Comments on: 7 Ridiculous Homeowners Association (HOA) Rules

By: getnalife

getnalife — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:12:56 +0000

I live in a HOA and let me tell you the HOA of today are a joke, I just got a letter stating I had to repaint my door another color since the 2 old fart ladies on the architectual committee decided they no longer like the color..I went up to tell them were to go . Instead I got all paper work from my orginal house purchase and it clearly states all home must be kept to the original color scheme of when the house was built.. Whola.. I then Had the realtor agent for the HOA give me a copy of the paper work those ladies put in my file ..Well they buried themselves on that one.. No architectual committee can change the color of the exterior with out a vote with in the community.
Gee After I left I got a call and amazingly they dropped the issue with my front door color..My next house will not be in a HOA .. they are ridiculous now …

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:43:25 +0000

This is truly ridiculous. It is not only HOA rules, but also city bylaws that are absolutely ridiculous. What America needs is a strong counter-culture, perhaps like in the 60′s, to prevent it from becoming a total police state. I personally find it frightening to see more and more rules controlling people’s lives; it is already a joke to call America “land of the free”. Very scary.

By: Chanting

Chanting — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:00:07 +0000

Laaand of the Freeee Laaaaaaaaaaaand of the FReeeeeee

By: homohoa

homohoa — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:09:47 +0000

I recently developed a HOA with collaboration from a small group of investors. However the rules we set in place are fairly common sense, and most people should have no problems with a few of the restrictions we have placed.

1) No vehicles more than 5 years old unless the vehicle is worth more than 80,000.
2) No visitors, ever.
3) You may only open your front door if your home is on fire, then you must close it before exiting the home.
4) your lawn must have exactly 37 tulips (violation of this rule is a 1,000 dollar fine per tulip above or below 37.)
5) You must post political campaign ads for the candidate chosen by the HOA prominently on your property, as well as on any vehicle you own.
6) You may not sell your home without written approval from the HOA.
7) Your doorbell must ring at exactly 42 decibels, (fine schedule for non compliance is on track the rule 4)
You must decorate for Halloween and fourth of July, but are prohibited from placing decorations for any other holiday (both inside and outside of any structures on the lot)
9) You may not at any time play any music on your property.
10) You must provide a 30 day notice to the HOA before entering or leaving your property for more than 10 minutes

There are a few more, but these are the ones that stand out in my mind as common sense and easy to follow.

This simple set of common sense rules helps us define ourselves as a community and at the same time increases the value of our property.

Failure to abide by any of these rules will obligate you to forfeiture of your home and 35 years of indentured servitude to the HOA or 250,000,000. Oh, and your first born child.

By: Jolie

Jolie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:03:17 +0000

If I can ever afford to buy a house, it will NOT be in any neighborhood with an HOA. If I’m paying over $200k for something, I damn well have the right to do as I please with it.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:21:26 +0000

to BUK

Exactly….

Why do we even have discrimination laws. Senior communities are nice but should they be allowed to discriminate based on age. I could go into a big spiel here but alas not style. Think on it people……….

By: Janegael

Janegael — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:13:54 +0000

When I was home shopping the first question I asked was if it was part of HOA. Any house that was I refused to look at. Mine is where I can plant as many roses, have as many dogs as I can care for and paint purple if I want to. That, my friends, is the freedom so many have died for.

By: Buk

Buk — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:57:48 +0000

It seems that people are more willing to give up more and more freedoms. Either letting the government dictate by law or if beyond the scope of governments, letting local groups dictate policy. Why did we even bother to break away from England over 200 years ago? It seems there’s a lot of people who don’t care about there freedoms.
When I bought my house I wouldn’t even look at a house if it had an HOA. I guess eventually there will be an association that will tell you what you can and can’t purchase when looking at houses. Maybe they won’t like your age or the type of car you drive and you won’t be able to buy your dream home. I think it just may end up being the HOA’s that drive the price of your house down due to there strict rules and threats to the homeowners who aren’t complying.

By: Saxo_Grammaticus

Saxo_Grammaticus — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:13:14 +0000

People buy into the HOA thing because they want to live somewhere that keeps out “undesirables.” Then they find out that, to their neighbors, THEY are the undesirables. Things look a bit different from that point of view.

By: seasandcakes

seasandcakes — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:34:22 +0000

Seth wrote: “yet they are still penalized by some totally arbitrary organization that somehow has control of how their property should look”

Somehow has control?!? The fact is, every one of these people signed a contact with their HOA, and agreed to the stipulations in the contract. Everybody has a hard-luck story, but in the real-world those don’t trump signed contracts. There’s a pretty simple solution to not having to agree to some of these rules: DON’T SIGN THE CONTRACT! Move somewhere else.