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Source: WLEX
Ingrid Boak did not realize participation in her homeowner's association was mandatory. It seems like a minor oversight, but it was a mistake that ultimately cost the 75-year-old German immigrant her Lexington home.
The Masterson Station Neighborhood Association sold Boak's house on Winding Oak Trail last month after she failed to pay six years worth of membership fees - or $48 per year.
... The homeowner's association and attorneys sent at least 20 letters, notices and summonses to Boak's home since 2009, but the some of the mail never reached her, according to court documents. Boak, a horse trainer and business owner, is rarely home.
When letters did reach her, Boak says she threw them away because she thought the homeowner's association was a solicitous social group, and the $48-per-year was a fee to use the pool. She paid cash up-front for her house, and no one explained to her that the fee was mandatory, she said.
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