By Patric Hedlund, TME

The Mountain Communities are rich with defunct or barely-functioning property owners (and homeowners) associations (POAs and HOAs).

Some are mere ghosts, reminders of residential subdivisions that began and were never quite completed, such as in Lockwood Valley. Others are now functioning neighborhoods, such as Lake of the Woods, but the HOA/POA has been only minimally maintained. On the other end of the spectrum is Pine Mountain Club’s POA, a robust bureaucracy with more than 50 employees, a number of associated businesses, regular elections, big annual assessments, big executive salaries and vigorous debate about why the expenses are so high.

Los Padres Estates is a region of multi-acre…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Los Padres Estates is a rural area in Lebec’s O’Neill Canyon with a POA which has often been dormant.

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This is part of the October 11, 2019 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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