You're right it was a generalization. Let me expand on that though. My uncle is not allowed to park his F350 King Ranch SRW at his home in Ohio. No 1-ton trucks allowed. His neighbor has a F250. Same year trucks, look identical except for the colors. The neighbor is not prohibited from parking his truck at home. He is also not allowed to work on his vehicles in his driveway... And to put it simply, if I own my home, nobody is going to tell me what I can and can't do with my property with the exception of where a permit is required.
You're right it was a generalization. Let me expand on that though. My uncle is not allowed to park his F350 King Ranch SRW at his home in Ohio. No 1-ton trucks allowed. His neighbor has a F250. Same year trucks, look identical except for the colors. The neighbor is not prohibited from parking his truck at home. He is also not allowed to work on his vehicles in his driveway... And to put it simply, if I own my home, nobody is going to tell me what I can and can't do with my property with the exception of where a permit is required.
Never had an issue with mine. And our amenities are baller.
Your uncle SIGNED INTO his HOA before he purchased the house. Unless the HOA came in after he bought it, in which case he did not have to become part of it. Its not like the HOA comes in and puts people at gunpoint and makes them become part of the HOA.
My parents have a few rental properties, one is in a HOA neighborhood. The previous owner was not under the HOA jurisdiction, but when we purchased it we had to agree to the HOA terms, but it was known that it was HOA when we looked at it first, and they gave us a pamphlet of all the rules/regs. The neighbor house at that property is also not under the HOA. This one is mostly geared around rental properties and making sure the tenants we have adhere to some pretty basic guidelines (making sure the garbage cans are put back into the side yard and dont sit in front of the house for a week, making sure they dont have 2-3 broken down iroc camaros in the yard, etc, and that we dont paint the house bright mexican green/purple/yellow, etc).
There's no way i'm gonna live in a neighborhood where i pay money to have someone tell me what i can/can't do in my own yard.
There's no way i'm gonna live in a neighborhood where i pay money to have someone tell me what i can/can't do in my own yard.
Wife and i bought a new home back in July and we looked at several neighborhoods where there was HOA. Some of them wouldn't let you park on the street. I knew they weren't for me cause i have a pick-up with an enclosed trailer for my business and i wasn't parking it in my drive.
Fair enough. There's no way I'm gonna live in a neighborhood where my neighbors paint their house bright green, with dead trees and no landscaping, and broken cars parked in the lawn and driveway, bringing down my property values.
See, it works both ways. ;-) Just need to find a happy medium. Some HOAs are great.
Fair enough. There's no way I'm gonna live in a neighborhood where my neighbors paint their house bright green, with dead trees and no landscaping, and broken cars parked in the lawn and driveway, bringing down my property values.
See, it works both ways. ;-) Just need to find a happy medium. Some HOAs are great.
Its like that in the ghetto. Dont see it anywhere else in decent mid/upper class areas.