I've been living in my area for forty years and depending on how many biddies sit on the board -- that determines how much trouble you'll have in any given year. When the development was first created we had nutjobs walking around with rulers measuring the size of shrubs. As the decades passed it became sane -- until last year when the board hired some eager beaver "manager". Within a week this idiot went driving around writing up people for things that had been done for decades that were technicalities that nobody ever paid attention to. The next HOA meeting had practically everyone in the neighborhood show up calling for this eager beaver's head.
So I suppose you need a HOA so people don't paint their garage door in purple and lime green stripes. But you don't need people measuring shrubs with rulers or trying to fine you because you've paid extra to have your garbage picked up an additional day and some newbie eager beaver doesn't realize you can have this done.
Live and let live as long as it doesn't get purple and lime green stripes!
No one ever “needs” an HOA. If I want stripes on my garage door, I thought I lived in America? I can’t do that to a house I own? Or don’t own, I make the payments. Doesn’t matter. If a person knowingly purchases a home within a HOA, don’t complain about when stuff goes bad. No one forced your signature on that piece of paper. You knew the risks. For the rest of us, live free.
It depends. There are areas where the houses are falling apart so stripes on the garage would not be noticed (or might even be.considered a cosmetic improvement if the door had previously been a mess of peeling paint).
However, there are such things as "property values" and a garage door with purple and lime green stripes would affect the resale value of homes in a well kept area. And if the homes are considered luxury homes -- certainly you have to have some rules for people with absolutely no taste.
I don't approve of biddies getting goofy and irritating their neighbors with unnecessary rules. Forty years ago, the biddies in the "walking club" (who traipsed around the neighborhood every morning presumably to exercise) noticed one homeowner had a satellite dish hidden from view by shrubbery. (These dishes were relatively new and very few people had them at the time). Personally -- I believed this walking club trespassed on this person's property because this dish was not visible from the street. Still, the biddies took him to court and.he lost his dish. I personally felt if it couldn't be.seen it wasn't a problem but I am more flexible.
I would, however, be the first person to complain if someone were to do something outrageous.
Property values are a real thing to consider and although I have no intention of selling my home anytime soon -- I would not like to obtain less value for my property because my neighbor had a purple and lime green striped garage door!
Certain people (usually women and blacks) simply cannot handle being given an iota of authority, and immediately go full Caligula. People rightly tell them to fuck off, which normally drives them into a deeper tard-spiral where they start “demanding” respect (thereby all but guaranteeing they’ll never get it).
Just treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated. Simple.
Its the God complex. A lot of cops have this. They feel like they are such a high authority that everything they say must be aknowledged and followed. Its sick. Some people should never have authority of any kind, They couldn't even raise children properly.
Ah....yes and no.
I've been living in my area for forty years and depending on how many biddies sit on the board -- that determines how much trouble you'll have in any given year. When the development was first created we had nutjobs walking around with rulers measuring the size of shrubs. As the decades passed it became sane -- until last year when the board hired some eager beaver "manager". Within a week this idiot went driving around writing up people for things that had been done for decades that were technicalities that nobody ever paid attention to. The next HOA meeting had practically everyone in the neighborhood show up calling for this eager beaver's head.
So I suppose you need a HOA so people don't paint their garage door in purple and lime green stripes. But you don't need people measuring shrubs with rulers or trying to fine you because you've paid extra to have your garbage picked up an additional day and some newbie eager beaver doesn't realize you can have this done.
Live and let live as long as it doesn't get purple and lime green stripes!
No one ever “needs” an HOA. If I want stripes on my garage door, I thought I lived in America? I can’t do that to a house I own? Or don’t own, I make the payments. Doesn’t matter. If a person knowingly purchases a home within a HOA, don’t complain about when stuff goes bad. No one forced your signature on that piece of paper. You knew the risks. For the rest of us, live free.
It depends. There are areas where the houses are falling apart so stripes on the garage would not be noticed (or might even be.considered a cosmetic improvement if the door had previously been a mess of peeling paint).
However, there are such things as "property values" and a garage door with purple and lime green stripes would affect the resale value of homes in a well kept area. And if the homes are considered luxury homes -- certainly you have to have some rules for people with absolutely no taste.
I don't approve of biddies getting goofy and irritating their neighbors with unnecessary rules. Forty years ago, the biddies in the "walking club" (who traipsed around the neighborhood every morning presumably to exercise) noticed one homeowner had a satellite dish hidden from view by shrubbery. (These dishes were relatively new and very few people had them at the time). Personally -- I believed this walking club trespassed on this person's property because this dish was not visible from the street. Still, the biddies took him to court and.he lost his dish. I personally felt if it couldn't be.seen it wasn't a problem but I am more flexible.
I would, however, be the first person to complain if someone were to do something outrageous. Property values are a real thing to consider and although I have no intention of selling my home anytime soon -- I would not like to obtain less value for my property because my neighbor had a purple and lime green striped garage door!
It just comes down to people.
Certain people (usually women and blacks) simply cannot handle being given an iota of authority, and immediately go full Caligula. People rightly tell them to fuck off, which normally drives them into a deeper tard-spiral where they start “demanding” respect (thereby all but guaranteeing they’ll never get it).
Just treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated. Simple.
Its the God complex. A lot of cops have this. They feel like they are such a high authority that everything they say must be aknowledged and followed. Its sick. Some people should never have authority of any kind, They couldn't even raise children properly.
"usually women and blacks". So true on so many levels.