> Gary Nunn wrote: > > > >You might own the house, the garden and the lot, but if you're one > >of the nearly 50 million Americans living in communities run by > >homeowners associations, you may find you don't have the freedom to > >do everything you like on your property. > > >http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_homeowners_02419.html > > Wowsers. Note to self: Check to make sure self-important people can't set the rules for what I do to my own house. > > Thanks for the link, Gary. > > Jim
Actually this has a wider point: you don't own ANY property, you are just renting it from the government. Even if you follow the route of the unibomber, a one room shack that has nothing to do with the outside world, try and go five years without paying property taxes. Before I got my house I was offered nice deals on rowhomes in a community, but backed out because of the rules. My one friend lives in a community. We borrowed his brother's RV for a trip. The small RV was parked in front of his house Thursday night, we went away for two nights, and again Sunday night before he returned it. He got a letter from the HA 'informing' him about the rules for owning and storing RVs. Actually his wife got the letter and hid it from him. She showed it to me, but we knew he would go to a meeting with a head full of steam if he ever saw it. Kevin T. Tyrants
