Living at Meritage's Live Oak Development in Redlands, CA

In progress Pursuant to CC&R Section 4.28, ... The Association shall enforce its respective parking restrictions by all lawful means, including... towing of any violating vehicle.  The Association shall contract with a towing company to remove vehicles that violate the no parking restrictions and shall provide the Owners with a telephone number to report violations."   What is the phone number for the towing company to report vehicles that are improperly parked in the motor courts?    Pursuant to Section 7.1.2 of the Rules + Regulations, Each Owner shall keep in his/her garage readily available for parking of permitted vehicles and shall not store any goods or materials therein, nor use any portion of the garage for a workshop or other use if such storage or use would prevent said Owner from parking the number of vehicles therein for which said garage was originally designed and constructed.  Each garage in the community holds a minimum of two vehicles ...

  HOA Hell:  California Homeowners' Definitive Guide to Beating Bad HOAs  (Michael Kushner, Esq.)  An intro to a new book about bad HOAs based on select excerpts:  For most people, buying a new home is an achievement, and rightly so.  But since more and more residential communities are governed by HOAs in California, it’s important for homeowners living in those associations to understand that in addition to buying a new home, they’re also buying into a private form of government—a legal structure with rules, penalties, and enforcement powers that often mimic the powers of local government.  These private governments are known as homeowners associations, or HOAs, and they govern millions of properties in California.  The Davis-Stirling Act is the primary body of law that governs HOAs in California.  It gives boards significant authority to carry out their duties, the most important of which are to maintain the common areas, enforce the govern...

This video requires its own post given the absurdity of the matter. My husband was taking out the bins yesterday evening ahead of Friday morning's trash pick-up, when our mail carrier (with whom he is not familiar and had never previously interacted) approached to ask for his help.  She asked that my husband request of "the people in charge" (i.e., Meritage Homes) that visible house numbers be installed on the homes in the Willow community.  My husband broke out in laughter and replied that we had, in fact, requested these some time ago, but that the developer, Meritage Homes, had informed us that it had complied with the local requirements and would, essentially, do no more. Link to video:  The Mail Carrier's Plea for House Numbers When the HOA sent out a communication regarding its intent to allow for the installation of house numbers without a $75 Architectural fee, we submitted Written Comments in which we argued that homeowners SHOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for these...

CC&Rs  Section 2.57 - Permitted Parking Areas "Permitted Parking Areas” shall mean driveways and garages that are designed and established for the parking of Authorized Vehicles. Permitted Parking Areas may also include those areas determined to be such areas by the Board of Directors as part of the Association Rules.  Permitted Parking Areas do not include Motor Courts, sidewalks, driveway or garage aprons,  streets marked with "No Parking" signs and/or red-painted curbs, or adjacent residential, commercial or industrial properties. Use of the Permitted Parking Areas is described in Section 4.28 of this Declaration.  CC&Rs  Section 4.28 - Parking and Vehicle Restrictions   All parking within the Project (including enforcement of parking by the Association) shall comply with this Declaration and any Association Rules. There is limited street parking within the boundaries of the Project, and curbside parking may be limited to only one side of the str...

The following posts are from a private community Facebook group Live Oak Residents which appears to have been renamed Live Oak & Trolley Heights Residents in October 2025.   Facebook group posts allude to 03/20/25 board meeting call that may not have been initiated by Keystone and/ or the Meritage-controlled Board.  We inquired about this during IDR on 08/11/25 and the Secretary of the HOA Board, Nick Harris, insisted that the call took place despite T. Levin's comment that the Host never started the meeting. Meeting Minutes indicate that 2 homeowners participated in the call.   Spring 2025 (?) Facebook Post -  Group's moderator had to call out the unknown individual  who maliciously revealed my name in a group in which posts are meant to be anonymous

The Meritage-controlled HOA board and Keystone got it wrong... again!  We no longer believe it's a matter of incompetence- at this point, we believe that the outgoing Meritage-controlled board is simply acting in its own interest and attempting to pass the costs of Davis Stirling Act-conforming signage and delay enforcement (via towing) to the new homeowner HOA board.   Email dated 03/05/26 to Board President, E. Joelson, regarding recently-installed NO PARKING signs Email dated 01/16/26 to Board President, E. Joelson, regarding NO PARKING Vendor Selection