I don't disagree with your assessment, Miss Prissy. I'm sure there are very well organized HOA's and are probably not to be messed around with. The one we were a part of was not very professionally run. They tried and failed once to take a fellow neighbor to court because he trimmed his...
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Oh, I would disagree about the availability of HOA funding for legal actions in all parts of the country. We lived in a neighborhood of multi-millionaires and they loved, loved, loved the HOA, but never had the sense to budget the association fees for legal stuff...the annual budget...
ooooh, Squeaky! I like the way you think, but we're out of there now (thank goodness!). We grew 30 tomato plants this year. Our chickens ate tomato snacks for a couple of months. Lucky birds!
Hey Fr. Chuck:
We considered the planters, but Beefsteaks really love stretching their roots.
The neighborhood we moved from was primarily made up of homes in the $1 million price range. We quickly found that we didn't fit in very well with our neighbors (what were we thinking anyway?). So...
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Of course I asked why when we were pressed about our three tomato plants. They said that it took away from the symmetry of one yard to the next and that it could have a detrimental effect to property values...I'm not kidding. Part of my argument pointed out the development motto -...
Uggh! I feel your pain. I have mentioned in earlier posts that a main reason why we sold our house a couple of years ago in a "neighborhood with that down-home country feeling" (that's how the property was marketed...I'm not kidding) had to do with a gratuitous HOA board and tight covenants...