My neighborhood HOA served me a rules violation notice for an unleashed pet and for leaving pet stools on the lawn. The pet the violation notice refers to is my mother's dog. He is here with my mother, who is living with me temporarily because of a recent death in the family. She has been here since August and will be staying until spring. When she moves out, she will be taking the dog with her. When I spoke to Leroy Mcquisten (the HOA board member who lives on my street) about the violation notice, he said he had personally seen my mother walking her dog without a leash and has proof. He referred to her dog as the little brown one. Not only is my mothers dog large and red, but he is also very territorial, making it impossible to take him out without a leash. Mr. Mcquisten is once again accusing me of a violation with no basis whatsoever. Addressing the pet waste charge, my mother and I walk her dog in the wooded area that runs along the neighborhood property line near my unit. We do not allow him any opportunity to do anything more than urinate while on neighborhood property. Any stools found on neighborhood lawns do not belong to him.
The waste problem long predates my mother's residence in the neighborhood.
On my street alonethere are at least eight dogs.in the building directly behind my unit, there are about four or five. With so many dogs in such a small area, it is not only preposterous but inexcusably prejudiced to assign blame to any one animal with nothing more than an assumption to support the claim. This is further evidence of Mcquisten's grudge and abuse of power. Last year when a close friend was visiting me regularly, Mr. Mcquisten unjustly reported me for taking up three parking spots and the board charged me a $25 violation fee (despite the fact that the third car was not registered to a resident of my home). Shortly thereafter, Mcquistens friend had up to 4 cars parked on our street at once for a period of several months when his daughters came home from college, and Mcquisten's other friend (also a board member at the time) also claimed three spots on our street when his daughter moved in. Charges were never leveled against either of Mr. Mcquisten's friends for these violations. I have never discerned the reason for Mcquisten's discrimination against me, but whether it is sexual, ethnical, political, religious, or otherwise, I do not intend to put up with it any longer. I would suggest that Hawthorne Management be very careful in their dealings with such discriminatory board members who use their power to harrass members of the community.
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