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Offline john9001

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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2007, 12:56:06 PM »
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 HOA's are the bastard love child of every person with the desire to have power over their neighbors. They are disgusting to me.


haha, mini dictators. :D

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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2007, 05:23:13 PM »
When the HOA tells you you cant have a certan flag or other things hanging about isnt that going aginst your freedom of exprestion??:huh
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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2007, 05:25:52 PM »
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When the HOA tells you you cant have a certan flag or other things hanging about isnt that going aginst your freedom of exprestion??:huh

Not if you sign the HOA agreement prior to buying the home. Then you've signed your freedom of expression away... and have no individual ground to stand on.
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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2007, 05:28:19 PM »
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When the HOA tells you you cant have a certan flag or other things hanging about isnt that going aginst your freedom of exprestion??:huh


during gulf war 1 a co-worker put up a american flag and got a notice from the HOA telling him to take it down, IE no flags allowed etc, he told them to take it down if they could. The flag stayed up.

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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2007, 05:33:02 PM »
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When the HOA tells you you cant have a certan flag or other things hanging about isnt that going aginst your freedom of exprestion??:huh


in a word , yes.
you can legally sign away your rights. this is the main reason you need to read everything, even fine print.

when I was house hunting, I made offer, they throw me a HOA papers up to look at and sign. I withdrew offer without bothering to read it. always asked them does it restrict what I can do on my land and house? they say yes. I tell them I ain't buying it. they say but it protects blah blah blah. I just give them a go to a hot place look and walk out.


not giving legal advice, just saying what might can be. if you need legal advice, go see a lawyer.

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« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2007, 07:25:37 PM »
I'm genuinely surprised; I didn't think people read books for fun anymore.

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« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2007, 09:44:00 PM »
Sorry TxMom, just saw this....

HOAs are very popular here. In my opinion, they stink. But, if you want to live the "Sea of Stucco", they will make you sign your rights away. Last time I checked, it is against my rights to tell me what I can and cannot do on property I own. Thats why you sign that right away when you move in. Funny thing is, you pay for it to. Monthly HOA fees are assessed from your house payment.

Interesting example of HOAs in operation. I work for Cox Communications. I work in Network Maintenance. We take our trucks home. F450 bucket trucks but under 26k GVW. Guy on our crew lives in an HOA. He parks his truck in his own driveway and gets ticketed for it. Several times. Nappy (Gov. Nepalatano) and the AZ Lawmakers pass a law stating any service oriented employee who either works from home or is on an 'on-call' status are now allowed to circumvent the HOA rule and park in their driveway or in the street in front of property. He still parks there and still gets tickets. Our government services division sends a notice to the HOA reference the new law. Two weeks go by with no tickets. Then, one morning about 5:45am, I get a call on my cell as I am rolling to work. My team mate came out and his truck was GONE! He assumed it was stolen but when we called the police, they said it had been towed. I'm not sure what else happened other than we got our truck back really fast. :)

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« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2007, 12:20:27 AM »
:lol Good story Repo.  Sad but good.
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« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2007, 04:15:05 AM »
I don't know about you but when I go to a book store, I really want the shelves more than the books. That comes of having more than 2500 of them (that is just what is out, and doesn't include those in storage) E books may save me, I can get about a thousand plus per gig of thumb drive.
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« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2007, 06:58:56 AM »
in a word , yes.
you can legally sign away your rights. this is the main reason you need to read everything, even fine print.


Well that just sucks:huh
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« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2007, 07:57:03 AM »
It is just the socialism model..  HOA gives every bitter little watermelon the authority to make people unhappy.  He is unhappy sooo.. anyone who seems to be happy or is in any way an individual.. he gets to go after em and spoil it for em.

He gets to have power without confrontation..   everyone is the same.  just as frigging misserable as the next guy.

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« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2007, 08:40:20 AM »
Got a call from a friend several years ago, his HOA was prohibiting him from giving bagpipe lessons in his house. Never heard the outcome.

Would never live in a neighborhood run by an HOA.
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« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2007, 08:56:50 AM »
Good news is HOAs make and enforce rules for the collective benefit of the community.

Bad news is HOAs make and enforce rules for the collective benefit of the community.

My impeccable taste needs no governance, but I'm not sure about yours.  
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« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2007, 01:14:53 AM »
We actually live in an HOA, had to get permission last summer to put up a wooden fence (had a steel one before).  We submitted it along with 2 other households to replace the fencing, each was responsible for putting up the fence within 60 days at their own cost, and they HOA required a certain size of plank and wood.  That lumber was only available at a location across town:rolleyes: Anyway, our household and one other got the fences up, the third family is just lazy or something.

Anywho, we can really do anything we want in our backyard now, so long as it' not completely out there.  We were probably supposed to get approved for planting trees, never did.  HOA around here is pretty lenient though, not bitter old birds just middle aged folk trying to get along like the rest of the community.
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