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[Music] you're listening to seattle real estate podcast hey everybody i'm sean reynolds the owner of summit properties northwest reynolds decline appraisal and your host to this episode of the seattle real estate podcast if you're watching this on youtube you're going to see a little different background we are on cruising vessel caveat emptor and that is latin for buyer beware one of the principal um underlying principles of residential real estate so that's why the boat's called caveat updor we're going to shoot some podcasts here because it's a pretty fun place so we're on the shores of lake union we are looking due south at the seattle city skyline the space needle is right there if you hear some buzzing going by in the background that's because seaplanes are landing there's the seaplane uh shop just right down the road here as i point it's not a road it's the lake it's lake union south lake union all right but let's jump into you guys don't really care about any of that stuff but if people are like oh where are they where are they shooting from that's what we're doing we're on a big boat we're shooting the podcast so the one we've got today and over the years regarding an hoa a homeowners association people love homeowners associations or they hate homeowners associations kind of depending upon which side of the spectrum they fall if you buy a house in a homeowner's association it's because you want that cookie cutter feel you don't want to have some neighbor next to you paint their house like bright orange but that happens so but this this story that that i'm checking out here and the title of it it's a king five so it's a local news story here in seattle it's snoqualmie ridge homeowners at odds with homeowners association over black lives matter signs so we are getting we're getting kind of political here so should we be able to express ourselves with the black lives matter signs or often times in seattle in particular you'll see some of the lgbtq do i have that right you'll see some signs referencing that and those are being outlawed here by the homeowners association as well so what is going on here and um it's basically an hoa is choosing to enact their no signs policy no political science policy but they did let it go for six weeks and now they're enforcing it they're saying all right you had your six weeks of protest now you got to take your signs down so let's jump on into it and see what it looks like so article from king five so some homeowners in the snoqualmie ridge community say their homeowners association is unfairly enforcing a sign policy after black lives matter signs were put up all right this is in snoqualmie washington that is about i don't know is it a 25 minute drive outside of seattle it's due to the east of downtown seattle and it's at the foothills of the cascade mountains super pretty area and snoqualmie ridge is a massive massive residential development it's got its own shopping and stuff it's it's off i-90 which goes for states and states and states goes all the way across the country but here on the west coast i-90 is kind of our major road from a lot of the residential arterials to downtown seattle and so snoqualmie ridge just a little bit east and we've got some we've got some drama going on over these signs so some homeowners living in a snoqualmie neighborhood say their homeowners association is trying to silence them by making them remove black lives matter and pro lgbtq signs in their front yards that's always a hard one to say lgbtq but the association says it's just following policy they claim that it's content neutral that they're not targeting these signs said one couple living in the snoqualmie ridge community the couple asked king 5 not to reveal their identity for fear of retaliation seems like anybody that's involved in any of these stories is afraid of retaliation retaliation by who their neighbors black lives matter don't know i mean could be anybody right the couple said they believe the enforcement is coming uh because of what the signs say on them it's a black lives matter and a love is love sign they explained all right so get the black lives matter and the love is love i think that's one of those rainbow ones with the lgbtq or it it just highlights all the people that they're okay with i'm kind of paraphrasing that but i believe it's that's the kind of sign if you've seen it you've seen it the couple said the snoqualmie ridge residential homeowners association hoa which manages the community is using a no signage policy to make them take the signs down but the couple claimed the policy usually isn't enforced and there's never been an issue before as a matter of fact we've had a security sign in our front yard for 15 years the couple told king5 i think a security sign is one of those little adt signs out in front saying you've got a security system back in the day that kind of used to be a warning to criminals yeah go ahead and take a shot at breaking in our house but you're going to be on camera and now i think that everybody's got a security system everybody's got a wave camera whatever you've got the ring doorbell cameras everybody's got a camera so it's not as important anymore but that to have the sign outside i remember i think at one point in time we had lower insurance because our homeowners association or not our home association our homeowners insurance was lowered because we had a security sign outside and an active security system now it's probably in the mid 90s something like that but now i don't think anybody cares about the security sign outside and everybody just kind of has them up whether they actually have them or not i don't think anybody pays attention but having a political sign outside your house wildly different than a security sign to me all right uh king five reached out to the homeowners association president cliff gilley to get more clarification on the community sign policy and received a statement from the hoa board of directors that said in part here's what it said restrictions on signage are a central feature in the used restrictions contained in a normal set of restrictive covenants you can't put a bunch of stuff up in your yard with signs that's the bottom line by law owners have a limited right to post political signs which the sign policy defines is a sign that contains a message supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot measure that will be on an upcoming primary or election ballot so what they're saying is that yep you can have those kind of signs you can have biden for president whatever um i don't see a lot of people in snow quality i don't see a lot of people in washington have trump 2020 signs we're uh we're a blue state not a red state and so you're not going to see those you're going to see more biden but i don't think in snoqualmie ridge you're going to see a ton of political signs anyway the association has actively informed owners about the ways in which they can exercise this limited right to post political signs the statement continued and said in light of recent events the board continued to approve a six-week exemption on its signage policy so they had a six-week exemption pro i'm guessing it was kind of during the middle of that all that heated black lives matter protest stuff and they said all right we're going to let this one go for six weeks but it's six weeks and we're gonna get our sign policy back in order after that six weeks recent events seem to cause many to feel a need to express themselves on issues of importance unrelated to an impending election to the ohoa statement rather than strictly enforcing the political sign policy as it is written the board proactively refined the policy to enable the board to temporarily suspend the definition of political sign where in the judgment of the board doing so would be in the best interest of the snoqualmie ridge community as a whole so they gave a hall pass to black lives matter to whatever other causes you wanted to do for six weeks that seems fair but here's the kicker now but that six week exemption expired on july 29th and the couple said they were sent a letter that stated their sign is now in violation and needs to be removed that's the whole thing with an hoa right if you're doing something outside of the conformity outside of the guidelines they can enforce it they have a right to enforce it and that's kind of the whole crux here is should they be enforcing that telling people to take their signs down well where do where do you draw that line do you say ah let's give it another couple of weeks because then people are like well these signs have been up for a couple of weeks past when that was our restriction ended and we're still good those guys over there have signs these guys over here don't have signs i think six weeks to have your signs up is fine i don't know that's just me because in an hoa you gotta keep things super vanilla that's why people pay to buy homes in those neighborhoods i can't tell you how many times i've had people tell me you know i'm appraising i'm on their doorstep and they're like yeah we've got an hoa and we love it you know we have this twice a year meeting we've got this little neighborhood park over here and snoqualmie ridge is no different they have a ton of amenities and i can't remember what their hoa dues are but you know they're they're something and um i think for the thousands of homes it seems like they're pretty cheap i can't remember if it's a hundred bucks a month something like that i don't really know i haven't looked at uh i haven't looked at that data in a while you always have to put that on an appraisal there's an hoa is this in a pud a planned urban development and if it is what are the hoa dues got to put that on an appraisal it's not critical but some lenders back in the day used to require you to have insurance writer for whatever areas you've got and so that kind of typically comes up on title if there's an hoa and all of this stuff is legal so it's kind of a big deal so if you are not enforcing your hoa then people can kind of take you to school and um they can complain and say ah the hoa isn't doing their job it's not active they're not doing what we paid them to do that's why we bought a home in this community so you've got a lot of that and then on the flip side of that you've got people who are like i would never buy a home in an hoa i think you kind of come out of either one of the two camps i would never buy an hoa because they won't let me park my 1972 rusted out camper on the front lawn they just won't let me do that i don't get it i don't understand why it's my property and i should be able to park my 1972 rusted out camper on the front lawn because it really adds a lot of value to my home it's a really cool camper nobody ever said that but people do you you'll run up against homes where they've literally got so many cars in the yard that the lender looks at the photo on the appraisal and goes is there an environmental issue here i mean is there like oil seeping into the ground water you'll have that and they will basically tell people yeah you got to clean up those cars you can't have quite so many cars and it usually violates some local ordinance but and that's the whole point to having uh it violates an ordinance but nobody ever enforces those ordinances right it's not until some neighbor gets in a war with that particular neighbor and they're like we're gonna call you on your you rusted out cars in the foot lawn but with an hoa you don't have to do that that's why you live in those communities and that's why they're gonna drop they're gonna drop the hammer if you have a sign out that is not in conformity all right so king five was shown screen shots from the snoqualmie region communities facebook page where other homeowners expressed confusion over the sudden enforcement doesn't sound like it's it's sudden it's just the six week period was over and now it's when you had to go back to the original bylines it sounds like you had a pretty good sized window to express yourself politically if the black lives matter thing if that's your thing you can stick a sign out there for six weeks how long does that need to go on i don't know maybe other people would argue it needs to be more permanent like your ability to post up signs for political candidates but that's not the way this it sounds like this hoa guidance was written king 5 delved into the hoa's policy on temporary signage that is exempt from the overall no sign policy it covers where homeowners can put signs how long they can keep them up but it does not specify what the sign can or cannot say at the end of the policy it only encourages homeowners to speak with a manager before placing any sign sounds like these people didn't have to speak with a manager because it was okay at the time but now they're being told by one of the hoa managers hey your sign's up pass the period you're in violation take the sign down members of the board declined to do an on-camera interview with king5 only sending their statement and answering some questions via email they did not answer questions involving whether they were targeting specific signs or if homeowners could be faced with fines or foreclosure for not removing them foreclosure that seems a bit radical like you've got to sign up we're going to foreclose your home we're going to take your home back uh i don't even i don't know is that legal i'd have to consult an attorney to figure that one out but i don't think that i think that's more just media talking the couple king five spoke with said they believe the board is being disingenuous they're not doing what they say they're doing for that reason maybe maybe not but i think everybody's just kind of so worked up over all of this stuff specifically black lives matter because a lot of people see black lives matter as being a a good cause to begin with but then so many of the protests that have taken place over black lives matter have ended in wildly violent riots and they've been hijacked by other political groups typically antifa that that's what i think everybody's freaked out about is not that it not not the true cause of black lives matter but what the end result is time and time and time again take a look at portland what a train wreck down there 80 straight days or something maybe we're getting close on 90 straight days of hammering on federal buildings and a lot of the times the the protests start off as black lives matter protests but then they'd evolve into this just basic anarchy that's the only way to describe it and the reason i say that is i've been down there i got tear gassed and um mainly because i chose to but uh you know that's that's what's going on everybody's like ah we don't we don't number one we don't want these signs up we don't really want to get into these issues we're not really looking to bring the whole black lives matter thing into our suburbs i think that's what they're saying is maybe keep it a little bit more local but then you know to your own home and then other people are saying hey i have the right to express my opinions and typically you would but you basically signed a legal affidavit when you bought a home in an hoa and you got to abide by that so if you don't want to abide by that you probably need a house in unincorporated king county where there's no sign laws and you can put up the biggest sign that you want whatever that looks like but just not in an hoa because they've got rules and guess what it looks like you're going to have to abide by those we'd loved and this is what the couple is saying we'd love to believe that they're not targeting and not trying to suppress these peaceful non-violent messages but it's hard to believe yeah but it's also a sign and you're posting it in your yard your neighbors can't do that so you probably shouldn't be able to do that too at some point in time the hoa is going to enforce things right so you got to live with it you got to deal with it because that's what adults do the board claimed that they are listening to the community's concerns and feedback regarding the sign policy and to me it sounds like they really did and i think they were pretty um it sounds to me knowing what i know about real estate hoas most hoa boards are not going to give you a six-week exemption where you can stick whatever kind of sign you want in there if it's along the lines of what they're okaying the board claim they are listening to communities concerns and feedback regarding the sign policy all right so it sounds like they are and here's where the the board says some more the temporary exemption recently expired in the wake of its expiration owners have been making their viewpoints and opinions known to the board about how signage restrictions might best be handled going forward said the hoa statement the board is listening to the information that it continues to receive from owners on the subject so that any more permanent action taken on signage is the product of having first listened to and carefully considered all the points of view expressed by the association members so far the feedback received from the community has been roughly equally split between strict enforcement in the existing policy and an extension of the exemption which recently expired i bet you they extend it for another four weeks i don't know because a sign a sign in a neighborhood doesn't really do anything crazy it it does the board said that while the conversations continue the signage rights and restrictions remain in place and they are asking homeowners to abide by those restrictions all right so that's what you've got going on that is the end of the sign drama but as we have more updates to the sign drama i will certainly let you know what those are but i thought this was an interesting one because this does have to do with real estate it's a pretty um to me it's a pretty cut and dried issue but then you can either have a sign up or you can't depending on what the hoas policy is but then there's the whole question of your right to freedom of speech does that extend to signs but this is such a hot topic and it's such a hot issue that i think you got to play by the rules on this one if the hoa says nope you've got to bring your sign in then you bring your sign in you wait for their response and if they don't have any more extensions then basically you need to go out and protest whatever it is that you want to do but you just can't put a sign in your yard that's my opinion but i'm also a real estate guy and i've been on both sides i've been to court who knows how many times arguing ridiculous real estate stuff as a professional witness and oftentimes it doesn't make sense what it comes down to is what is the law regarding this and so that's that's where i draw the line is what is the law whether i think the law is good or bad it's what's enforceable and it's what a judge will enforce and on this one a judge would look at it and go well you were you were you were given your extension and the extension goes to that period and now that extension's over take the sign down bottom line i think that's what happened so that's where i'm at but as uh as we see more on this story i will let you know right here on the seattle real estate podcast all right thank you so much for tuning in love to have you subscribe to our channel and um yeah thanks for tuning in and i'm actually going to record another one to back to back here today so thank you again and i will catch up with you soon again i'm sean reynolds from properties northwest reynolds glide appraisal we'll catch you in the next one bye for now don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell so you'll know when our next video is out