We don't go crazy, the HOA has rules and regulations and the bylaws are presented to every homeowner. Such bylaws prevent lawn signs of any kind (which as I stated, also include pro-Obama and pro-Kerry) from being placed in your front yard. I don't want to see signs advertising masonry, or lawn services or free pizza delivery. I also don't want to see signs advertizing furniture sales at the local furniture store, or free gas for a year with every new car purchased at the local car dealership.
I can live with not being able to put a lawn sign on my front lawn announcing my newphew is currently serving in Afghanistan. The flag hanging from my front porch is all the patriotism I need to display.........
What's with all you crazy people condemning us condo owners and telling us how we should conduct our lives? Mind your own damn business.......!
Maybe I didn't mention it before but we also can keep our neighbors from parking their broken down cars in their driveways and in the street in front of their house........
And we can also force our negligent neighbor into trimming their hideous bushes or force them to remove the trash that has been accumulating on the side of their house.
In other words, we have the ability to prevent our complex from turning into a white trash trailer park...........And I have no problem with that. Why should you?
Because, Mr. or Miss Tabasco, unbeknownst to you, you sound like a Soviet minion circa 1936 or a Maoist circa 1967. Embarrassingly so. I’m glad it gives you some sort of satisfaction to go around patrolling what your neighbors are up to and reporting on them. But it’s really your deep-seated fear of untidy hedges that gives me pause.
Ah, forcing you will on others for the better good of the whole, the very nature of a fascist state. You should really enjoy our current president then, as he is attempting to do the same thing YOU are ALREADY doing to others.
“we have the ability to prevent our complex from turning into a white trash trailer park”
Actually, you don’t. The lawsuits have been flying over these overstated and overreaching HOAs. They commit fraud every time they claim to own the roads or have the ability to control who lives in a property. They can and are sued routinely. You control SOME factors of trailer trash syndrome, but not the ones that matter the most.
“...prevent our complex from turning into a white trash trailer park.”
A legitimate concern for an HOA seeing how the lots are about the same size.