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Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by tom brandt

tom brandt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:11:42 +0000

John Wahl, I read your comments and those of the others who have a private road situation with much interest. We also live on a private road(four homes)with no road agreement. Our situation is further complicated by having a local water company that has access through the road to its dead end conclusion at their water tank (even though they cannot provide any agreements that give them access). Also there are four lots that extent from the top of the hill to the bottom that have their access at the top of the hill and “claim” they have access through our private road to the bottom of their properties (even though none of them have ever paid for maintenance). I would like to offer all who want access to sign a road agreement and deny those of refuse to sign by not giving them access to the road by constructing a gate. Four homes on the road and the water company recently repaved the road and we are very sensitive to the other four homes using our new road without paying for its maintenance.

Please give me your input. thx

Comment on All About Washington State Foreclosures by Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:13:40 +0000

Hi,
My low incomed, elderly father and his elderly wife purchased a home 4 years ago with a (younger) friend of theirs. The original deal was that the younger friend would make the house payments while my father would take care of the utilities. Upon the death of my father and his wife, the house would then belong to solely to their young friend. Father made the downpayment, so at this point they are pretty equal as to the amount of money they both have into this house. All 3 of them are on the title of the home but Father and his wife are the only ones on the morgage. Their friend has decided he no longer wants to live there and is planning to move out soon and stop making payments. There is no way my father can make the payments. Obviously they will be forclosed on. They don’t have enough income to live elsewhere. We are in a bind and not sure what to do. Leslie

Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:02:33 +0000

We live on a 1/4 mile paved 1 lane private road. There are apprx. 8 houses on it. No one wants to maintain it. So I have been cutting the briers and kutzo along the road on the opposite side of their houses. Now one of them said I was ruining their property value and for me to stop. I am to my opion making it better because if you don’t trim it back it will go over the road. We have no maintaince agreement and all I am trying to do is make the road passable without scratch my vehicals. Any advice?
Thanks

Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:27:19 +0000

When we bought our home, there was a road maintenance agreement to keep the roads in the same condition (dirt). Now, some uppity folks have moved in & want to change everything. The new pres. wants to have them paved, so he wants to form a corporation and one of the by laws is that if an owner is not at a meeting where votes are needed, then they cannot vote. A lot of owners live out of state. Instead of a yearly fee for maintenance, he wants to just bill you in which you have 30 days to pay up and no less he is getting bids for chip sealing! We all have 1+ acre. I must add that even this new corporation or by laws have been voted on yet. However, it is obvious that owners that are not there to vote, will not have a say. if I would have thought taht someone could change the agreement to which I signed, I would have never bought out here (Mason County). Does anyone have an oppinion on this? Someone said it was not legal, but I don’t know where to look for answer to my questions.

Thanks for listening to my long post.

Sarah

Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:41:39 +0000

My husband and I own a house on a private gravel road. There are 8 people that use the road. Two have land just to hunt on and don’t use it very often. We do not have a road maintenance agreement. Our road is now in horrible shape due to snow. We have gotten an estimate approximately $3500. My husband thinks we should get each one to pay according to how far they live on the road. We feel that at least two will not want to pay anything. What do I need to do? We don’t feel that just a couple of us should pay this. Which is probably going to be the case. Should it be an even amount for everyone and is it too late to do a maintenance agreement.

Thank you,
Melissa

Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:58:58 +0000

I live in a subdivision in Mason County. When we bought our home, we had a road maintenance agreement. Recently a new board took over and now they are trying to make a lot of changes. The original contract says roads to be manitained as good as original (dirt and gravel) . The new board is trying to change the terms to paved. And they are wanting to put in a clause that says if the property owner is not present at a meeting where votes are needed, then the property owner gets no vote! They also want in the agreement that if the roads require more money because of shortfall, then the board has a right to raise the amount and bill the owners payable in 30 days. This is in addition to the regular fees. They set no limit in the agreement to how much. Can they get by with this action?

Thanks for listening!
Sarah

Comment on Road Maintenance Agreements by C Miller

C Miller — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:49:41 +0000

I recently purchased a home on acreage. After the purchase, I was informed that I would now need to begin making $600.00 per year payments to the road maintenance association.

I asked the previous owners if they had signed an agreement, they stated they had not. I then requested that the association provide documentation of the property membership.

They mailed an agreement that had the previous owner’s signatures on it, but was not notarized. The previous owners looked at the document and stated that the signatures were not theirs.

Now, the association has placed a lien on the property for non payment of the annual dues.

My question is, does such an agreement need to be notarized to be legal in Washington State?

I want to be as informed as possible before I approach them and insist they remove the lien.

Can I be forced into this association? There is only one way into our property – without access to the existing road, we are land locked.

Thank you,

Chris

Comment on The Cascade Mountain Range Washington by Toby Barnett

Toby Barnett — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:46:32 +0000

Hi Ashlynn, Congrats on passing your project!

Comment on The Cascade Mountain Range Washington by Ashlynn

Ashlynn — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:58:01 +0000

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Comment on All About Washington State Foreclosures by Toby Barnett

Toby Barnett — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:46:47 +0000

Hi Mary, I am sorry to hear about the unfortunate circumstances. Not being an attorney I can’t advice not to pay the taxes due to foreclosure and if at all possible it is best to pay the taxes even though the taxes follow the property and not the person.