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Homeowner's Associations suck!
BAR wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:29:24 -0400, BAR penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: Gene Kearns wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:02:26 -0700, penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: Your suggestion to buy somewhere that doesn't have an HOA sounds really good, except that most people don't have the money to buy the kind of home they would REALLY like. In other words, not everyone is rich, or lives in an area that the housing cost are reasonable compared to wages. For us working folks, HOAs can be a necessary evil, if we want to buy SOME kind of home. It must be nice to have lots of $$. It is unfortunate that for many, it really warps their comprehension of the reality of life for for regular working folks. That is odd! Here in NC, it is the high end neighborhoods where HOAs are all the rage. Many HOAs seem to exist, in part, to enforce rules where it gives the illusion that no one in the neighborhood must either work for a living or do any personal manual labor (winterize the boat, for example). Its all about keeping you from putting that single wide in the backyard for mama and making sure that you don't have that old Chevy up on blocks in the front yard fro a couple of years. Simply a straw man. Cities and towns have ordinances governing these practices and there really is no need to create an umbrella of civil litigation over the existing laws.... unless you are an attorney, then it probably seems like a great idea! Most covenants are written such that you can keep a boat on the property if it is housed within a garage..... and many covenants prohibit an unattached garage. So.... you can have your boat if you can afford a house/garage big enough to house both. Go figure....... Its all about resale value. I think there is more to it than that. No, it really is all about the resale value. When you drive through my neighborhood you see that every yard is clean and well kept, the paint is not peeling off the trim, the garage doors all work and look good. There are no paved over front yards, although one or two owners would do it if they could, and houses sell rather quickly with deals that don't fall through at the closing table. The developers put together the restrictive covenants and the HOA because it helps them sell the homes initially. If the homeowners and the HOA enforce the covenants it does make the neighborhood have much better curb appeal and homes will sell much quicker. Nothing worse than a yard with cars parked all over. with half the cars torn apart and not working, it to destroy the resale value of all the homes close by. Most HOA would not worry if someone was working on a boat for a day, but if the boat was out in the street, or torn apart in the driveway or yard, they would enforce the covenants. That being said, they will be some HOA Nazi's, but if the homeowners don't like their enforcement style, they will vote them out quickly. |
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