CLICKORLANDO.COM:  Kissimmee HOA walks off with residents’ trash bins

September 24, 2013 — By Mike Holfeld

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – If you live in the Turnberry Reserve Neighborhood in Kissimmee, your trash cans and recycling carts better not be in plain sight or the Home Owners Association will take them away. The HOA ‘s line in the sand came in the form of emails warning residents that any trash cans and recycling carts in plain view on non-trash days would be removed. On Aug. 28 a landscape crew walked on the property of an estimated 80 residents took them out of the neighborhood and dropped them off about 14 miles away at a St. Cloud recycling plant.

Noemi Vazquez has lived in the neighborhood for eight years , she thinks the whole ordeal is just another “a power play.” Vazquez says the neighborhood has been dealing with HOA politics that in her view has turned childish. “If we told you how many times the police have been here for HOA issues you would just be blown away,” she says. Florida Attorney Eric Glazer, an expert in state HOA and Condo law says based on existing law the HOA went “too far.”  Read more: