HOA's can be a pain.
Mar 23, 2018 07:43:56 #
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Mar 23, 2018 08:09:55 #
If you ELECT to live in a HOA or COA community there are rules that apply. If you can't live within those rules, then move.
I do like the fence design.
Don
I do like the fence design.
Don
Mar 23, 2018 08:25:09 #
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Mar 23, 2018 08:59:11 #
I’ve honestly never understood why people cannot follow the rules! Read the guidelines before you sign and if you don’t like them, don’t buy there. Imagine being the person who moves in because they like the rules and then find that they are not enforced.
Mar 23, 2018 09:24:37 #
dpfoto
Loc: Cape Coral, FL
HOA's seem to think they are the Gestapo! I hope I NEVER have to live anywhere there's an HOA (OR Condo Ass.). BOTH should be outlawed, IMHO.
Mar 23, 2018 09:56:37 #
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Mar 23, 2018 10:13:08 #
dpfoto wrote:
HOA's seem to think they are the Gestapo! I hope I NEVER have to live anywhere there's an HOA (OR Condo Ass.). BOTH should be outlawed, IMHO.
No one “has to”. You “choose to”. If you choose to, and refuse to comply with the regulations that you agreed in writing to comply with, you are the problem, not the HOA.
How so many people sign documents agreeing to HOA covenants and then want to break them is beyond me. Maybe they could not resist moving into the community because it was so nice. Make the choice to buy in a community without HOA.
Mar 23, 2018 10:35:01 #
wkillham wrote:
No one “has to”. You “choose to”. If you choose to, and refuse to comply with the regulations that you agreed in writing to comply with, you are the problem, not the HOA.
How so many people sign documents agreeing to HOA covenants and then want to break them is beyond me. Maybe they could not resist moving into the community because it was so nice. Make the choice to buy in a community without HOA.
How so many people sign documents agreeing to HOA covenants and then want to break them is beyond me. Maybe they could not resist moving into the community because it was so nice. Make the choice to buy in a community without HOA.
😀😀😀 Agreed, read the rules before you buy. Also, look at the history of special assessments. Ignorance is NOT bliss.
Mar 23, 2018 10:59:10 #
jwn
Loc: SOUTHEAST GEORGIA USA
why do people insist on moving in to communities with HOA then complain about them.....read the covenants before you buy...or sue your realtor for not explaining about the HOA ...cute response but he's a A****hole .
Mar 23, 2018 11:37:59 #
Wonderful response! When we bought we carefully avoided subdivisions with HOAs. However...our next door neighbor seems to feel that she is the final arbiter of taste for the neighborhood. She still does some real estate work, which may explain the problem. She or her husband have, for example, cut up and removed a pine branch in our yard which had been damaged by an ice storm a few days previously. My wife and I, both working at the time, hadn't had the time to find some one to remove it. To add insult to injury, after cutting the big limb into fireplace lengths, they left the small limbs in our yard! Another time a pine limb which stretched almost to the street, suddenly disappeared one day. Again this was our pine tree and our limb.
A persimmon tree, a portion of which overhang into our yard fell, damaging the board fence around our back yard. They never offered to have it fixed, or even acknowledge that their tree had damaged our fence. By contrast the neighbor on the other side had a Norway maple damage our fence. He immediately apologized, offered to have it repaired, and helped us clean up the debris. I repaired the few damaged pales myself. He has since moved, and we miss him and his family.
We've had a sizable patch of rudbeckia, a native cone flower also known as black eyed Susan, near our house on the side facing their house. After blooming season there were many dried stalks shedding seeds for the next year's blooming. While I was cutting grass one morning she came out and railed at me for the "ugly" sight she had to endure when she left her garage. I did cut the stalks, but not that day!
This year I could tell from that he or she had cut the same patch. I then put a "No Trespassing" sign on our house, not visible from the street but obvious from their driveway. Not long after that they had erected a "spite fence," six feet high and SIXTY-FOUR feet long about eight feet into their yard from the property line. I suspect that City Code wouldn't allow it to go all the way to the street. Needless to say I'm NOT about to mow the grass between that fence and the property line!
A persimmon tree, a portion of which overhang into our yard fell, damaging the board fence around our back yard. They never offered to have it fixed, or even acknowledge that their tree had damaged our fence. By contrast the neighbor on the other side had a Norway maple damage our fence. He immediately apologized, offered to have it repaired, and helped us clean up the debris. I repaired the few damaged pales myself. He has since moved, and we miss him and his family.
We've had a sizable patch of rudbeckia, a native cone flower also known as black eyed Susan, near our house on the side facing their house. After blooming season there were many dried stalks shedding seeds for the next year's blooming. While I was cutting grass one morning she came out and railed at me for the "ugly" sight she had to endure when she left her garage. I did cut the stalks, but not that day!
This year I could tell from that he or she had cut the same patch. I then put a "No Trespassing" sign on our house, not visible from the street but obvious from their driveway. Not long after that they had erected a "spite fence," six feet high and SIXTY-FOUR feet long about eight feet into their yard from the property line. I suspect that City Code wouldn't allow it to go all the way to the street. Needless to say I'm NOT about to mow the grass between that fence and the property line!
Mar 23, 2018 11:50:52 #
Ha! Pretty friendly HOA. Here, they would have to submit drawings, dimensions, photographs and other documentation for an architectural approval of the fence they intent to build.
Mar 23, 2018 11:54:16 #
Hey, I wish MY neighbors would come over and do my yard for me. LOL I think I'll just let it go and see what h happens. LOL
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