You are best advised to sit down, person-to-person, with a member of the association's board or management company who has the authority to resolve the issue, and resolve it. Bring your proof of payment, and bring proof of harassment. Request that the matter be settled.
Alternatively, you can write a letter to your board, documenting your issue, requesting an entry on the board meeting agenda, and requesting a time to discuss your issue. Then demand that the board vote on your issue and enter their vote into the minutes.
If this is a clerical error, it's unfortunate that adults have not intervened before now, to resolve this matter.
"PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION" would apply if what you are buying is land, but you did not specify.
Norwegian Forest Owners Association was created in 1913.
National Association of Theatre Owners was created in 1965.
Association budgets are formulated at least annually, and the board develops the budgets. Owners ratify the budget using a process described in the governing documents. Astute boards review invoices and approve payment of expenses. Sadly, there are boards that spend association funds with little or no regard for budgets or Other People's Money. Owners can join together to monitor and, when necessary, relieve boards of their duties when they find board abuse of association funds.
Owners are responsible for assessments and owe these debts to the association/ corporation. If unpaid, the association can bill the owner, file a lien against the owner's title or take other collection action. Association counsel is best involved in this action, since an inappropriate or poorly filed lien can be used by the debtor to escape payment. Otherwise, associations cannot 'collect' money' from owners.
Read your governing documents to determine the steps the board takes in order to recover the debt from an owner who does not pay association assessments. Your association attorney can best advise you.
National Association of Women Business Owners was created in 1975.
They can if the streets are owned by the home owners' association rather than by a municipality.
Property Owners' Association (similar to Homeowners' Association)
A homeowners association cannot be a mandatory association without the consent of 100% of the property owners in the development attempting to establish an association. In addition to the consent of the property owners, the association must follow certain procedures and file the proper documents in order to subject the property to the association's rule.
If the 'neighborhood' is composed of owners in the association, then owners can vote to remove a set of directors. Your governing documents document this process. The association, however, requires leadership, so the owners will be required to elect a new set of directors to lead the business of the association.
Operating fees -- assessments -- are paid by owners to support community expenses, such as insurance, basic utilities and so forth.Every association's governing documents detail the process whereby the association can pursue an owner to collect unpaid assessments.When the association files a lien on the title based on non-payment of assessments, the lien becomes public record and credit bureaus can include this in your credit rating.Whether the association chooses to report the non-payment prior to filing a lien is up to each board to decide.