‘Disgusting,’ Angers Man Whose Disabled Veteran Wife Was Assaulted With $460 Tow By HOA Outside Their Home — The Motive Was So Petty

A HOMEOPER is asking his HOA to change the community’s towing policy after his wife’s truck was towed.

He says if a neighbor did this, they are “disgusting” – and if the HOA did this, change needs to happen.

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Nicholas Toussaint owns a home on West Lovers Lane in Dallas, Texas.

The apartment and townhouse community is managed by Algonquin Property Management.

Touissant’s wife is a disabled veteran who ended up with vision problems as a result of her sacrifice to serve and parked a little less perfectly than she normally does.

His truck had deactivated veteran plates to help distinguish himself as well.

Despite this, the couple woke up to find that their truck had been towed.

To get some answers, he took to the community’s public Facebook page to ask about the towing company and who he could talk to about initiating change.

“Let’s take care of ourselves, not give each other a hard time,” he said. publish it started.

“If we want tow trucks to come to our gates to ensure we are parked correctly (we do not have reserved parking), we need to have stickers that label our vehicles as residents.”

He suspected a neighbor reported his parking job to the HOA, requesting a tow truck.

“If someone called to have it towed because it wasn’t parked perfectly, it would be disgusting,” he wrote.

And if it wasn’t a neighbor, the inability to tell the difference between a guest and a resident was to blame.

“If the towing company that patrols our lot towed it, there is a lack of leadership in the HOA.”

Touissant continued to point out some things that were left unfixed, while a towing company never stopped patrolling the parking lot.

“It’s interesting how we supposedly have a towing service patrolling our parking lot, but we can’t keep the gates working and the grass mowed,” he continued.

HOA, let’s help each other. Don’t make things difficult for each other. To understand.

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“Common area maintenance is standard procedure and is what keeps us clean and safe. That’s why we pay HOA fees.”

The worst part, Touissant wrote, was the cost of retrieving his wife’s truck from storage.

The standard towing fee for a regular tow in Dallas is $139.

After including storage and other fees, the couple paid much more than that.

What is an HOA?

One in five Americans lives in an area with a Home Owners Association – or HOA. But what exactly do they do?

• An HOA is a homeowners association – an organization that aims to maintain a clean, cohesive place for its residents to live.
• Entire neighborhoods, subdivisions, condominiums, single-family homes or townhouses within “a planned development” will often constitute an HOA.
• They also serve as a regulatory body for the tenants, who manage and finance the HOA through monthly fees.
• Its main goals are to keep the community functional and visually appealing and maintain property values.
• They focus primarily on a neighborhood’s common areas, like roads, parks, and pools — but they can also stipulate what residents can do with their property, like yards and sidewalks.
• These restrictions often impose uniformity on properties, for example, ensuring that most houses look the same and that all sidewalks are free of weeds.
• An HOA Rule Book of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&R) is distributed to all residents, and an elected volunteer board of directors enforces these regulations.
• Violating these rules can result in penalties such as fines and even litigation – as most HOAs are incorporated and subject to state law.
• HOAs are often the subject of controversy, with some members feeling that the rules are too punitive and restrictive, or that the leadership has too much power.
• But other HOAs like this give communities the power of self-government and can ensure a degree of harmony among residents.

“We lost $460,” he wrote.

“And most importantly, we wasted our time dealing with a towed vehicle inside our own gates!”

He ended his post with a call to action for the HOA.

“HOA, let’s help each other. Don’t make each other difficult,” he wrote.

“To understand.”

The US Sun has reached out to Algonquin Property Management for comment.