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A Better Way to Be Neighbors

We Don't Want to Run This Place.
We Just Want to Live Here.

We moved to Chelan Vista Heights for the same reason you probably did — the views, the quiet, the twenty-acre lots, the dream of being left alone on your own land. We're not here to be ruled. We're here to be neighbors. Here's what that could actually look like.

Instead of That… Let's Do This

Same community. Same rules about keeping the place nice. Wildly different way of getting there.

The Flamingo of Shame standing in a yard

Behold: the Flamingo of Shame. Cheaper than a fine, funnier than a lawsuit.

Instead of a $500 fine for a violation…
🦩 The Flamingo of Shame goes in your yard until it's fixed. Free. Hilarious. Effective.
Instead of a letter from a lawyer…
A knock on the door and an actual conversation. Wild concept, we know.
Instead of fining the guy with chickens…
We thank him, because chickens eat the ticks that give the rest of us Lyme disease.
Backyard chickens foraging near a coop

Five hens. Hundreds of ticks eaten a day. A $300 fine. Make it make sense.

Instead of trespassing to find violations…
We mind our own business and respect that a posted property line means something.
Instead of a special assessment we didn't vote on…
Leftover dues roll into next year — or come back to you. Call it the Neighbor Fund.
Instead of suing each other…
Neighborhood beef gets settled by cornhole, a dad-joke contest, or a smoked-brisket cook-off.

We're Having Fun. The Problem Is Real.

We'd genuinely rather host a neighborhood barbecue than fight. But the reason this website exists is that, right now, the people running our community aren't following their own rules — or the law. Here's the swap we're actually asking for.

Two paths: cold bureaucracy versus warm community

Instead of Breaking Our Own Bylaws…

Let's actually follow the document the Board is supposed to live by.

Instead of amending the Bylaws with no member vote on record…
Let's hold a real vote, count real ballots, and keep the records — like the Bylaws require.
Instead of stacking fines with no published fine schedule…
Let's establish, adopt, and share a fine schedule with members — exactly like Section 3.16(q) says.
Instead of a "hearing" run by the same Board that wrote the fines…
Let's bring in a neutral third party so a hearing actually means something.
Instead of enforcing the rules on some neighbors but not others…
Let's apply the same rules to everyone — including Board members. Section 1.3 already requires it.

Instead of Breaking State Law…

Washington wrote rules for HOAs. Let's just… follow them.

A Kubota tractor with a grading scraper maintaining a gravel road

The roads are the Association's job. A homeowner has been grading them at his own expense since 2023.

Instead of ignoring records requests for 10+ months…
Let's produce the records members are entitled to under RCW 64.38.045.
Instead of raising dues with no membership vote…
Let's vote on the budget like RCW 64.38 and our own documents require.
Instead of running cameras to monitor neighbors…
Let's fix the gate that's actually injuring people and call it a day.
Instead of arbitrary, retaliatory enforcement…
Let's act reasonably and in good faith — the standard Washington's Supreme Court set in Riss v. Angel.

Instead of Breaking Federal Law…

If we're going to call ourselves a nonprofit, let's actually be one.

Instead of not filing federal taxes for 7+ years…
Let's file our returns and actually have the nonprofit standing we claim.
Instead of telling members we're a nonprofit when the IRS has never recognized us…
Let's be honest about what we are, and fix it.
Instead of harassing a disabled veteran and his family…
Let's respect the Fair Housing Act and treat people like neighbors.
Instead of using a collection law firm with an undisclosed conflict of interest…
Let's not run our community through a closed loop that profits the people running it.

Fair. Honest. Equitable. For Everyone.

Neighbors gathered at a community barbecue

We'd rather be "fined" with hosting a neighborhood barbecue than mailed a demand for hundreds of dollars. We'd rather get a phone call than a letter from a lawyer. We'd rather settle a disagreement over a smoker than in a courtroom.

We're not anti-HOA. We're anti-this. We want a community where the rules apply to everyone, where our money maintains our roads instead of funding lawsuits against us, where homeowners get a vote, and where the people making decisions actually live here and drive these roads like the rest of us.

That's it. That's the whole ask. A place worth living in, run like the neighbors actually matter.

Neighbors — Let's Talk

If you live here, if you've been fined, ignored, talked at instead of talked with, or just want a better community — reach out. We're stronger together than we are one frustrated homeowner at a time. And if all you want is the barbecue, that's a perfectly good reason too.

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