Well here it goes, tomorrow I'm going to face a judge "illegal" parking vs. hos

Keeps out the riffraff. Er...that's us ain't it. LOL!Soccer mom's make great porn.

 

Cmon man not the race card

 

One good thing about MI. When I was looking for a house it was very obvious which houses are in an HOA. Not only was the realtor pointing it out, there are disclosure laws that have to be signed during closing. Explaing the bylaws and prices and such.

 

How does one buy a house not knowing a HOA is attached ?

 

If the realtor doesn't make note of it.
Not all hoa's have a fenced or gated entrance.
I think it would have be itemized in the sales contract.

 

I live in a hoa. I like it , it keeps the jackwads in check.

Not all are good though, often times you get folks on these power trips just because they're on the board.
They used to run a segment on the local news about the bad ones every night.
I think after about six months of it a lot of the problems slowed quite a bit.
Board members didn't want to be the next one to have their face plastered all over the evening news for their ridiculous and petty behavior,lol.

 

A professional A Hole. I like him already.

 

Hoa should be outlawed.

In the 90's I owed a house next to a group of homes that was run by an hoa and those b*** tards gave me nothing but grief and hassles. They built the houses right on the property line and claimed part of my property as their own and was subject to their rules. They had no leg to stand on because the property I bought ten years before the deed changes was surveyed when I purchased it by the same company that surveyed theirs for the deed changes and the company said there was no line where the hoa board claimed, it was where the houses stood which made them illegally placed by the county regulations.

For five years this crap went on and it came to a close when they tried to sue me to get the property. They lost before the case ever was asssigned and knew it. I still own the house and property and lease it to a guy who runs a repair shop out of it.

 

I always wanted to have a repair shop come in and open next door to me after I'd lived there under hoa rules for years

This is a prime example of why hoa's exist.

 

Its true though, some people are pigs. The rules where I live even state that any vehicle "with unsightly body damage" is prohibited from the property. The empty lot next door became an unoffical parking lot, which was fine for a while until the junk started showing up. A few calls to bylaw services took care of that problem.