Posted on 09/24/2008 6:41:20 PM PDT by MrChips
Maybe you should read the first amendment?
I wonder how you feel about restricting the "free speech rights" of high school teachers to advocate for one candidate or another in their classrooms.
ML/NJ
I just moved her. I signed a mortgage. I signed no contract.
The covenant runs with the land. When you bought the property, you bought it subject to the covenant. It is not merely personal to the person who signs the document.
They are good people, just different priorities. I don’t mind it since I’m not trying to sell my house. Lol
It would be difficult if we were trying to sell though.
It’s in the covenants which are more than legally enforceable, and attached to the Warranty Deed, Tublecane. Not much you can do about it once you’ve purchased the property with the understanding that the covenants are binding by your own signature.
Sorry situation, in my opinion.
Best Regards,
BR
nope
Pretty soon now, all of them.
Depends on which state you live in. Texas state law allows signs, even if the governing documents prohibit them, for up to 30 days before an election and 2 days afterwards. Max 1 sign per issue on the ballot and 1 per candidate.
Check your state laws.
Or put the sign up and then take it down after receiving the letter. Our HOA rep drives through once every 2 months at a leisurely 45 mph. Others are more careful of course but this one is afraid to note something the builder is doing wrong if they go slow.
“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.”
I’m still confused. If you pay property taxes, that property is yours in the eyes of the law. What legal authority does the HOA have? How can they make your ownership limited after you are seen as the owner in the eyes of the law? The mechanics of it don’t make sense to me. I understand apartments and condos—although the government allows you certain rights as a renter, you don’t own an apartment like you own land.
Our local right wing radio talk show host was talking about this all morning. He had a McCain-Palin sign stolen from his yard. Left = freedom of speech, as long as you agree with me.
Something like that.
Evidently you are brave enough to breach the contract you signed that includes the rule you object to. No sympathy. I despise HOAs and their covenants.
When the Warranty Deed was signed transferring title to the property to the Purchaser (you), there were covenants evidently attached.
BR
Yes? And do you have more money for legal fees than they do? Homeowners' associations usually have a few hundred thousand in the kitty and have the power to levy assessments to pay any legal fees the association treasury can't handle. And in most jurisdictions, the courts decide in favor of the HOA because you signed documents agreeing to their rules. So your legal fees are wasted. They can take your house away from you. They have you outgunned, cowboy.
You want to unilaterally void the contract that you freely entered????? And you blame them?????
“Not much you can do about it once you’ve purchased the property with the understanding that the covenants are binding by your own signature.”
Why do they have to pay property taxes, then? Let the HOA pay them!
Try an experiment: put up an Obama sign for a couple of days (I know, I know).
See if they direct you to take that one down.
(You do realize that I was kidding, above, right?)
I agree that homeowner associations are a pain in the butt.
However, nobody has ever been forced to buy a piece of property with covenants. That’s one reason I live in an older neighborhood and actually own my land (well, the bank owns it, but...) and own how it’s used.
I signed no such document.
Yeah, I hear that. I have a neighbor two doors down who fights with the HOA all the time. He's a nice guy, but he needs to mow more than three times a summer.
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