Long story short, I walked out to go pick up a prescription last week and my car was gone. I almost filed a police report but after 2 hours found the towing company that towed my car as they have a sign near the mailboxes in my neighborhood.
I live in a gated townhouse community and the HOA claims they have 0 affiliation with this towing company (that has 2 signs on the property). I also have a landlord as I rent this townhouse. The landlord is part of a separate company not directly associated with the HOA. The landlord said that they did not tow as they have no authority and that is the HOA responsibility/liability.
Here's where things get weird. The receipt from the towing company has the previous HOA (a different company) as the customer for the tow. This company says they haven't managed the property since April of last year and denies any involvement at all.
The towing company will not reveal which specific individual called to have my car towed.
I've been going back and forth with the current HOA over the last few days via email about the situation. They repetitively claim they have no affiliation with the company and that's basically all the substance they've provided over almost 30 emails between us.
At this point, I'm ready to go to small claims court over this because it's outrageous that I had to pay $200 to get my car out of impound and it's also outrageous to think that my car can just be towed at any moment.
If something isn't done on the HOA's end (who I think I ultimately liable for this) by Monday, I'm going to the magistrate and hiring an attorney.
Mostly venting because this experience has been frustrating and painful because I was without my prescription pain medication for a few days due to that being the only day I had time to go get them.
But any input/advice is appreciated.
update:
I just got off the phone with the towing company threatening to add them as a defendant on my filing (which I'm still going to do anyway lol) and they revealed the party who ordered the towing request was the board of the neighborhood (didn't even know we had such a thing) so I know who to go after tho.
my new question is, why are there so many damn parties involved in my living situation.
I live in a gated townhouse community and the HOA claims they have 0 affiliation with this towing company (that has 2 signs on the property). I also have a landlord as I rent this townhouse. The landlord is part of a separate company not directly associated with the HOA. The landlord said that they did not tow as they have no authority and that is the HOA responsibility/liability.
Here's where things get weird. The receipt from the towing company has the previous HOA (a different company) as the customer for the tow. This company says they haven't managed the property since April of last year and denies any involvement at all.
The towing company will not reveal which specific individual called to have my car towed.
I've been going back and forth with the current HOA over the last few days via email about the situation. They repetitively claim they have no affiliation with the company and that's basically all the substance they've provided over almost 30 emails between us.
At this point, I'm ready to go to small claims court over this because it's outrageous that I had to pay $200 to get my car out of impound and it's also outrageous to think that my car can just be towed at any moment.
If something isn't done on the HOA's end (who I think I ultimately liable for this) by Monday, I'm going to the magistrate and hiring an attorney.
Mostly venting because this experience has been frustrating and painful because I was without my prescription pain medication for a few days due to that being the only day I had time to go get them.
But any input/advice is appreciated.
update:
I just got off the phone with the towing company threatening to add them as a defendant on my filing (which I'm still going to do anyway lol) and they revealed the party who ordered the towing request was the board of the neighborhood (didn't even know we had such a thing) so I know who to go after tho.
my new question is, why are there so many damn parties involved in my living situation.
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