ALERT:The Return of the Deed Enforcer!

Look What’s Back

Beth Jones, Chris Rocco, and Carrol Norrell have voted to resurrect the Deed Enforcer, ready to tell you exactly how to live on your own property. No surprises there—all three of them campaigned on deed enforcement as the cornerstone of community well-being.

Hanoi Avila Also voted in favor, despite being in violation of his own deed restrictions. Apparently, judgment is best served from atop a pedestal—just not one he intends to stand on himself. And David Flores? Conveniently ejected from the meeting before this agenda item came up. Timing is everything.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) is available here. Read it, because it’s the best predictor of what’s to come. If you’ve been here for more than three years, you may have personally experienced the joys of an enforcer creeping around, snapping photos of your property, knocking on your door, or sending you strong-arm letters with thinly veiled legal threats. It was a golden age of selective enforcement. And it’s about to return.

What This Means for You

If you live in Hunter’s Glenn 1, Volente Hills, or Lakeline Oaks—that’s about 600 properties—your HOA already has the power to govern your property. You pay mandatory dues for strict enforcement, and in return, your HOA decides what’s best for you.

However, 1,300 properties in the MUD are not governed by an HOA. Instead, Section 54.237 of the Texas Water Code gives the MUD limited enforcement authority over these properties. That’s where this new Deed Enforcer comes in.

Know Your Rights—Because They’re Hoping You Don’t

• Find your deed restrictions here. It is a good idea to save a copy in print or digitally for easy reference.

• Understand what your deed actually says—don’t rely on someone else’s interpretation. Especially the Deed Enforcer they hire - the company they used before was often wrong about what they told residents were in these documents - going as far as letters citing inaccurate information to curtail property rights, so make sure you check these yourself.

• Know that "Single-family residential purposes" is a LAND USE designation, not an occupancy restriction. Anyone saying otherwise in an effort to curtail who occupies your property is either misinformed or misleading you.

• Anderson Mill West and Hunter’s Glenn 2 have NO Architectural Control Committee (ACC). That means any violation requiring an ACC opinion, review, or approval cannot be enforced by the MUD or its enforcer.  Period. Hard stop.

• If your section wants an ACC, you can create one—by legally amending the deed in your section.

• Texas Senate Bill 1588 (passed in 2021) allows you to build a perimeter fence around your property for security measures. There are no restrictions on height, design, or materials (unless you are in an HOA section - where they may legally regulate the type of fence you use). Your property, your fence.

• The Texas Right to Farm Statute had a 2023 update. It has been extended to all land with an agricultural purpose - no matter what size it is, and whether or not that land has an "agricultural exemption designation". It hasn't been tested in court yet, but it appears to give broad new property rights for a variety of agricultural uses - even for neighborhood properties. How this law intersects with Deeds/HOAs is unclear from the research we have done, and the Agrilife representatives we have spoken to.

• MUDs do not have the authority to enforce items parked in the street unless your deed explicitly says so. Most don’t.

• “Unsightly Articles” that aren’t clearly defined in your deed cannot be enforced. Anything beyond what’s explicitly listed would require an ACC opinion, which, again, does not exist in most sections of the neighborhood.

• Violations are prosecuted in a court of law. The MUD cannot impose penalties or fines without court involvement. You are guaranteed due process by your deed. The MUD is not a judge, jury or court of law. 

• If fines are collected through the courts, they become public funds and cannot be gifted to private entities.

• Your deed can be amended to add restrictions, remove restrictions, clarify restriction, or do away with all restrictions — but only if a majority of property owners in your section sign off on a notarized document that details that change and file it at the County Clerk's Office.

What Now?

Love it or hate it, ignoring it won’t make it go away. If you don’t like where this is heading, it’s time to be loud. Show up at the next board meeting on March 19, 2025. Make your voice heard. Challenge the hypocrisy. Demand fairness. Because the only way this ends is if enough people refuse to sit quietly while a handful of board members decide how everyone else should live.

We’ll keep fighting for fairness and transparency. And we’ll keep shining a light on every shady move they try to make.

If you have been contacted regarding deed enforcement and what you have been told doesn't seem quite right please reach out at muducation@gmail.com.

*Disclaimer: The Muducation Team are not lawyers and the knowledge we have collected over time should not be construed as legal advice, just neighborly resource and information sharing. If you wonder how we discovered the information presented here feel free to reach out for the underlying source documents.