Posted on 09/24/2008 6:41:20 PM PDT by MrChips
No. I didn’t know about them.
McCain-Feingold?
That’d do it.
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Put the sign(s) in your cars window in your driveway! Doesn't seem like the above addresses something like that!
:-)
Anything say you can’t put it in a window inside your house that faces the street ?
I signed a mortgage. I didn’t sign any covenant agreement.
However, I'll trade you your HOA for my neighbor who grills in the front yard, has a boat in the front yard, and a racecar in the front yard plus a skatboard ramp in the back yard.
No. You evidently live in one of those yuppifed "gated communities." You know, the kind of place that has cookie cutter houses on winding streets with pretentious names like Edgewater Drive, Hummingbird Lane and Baronscourt Way. You probably have tennis courts in the center of the development that you have to reserve two weeks in advance and there is probably a waiting list for swimming classes at the "community pool."
The gated community no doubt has a "volunteer" committee of bored, busybody housewives that meet at the community center every Wednesday to discuss new rules and amendments to existing rules.
You probably have to have swingsets, swimming pools and other "unsightly" yard clutter in the back of the house or surrounded by trees and landscaping so you can't see it from the street. You can probably only mow your lawn certain hours of the day. There is probably a "pooper scooper" law. You are probably not allowed to put your trash on the curb any sooner than four hours before pick up and must have them removed from the curb by the end of the day and inside a shed or a garage.
You probably even need permission to paint your house and must first have the colors approved by the committee of bored, busybody housewives.
Sorry for your sorry predicament, Mr. Chips.
HOAs are known for having the strictest of da** stupidest rules ever thought about. Matter of fact, I think they have all hired their own village idiot to think of the rules they impose.
If a person wants to be like every other person in the neighborhood; that is, look like them, eat like them, have the same political beliefs, the same religion, and grill ribs the same way, then HOAs are great. IF you, however, want to put up a Christmas tree, make sure to turn the lights off before sundown so that no one is offended. The Christmas tree being inside and in the farthest corner in the room at the very back of the house that is farthest from the street. (True situation for a friend of mine in Birmingham.)
If you can get out of it, I have the same advice I had for my friend a couple of years past: Move. To YOUR OWN place.
The HOA owns the owners.
Best Regards,
BR
Why would anyone willingly live in an HOA unless you love being controlled?
They are evil.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phrases such as
Buyer beware.
Read the contract with the eyes of an eagle and the speed of a glacier come to mind.
You blew it IMO, the place you moved into gave out the rules for those willing to live there.
Maybe you can have a sign inside your window facing outside?
Being you didn't pay attention to what you got into, be glad you didn't find you had to forcibly donate a kidney or something. :-)
Its because you don’t “own” the property in an unlimited sense. You own certain, but not all, rights to the property. A right to place a sign is not part of what you purchased...just like the right to tear down the telephone pole in your yard is not part of what you purchased.
You sound like the ex wife telling all of her husbands failures and incompentencies. Makes you wonder what kind of a woman she is to pick such a man.
“Are you a man of your word?”
Thats a pretty low thing to say. Most of the time the buyer isn’t given a real opportunity to read those before purchase. Its usually 100 pages of stuff mixed in with the rest of the package thats thrown at you after handing over the check.
There’s also a great deal of variation in how HOAs enforce the restrictions. I’ve seen many cases of Obama wanna be’s thinking that being President of the HOA was equal to being the Gov. of a small state.
HOAs suck
LOL! My eleven year old son, the future professional skateboard star and wannabe NASCAR driver would love to live next door to your neighbor.
Couldn’t they put signs in the windows of their car and keep it in the driveway for appropriate parking times?
Buy a small “For Sale” sign at Lowes or Home Depot and tape it on the top of a McCain-Palin sign and make them prove McCain-Palin isn’t your realtor.
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