homeowners associations strapped by unpaid assessments and rising foreclosures are turning to volunteer work crews and cutting maintenance jobs to avoid increasing fees.....

p.s.  the definition of VOLUNTEER is:  to perform, or offer to perform, work of your own free will; to do charitable or helpful work without receiving pay for it.

Do you know if a letter whent out to ask for volunteers I have talked with a neighbor down the street & he was unaware of any thing going on. I saw no poster around the mail boxes so i was just wondering how are people finding out about this ?

KUDOS!!!! If I could,  I would help in a heart beat. I would be more than willing to donate some stuff to help though. Weed killer, etc.

I am sick and tired of staring at tumbleweed filled eyesore properties. I am sick and tired of worrying about what is living in the weeds as I walk passed the property, I am tired of worrying about what is going to happen if someone flicks a cigarette butt onto the property and the weeds catch fire. 

In a perfect world, the HOA would hire people to do this however, we are more than aware that this isn't an option so this is a great opprotunity to do something about it, I am just sorry that I can't be of more assistance. Again, let me know if I can donate some stuff!

I don't think it's the HOA's responsibility to clean individual yards, I think it's the responsibility of the home owner (whether or not they do it is irrellevent).  We have a vacant house next door.  I weed my yard, I weed my side of their yard.  My neighbor on the otherside does her yard and the other side of that yard.  It's just easier to spend an extra 10 minutes then it is to spend hours complaining about it.  Another neighbor calls realtors on signs that are posted and complains until they get someone out to clean up other vacant homes/yards in our area. 

I think this clean up/BBQ is a great idea.  No one is talking about cleaning up the common areas - that the HOA IS paid to maintain.  The idea, as I understand it, is to clean up the homes that have been vacated...

So we can all sit back and continue to complain (or be thankful we're not on the block as the homes that need to be cleaned) or we can get out there and help to do something about it....