Posted on 08/19/2015 2:22:58 AM PDT by bob_denard
Many times the terms are enforced arbitrarily. Or there is a term that is just 1% of the total agreement. Whatever. My default position is always to fight it.
When 8 bought my last house, I told my wife I had one immutable rule: no HOAs!
The Raleigh-Durham area has been invaded and contaminated by those (ugh) northerners doncha know!
northerners = Maryland refugees
My puter is FO’ed up, so I can’t do links, but you can google HOA and flag laws. There are a ton court cases.
This boils down to a “me-me-me, it’s all about me” situation. The guy apparently agreed to the HOA rules when he purchased his house and he benefits from the resulting home-value protection.
Now he wants to adorn his house with something that will potentially devalue the other homes( significantly lower their sale price). There are some things that you may feel you have a right to do, and those things may in themselves be good things, but if doing them will hurt those around you, why would you want to do them? But he seems to look at it like it’s all about HIM, regardless of who it hurts. Furthermore we are not talking about simply hurting feelings here, we are talking about the very real potential of his action meaning a neighbor may not be able to sell their house.
There’s nothing wrong with taking a principled stand, but it’s idiotic if you are on the wrong side of the legalities of it
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Yep, a contract is a contract.
I notice you aren’t flying a flag on your page, but it’s clear you are a yankee at heart. If you are in the South, please move back north to a Yankee paradise - Detroit, or Cleveland, or Chicago, perhaps.
Unless they are making new rules on the fly which very well may be the case here.
I agree with your ‘contract’ comment. But this comment by the Association may give him some room: “this type of flag”. Suggests that content, not activity, is being targeted.
“Don’t worry”, they said.
“We only want it removed from public spaces”, they said.
“You can fly it on private property with no problem”, they said
It seems as though we were lied to, again.
I heard that they don't let you move in, unless you have a NJ driver's license. ;-)
They have to say that because HOAs are prohibited from banning ALL flags. A Federal statute passed in 2005 prohibits HOAs from banning the display of a U.S. flag.
Yep. Cary is known to stand for
Containment
Area for
Relocated
Yankees
Most states give HOAs a lot of latitude in adopting rules as they see fit (which is one reason never to live in a place governed by an HOA). From a legal perspective, the bigger issue is whether an HOA enforces rules uniformly, or if it does so in an arbitrary manner. This is why, by the way, most HOAs have either: (1) meticulously-worded descriptions of what types of flags they permit and when they permit them (maybe holiday-oriented displays are permitted, for example); or (2) a blanket prohibition of all exterior displays except for what is allowed by law.
That’s the problem with a lot of immigrants in general.
Let us into your country, it is so much better than home!
You racists, you won’t change or accommodate our beliefs!
Cary... Ha-ha! He should really tick them off and put up a striped patio awning...
My husband and I are now living in our third condo. There are ***many*** advantages, too numerous to list to list here, of living in a community with an HOA.
The man flying the flag should have carefully read the HOA meeting minutes for the last 5 years and the association rules before buying the property. If he doesn't like the current rules, he should sell.
Our first home was in a neighborhood without an HOA. Soon after moving in, the house next door was sold and turned into Section 8 housing. In one year there were more than 100 police calls to that house for violence, prostitution, and drug dealing. We and the other neighbors were powerless. We even offered, as a group, to buy the house but the owner refused. We feel lucky to have even been able to sell our home at a break-even price to an organization that ran group homes for retarded adults.
The condo in which we now live was found to have a meth lab in one of the units. We were able to correct the situation immediately upon discovery and recovered the costs of decontaminating the area.
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