nonymous has left a new comment on your post "RESPONSE TO COMMENT":
I purchased a site at LA last Summer and now we find ourselves needing to sell what we bought due to medical reasons. We're looking at buying another site that doesn't require as much landscaping and one that is "move-in" ready. So...here are some opinions that I've formed recently. I think the Association needs to make it more convenient for property owners to sell their sites. I think when a list of properties is provided for re-slae at the office, an address should be provided. Someone who is unfamiliar with LA could drive around all day and only find 2-3 properties that are for sale. I also think that property owners should be permitted to put 1 For Sale sign on their propery with contact information. Perhaps if we made it easier for folks to sell their property, rather than going through the agent on site, there may be less of what appear to be abandoned properties, i.e. rusted out trailers that are clearly abandoned. The lack of property maintenance requirements and enforcement of any kind of rules concerning the up-keep of property is my primary concern. Failing to enforce rules concerning standards and conditions only lowers the value of everyone elses property. Do a Google search on deeded rv lots and look at the prices - some of them are astronomical. Now, I'm happy that LA doesn't fall into the astronomical range, however, I would like to think that I'. making an investment that will grow in value over time. Lack of maintenance and lack of enforcing rules concerning maintenance will not make it possible for anyone's property to increase in value, or in many instances even MAINTAIN value. I certainly hope that the Board of Directors takes a closer look at both of the issues I've cited on this blog and addresses them in the future.
anon: i agree that their are distressed and derelict properties and they do undercut the value of your property-- an approach is necessary to get people engaged in la and get them to take care of their properties or make it easier for people to sell properties that they no longer have an interest in using or maintaining--the la web page should have a listing of properties for sale-- other communities offer this service with the ability to add the slide show feature to display pictures of the properties and a description of the property-- i strongly believe the resale procedure is hampered by the association with the on site realtor-- he has a situation here at la that strongly favors him and is not beneficial to the property owner or the la community as a whole-- this realtor should not have the advantages that he has and the support he gets from the la management -- he has office space on site, he is prominently featured in the la web site and he is always in the la bulletin and flyers-- if he is not paying fair market value for these benefits then the finance committee should review this relationship and sever it...... or get it on a more fair financial footing-- making this issue transparent would go a long way to reassuring the members that the resale procedure is fair and is beneficial for la members-- right now i don't think many people feel that is the case....for sale signs are probably restricted for the same reason -- realtor doesn't want them
another issue is that la has few if any contractors that do property maintenance work--- again i believe that this is because the la management favor a few and blocks others from working at la--last year i called a half dozen plumbers to do a job and i got the same answer from almost all of them -- they don't do work at la---that isn't good for the community when you are limited to a few contractors that have a stranglehold on the community and others won't come here to work--that's bad for all of us
