I don't know what to say about this. Heartless bastards (1 Viewer)

[Mr.Pack]

W-T-F!!!!

Oklahoma Homeowners Association Heartlessly Crushes Cancer-Stricken Little Girl’s Make-A-Wish Request (VIDEO)
AUTHOR: STEPHEN D FOSTER JR MARCH 5, 2015 1:52 PM
Ella Joe Schultz is a six-year-old girl who is battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Her survival chances are low but any increase in her morale is a hopeful sign that she will continue to fight to live as long as she can. So when the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted her wish for a playhouse to be built in her Raymore, Missouri front yard, Ella and her family were ecstatic.

But Ella’s dream for a playhouse complete with bedrooms, an upstairs, a dishwasher, and a working telephone just for her were dashed when an Oklahoma neighborhood association intervened and forbade construction workers from beginning the project.

Despite the fact that this could be Ella’s final wish, Stonegate Homeowners Association halted the project when they caught wind of it, nixing it because it supposedly violates neighborhood rules.

Needless to say, Ella was devastated after her father had to heartbreakingly explain to her that her wish would not be coming true after all.

“I don’t get it,” he told The Oklahoman. “She’s earned this — she deserves it. She can’t get out and play with other kids. This playhouse is what she would have. Is it really going to hurt someone? I just explained to her the reason I’d been on the phone and I had been talking to a lot of people.”

Ella is now in tears and has been taken back to the hospital for a fever and infection. Her neighbors, meanwhile, are also outraged because they all want this little girl to get her wish. But the Stonegate Homeowners Association is apparently content to force Ella to wait longer for her dream to become reality. SHOA Board President Stacy Bayers told KCTV that plan given to them violates the rules and refused to comment beyond that. In a statement, SHOA claimed they sympathized and would work with Make-A-Wish to make the playhouse happen.

“Our hearts are with Ella Schultz and her family as they battle this terrible illness. Our homeowners’ association board is committed to working with Make-A-Wish Foundation and J.E. Dunn to see if we can figure out a way to make Ella’s wish come true. The initial request from Make-A-Wish to place a barn-style shed was not accepted because the board did not have enough information to grant an exception to the subdivision’s covenants.”

Of course, this will only waste time that Ella may not have and would more than likely involve watering down her wish.

Here’s the video via KCTV:

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Stonegate Homeowners Association should be ashamed of themselves for treating a sick little girl this way. All she wants is a playhouse in her front yard and none of her neighbors have a problem with it at all. Only the uptight rule-obsessed HOA is throwing a hissy fit about it. It would only be too easy to get together and let this project sail through without red tape. Surely, they can make an exception to the rules for this little girl so she can smile and laugh as she plays in her playhouse as her family continues to hope that she will beat the cancer.

To contact the Stonegate Homeowners Association, feel free to send them an email at hoaboard@stonegatehoa.net.

####### heartless bastards

 

[MC Gas Money]

Unbelievable

 

[TwinTurbo]

It looks like they caved very quickly. Their site just posted a message that the playhouse will be constructed.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

 

[bigbottom]

It looks like they caved very quickly. Their site just posted a message that the playhouse will be constructed.

March 5, 2015

Today, we are happy to share that we have reached a positive resolution to ensure Ellas playhouse will be constructed. Our board met with JE Dunn Construction and Make a Wish to gather additional information, and while we still have a few details and timelines to work out, we collectively reached the conclusion that Ella will get her wish. We couldnt be more pleased to see that happen.

Stonegate Homeowners Association

They better hurry the #### up.

 

[Parrothead]

It looks like they caved very quickly. Their site just posted a message that the playhouse will be constructed.

March 5, 2015

Today, we are happy to share that we have reached a positive resolution to ensure Ellas playhouse will be constructed. Our board met with JE Dunn Construction and Make a Wish to gather additional information, and while we still have a few details and timelines to work out, we collectively reached the conclusion that Ella will get her wish. We couldnt be more pleased to see that happen.

Stonegate Homeowners Association

They better hurry the #### up.

I'm sure that is their strategy.. delay delay delay

 

[glumpy]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

When I was house hunting some years ago I found one I liked. When I discovered there was an HOA I dropped it from the list. After 23 years living virtually without neighbors I couldn't even fathom such restrictions.

 

[Tom Servo]

Death to HOAs. They're literally Stepford communities.

Funny thing is, when I moved back to PA I asked my realtor if there were any HOAs around where I was going to live. He said there was one, but it went broke because no one would move there.

 

[mquinnjr]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

When I was house hunting some years ago I found one I liked. When I discovered there was an HOA I dropped it from the list. After 23 years living virtually without neighbors I couldn't even fathom such restrictions.

I lived in one as owner of an apartment within an apartment complex.

Never again, horrible experience. Agree with glumpy, if I ever see HOA in a listing, immediately strike from consideration.

 

[mquinnjr]

Death to HOAs. They're literally Stepford communities.

Funny thing is, when I moved back to PA I asked my realtor if there were any HOAs around where I was going to live. He said there was one, but it went broke because no one would move there.

At least people are getting wise to this, generally speaking.

 

[Capella]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

Yea we have a $140 a year HOA. They use the money to decorate a ####-ton for Christmas and to throw a giant BBQ in the summer. Works for me.

 

[EYLive]

I live in a condo so I have to play along. But I know the type of bitter power-hungry people that have nothing better to do but to kill others' joy.

 

[johnnycakes]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

Last summer when the missus and I were house shopping, we stormed out of one open house immediately upon hearing the neighborhood had an association. My last words, after the salesman asked what was the problem with a homeowner's association: "We're the ones everyone else complains about!"

 

[Ditka Butkus]

In general HOA's s**k a**

 

[tonydead]

In Washington State zoning laws are very lax to non-existent. You need HOAs just to keep the farm animals and used car lots from moving in next door.

 

[Tom Servo]

Things that were at the top of my list when I was buying a house: Limited power home owners association

I think I pay $20 a year to mine and no one ever comes around asking anything or telling me my lawn isn't up to specs. Not sure how people live in them, I had enough rules associated with my work I don't need anyone telling me I can't have a half ton mulch pile in my driveway (I did this to test them, nothing).

Yea we have a $140 a year HOA. They use the money to decorate a ####-ton for Christmas and to throw a giant BBQ in the summer. Works for me.

That's fine if that's all it's for. But when it's someplace like this, you can shove a place like that in your ear.

 

[RandyDB]

In Washington State zoning laws are very lax to non-existent. You need HOAs just to keep the farm animals and used car lots from moving in next door.

What is wrong with farm animals and used car lots?

 

[coyote5]

In Washington State zoning laws are very lax to non-existent. You need HOAs just to keep the farm animals and used car lots from moving in next door.

What is wrong with farm animals and used car lots?

Nothing as long as they aren't in my neighborhood

 

[moleculo]

I've become ok with HOA overlords. I used to have that hatred of some orginization telling me what I can and cannot do on my property, but now I tolerate them. They do help keep the 'hood nice looking. Every letter I've ever gotten from the HOA was deserved - I did leave my garbage can out too long, my weeds did need to be pulled, my lawn did need to be mowed.

In my neck of the woods, it's obvious which neighborhoods don't have an active HOA. The houses are a mess, lawns are giant patches of mud and weeds, there are cars parked in the yards that haven't run in years, crap all over the place, etc.

You just have to be mindful of them, play by their rules, and don't get on their bad side. is it really that big of a deal to submit for architectural review when you want to do something?

ETA: what they did in the OP is clearly terrible and shame on them.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

People that hate HOAs = Hillbillies that park cars on their front lawns and let their dogs run loose.

 

[glock]

No backyard?

Just asking...

 

[Orlando RMF]

HOAs are generally good as long as you don't have someone who is crazy about enforcing things beyond what is common sense. We got a letter from a neighbor about our yard and my wife got the yard designated as a federal wildlife habitat. Yes we're popular.