Dan wrote: > No home businesses are allowed
I assume that you mean a business that would attract customers or physical traffic? I also assume that would not include an internet type business? > As a result of these restrictions, and other strict zoning rules, > houses in > the Woodlands sell for a considerable premium: at least 20%. The > neighborhoods are much more pleasant places to live and people > pay for that privilege. Certainly there need to be guidelines/rules, but some of the Home Owners Assoc's are to the point of being fanatical dictators. The sited case of the elderly woman who paid cash and then had her house sold out from under her by the Home Owners Assoc. was clearly abuse. The leaders of that Association should have been put in jail. Rules and guidelines are good for giving guidance to community "standards" but nitpicky things like lamp post location and cars in the driveway are just plain silly. Gary
