On Aug 30, 7:16*pm, "Colbyt" wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message

m...

No-flag rule:

"After receiving support from members of Congress, and even the Obama
administration, Medal of Honor recipient Van T. Barfoot, who once
singlehandedly took on three Nazi tanks, triumphed in his quest to fly Old
Glory."

But here's a list of seven homeowners who did not prevail over the
fungating pustules that are HOAs.

http://theweek.com/article/index/104...meowners-assoc...

There is nothing wrong with a HOA having rules and enforcing them. *People
who are purchasing in a deed restricted community should read the rules and
accept them BEFORE they buy or buy elsewhere if they are unwilling to abide
by the rules.

Now I will agree that a couple of those 7 in the initial post, link, *would
have been "deal killers" for me.

--
Colbyt
Please come visithttp://www.househomerepair.com


LOL, or if they find they don't enjoy some of the rules they run
for one of the positions on the HOA board and they CHANGE
the RULES they DISLIKE...

The problem is that most people in such "communities" fall
into the trapping that "someone else" will take care of the
common areas -- well "someone else" does, the HOA board
officers who can create the rules... Sadly most people paying
into such communities are only concerned with the bottom
line (how much their fees will be) and fail to pay attention to
much of the minutiae of how the little hamster on the wheel
hidden in the back room secretly keeps things running...

By the time they are a subject to a rule they don't like (or its
recent strict enforcement by a newly elected HOA board) it
is too late to fight it, you have to do what you are told until
the next time the HOA board is elected...

It is the SAME EXACT process that happens on the local
city/town municipal government in most of the US... No
one pays much attention to what goes on except for a
few "issue zealots" once the issue of the next year's
tax rates have been determined, everyone goes back into
their 11.5 month coma until the following year leaving
"someone else" (in this case the people who got elected
into local offices or appointed to local boards/committees)
to mind the store totally in control of what goes on with
input mostly from those crazy "issue zealots" who come
to every meeting complaining of some malady that happened
to them six months ago that they "keep reliving in their mind"
and bother enough of those in charge that they pass a new
ordinance to get rid of the person...

Like the little old lady who stepped in dog mess once and
keeps coming in until there is an ordinance with some teeth
to it, like a $200 fine or jail time for violations because she
had to throw away her favorite pair of old people shoes...

Or the cat lady who had a stray dog come up on her porch
that wants all dogs to in kennels/pens or on a leash because
that one stray mean old doggie scared her and the unholy
pack of cats she keeps cooped up in her house...

Such is life in America -- whether its your HOA or your local
government, your disinterest in the minutiae of daily life gives
the people that step forward to shoulder the burdens of
dealing with such things extraordinary power they would not
otherwise have if everyone they had authority over paid some
attention to what was going on more than they do now...

~~ Evan