Edgehill Village in San Bernardino - Oligarchy Overlords cause Ordinary Owners to Suffer.
If I had ever spent even 1 week just to see how awful life can be to live in a condominium, It is possible that I may not have bought my place. But in particular my Condominium here in San Bernardino, CA. It is called the Edgehill Village, and there are plenty of good things that I could talk about, but that is not why I made this lense. I made this lense to cleanse any ill feelings I harbour for some entity, or person(s) behind all of this real estate business who I do not know, and may never know. I do know that she/it exists here, and they/it have been a thorn in my pleasant living for 8 years now. I will discuss three things that have occured to me during my residency here at Edgehill Village in San Bernardino, California. I will try to keep as unbiased as I can and then you can decide whether or not the things which have be-fallen me are just or unjust, due or undue etc. I will leave space wide open for you to leave your comments so please freely comment as you wish.
1st item up for miserable existence was the time that I was playing my piano keyboard as I often do, at around 3 P.M. in the afternoon. I wasn't playing loud at all but was fined $50 for playing Mozart. I am a skilled pianist and was playing purely for my own enjoyment. The sliding glass door may have been opened, but my keyboard amp was only turned up to 3. In my own opinion Mozart at a volume of a mere 3, at 3:00 in the afternoon doesn't constitute a nuisance. It's quite enjoyable actually, and soothing amongst other things. However, an oligarchy style tyranny of unjust person(s) obviously had a different opinion, nonetheless I appealed and was spared the fine.
2nd item up for miserable existence was the morning I was late for work and went to go find my car only to find that it wasn't there. I called the police believing that surely it must have been stolen, so I filed a police report only to find out two days later that the housing associations in-house tow company had towed my car away for being 2 inches in a red zone. At the Edgehill Village, parking is really scarce. So scarce that when I have groceries--- well that is another horror in its own right, but it is so scarce that you as owners of a condominium, we pay $99 to have a parking permit that allows all owners the right to park 1 vehicle. There were residents in here that owned 6 cars, oh boy! Well I finally figured out that it was the "evil" Titan Towing Co. that now doesn't exist but in the shadows of thoughts and dollars. Who had stealthily come at night and turn off their lights so as not to be seen by residents, although they say it is so that they don't disturb the residents, and lo and behold my car was being held ransom at their headquarters downtown. But wait, the story gets better because I couldn't get the car out of their clutches just then because the weekend has just set in, so was told I would have to come back on Monday to get my means of trasportation (my livelihood) out. To the tune of around $480 which I am sure is chump change to a company who must make $70,000 a day from towing away cars that would otherwise not be in anybody's way. Scam or lawful conduct?. Money is the root of all evil. And tow truck companies make a lot of easy money this way. I mean they would tow away cars for any reason without letting the owner nor the police know about their doings, all in the stealth of night and in what seemed a sort of liason wreaking of nepotism between an HOA and perhaps a tow truck or two.
3rd item up for miserable existence at Edgehill Village is the art of fining resident/owners for leaving or supposedly leaving their garage doors open. I must share my garage with another person at the condo's. They are situated very far from where I actually enter my house, and I don't ever remember leaving my garage door open. Never! I always double and triple check. I wonder however if the person that I share my garage with may have accidentally left it open. I also wonder if they were ever served with a notice to pay for the fine again to the tune of $50. I wonder if they were ever charged as I have now had to pay to this scam and the name on the paper was M****** F*****. This person or whoever she may be does make my life more miserable and I have no thanks to give to a woman who scams takes my money for no good reason. I have not the means for the usurpial fees and credits werewith this oligarchy whims their own rules whenever its convenient? If I had tried before I buyed. Even just slept overnight I probably would have seen some of the other side of life in a condo.
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adrienne says:
3 times, I have been there 10 years now and the first time was because of expired tags (that just expired and i had not gotten the new ones in yet) no ticket, no notice, just a tow ($$$), 2nd was during the time we did not have a tow contract and i parked my car (yes w/o a tag as that was stolen and i was pending receiving my replacement) in the resident parking. I had planned to remove it by 6pm because that is when the standard tow truck drives through and missed my 6pm deadline by 1/2 hr. 3rd time i parked in the visitor parking (a week after the 2nd tow) and accidentally fell asleep. At 3am when i jumped out of bed yup u guessed it my car was gone! Not that we have parking issues much anymore because that night there were 5 open spaces in the parking lot and plenty of room on the street i assure you i was not causing the space of another driver. Bad Excallibre and Haven for allowing these contracted Tow companies to just come in and take our cars when they haven't even been called to do so!
Posted September 12, 2008
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Maria Rose:
To answer your question about pet restrictions:
A rental manager (Mark Jolestad) ....oooops..... asked the board to create and inforce a no dog clause in the by-laws. As well as other items he has been deemed. Be careful if you are planning on buying in here. I don't beleive the board will go along with it, but you never know.
Posted June 13, 2008
Just got back from viewing units at Edgehill, and by chance came upon your blog in the process of browsing for HOA info regarding pets in the community.
Tell me, the provision that permits the association to raise HOA dues by 120% in one year without boad approval is the scariest thing I have read considering the dues are high to begin with. Your posting had mentioned a raise in April, with the mention of additional assessments recommended. What kind of increase is really ahead for this community?
The pet restrictions seem very fair, but do you have any info on unfair reversal of these rules and the threat of relinquishing pet ownership?
I do not know how often you visit this blog, but if you visit soon, your first-hand knowledge would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Posted June 08, 2008
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Posted April 29, 2008
Just surfed-in. Titan Towing is no more but the HOA board must sign for tows first and they delegate that authority to Nefertiti Security, which really needs to go. Edgehill needs a manned gate; the current gate was described as "ceremonial" and the police have made it clear that crime, illegal dumping, etc., won't stop until access is controlled.
"President" Marie Fietz (M**** F****) was appointed, not elected, and her term expired in March 2007. She has blocked lawful elections and just keeps on voting to spend money. Last week, she moved to increase dues $20/month, which passed, two votes against one, with Melanie Harlow having seconded the motion after being told by HAVEN MANAGEMENT that there would also need to be special assessments (plural). This and much else needs to be reversed immediately and common sense needs to prevail in PREVENTING crime problems, cleaning-up and fixing-up the property using competitive bidders for a change, and ELECTING a board that wants to work.
Posted April 24, 2008
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