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Originally Posted by Lambada
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JDSauser mentions HOAs which I assume is a Home Owners Association? I think Junta de Vecinos cover people living in the area covered by the Junta, whether they are owners or not but I'm sure Dr. Guzman will clarify. I had always thought that Condominium Owners & Home Owners Committees were a slightly different sort of animal to Juntas de Vecinos.
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Yes Mam, HOA = Home Owner Association, which in most cases have binding authority in condominium situations, like apartment buildings and private developments which share common (condominium) grounds like green areas, community pool and tennis courts etc.
Dominican "Juntas de Vecino" may indeed just be the organization of caring neighbors (neighborhood watch, beautification committee, etc). I know that your neighborhood has a "Junta" with or in its (own?) building. So does the "greater" neighborhood of where I live, and I don't know that ours here would indeed have any legal authority (how about yours?), while the HOA that governs the 6 homes of the private development where I live, still calls itself a... "Junta de vecinos"
and likes to be seen as the highest authority after "El Senor", while I have yet to see any papers or records of filings with the law, they seem to have had buyers to sign off on some "rules and regulations". Can this be forced on to following buyers if the seller fails to have them sign off on these rules (?), I would be tempted to doubt it (la cosa esta es casimente un chin
mas o menos, tu sabe
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I have looked at "solares" (building plots) inside some newer private developments and some do indeed try to force buyers to signe off on the fact that there IS or will be an HOA ("administracion").
Others like Puerto Chiquito have apparently completely failed to create such body at time of the creation of the project. Now, in this particular case, you find at least two parties who try to impose themselves as HOA's: the larger one claimed to already represent a total of a whooping 5 (yes FIVE) members
. The result or lack thereof, as I pointed out with the example of similar situations I had to battle in Spain, is mostly a sorry one (one thing potential buyers should keep in mind).
I hope F. Guzman will soon help shed some light into all this.
... J-D.