Posted on 06/24/2014 6:46:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Stars and Stripes are at the center of controversy. At least at Larry Murphree’s home.
“I want it to go away. It’s such a minor little thing and they keep coming after me,” he explained.
“They” is Murphree’s homeowner’s association. He’s lived in the Sweetwater community for years, and been at odds with the HOA for more than two. All over a flag. The veteran decided to put one in his flower pot, and has been fined as a result.
“They just sent me a letter that says I owe them around $8,000 and they put a foreclosure lien on my house,” he continued. …
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HOA's have their pros and cons. But if a person is too much of a narcissist to live in one, they shouldn't. That way everybody wins.
Never dealt with HOA, but it seems to be run by meddling old folks and people who enjoy being pr*cks.
Small people with small power. Would have been great CAPOS in Nazi death camps.
Haha...Some would have liked to do that to the guy.
There are any number of things I don’t like here in CA and miss in VA. But I tell ya one thing I LOVE about CA. In the older neighborhoods, in fact in most neighborhoods except for the “planned communities” ... we have no HOA’s. HOAs are Lord of the Flies for adults.
We live in a deeded HOA Community. Flags are everywhere, on poles, garages, mail boxes, on car windows and bumpers. It doesn’t stop with the Stars and Stripes either. The Gadsden flag is 5 doors down the street, Canada, Britain, Germany, Holland, Scotland and even that Southern offensive secessionist flag can be found flying in our huge development. Also we have seen Army, Navy, USAF, USMC and POW flags under the Stars and Stripes. ISIS flags haven’t appeared yet, God help the ones who dare to try, too many senior Vets here with low toleration syndrome.
That’s the first thing I told the Realtor when I was shopping for a house:
No HOA; map out the areas in the city which don’t have one and show me houses there.
Because I’m not about to let somebody tell me I can’t fly my country’s flag on my property.
I bought a house not in an hoa; there’s one nearby but they can’t expand.
Everyone keeps their yard tidy, and nobody gripes about my standard size flag.
If he flew the Obama symbol flag, or the homosexual rainbow flag, or the communist flag, or Mexican flag, or the Puerto Rican flag, they would have no problem with it.
““When I first moved here, I loved it. it was wonderful. But it got where I’m being nitpicked more and more. I’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbors moving out. I don’t want to move.”
Yep, that is what happens when power hungry eichmans take over a HOA. Never buy in a community that has one and never let one get estabilished in your community!
And if said Democrats just happened to disappear, it would be justified preemptive self-defense.
SLAPP = Strategic Lawsuit Against Political Participation. An old RAT tactic, bankrupt the political opposition by making them fight lawsuits while enriching their lawyer buddies.
I think you got that right!
Moonman, your comment in post #21: HOA's have their pros and cons. But if a person is too much of a narcissist to live in one, they shouldn't. That way everybody wins.
There are as many narcissists in HOA neighborhoods as there are in free neighborhoods. They are the ones offended when the dad and son across the street build a tree-house in their yard or put a basketball hoop in their driveway. The narcissists are outraged when the guy down the street retires and buys an old car as a restoration project where his garage is the shop, leaving his regular car parked in the driveway overnight.
The narcissists are like an in-view former neighbor of mine, who sold her house and moved because her next-door neighbor had the temerity to, on a bleak hillside of timid off-white and bandaid-beige "Mediterranean" $3 million "villas," paint his home a rich deep Golden Gate red. The guy beat his HOA on that one, though it cost everybody over there $$, and my view is better for it.
HOAs have done more to kill personal creative productivity in America than any other development. Their FORCED homogenous sterility results from overwhelming regulation. Buying a piece of property and doing a one-off, with all of the codes and regulations and zoning requirements, is too expensive. In such a "free" market, mass-produced neighborhoods have become THE NORM in most new housing whether it is entry-level, middle range, or luxury high end.
Many if not most people are in HOAs because that's all that was available.
"Live and let live" is the best policy. If you're lucky enough to find an HOA where that is the prevailing sentiment, great. Most young families who live in them have no idea of what it could be like. They're like birds raised in cages. They would be lost if they were "allowed" to do what they please in their yards and with their homes. The "right to be offended" dominates sentiment in most HOAs.
Chuck Yeager said it best in American terms: "I've always said that the rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own -- and as far as I was concerned, that never described me or my friends."
HOAs are so ... European! Communist, more like.
The rich developers are arrogant. THEY are the bums at the teat of that flag and veterans, not the veterans to be treated like homeless undesirable messing the place up.
Indeed. What good is it to buy if you re treated as a renter. and to destroy competition they lobby for regs too, such as being against living off the grid. agenda 21.
Decentralizing government and moving it toward the people is very Reaganesque. Like I said, if you don’t like it, then stay away and everybody will be happier.
If you want to live like an anarchist, breed rats in your yard and paint your house yellow and green, then buy a trailer outside the city limits.
Yup. That's exactly what they are. They are the monsters who allow all tyranny to thrive. You'll find a large contingent of supporters here as well.
Truth worth repeating.
If you, on the other hand, want to live like a prudish spinster with everything just so, live in an HOA.
... OR if you want to live like a civilized free person, build your kids a tree-fort in the front yard, tear out the lawn and plant a garden, paint your house an actual color that you like, and work on projects in the garage ...
... then buy a trailer outside the city limits.
I have a better idea, Moonman. I think narcissists like you, who love and live to be offended by what their cretin trashy low-class bad-taste neighbors are doing, should buy a trailer and live in a neighborhood where all of you smarter, classier, more refined types can all police each other and leave us bad-taste cretins ALONE.
Everybody will be happier.
I find the flag in the plant “disrespectful” display....
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