Dear Hoa's

[Sixxxxer]

Keep On Preaching Dude...

[Rider]

Originally Posted by Trip

No, that's pretty much true. You know it. Telling people what sort of flowers they can plant is well beyond normal keeping it nice procedure.

Flowers is an exaggeration, at least in my neighborhood it is. You can plant flowers and small plants anywhere you like. It's the trees and very large shrubs that need approval. They don't give a shit as to what it is that's being planted, it's the location. They just don't want large plants intruding on to other peoples property. Some evergreen trees get 20-30 feet wide, it you plant that shit right on the property line, your tree is going to protrude into your neighbors yard by 10-15 feet. That's 10-15 of less usable yard. All they ask is to use common sense when landscaping.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Rider

It's the trees and very large shrubs that need approval.

Ni!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4Ud8-jric

[Rider]

YT is blocked.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Rider

Flowers is an exaggeration, at least in my neighborhood it is. You can plant flowers and small plants anywhere you like. It's the trees and very large shrubs that need approval. They don't give a shit as to what it is that's being planted, it's the location. They just don't want large plants intruding on to other peoples property. Some evergreen trees get 20-30 feet wide, it you plant that shit right on the property line, your tree is going to protrude into your neighbors yard by 10-15 feet. That's 10-15 of less usable yard. All they ask is to use common sense when landscaping.

That's when you get a chainsaw and cut the part that is on your side out. Make it fall on their house.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by Trip

That's when you get a chainsaw and cut the part that is on your side out. Make it fall on their house.

I agree with that, they just want to avoid conflict and make it a "happy place". That's the one thing I hate about HOA's. Why do I need to be friendly? Fuck them, I can handle things in my own manner. A little plant poison here, and little rat poison there for their dog that shits in my yard... I could go in but I'm sure you'd agree with me.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Rider

I agree with that, they just want to avoid conflict and make it a "happy place". That's the one thing I hate about HOA's. Why do I need to be friendly? Fuck them, I can handle things in my own manner. A little plant poison here, and little rat poison there for their dog that shits in my yard... I could go in but I'm sure you'd agree with me there.

Yeah I am much more in agreement with justice on my own terms than I am about going to a board of snobby soccer moms.

[Smittie61984]

When I moved pool tables I had an HOA/security fucking ticket us for parking in a cul-de-sac. I sat the shit on fire in front of the security guy and did an indian dance around the fucker. The home owner laughed his ass off and gave each of us a $100 tip. He hated his HOA but he had more money than God so the neighborhood sucked his and his wife's asshole. He was some surgeon and she was the daughter of some Dupont type business owner (And smoking fine).

Though I don't have an official HOA this probably is a good representation of what my HOA would look like if we had one...

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Trip

I'm sorry, I thought this was the USA and we didn't tolerate this sort of bullshit. It's funny how one second we are for freedom and the next we are stripping it away on our own.

No kidding! You have federal, state, county and city government. Now some jack asses want neighbourhood government too.

Its ridiculous.

[bmblebee]

The biggest irony and flaw in most HOA arguments are that people are too stupid to take care of their own affairs and need to watched and regulated...by a board of the same people too stupid to manage their own affairs...