The feud that consumed Fairfax County’s
Olde Belhaven would span four years and cost the community as much as
$400,000, and it was ignited by one of the smallest of sparks: an Obama
for President sign.
The modest placard Sam and Maria Farran planted in their yard
during the 2008 election put them on a collision course with the
neighborhood homeowners association. It was four inches taller than the
association’s covenants allowed.
“Need I say more! This would lead to chaos,” a neighbor fretted in an
e-mail about the precedent that would be set if the sign wasn’t
removed. “Our property values would be put at risk.”
Such HOA disputes are
as suburban as cul-de-sacs and two-car garages, but few metastasize
into legal battles that spend years in the courts, break legal ground
and bankrupt the HOA.
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