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Letter from my Homeowner's Assn.
beneteau
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Dear Resident:
During a recent drive through for possible violations it was noted that your garbage container is not being properly stored on your property. Containers within the subdivision are to be concealed from view.
My response which I wrote on the bottom of the letter and which will be mailed tomorrow:
"When you or the HOA start paying my garbage disposal fees, then you or the HOA can place the garbage container anywhere you f'ing please. In the meantime, shove it!"
Note: All of my neighbors have their garbage containers in full view of the street, same as mine. I have another container that sits on one side of the house. Now, I'm gonna place both containers in my driveway next to my garage in full view of the street. Come on *-hole, pay me a visit.
During a recent drive through for possible violations it was noted that your garbage container is not being properly stored on your property. Containers within the subdivision are to be concealed from view.
My response which I wrote on the bottom of the letter and which will be mailed tomorrow:
"When you or the HOA start paying my garbage disposal fees, then you or the HOA can place the garbage container anywhere you f'ing please. In the meantime, shove it!"
Note: All of my neighbors have their garbage containers in full view of the street, same as mine. I have another container that sits on one side of the house. Now, I'm gonna place both containers in my driveway next to my garage in full view of the street. Come on *-hole, pay me a visit.
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When you have a bunch of brown shirts running around telling people how to live, you have a recipe for disaster.
As long as they have no power (money) they are a nuisance, not a problem.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
After re reading the association rules and all of the covenants, I responded with a letter stating that nowhere in said rules or covenants did it state that I was required to do any such thing but if it bothered them so terribly, they were more that welcome to wash or paint it themselves. Never heard anything else from them on the matter.
Did you read the covenants of the HOA when you moved in by chance, or are you one of those that simply says "F this" after signing an agreement?
There, I have P'ed on them enough. [:D]
Two months later at the annual meeting I was elected to the board of governors. They tried everything they could to keep me off it. Including asking me to show proof I owned and not just rented, I told them to go to the court house and find out.
Sometimes when you have the rules on your side it's fun just to put the screws to the busybody idiots.[8D]
I remember what were called 'Condo Commandos' years ago in S. Florida.
These folks lived to walk around and find anything to gripe about to the board.
Fast forward to today.
My mother lives in a gated community with an HOA.
Not a single person gets hassled except for those that do blatant things regarding lack of upkeep of their property, or starting up a pig farm.[:D]
Works for her anyway, and helps to maintain her property value by not having purple houses with 3 foot tall grass around them.
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I don't have an HOA either, but in all honesty I think you made yourself look like a 'small' man by using foul language when it was not used towards you.
Did you read the covenants of the HOA when you moved in by chance, or are you one of those that simply says "F this" after signing an agreement?
I have read the "Declarations" that pertain to my section of the subdivision numerous times and retain copies of each "Declaration" as it pertains to each section of our subdivision. As the subdivision grew, there was a clause added to the "newer" (sections) Declarations, starting with about section F (I live in section A) that had an addendum "attached" with a list of convenants. Since that addendum with the list of convenants is NOT part of sections A through E Declarations, it is my belief these convenants do to not apply to these sections. It, also, states in these Declarations that NO ADDENDUM can be added without a 90% approval of all homeowners. That ain't happened and never will. I'm 68yo and if no one likes my foul language----then don't piss me off with some idiotic letter and, furthermore, they can kiss my *!
Did he/she really misspelled the word sight?
Get yourself both of these for the front yard!
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Doesn't everybody have them?[:)] Mine's armed.
quote:During a recent drive through for possible violations it was noted that your garbage container is not being properly stored on your property. Containers within the subdivision are to be concealed from site.
Did he/she really misspelled the word sight?
Actually that was my booboo. I changed it to "view".
I have never (and trust me on this) lived in a place that had convents (HOA),and that is by design.
Convents? Ain't those barracks for nuns? [:D][:D] Possibly, "covenants"? [:D][:D][;)]
And if I'm in violation, she lets me know it. [;)]
if the hoa was instituted after you'd moved in there, then screw em. let em send you nasty letters all they want.
I have a HOA in my neighborhood. It's in place to protect everyone. No long term trailer parking, any sort of fence needs to be approved, no rusty old washing machines in the front yard, no junk cars in the front yard, etc. We have never had any problems. It's a quiet nice residential neighborhood. If I wanted a bunch of sheds and a crappy looking fence, or if I wanted to see a wrecked '68 Winnebago sit along a neighbors drive way for 6-8 years I would live elsewhere..........
Good points, all, and those same factors represent what I like about our association.
I have lived in several neighborhoods with them. I made sure to read them before buying. They are there to protect everyone's investment. I've also lived in neighborhoods without covenants. Some of them started getting pretty trashy after awhile.
Covenants aren't carved in granite. If you do move in and find them too oppressive, use the democratic procedures in the covenants and change them.
quote:Originally posted by Alpine
I have never (and trust me on this) lived in a place that had convents (HOA),and that is by design.
Convents? Ain't those barracks for nuns? [:D][:D] Possibly, "covenants"? [:D][:D][;)]
Ahh, the spelling police caught me again!
I plead the 5th.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Our HOA was run by the developer, since the project was still being built. I attended the one annual meeting they held in 3 years, and asked (in a civil manner) why the HOA had not filed an annual accounting of funds (as required). Got a heated lecture from the developer. Replied that I had asked why no financial report? Another blast from developer. Stood up, said thank you- I asked twice politely- now I will see you in court.
And we did- where developer was found guilty of embezzlement of large sums, ordered to repay, sent to prison.
I am not aware of buying a non-HOA property that gets turned into one around here.
You either look for that protection, or you don't want anything to do with it.
Seems simple to me.
Heck,.....I'm not even part of a HOA, and I keep my garbage cans in the garage until they go out for pickup.
I think most people buy into them not really thinking of the HOA or really buying into the whole process, well maybe a little bit. But there are those that live for it, ie the housewifes and worthless men that have nothing better to do. But I think most of them are created to create some false sense of a prestigous neighborhood and keeping something pristine because everybody is going want to trash it and everybody is going to want so badly to be in this neighborhood. But me Ill skip having the $500 mail box that all 5000 people own packed into a square block with a pit dug and called a lake.
I once owned property outside of Hot Springs Ar. When I had bought it there was no HOA. about 2 years later there was a building boom around me and one was voted in. I got a letter in the mail telling me my property was now in said HOA and a rule book. 1ST ,most of these houses were on a 1/4 or 1/2 acre lot. I owned 15 acres,mostly wooded. I went to the next meeting and told them I would not abide by their rules . They took me to court and they lost, they even had to pay my legal fee's. I still got compaints from them all the time about me not keeping my wooded property up to their standards. I went to the next meeting and told them if I recieved one more letter I would build a trailer park right in the middle of that 15 acres. I bet they were glad when I sold it [^]
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Get yourself both of these for the front yard!
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I was always a big fan of the plywood cutouts of the fat woman bending over or the fellow smoking a pipe leaning against a tree. Neighbor went on vacation for three weeks, other neighbor put the fat woman cut up on vacationing neighbor's property as soon as they left.
Mostly' I found homeowwner groups to be a bunch of retired nitwit busybodys with nothing to do but drive around pestering folks.Yep, some old turd that thinks he's running the CIA.
quote:Originally posted by gesshots
Get yourself both of these for the front yard!
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Doesn't everybody have them?[:)] Mine's armed.
I see you have a "Shovel Bird". Did you make it?
I have a couple of them in my front yard that my Dad made up about 20 yrs. ago!