“They will come through the area and tow for whatever violations they see,” Police Chief Darrin Paul said. “It ends up being a moneymaker for the towing company with no recourse for the people who have their cars towed.”

“There are tow companies that move into Lehi for business and contract with local homeowners’ associations. According to Paul, the steady growth in the city only guarantees predatory towing, or “at-will” towing, will get worse.”

“We’re trying to head it off before it becomes too big of a problem,” Paul said.

“We’ll make it so they can’t be in cahoots with an HOA because that is what is going on,” Paul said………..”We want to give some rights back to the homeowner.”

Repost from an article on the Daily Herald:  DH News

Author:  Cathy Allred

This tread is nationwide and affecting everyone.

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It’s the unscrupulous, law breaking, tow truck operators, their boss, and association boards that contract them; we don’t endorse.

Here’s a confession from a property manager in Lewisville, TX.

#3 Nov 3, 2008

JKL  – “I am a Regional Manager with a large property management company…………   We recently went to permit parking at one of the communities I supervise and Pro Tow did not want to enforce what is sometimes called at will towing.  What this means is that the towing company would patrol the community and tow any cars with out parking permits. Pro Tow simply stated that they did not like to enforce this type of towing. I had to respect their decision. I dont like to have our towing companies enforce this type of towing as well. We just have so many parking issues at this community, we did not know what else to do in order to assure that the paying residents had a place to park. We ended up resolving this matter in another mannor.

Dont get me wrong, there are way to many shady towing companies. I have had problems with several towing companies over the years. …….”

Repost from Topix

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Residents in this association allege  – towing starts at 12 midnight.

Unfortunately, at will towing, begins at the tower’s discretion.  He can come anytime and make as many passes as he likes.  This kind of power has unlimited financial gain for the towing company – nothing but lost for the homeowners.

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They had no idea that parking by permit was the only way to avoid paying $350 for their towed vehicles.   They had no warning and no recourse.

Mrs. Jones and her husband were not the only ones towed that night from the same community.  I think tow drivers call this “burning a community.”

On another occasion earlier this year, Mr. Jones parked in his reserved spot.  After closing his car door, his parking permit fell to the floor.  Unbeknownst to him, he went on to enjoyed his evening.  Came out the next day only to find his property missing.

Living in an association community has been nothing but lessons learned for this family.   A visitor was towed for temporarily double parking in front their reserve parking spaces to assist a DISABLED visitor into their home.   In less than 7 minutes that visitor’s car was towed.

This kind of towing does not belong in a homeowners community.  It’s aggressive and illegal.

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Mr. J. Alvarez

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Mrs. T. Cox

She sold her house within 2 weeks of posting her frustration on a community website.

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Rev. Burns

When she arrived, there was no guard.  Feeling anxious, she knocked on a few doors to borrow a parking pass.  The next day the guard was on the premises, so she secured a 2 day parking permit.  The pass was scheduled to expire on October 19, 2017 at midnight.

Her loaner car was tow exactly at 11:30 pm on October 19, 2017.  She was awaken at 5 am by her husband informing her of the missing car.  Immediately she called 911.  They asked for the license plate, make, and vin number.  She had nothing.

She alleged that homeowners in her community have been dealing with aggressive and illegal predatory towing practice since 2009.   For some reason, she said; this year has been the worse.

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Mr. N. Jamison, says, towing is hurting the residents pockets and social life because people don’t invite anyone over ……… We all work hard every day to keep a nice house and live our life. We don’t need to be dealing with this after long days and hours at work.

Mr. T. Porter, said that 24/7 towing is embarrassing, a racket, and a waste of time for him to drive to some crummy lot at night to take a friend to pay $175 to get their car back.  A man who loves entertaining, has suddenly stopped.

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