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Corgis Rock |
This is our 4th home with a HOA (military, we moved) I've been on the board for the last three. A friend observed that "HOAs go two ways; they fade away of get taken over by assholes. The trick is to keep the adults in charge." The comments about work trucks recall a guy that moved in and parked his work truck on the street. (Violation) When we spoke to him, he gave a song and dance about work etc. then he mentioned how he was hassaled at his last HOA. Turns out he had the exact same violations. When asked if he checked our HOA, his evasion was he'd gotten the rules at closing. Duh, that's when you're supposed to. He finally added a driveway extension. Recently we got a grade A asshole on the board. He didn't like trees, so mailed out 20 odd letters telling people to cut any tree over 25'. Turns out he trespassed on people's property to take pictures and indicated they were the complainers. In the uproar, a number of people hired a lawyer and raised hell. The idiot quit and shut up. Bottom line, stem board meetings, attend the annual meeting, know and talk to your neighbors. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
One can get the CCR's anytime he wants. You don't have to wait until the closing. Amazing how many people love socialism around here.  ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| Grandiosity is a sign of mental illness |
Freely entered voluntary association. It's called civil society. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
It's called a joke. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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Be Careful What You Wish For... |
Not really freely entered if you're forced into it when buying the house. ____________________________________________________________ Georgeair: "...looking around my house this morning, it's not easily defended for long by two people in the event of real anarchy. The entryways might be slick for the latecomers though...." | |||
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| Banned |
After the hell my friend went through in the condo he and his wife bought a few years ago, there is no way in hell I would ever live in a place with a HOA. Almost immediately, his dog offended someone. He was picked up after, he is about as nice and quiet as a dog can be, and my friend still got "notices" about every other month. They decided to let the dog stay with their daughter after the 4th "notice" from the HOA, thinking it would solve the problems. Nope, they started sending them notices with pics of his car being parked "too close" to the white lines that divided the parking lot spaces. The thing is, if the car next to you is too close, you are forced to move over. The nonsense continued for over a year, and then they decided they had enough of the insanity and put it up for sale. They had enough money to just move out as soon as they found a house in a place that had no HOA. It took a year and a half to sell. A couple of times it looked like it would sell, but the HOA's reputation was discovered by the potential buyer and they bailed out. A former neighbor of mine is the head of the HOA for the subdivision he lives in. It's gone now, but there used to be a page that basically said, " I HATE XXXXX OOOOOO!" With a full screen pic of him underneath it. He was an obnoxious kid who appears to be a douchbag as an adult. | |||
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| Grandiosity is a sign of mental illness |
You've ever been forced to buy a house? | |||
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I live in a HOA and like it. Pay $45 a month dues and this is a gated community. No large trucks or trailers. Grass needs to be cut regularly. No crime etc. Halloween had the gates open from 5:30 to 8:30 and no problems. Police crused the main drags until trick or treat was over. Churches had a fall carnival till 8:30. Great place to live. About 30% here are retired military. Officers lives matter! | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
It's a distinction without a meaningful difference, in many cases. ^ Lots and lots of newer neighborhoods had an HOA put in place by the original developer, with no real purpose beyond the hope and sometimes true perception that it would help increase property values. And if you want a newer house, near such and such school, you're often left with zero or nearly zero options beyond a mediocre to wretched HOA imposed years before you came along, and the wretched trend is so wretchedly popular that this happens very often. You're not "forced" to use Comcast, either, unless you want broadband at your house. I'll homeschool kids and eat by candlelight before I'll let some motherfucker tell me what color I can paint my shed or whether or not I can park my trailer in front of my house, but some people find comfort in those restrictions, and the rest must suffer them anyway. | |||
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I agree completely. Not to mention they're designer ghetto's. In most of them you can only paint your house 5 different colors, then the colors go out of date 10 years later and ALL of the houses look old. You also cannot remodel the look of the exterior of your house, so again 10-20 years later it looks like one big old neighborhood. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
^ yeah, but at least George didn't park his own $100k RV beside his own $400k house. Can't have that, no sir. That won't do at all. | |||
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They're more ridiculous than that. A friend of mines sister owns a house in one. In the rules it states that you cannot have any outdoor furniture in the front of your house. She has an elaborate garden and landscaping and she put one of those decorative black wrought iron tiny decorative benches in her garden (the one a toddley MAY be able to sit on that's 8" off of the ground). She got cited for it and it's not even furniture. | |||
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| I kneel for my God, and I stand for my flag |
Ours has been great. Not one blue tarp or rotting 1970’s fiberglass boat in sight. And if you’ve ever spent any time in Oregon, you know that’s quite a feat. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
Gosh. A boat? How did you ever get by? And tarps? TARPS!!!!!? OH MY GAWD (Becky). The HORROR!!!! Letting such things other people do affect you thusly sounds like a terrible affliction.  But hey, if that's what's important to you - rock on. | |||
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| I kneel for my God, and I stand for my flag |
My guess is, you're probably one of the dumbfucks with a tarp for a roof. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
As I sit here listening the unending chorus of barking, yapping dogs chained up in my neighbor's junk and dog crap filled yard here in Jerkwater, I wonder to myself why it is that people have to insult each other because they like or dislike HOA neighborhoods. Don't like them, don't buy a home in one. I kind of wish we had one here to make these crackers across the street straighten out their shit. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Goodness me, that's not a very neighborly response, is it? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
HOAs have a legitimate purpose. Sadly some number of them seem to abuse that. We have a house in a HOA and they are constantly fighting with homeowners over their asinine regulations. And we pay something more than $300 per year. One example, the HOA has a fair amount of frontage on the lower Potomac river. This includes a nice river beach. Because the only home within sight of that beach has pissed and moaned about people fishing there at night (when the fishing seems to be best) the HOA put up a sign that the beach is closed at 9PM. Other BS about cutting grass along your property lines with the roads. When the roads belong to the COUNTY and they are responsible for cutting that grass. We quit going to the HOA meetings because they were all controlled by a bunch of power crazed nincompoops who seemed to be more concerned about "sale value" of the homes than about pleasant living conditions. Note, that very seldom has a home gone up for sale and when they do they are sold pretty quickly. In summary, our experience with HOA has been less than satisfying. Oh, we have a club house (a nice one) with a swimming pool and tennis courts. The pool closes at 9PM, like the river beach. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Nature is full of magnificent creatures |
What exactly will they do if you fish at 10PM? | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
I am friends with one of the security guards, and we discussed it. He said that he, personally, would just ignore the late fishing. but other guards were under instructions to call the county sheriff and have you cited. Not sure, nor was he, that the sheriff actually had power to enforce said regulation, given it was private property. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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