On Dec 17, 5:02*pm, "Sanity" wrote:
"Harry K" wrote in message

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On Dec 17, 1:38 pm, wrote:





On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:52:28 -0800 (PST), "

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why anyone buys into deed restricted communities leaves me at a
loss........

my home means if I want a purple flamingo in the front yard no one
should be able to do a thing about it

There are people who don't want anyone around them to upset their
little world with anything different than what their narrow mind finds
acceptable.
I wouldn't be shocked if this case is appealed. This fires a shot
across the bow of every HOA in Florida.

BTW truck restrictions are not that rare around here. In Cape Coral
you can't have a truck in your driveway by city ordinance.

Wonder what kind of stroke the HOA would have were one to buy a junker
car, chop the top back off and remove the trunk lid, viola! a Pickup
but the registration will show it is a car.

Harry K

Explain something to me. Someone buys a home in an HOA. *Prior to buying
they are given the docs and sign a statement to abide by them. Then all of a
sudden they scream, kick and cry when one of the regs from the docs are
enforced. *Please explain why that person bought in an HOA in the first
place if he didn't want to follow their rules. *Don't get me wrong, I don't
like HOA's but I sure wouldn't buy in one if I disagreed with the docs and
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A friend of mine bought in a HOA and totally reviewed and approved of
the rules presented at that time. What he didn't approve of was that
those rules were just the start of what has become a never ending
addition of stupid rules. As an example, shortly after he move there
his inlaws came for a visit. (This is a subdivision where the minimum
lot size is two acres and my friends house sits on 4 acres.) He
inlaws came in a $200K motor home and spent two nights. They pulled
totally in the driveway at the back part of the house. The motor home
could only be seen from one side of the house. Two weeks after that he
received a notice from the HOA that they had voted a new rule that
disallowed the parking of a motorhome overnight anywhere within the
subdivision.

A few months after that, he pulled the fuselage of a plane he is
building in his 4-car garage out onto the driveway to do a trial
mounting of the wings. He just had it out there for Saturday and
Sunday before putting everything back inside his garage. A few days
after that, he received notice that the board had again imposed a new
rule against building an airplane in his garage. That is only a
couple of the rules that have been implemented since he bought his
home.