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Unhappy Live Oak Preserve Cable Customers Want Out of 15-year Contract
Posted: 01 May 2008 02:50 PM  
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In Live Oak, homeowners pay about $85 a month in association dues for Century Communications’ basic cable, Internet and home security monitoring services. Residents are so unhappy with the service, their master homeowners association, which is controlled by Engle Homes, sued Century to terminate the contract. Meanwhile, hundreds pay extra to subscribe to Verizon’s FiOs service or for satellite TV.

Should homeowners be forced to pay for cable tv as part of their HOA dues? Tell us what you think.

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Posted: 02 May 2008 09:32 PM  
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Kenneth Knight - 01 May 2008 02:50 PM

In Live Oak, homeowners pay about $85 a month in association dues for Century Communications’ basic cable, Internet and home security monitoring services. Residents are so unhappy with the service, their master homeowners association, which is controlled by Engle Homes, sued Century to terminate the contract. Meanwhile, hundreds pay extra to subscribe to Verizon’s FiOs service or for satellite TV.

Should homeowners be forced to pay for cable tv as part of their HOA dues? Tell us what you
think.

Isn’t that illegal? When I lived in a condo in another state they HAD to allow each owner to choose whether they wanted to participate in the cable that was servicing the complex or they could go to another source like broadband or satellite.

I don’t see anything “wrong” with paying for another service; just that the extra “dues” should be deducted from their association fees.

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Posted: 02 May 2008 09:40 PM  
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I suppose just about anything is legal if it is in the fine print on a signed contract…

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dexxtreme - 02 May 2008 09:40 PM

I suppose just about anything is legal if it is in the fine print on a signed contract…

Actually, no… not if it contravenes existing state, municipal, or federal laws. You cannot enforce a contract if portions of it are illegal.

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