Parking boot battle

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by mredskins

I hate HOA's as well but it was nice to have one when one of my neighbors tired to put a 10' pool in front of his townhouse this summer. For two days it looked like a Water Park outside my house, with every kind in the hood coming over.

Am I the only person that feels like when you own the property that you have a right to do whatever you want to with it? While I might not be putting twenty cars in my yard and above ground pools everywhere, I still feel like it's total bullshit that someone else can tell me what to do with my own property who is not an actual government official referencing actual laws.

Now if people are running through your yard because of it, I can see your gripe, but isn't it as easy as just not looking at it?

One of my neighbors has the worst paint color on their house imaginable according to my tastes, but what gives me the right to tell them what to do with it? I don't look up there, they shouldn't look down at my place. For those of you who are familiar with the HOA story I posted a while back about me and my HOA (that I never joined by the way) it's a small entity with a bunch of big wigs in the neighborhood who want to exercise power of the rest of it.

Just because they think something is in good or bad taste doesn't give them the right to enforce their opinion on YOUR property that you pay your hard-earned money for.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Am I the only person that feels like when you own the property that you have a right to do whatever you want to with it? While I might not be putting twenty cars in my yard and above ground pools everywhere, I still feel like it's total bullshit that someone else can tell me what to do with my own property who is not an actual government official referencing actual laws.

Now if people are running through your yard because of it, I can see your gripe, but isn't it as easy as just not looking at it?

One of my neighbors has the worst paint color on their house imaginable according to my tastes, but what gives me the right to tell them what to do with it? I don't look up there, they shouldn't look down at my place. For those of you who are familiar with the HOA story I posted a while back about me and my HOA (that I never joined by the way) it's a small entity with a bunch of big wigs in the neighborhood who want to exercise power of the rest of it.

Just because they think something is in good or bad taste doesn't give them the right to enforce their opinion on YOUR property that you pay your hard-earned money for.

I hear you but when it comes time to sell your house and you the Beverly Hillbilleys living next door with all there crap everywhere, who do you think is going to buy your house?

Basically a decent HOA is a good thing, it helps hold the value of your neighborhood. Of course like everything else there is always the one percent of HOA's that suck and are annoying.

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by mredskins

I hear you but when it comes time to sell your house and you the Beverly Hillbilleys living next door with all there crap everywhere, who do you think is going to buy your house?

Basically a decent HOA is a good thing, it helps hold the value of your neighborhood. Of course like everything else there is always the one percent of HOA's that suck and are annoying.

I think it's wayyyyyy more than 1%.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by mredskins

I hear you but when it comes time to sell your house and you the Beverly Hillbilleys living next door with all there crap everywhere, who do you think is going to buy your house?

Basically a decent HOA is a good thing, it helps hold the value of your neighborhood. Of course like everything else there is always the one percent of HOA's that suck and are annoying.

As far as I'm concerned, I think that's the chance you take when you move into a place. Your property value is going to go up or down whether you have white trash next to you or not. Economy, life in general is going to increase or decrease the price. Not only that, when people live in certain neighborhoods, your salary level is typically right there with the rest of the people in that neighborhood. It's highly unlikely you're going to live in an average $300,000 neighborhood and have people on welfare living there.

I would say the vast majority of HOAs serve little to no purpose besides to give the select few of the powerful (or so they think) in the neighborhood the power trip they need of telling other people what to do.

Property value aside, how would you feel if your HOA all of a sudden states you can't park in your own driveway or comes by with a ruler after your grass grows over an inch trying to give you a ticket.

I don't know about you but the only person who I will EVER respect a ticket from is an actual policeman.

Don't mean to get all rant-y on you, but there's nothing I hate more than HOAs.

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

As far as I'm concerned, I think that's the chance you take when you move into a place. Your property value is going to go up or down whether you have white trash next to you or not. Economy, life in general is going to increase or decrease the price. Not only that, when people live in certain neighborhoods, your salary level is typically right there with the rest of the people in that neighborhood. It's highly unlikely you're going to live in an average $300,000 neighborhood and have people on welfare living there.

I would say the vast majority of HOAs serve little to no purpose besides to give the select few of the powerful (or so they think) in the neighborhood the power trip they need of telling other people what to do.

Property value aside, how would you feel if your HOA all of a sudden states you can't park in your own driveway or comes by with a ruler after your grass grows over an inch trying to give you a ticket.

I don't know about you but the only person who I will EVER respect a ticket from is an actual policeman.

Don't mean to get all rant-y on you, but there's nothing I hate more than HOAs.

Funny you say that. The BTK serial killer was actually a HOA president, and he did just that. Not saying anything about the typical HOA folks, but...

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

As far as I'm concerned, I think that's the chance you take when you move into a place. Your property value is going to go up or down whether you have white trash next to you or not. Economy, life in general is going to increase or decrease the price. Not only that, when people live in certain neighborhoods, your salary level is typically right there with the rest of the people in that neighborhood. It's highly unlikely you're going to live in an average $300,000 neighborhood and have people on welfare living there.

I would say the vast majority of HOAs serve little to no purpose besides to give the select few of the powerful (or so they think) in the neighborhood the power trip they need of telling other people what to do.

Property value aside, how would you feel if your HOA all of a sudden states you can't park in your own driveway or comes by with a ruler after your grass grows over an inch trying to give you a ticket.

I don't know about you but the only person who I will EVER respect a ticket from is an actual policeman.

Don't mean to get all rant-y on you, but there's nothing I hate more than HOAs.

Then my suggestion to you is don't live in a HOA community, easy as pie.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Then my suggestion to you is don't live in a HOA community, easy as pie.

It's more that I feel HOAs should be 100% outlawed. The one you described provided a service. That's something a group of people in any neighborhood could do whether HOAs are in existence or not. Something like that I totally applaud EXCEPT governing "rules".

And it's not as easy as that. It's pretty much any desirable neighborhood has one. And I'm sure the first thing you're thinking is "but that's why the neighborhood IS desirable".

I don't think an HOA makes a place worth living in or not. Aside from the services that you mentioned above, which I think are great, there's no reason to have a civilian body governing what YOU do on your own property you pay for with your own money.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

It's more that I feel HOAs should be 100% outlawed. The one you described provided a service. That's something a group of people in any neighborhood could do whether HOAs are in existence or not. Something like that I totally applaud EXCEPT governing "rules".

And it's not as easy as that. It's pretty much any desirable neighborhood has one. And I'm sure the first thing you're thinking is "but that's why the neighborhood IS desirable".

I don't think an HOA makes a place worth living in or not. Aside from the services that you mentioned above, which I think are great, there's no reason to have a civilian body governing what YOU do on your own property you pay for with your own money.

I'm 100% with you on this issue. I've had to deal with HOA committee members knocking on my door and asking me why my wife planted flowers, told that my DirecTV dish was "too big," told that my brother couldn't park his motorcycle in a "visitor" parking space when he stayed over for the weekend.... The problem is that it gives individuals the opportunity to intrude in your life in ways that would be impossible sans HOA.

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Am I the only person that feels like when you own the property that you have a right to do whatever you want to with it? While I might not be putting twenty cars in my yard and above ground pools everywhere, I still feel like it's total bullshit that someone else can tell me what to do with my own property who is not an actual government official referencing actual laws.

Now if people are running through your yard because of it, I can see your gripe, but isn't it as easy as just not looking at it?

One of my neighbors has the worst paint color on their house imaginable according to my tastes, but what gives me the right to tell them what to do with it? I don't look up there, they shouldn't look down at my place. For those of you who are familiar with the HOA story I posted a while back about me and my HOA (that I never joined by the way) it's a small entity with a bunch of big wigs in the neighborhood who want to exercise power of the rest of it.

Just because they think something is in good or bad taste doesn't give them the right to enforce their opinion on YOUR property that you pay your hard-earned money for.

I'm right there with you, TMC.