HOAs and Breaking Their Covenants
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit.
Jill DeWit: Good day.
Jack Butala: Welcome to our show today. In this episode Jill and I talk about HOAs, homeowners associations, and breaking their covenants. What are the repercussions of not cutting your grass often enough? Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWit: Okay. This is Luke. We have Luke again. Luke asks, "Jack talks about posting Craigslist land wanted ads and says you can do this in various markets. Doesn't Craigslist not allow people to post ads in markets other than their own based on the IP address?"
Jack Butala: Boy, that's not my understanding at all.
Jill DeWit: I was thinking the same thing.
Jack Butala: Luke, you're a bright guy. I'll tell you what they don't let you do, is replicate the same ad over and over and over again. You'll get hauled away for that.
Jill DeWit: They'll take them down. You can't-
Jack Butala: But if you materially change the structure of the ad but keep the sentiment the same, like, "We want to buy a property," "We want to buy a property in Minnesota," "We want to buy a property in Maricopa County, Arizona," and so forth, that's totally fine. There are software programs and services. If you go on Fiverr, you can do exactly what I said and somebody will break that message down and manage it and post it all over the Craigslist everywhere, and it's not expensive at all.
Jill DeWit: Also, I was going to say, too, is that I know that there are ways to get around the IP address too. You can have your IP address pop up in Toronto if you want to. You know what I mean?
Jack Butala: Wow, listen to you.
Jill DeWit: I know this stuff.
Jack Butala: You're smart.
Jill DeWit: I am smart.
Jack Butala: Like computer smart.
Jill DeWit: You want to know how I know part of this?
Jack Butala: Right. Just a couple minutes ago I was fixing your mouse, but ...
Jill DeWit: Shh. Stop.
Jack Butala: But you know where IP addresses go, how to do a Toronto IP address.
Jill DeWit: No. I know where this is. You know why? Because there's a British soap opera that I like, seriously, and you can't get it unless you're in Britain. But there are services that you can have your IP address pop up that you are in Great Britain so you can watch your soap opera from LA. Hmm, [inaudible 00:02:03] I knew that stuff. Huh. I'm not just a pretty face. Just kidding.
Jack Butala: Does your elbow hurt from patting yourself on the back too much?
Jill DeWit: You know, sometimes I don't get enough credit over here. Thanks a lot. What did Rodney Dangerfield say? "No respect." That was one of my dad's lines, by the way. My dad would walk around saying that all the time, "No respect."
Jack Butala: Yesterday you were landing an airplane at Pinal County, Arizona and now your IP address is in London.
Jill DeWit: Woo! Look at me go.
Jack Butala: Yeah, Luke. That's the deal. Luke's middle name, by the way, is Workaround. That's a massive workaround for doing that, and I would highly recommend it. Those of you who are members or if you've downloaded the free ebook that I put together a couple of years ago, the first thing it says is drop everything and make a posting on Craigslist and see what...