You have to be kidding right? Jeezus now I want to move my house shopping to outside city limits. Your house should be your rules. That HOA bs sounds suspiciously like some kind of military mandate.My HOA is fine with washing the car. You can't work on it in driveway, and aren't even supposed to work on them in the garage, but everyone does and no one cares. Several neighbors have lifts in 3rd bay and we all work on our cars. Snitches get stitches.
The HOA makes you submit a $75 application to get approval for ANY change to landscaping, driveway, facade, trim, paint color, farting in the yard, any and everything. What's crazy is the wife array of colors they've approved. There is a dark brown, a black, a tennis ball colored, and a puke green house. It appears they will approve anything, they just want their $75. And they have 2 old men that drive around in a golf cart, with the on file picture of your house, looking for anything that's different, then fining you.
You have to be kidding right? Jeezus now I want to move my house shopping to outside city limits. Your house should be your rules. That HOA bs sounds suspiciously like some kind of military mandate.
I regularly have to shovel the walkway in front of my unit(and all the way to the parking lot) since I don't want to walk through the snow just so I can clean off my car for the next morning.In my case:
1. A variance application doesn’t cost money. However, they are rigid about colors and styles. Best case there are 2 colors and/or styles to choose from. In most cases, there’s only 1.
2. We have the same idiots riding around in a golf cart with clipboards, looking for any little violation to get you on.
3. There are signs everywhere that read:
a) No soliciting (yay!)
b) No skateboarding or rollerblading (I don’t see the harm)
c) No smoking (yes, they’re talking about outdoors). They can’t legislate what goes on inside units, so I guess if one wants to smoke…it’s permissible to do so inside. Surely the neighbors won’t smell it.
4. My neighbors have giant directv dishes mounted on poles driven in their lawn. I was told I cannot do this, as the lawn on my side of the sidewalk is a shared space. Right.
Edit: how could I forgot my personal fav?
Living in western NY, it’s no secret we get hammered with snow in the winter. HOA is responsible for snow removal on the property - roads, sidewalks, stoops, everything. So one day I went to leave home for work. It was maybe 1030am, the day after a bad snow storm. When I got out to my car, it was completely buried. And the road next to it was unplowed. It took me the better part of 45 min to dig it out. I emailed the HOA coordinator and bitched. She told me to buy snow tires.
I regularly have to shovel the walkway in front of my unit(and all the way to the parking lot) since I don't want to walk through the snow just so I can clean off my car for the next morning.
Obviously the association is supposed to take care of this, and they do, but I can't wait til the crew shows up 10 hours after it's done snowing.
That's ballsy. There were 2 parking spots left at the DMV today. I backed into one. Realized the car to my left had the drivers door on my side and then the car to my right had backed in so their driver side door would also open towards my car. Then I looked ahead of me and the other parking spot had the drivers doors on the opposite sides, so I pulled into that spot hoping neither of those people had passengers.
Yeah HoAs can be good and bad. I'm glad we don't have one but also sort of wish we did as there was a house on the block that was completely dilapidated. The siding had algae on it and was rotting. Driveway was just rocks it was so far gone. Front porch sat at 20 degree slant. They had ducks that would nest in the front yard (but there are no ponds here?!?!) which was just weird but I guess they liked the "lawn" was just a huge shaded patch of dirt. They had never trimmed the trees so it was impossible for anything to grow. I guess whomever lived there finally died or went to an old folks home because it went up for sale. The listing was funny "House needs a complete gut and remodel. This is not a DIY project. As is. Cash only." No interior pics so you know it was bad. Someone bought it and they are still working on it 6 months later. I'm sure their neighbors are elated, because fuck me, it was bad.
Too late but I was thinking about it too.Paint the springs black.
It's not all bad, they do as great job with maintaining 6 pools, 14 of the nicest clay tennis courts I've ever played on (I've played since I was 5), 3 pickleball courts, RV storage, a boat ramp, 3 fishing docks, dozens of play grounds, basketball courts, fish stocked ponds in the middle of almost every block and landscaping on almost entry corner. The only think you have to pay beyond the $1200/ year HOA is for the 18 hole golf course. There's no minimum at the restaurant/ club house like a lot of the communities around here.
They just want they're fees, other than that, they mostly leave you alone. I've had 2 notices in 8 years. One for changing the color of the front door from what was on file. The color was close enough I didn't think they'd even notice, but they did. They really just wanted the fee. The other was to pressure wash, and they were 100% right, I had just been putting it off, so not a big deal.
Was it the orange no freeze stuff? The MK6 had issues with that stuff too. The normal green/blue stuff doesn't seem to affect it. Granted I live in Cali and use Bug off.Yes, it builds up gunk around the sensor resulting in the car telling you to refill the washer level regardless of your fluid level.
My HoA just started allowing chickens!