Letter to Homeowners

FrancesD, I would ask your Board to pass a Rule & Regulation which states no one is allowed to be on the roof except for inspection or repair purposes. The owner is responsible for any damages to the roof or an individual which occur as a result of a violation plus the owner may be fined (see Covenent and Rules enforcement policy).

Do not refer to any class of people (teens).
Stating one is not responsible won't carry much weight in court - a Rule which has been provide to all owners will.

Good luck,
RogerB

I have to agree with Harold. Unless they are condos, it's none of the associations business nor a nosey neighbors business. If these teenagers are dumb enough to be sitting on the roof and fall off....so be it.

One less idiot in the gene pool.

Whatever route you take with this one, since these are townhomes, do it quickly--if one of these kids falls off and gets hurt, it's the associations' problems. If it were their personal roof on a house it might be different. If everyone is paying for these roofs to begin with, then everyone needs to be concerned. Although it is not an attractive nuisance, the kids are using it as one--my opinion is that they are trespassing and it borders on vandalism if it can ultimately hurt the roof (also involves everyones' monies) (even if it's right over their specific area) and the police should be called. I just hope these aren't kids of the directors of your board--if they are -- good luck!
EdR

Well of course if the roofs are HOA common area. His use of the word "house" just conjured up individual houses. Sorry.
And adding a rule begs my other question about owners being notified of that and other rules which are in addition to the CC&Rs. Do new owners get a list of rules as well as a copy of the CC&Rs? Do existing owners get an updated list of all the rules as a new one is added? In eight years here I have never seen such a list. If we have rules in addition to the CC&Rs I have no knowledge of them. The only thing I found in our CC&Rs about rules states: The board shall have the right to adopt rules and regulations setting forth procedures for the purpose of making assessments and for the billing and collection of the assessments provided that the procedures are not inconsistent with the provisions of this declaration. Harold

HaroldS asked "Do new owners get a list of rules as well as a copy of the CC&Rs? Do existing owners get an updated list of all the rules as a new one is added?"

They should and for those HOAs we manage the answer is absolutely. Furthermore, in Colorado a prospective buyer must be provided these and other association records; and if they are not satisfactory to the buyer they can back out of the sales contract.

I just e-mailed over 100 pages of required documents to a buyer's real estate agent. We do this easily and rapidly since we convert all paper documents to digital text. For those who are not aware, digital text eliminates the white spaces which are present in a digital image file. Thus resulting in a hugh reduction from megabytes to kilobytes to create a manageable size for e-mail and web pages.

RogerB