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

Yeah, but if your car won't start in the morning, it'd be mighty convenient to have somebody close who knows what they're doing, and wouldn't have to catch a cab across town to retrieve your car when they are done.

 

Zoning laws would have prevented that. No HOA needed.
Sounds like a township with rural area. Happens all the time up here that some company comes in, buys a few acres of land. They build a subdivision, and create it as an HOA. The HOA then sues the all the farmers around because the pig manure they use to fertilize the field stink, or some bs like that.

 

That's what happened to the track my grandparents used to race at...as time went on, developers built up the area around it and the "high class" people buying those fancy houses next to a dirt track started complaining and filing lawsuits over the noise. Here's a thought: If you don't like the noise generated by a race track, don't buy a house next door to one! Anyway, last season of racing there was in '95 and it's since been torn down.

If I were a farmer and my uppity new neighbors started filing lawsuits against me over my operation that I'd been peacefully carrying on since long before they arrived, I'd go the extra mile, so to speak...make sure I'd spread when the stink would drift their way...and lay it on extra thick to make sure it would linger for a while. My property, and I was there first. Don't like it? Move out the same way you moved in.

 

2nd Creek Raceway?

 

People just don't like looking at trucks. Way to many people have the world view that they should be in some one else's business. We should all live behind picket fences, drive a car no older then 3years old, have your lawns cropped to putting green standards, and by no means have a truck or motorcycle anywhere the naked eye can see. Screw those people. The whole lot of them are self infatuated idiots.

A little story. I have had my run in with HOAs. Never again, never! That is not this story, but just see how far these type people go. I currently live in a rual area; one neighbor has like 12 miniature horses, another has half a dozen llamas, still another has multiple, goats, mules, and donkeys, and down the street a guy is raising natural feed beef. Most of the lots are 5 acre, some are 10, next door is a 20 acre tree farm, but their are some houses on as little as an 1/2 acre. Typical rual, non-hoa setting, right?

Well the guy across the street from me drives log truck. The truck looks like this:
This is not the truck. This truck belongs to Joel Olsen, and I got the photo of the google. I am not going to post up my neighbors truck without asking him, and he is not yet home. But, the truck looks every bit as good as this, if not better. Pete, 625horse ISX, 18.

Now living in a town that grew up on timber, one that is dependent on timber, one where almost everybody works in the timber industry, ---- you would think this thing sitting in your back yard after work is no big deal. Well not from some old hen.

I am under the hood one of my cars, and I overhear this conversation between my neighbors:

The old hen with her kept husband in tow goes to my neighbor with the log truck, "What do you think about putting up a fence."

The logger goes, "Do what you want. I don't care if you want a fence."

Old hen, "No, you should put up fence."

Logger, "A fence for what?"

Old hen, "Well this is a nice residential country setting, and you shouldn't have industrial equipment like that in your yard. It brings down property values. If you insist on bringing that home after work you aught to have the curtesy of putting up a fence so we, or the rest of the neighborhood, don't have to view it. "

I kid you not. A guy has 5 acres outside a small timber town, and some old hen has to complain about parking a new log truck. Thats how some people are.

The rest of the conversation did not go as friendly.

Needless to say, I had just moved into my place and I had not yet moved all my vehicles in yet. The old lady and her school teacher husband moved out shortly after. They could not only take see that log truck, but they had complaints about my "car lot" also.

Of all the irony, the guy that bought their house is the superintendent of the school district. Has a PHD in education. I have dinner at their house often. They have never said a thing about the car lot or the truck lot.

 

I take it the Hen was not a Trump supporter?

 

I'd rather be woken up by a 15L beast than some kid with a fart can on their POS Civic (or the stupid music all those morons seem to blast through those ghetto wired sound systems).

I don't see what's wrong with equipment and trucks on someone's property. My parent's neighbour has a logging company and parks all his gear in his backyard during break-up. I love it.

 

Santa Fe

 

I live on a private road... The neighbor was excited to see my truck in the drive, her father used to drive... No issues here, but most all of the homeowners here are business owners, old money. they appreciate trucks and the folks that do the heavy lifting.

 

I bet the city has an ordinance against commercial vehicles, or vehicles over x weight, or x wheels/axles. I also bet he is fully aware of this city ordinance and decided to ignore it since in his mind the city officials are just chumps and been 'harassing' him since he was 14 and considered himself above those no skateboarding on the sidewalk in front of stores ordinances.