Big news in TEXAS this week!

[Kiki]

True maybe not all 9, but it's worth a try.

The law is tricky...and HOA do not want to fight certain cases, especially ones that involve "therapy pets."

There is a great book that everyone living in an HOA should read.
http://texashoalaw.com

This site here has great information about "therapy pets"..a few different case studies.
https://www.hoaleader.com

 

[Ursuline Chick]

So sorry All you Texans, in New Orleans alot of people had chickens in their yards, and I am referring to the city proper, not the suburbs, then 2005 Katrina hit, all of a sudden greedy contractors started pushing older people out of the city, many could not afford to rebuild. Next we had suburbanites building hugh houses that took up almost their whole lot. And they think they can take over our neighborhoods, the ones people have lived in for generations and impose their will on those of us real New Orleaneans who have live in a neighborhood for longer than they have been alive. So my expirence is with young, entitled people who care nothing about their neighbors, just what they want. I say they should move back to the suburbs and leave the rest of us alone. Why should I move from a neighborhood that I grew up in and have raised a family and grandchildren in, just because some young suburbanite thinks my neighborhood is "cool" enough to come in and change.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

So sorry All you Texans, in New Orleans alot of people had chickens in their yards, and I am referring to the city proper, not the suburbs, then 2005 Katrina hit, all of a sudden greedy contractors started pushing older people out of the city, many could not afford to rebuild. Next we had suburbanites building hugh houses that took up almost their whole lot. And they think they can take over our neighborhoods, the ones people have lived in for generations and impose their will on those of us real New Orleaneans who have live in a neighborhood for longer than they have been alive. So my expirence is with young, entitled people who care nothing about their neighbors, just what they want. I say they should move back to the suburbs and live the rest of us alone. Why should I move from a neighborhood that I grew up in and have raised a family and grandchildren in, just because some young suburbanite thinks my neighborhood is "cool" enough to come in and change.

My heart is still broken over what's happened in the city I call my spiritual home. It's like I was meant to live there, or did in a past life. And I'm not even particularly a believer in that stuff, but that's how it feels to me. I've been back probably 6 times a year since Katrina, seen what's happening. It kills me, breaks my heart all over again each time. Working with some chef friends there to help their food industry workers affected find new affordable housing so they can continue to do what they do so very well was hard! The developers and hipsters buying up lots and homes, building hideous homes or themselves or on spec, turning that beautiful historic place into McMansions with zero lot lines, and pseudo-southern shotguns with post modernistic tendencies should be a crime. I grieve with you.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

OMG, McMansions, you really are a New Orleanean at heart. Thank you. That is exactally what we are dealing with. Couldn't have said it better. Thank you for caring, we had some bad street flooding two weeks ago and found out who our real neighbors were. The residents who lived here before the storm came out to help those who got water. The newbies were nowhere to be found. (We didn't get water in our home, but my neighbor across the street did). The real neighbors got them up and running over a weekend!

 

[NorthTexasWink]

I still have nightmares about the first time I went into the Old Absinthe House after it had been "renovated" by the new owners and turned into a daiquiri bar. I literally burst into tears right on the spot. Even HE was impressed, I never do stuff like that.

I try to take comfort in the certainty that these carpetbagger youngsters will turn tail and run soon as the next big flood and 'caine hit them hard. Even insurance won't make them whole, so they'll find the next hipster heaven.

I can't even talk about the statues being removed.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I understand, it has all changed so much, as a kid my Daddy was the Old Absinthe House's plumber. They knew he like Jack Daniels Black label and every Christmas they would send him a case as a Christmas present. Those days are long gone. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. I really hope Texas will reconsider. I find it interesting that our country encouraged us to keep chickens and kitchen gardens in the great depression and WW II, and now we are discouraged from doing either. What happened to being as self sufficient as possible. Good luck Texans, I am rooting for you.

 

[Porkchoptx]

So sorry.
The HOA can not deny "therapy pets"...A note from a doctor stating they are those kind of pets would work....

I would try for therapy pet. I work with someone who's daughter just started college ( University of Houston) and she had a doctors note so she could have a dog in her dorm room as a therapy pet. This kid needs therapy like I need a hole in my head so as long as you can get a doctor to write it I would try. If one doctor says no go to a different one Good luck I hope it works for you. Come to think of it we could probably all use therapy now days Cluck Cluck

 

[Kiki]

I'm not saying i agree or disagree with "therapy pets"....I've just seen that a doctor's note really does work against HOA's.

 

[Porkchoptx]

I'm not saying i agree or disagree with "therapy pets"....I've just seen that a doctor's note really does work against HOA's.

Right. My point being a doctor will write an order for most anything if you ask him so why not ask and then you get to keep all your feathered friends. Worth a try

For those of us who are not lucky enough to have chickens yet I hope everybody checks back and we keep this going. As soon as we have the next election I'm going to write every Senate and House member to get this chicken bill going early If Van Taylor decides to run again and gets reelected I know he'll do it but in case he doesn't I'm ready pen paper computer in hand

 

[~KH~]

I got a call today from our HOA to talk to me about the chickens they've discovered I have. We have nine hens. I knew better before I raised them that I probably shouldn't but after five years I got a little comfortable (really always afraid but FIVE years passed.) I was reminded that poultry was not allowed here in Sienna and to call them back when we were in compliance. I cried all evening. I remembered seeing this a month or so ago but feel uneasy - can you explain? Do I really have a leg to stand on come September 1st with my HOA? This is in Sienna Plantation and I am heartbroken

I have no idea if there's any validity to this, but when my ex and I were buying a house in a new neighborhood that had a list of HOA requirements (no cost to the HOA, though), we asked the Realtor (who was also one of the investors in this neighborhood) what would happen if someone in the neighborhood broke the "rules." He said that if no one complained, after a certain period of time, it would make that rule null and void. If you've had chickens for 5 years and no one has complained until now, maybe there's some loophole there.