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Originally Posted by TAG UR IT
This is a two way street here....they can be good AND they can be a pain in the ass.
Let's say you want to sell your house to move on. You take incredibly good care of your lawn and exterior of your home. The neighbors on either side could care less about their lawns and the grass is overgrown, weeds are everywhere, etc. Guess what? No HOA means the value of your home just went DOWN! With a HOA in place, both of those neighbors just got letters sent to their house advising them they would be fined if they didn't get their lawn in order. The guy to your right did and he's cool. But, the guy on the left could give two shits about his lawn and got fined....and he's telling them to kiss his rear.
You see where I"m going w/ this? The VALUE of your home COULD depend on your HOA and how they act/react. I, personally, don't want a yellow, pink, and blue polka dotted house next to mine. I agree that it IS our home and we should be able to do what we want w/ them. BUT, what I want isn't what everyone else always wants. HOA is there to look out for our best interests.
Now, for the member who had their dish cables cut, file charges against the person who did that. Technically, the damaging and destruction of property NOT belonging to them w/ the intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property is criminal mischief. Cutting cables that don't belong to you is (well, it is here) a violation of LAW and is punishable. The HOA can tell you to take them down...even fine you for doing it, but touching them and cutting them???? HELL NO.
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hey tag, one question on the wire cutting tho. if it is explicitly written that you cannot change the exterior appearance of the building (in a town house or condo style setup) and you mount something like that, are you not violating the contract? and im sure it is written in some subclause that they have the right to return the exterior to the intended look by any means necessary.
i ask because i lost that fight with my own HOA, i live on the end of a complex with my side windows of the house pointing towards trees. my fiance recently put up a brown blind in the kitchen (on that side of the house). we recieved notification that it was against HOA policy to deliberately change the exterior appearance of the unit. and when you looked thru the window, you would see brown instead of white (whoopity shit, the side of the house facing trees 5 feet away and someone walks around my house and sees a brown blind... dear god call the cops!). before i contested it, i re-read the 38 pages of my HOA agreement...yes, i said 38 pages.... and it did say that it was forbidden to change the exterior appearance of the unit... but then i got to thinkin, well, im technically changing the interior appearance, and the outside is still brick and window with white trim....
then i looked a lil deeper into article 243, subsection b, paragraph 2, line 5..... "The exterior appearance of all condominums and town house units in this complex shall be uniform. That is to say, that the exterior brick shall not be painted, door frames shall remain black, the window trims shall remain white, and any blind/shutter device placed inside the unit shall be of the same color as the exterior paint trim unless it is agreed upon by the members of this association in a unanimous vote that the exterior colors shall be changed."
i still thought it was BS so i still decided to fight it.... by removing the blind and walking around my kitchen nude......... we finally came to terms, another member of the HOA donated a roll up blind for me to use behind my brown one.
but still, its BS