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I don't understand HOA neighborhoods. What's the point of owning a single family home if you have to answer to the ******* of the neighborhood that has nothing better to do than police the neighborhood for landscaping that doesn't conform to his or her liking.
Its to give bitchy woman who have nothing better to do in life, feel like they are doing something.
True story: Most HOA's are not enforced by the community, but instead a business, or whoever built the community. At my last HOA I got a complaint about my truck being parked on the street with a trailer. I called the company that runs the HOA, and no joke, they said "not another ******* complaint". Apparently the people holding the meetings had "passed" a rule about trailer parking without approval from the company that ran it. They said ignore it, and they would tell them to stop bothering me.
Trees destroy underground utilities (supply laterals, sewer lines, etc) clog up things like storm drains, are a hazard to overhead utilities (power, phone, cable tv, etc) are a damage and liability concern to things on the ground (parked cars, children, houses, etc) buckle sidewalks and cause tripping hazards... the list goes on and on.
As a developer, why would you ever even consider planting a tree in a cookie cutter HOA neighborhood?
You might want to check to see if electric mowers are allowed.
Can't screw the landlord. The terms of my lease require me to conform to the CC&Rs, and provide for the assignment of penalties stemming from non-compliance to me.
I've read them. I'm required to maintain the lawn & landscaping (there is no landscaping) in "neat condition." Specifically, the grass may be no taller than six inches as measured from the ground. No restrictions are placed upon the implements by which I may achieve this, meaning that a turbine-powered lawn mower is not entirely excluded from my future.
Originally Posted by Enginerd
I don't understand HOA neighborhoods. What's the point of owning a single family home if you have to answer to the ******* of the neighborhood that has nothing better to do than police the neighborhood for landscaping that doesn't conform to his or her liking.
There are arguments to be made on both sides of the issue. On the one hand, HOAs to have the potential to become bitchy, micromanaging organizations run by people who have no actual skills or talent yet seek power. On the other hand, there's always that one homeowner who wants to paint their house pink, stick the washer and dryer in the front yard, and park six non-functional El Caminos on blocks.
Originally Posted by EO2K
As a developer, why would you ever even consider planting a tree in a cookie cutter HOA neighborhood?
The last house I owned was in an HOA neighborhood in Maineville, OH, in what used to be a corn field. The CC&Rs actually mandated the planting of trees by homebuilders, and went so far as to specify breeds and quantities.
The house in question, including the tress which I was required to plant when I built the place:
(They've grown quite a bit over the past 13 years.)
there's always that one homeowner who wants to paint their house pink, stick the washer and dryer in the front yard, and park six non-functional El Caminos on blocks.
On the other hand, there's always that one homeowner who wants to paint their house pink, stick the washer and dryer in the front yard, and park six non-functional El Caminos on blocks.
Yeah, **** those guys! Wait....that's us. Okay maybe not a pink house or washer and dryer but the cars for sure hahaha
iRobot needs to make a lawn mowing robot. They could call it a "lawnba"
104° in Santa Clara? **** me... I mean, it was a little on the warm side in the summertime when I lived there ~4 years ago, but no way in hell it was 104°.
That being said, robo-mowers are old news.
Something about this is oddly terrifying, in a Maximum Overdrive sort of way...
Originally Posted by Scaxx
Yeah, **** those guys! Wait....that's us. Okay maybe not a pink house or washer and dryer but the cars for sure hahaha
When I was in Jr. High school, it was easy to give people directions to my house. Go east on Midway Blvd, turn right between the sparkly pink and sparkly yellow houses.
Not making this **** up.
Wow, a lot has changed since those days... The house on the right used to be sparkly pink, and the house on the left used to exist... and be sparkly yellow.
104° in Santa Clara? **** me... I mean, it was a little on the warm side in the summertime when I lived there ~4 years ago, but no way in hell it was 104°.
Most summers we get one or two weeks where it's in the high 90s/low hundreds, this year it just happened to come technically in spring, rather than in August.
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Okay maybe not a pink house or washer and dryer but the cars for sure hahaha
