It seems that your community has an easement to grant Cablevison to provide telecom services to the community. Satellite providers doesn’t need easements, they are covered by OTARD rules. In the past the FCC prohibited to have EXCLUSIVE contract with major cable companies although this ruling didn’t apply to Private Cable operators (PCO) and satellite companies. The intention of the FCC was to extend that ruling to PCOs--everything is staled with the new administration. I hope they move forward as soon all the new commissioners are in place. But it seems that will be not enough for your community—maybe the contract is exclusive and bulk. The risk of having a lien against the property means that the initial contract was somewhere tied to the declaration and or by laws of the community. For that you will need to get copy of all the contracts in place and investigate how the HOA can put a lien against the owner property.
I want to encourage you and others to file comment to the FCC proceeding 07-51 and 09-158
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.cgi this is the only way we can try to get the attention of the FCC to provide us consumer protection. During this tough times it tragic that we can lose our home over a cable bill; this is just silly!
The fact that a company is extracting money from senior citizens is outrageous and should be penalized criminally. Here in Virginia Beach we got many military service members that are obligated to pay the $146 a month for cable services while they are deploy and away from home. Where is the government??? When we needed or they just out there to give away our money to corporations that had failed.
