Posted on 06/28/2011 11:05:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
SAN ANTONIO --With 100-degree, hot, dry days, Armando Urdiales decided to plant a new lawn.
Well, not really. It was his HOA, he said, that suggested it, after they found patches of dirt amongst the withered blades in his front yard.
"That was the kicker for me. Really? You're going to tell me to grow grass in a drought," Urdiales said.
The social studies teacher said after receiving two threatening letters in the last 60 days, he planted $150 worth of sod and started watering it.
"Isn't there a better use of our resource--of our precious resource of water--other than maintaning grass?” he said.
The Crown Meadows HOA didn't return KENS 5's calls.
SAWS officials say they have yet to see any homeowner deed restrictions that demand homeowners keep their lawns green. And as a public water utility, SAWS has no jurisdiction over HOAs.
But the utility is asking all associations to think of brown grass as the new green, at least for now in stage-2 restrictions.
“Grass is trying to go dormant right now. That's what it's trying to do. It doesn't necessarily mean it is going dead. It's trying to shut down," Karen Guz, SAWS Director of Conservation, said.
“because HOAs are voluntary.“
Not really. Collectively they individually have gain a monopoly on all housing within any reasonable distance of every city and town.
There is a reason why they are adopted, and that is because they make the properties worth more to typical buyers.
If you ain’t typical, maybe some rural property with appliances in the yard are warranted.
“that is because they make the properties worth more to typical buyers.”
That is how they SELL it to make money, but that isn’t the truth. HOAs do not control the majority of things that cause home devalutations.
“maybe some rural property with appliances in the yard are warranted.
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That’s about as liberal as saying the central US is “fly over country”. To claim rural means inbred hillbilly is nothing but liberal propaganda.
You obviously have not been into anything rural.
Cities are the worst of the nasty neighborhoods and they even have real govenrments and not some busybody yuppies playing make-believe government.
” It still may be tyrannical”
Many Germans supported the Nazi killing the Jews, but that didn’t make tyranny right. Neither are HOAs. They are adhesion contracts, nothing more. Perpetual contracts seem to be illegal, yet, HOAs persist.
If you do not like the rules of the HOA do not buy in that neighborhood. Your choice, but if you want to live in a nicer neighborhood you are probably going to have a HOA. It is the best way to make sure all the properties are kept up. I like having one, it helps keep scummy neighbors out.
That pretty much sums up my HOA.
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