On Jul 21, 8:32 am, Banty <Banty_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <2i0984hb2o1601blurb4mgdvku398gp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Rosalie B.
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> >Banty <Banty_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>In article <eov784pts6lu1kv1n7ts8711ncomn6a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, toto says...
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> >>>On 18 Jul 2008 08:11:26 -0700, Banty <Banty_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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> >>>>Yep. I have an immediate neighbor who has indoor furniture on the
front ****ch
> >>>>and stuff all over the yard, an uncertain number of noisy miniature
pincers
> >>>>running around, recurring noisy marital problems, and now five kids.
Anyone
> >>>>driving through would be thinking "um - *that* house....".
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> >>>You don't live in a place that has a homeowners association <g>
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> >I would NEVER voluntarily live where there was a HOA. The real
> >problems can't be addressed by a HOA so all they can do is get
> >hysterical over 'property values' being sent down the tubes by stuff
> >like hanging your laundry out to dry, having a vegetable garden, or
> >parking your pick-up truck in front of your house overnight.
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> >Trash and junk cars can usually be dealt with by county ordinances,
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> That takes a lot of time, has to be an egregious case, and there's a lot
of
> foot-dragging. We have a situation like that some houses away, finally
they
> were considered one of six situations in the whole town they decided to
crack
> down on. The property owners (well, the property-holders as, having
failed to
> auction off the house, the bank is reluctant to move them out ...)
sorta mostly
> cleaned up, just enough to keep the town off their back.
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> >and IMHO most of the other stuff is transitory. The real stuff that
> >affects property values are things the government does like highways
> >and trans****tation infrastructure - not whether you have a flagpole, a
> >basketball net or a pink flamingo in your yard.
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> Naw - the real stuff that affects property values are huge and
snowballing
> irresponsibility on the part of banks and financial firms ;-)
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> I wouldn't want to live where is an HOA unless it were a case where just
about
> everywhere around has an HOA. I wouldn't want to put up with the case
where all
> my neighbors were avoiding HOA's - a pro****tion of them would remind one
why
> HOA's came to being.
I won't live in a place with an HOA. I am ok with living in a historic
district and the requirements that go with that, but I feel those
requirements are aimed at maintaining historic accuracy, rather than
that each house look like each other. I like having a pink house,
green house,orange house, yellow house...all on the same block. Yeah,
it means we have some issues occasionally, but the bigger issues can
be addressed by code compliance (which has lately taken an active
interest in our revitalizing 'hood). I know far too many people who
find their HOA useless when it comes to real issues, but great when it
comes to having the wrong mail box or the garbage cans not in within
an hour...a lot of them locally are run by retired military types. Our
neighborhood is full of artists and old folks....
Knowing I wouldn't like HOA restrictions, I simply wouldn't choose to
buy in an HOA-run development, and rather deal with the small issues
that come up.
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