Situation: Yearly Homeowner Due of $300.00 due by January 5, payment not received by 5th, homeowner charged late fee and finance charge, payment of $300.00 received by 10th, leaving payment due of $27.50 for late fee and finance charge, which would be due by February 5, payment not received, another late fee and finance charge charged.

Question: Is it lawful to charge a late fee and finance charge on an uppaid late fee and finance charge? One attorney asked said it was within there right to do so...

Thanks for any help!

Hello romatjr:

I don't know if you have the right to screw this guy like you want to. You probably don't. I hope he takes you to court.

For FIVE days, you want all this money?? Don't you have anything better to do, like sweep a sidewalk??

You are exactly the reason why I hate HOA's.

excon

Its not me doing the screwing, it's the President of the HOA... I don't believe its right to charge a late fee for an unpaid late fee or a finance charge for an unpaid late fee or finance charge.

I'm fighting with them right now because they won't allow me to put up a basketball hoop, but not where does it say I CANNOT!! They just don't like the idea.

Please get the facts straight before you ASSUME anything!

I also hate homowners associations. Went to a meeting last night.. got mad as "___" and walked out! I sympathize with you, but you might as well pay it because they have the power to do it.
Took us a year to get a driveway approved and my husband has his construction company do it professionally. I wanted to plant a Silver Willow in my front yard, but I was told it would grow too tall and that I could not plant it.

If you get 60% of the homeowner's in the subdivision to vote out the Homeowner's Association you can vote it out. You can also apply to be on the board and have a say in the regulations although our board is two people and only one showed up at the annual meeting. We were told we had to have a majority to vote them out, but they can make rules like raising our fees without a majority. What a crock!

Sorry I am not helping, I think that the Homeowner's Associations are just all a bunch of rotten crooks!

Shirley

Late fees are added to the balance owed. If a balance remains unpaid its subject to additional late fees. Nothing illegal about that. The homeowner knew the bill was due and that latefees accrued.