HOA rules, flag fight could force vet from home

This is going way over the top.
 
... I would like to see that condo board investigated for terrorism. Not allowing a vet to put a small flag up if not actually terrorism is at least terrible!

I am glad I have a patriotic association. Nearly every 4th house in my association has a big 3 ft x 5 ft flag out and our clubhouse has a gigantic flag pole. I have a medium flag, planter flag and red white and blue rug and door wreath.
 
Konijnen said:
... I would like to see that condo board investigated for terrorism. Not allowing a vet to put a small flag up if not actually terrorism is at least terrible!

I am glad I have a patriotic association. Nearly every 4th house in my association has a big 3 ft x 5 ft flag out and our clubhouse has a gigantic flag pole. I have a medium flag, planter flag and red white and blue rug and door wreath.
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Same here. We have an "official" Flag at the front entrance but residents also have Flags mounted on their porches (we do) or fronts of their houses, free-standing lawn poles, flower pots, mailboxes, and flower beds. At least a couple houses have red-white-and-blue bunting draped on the front of their houses (which is a little over the top to me but that's fine).
 
There was a housing development of I think townhouses that actually went bankrupt (from attorney fees I think) over someone having a political poster in their yard. It was oversized by the HOA limits, and only by a small amount. HOAs in some areas are just going nucking futs with power.

We have a fantastic HOA. While it does do stuff like make sure you maintain your home (like mow your yard, powerwash the algae growing on your house, make sure you don't have trees growing out of your gutters), it is primarily there to provide a lot of services. It's a large town and the money goes towards maintaining thousands of acres of free space for people, over 20 community pools, fitness centers, free concerts, an art center, before and after school care for kids, golf clubs, ice skate and a roller skate rink, skateboard park, a youth/teen center, dog park, etc. Every owner in town is happy to pay towards the housing association fees. It's really what a housing association should be.
 
Some HOA has good reputation, some are bad... it depends on how the president and membership is. Some are just anal with the rules and some over the top in strict rules.

If I were to have a house... I would not want to be under HOA... it's a pain in the butt to deal with the legal issues and the rules. I'd rather have the house and landscapes I want it and not someone else's way.
 
Calvin said:
Some HOA has good reputation, some are bad... it depends on how the president and membership is. Some are just anal with the rules and some over the top in strict rules.

If I were to have a house... I would not want to be under HOA... it's a pain in the butt to deal with the legal issues and the rules. I'd rather have the house and landscapes I want it and not someone else's way.
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The ONLY HOA I'd ever willingly live under is the one where I live now. It was set up in the 60s and there are no rules as to what to paint your house or how to landscape, only that they want your lawn mowed before it gets to be a foot tall. Oh, and there's a shitty fence rule where most houses can only have a split rail fence, so people go and nail wire up to the split rail fencing so that their dogs can't get out. Which I think looks tackier than just having a nice picket fence, but I'm starting t see picket fences now, thank goodness.

We're actively looking for a house to buy, but one is not in this town, it's in the next town and it has a shitty chainlink fence. I can't decide if I should just replace the fence or if I should plant some quick growing vines on it like maybe knockout roses. The fence encloses the entire yard except for across the driveway, so it would be easy to put in an automatic gate so that the entire yard can be used by the dogs. And I can feel all fancy like I have a fully gated estate!

However, I would like to have a privacy fence for the back and sides of the house, and I can put a tall picket fence along the front and for the driveway. One of my dogs would use the holes in a chain link fence as an extra boost to jump over the fence as he's inherently lazy. He can jump a 6 foot fence from a standing position and I think a 7 foot fence is legal in that town so that would be what we'd choose in the back/sides. The way the house is set up is that the sides are close to the property line so we can divide the yard in half. That way I can have a dream of having a doggie door and the dogs can let themselves out to pee, I don't have to worry about one of them hopping a fence and when I go out with them I can just open the midde gate and let my dogs just have a lot more space to run.

All this means, of course, is that we probably won't end up getting the house.
 
Eater of Worlds said:
The ONLY HOA I'd ever willingly live under is the one where I live now. It was set up in the 60s and there are no rules as to what to paint your house or how to landscape, only that they want your lawn mowed before it gets to be a foot tall. Oh, and there's a shitty fence rule where most houses can only have a split rail fence, so people go and nail wire up to the split rail fencing so that their dogs can't get out. Which I think looks tackier than just having a nice picket fence, but I'm starting t see picket fences now, thank goodness.

We're actively looking for a house to buy, but one is not in this town, it's in the next town and it has a shitty chainlink fence. I can't decide if I should just replace the fence or if I should plant some quick growing vines on it like maybe knockout roses. The fence encloses the entire yard except for across the driveway, so it would be easy to put in an automatic gate so that the entire yard can be used by the dogs. And I can feel all fancy like I have a fully gated estate!

However, I would like to have a privacy fence for the back and sides of the house, and I can put a tall picket fence along the front and for the driveway. One of my dogs would use the holes in a chain link fence as an extra boost to jump over the fence as he's inherently lazy. He can jump a 6 foot fence from a standing position and I think a 7 foot fence is legal in that town so that would be what we'd choose in the back/sides. The way the house is set up is that the sides are close to the property line so we can divide the yard in half. That way I can have a dream of having a doggie door and the dogs can let themselves out to pee, I don't have to worry about one of them hopping a fence and when I go out with them I can just open the midde gate and let my dogs just have a lot more space to run.

All this means, of course, is that we probably won't end up getting the house.
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In our subdivision, in the back yards, most people have privacy fences. In the older section, some backyard chain-link fences are grandfathered in. We have six-foot wooden privacy fence in our back yard. In the front yards, decorative fencing only (meaning no privacy fences or chain link fences). Some people have picket fences (we have a small one around our vegetable garden within the back yard). I can't recall seeing a split rail fence in this neighborhood. No stone walls because we have no stones here. Some homes have low, brick retaining walls in the front.

Our fences can't be further front than the back corners of the house unless the house is on a corner lot. A homeowner can ask for a waiver for the fence to come further forward (but not more than the front corners of the house) if they have special security reasons.
 
when we were looking for houses we avoided most subdivisions and HOA's as we have two bigger dogs who are affected by breed bias and we always intended to have a fence. So some communities/towns we didn't look at at all because they didn't allow anything but "decorative" fencing.

the first eve. we were still in the process of moving stuff in from the truck <the actual truck/move part of the "new house project" - which took two Summers purely in terms of finding a place - was a disaster actually and so the movers and truck were still at the house at about 9pm that eve>....so anyway, that first evening at 9 at night in August <think dripping sweat, typical WI late Summer> and someone came walking by with his off-leash and very stereotypically friendly Yellow Lab. The dog was curious about the strangers - all of us - and the truck and so he meandered into the driveway and went and checked out the vehicles and the people and the stuff in the open garage...the man came up and retrieved his dog and we talked a bit, so that was a positive sign...then later the same eve., another dog walker came by with his wife and their two dogs - both leashed this time - a small dog and a Dobe<Doberman> - the Dobe was a quite a welcome sign and helped me feel more comfortable with the "dog aspect" of the neighborhood. :D

Actually, turned out that our little immediate area, most people live with two dogs - either side of us, there's two bigger dogs; across the street - two dogs and pretty much for several other neighboring houses in a row, there lives at least one dog.
 
dogmom said:
The dog was curious about the strangers - all of us - and the truck and so he meandered into the driveway and went and checked out the vehicles and the people and the stuff in the open garage...the man came up and retrieved his dog and we talked a bit, so that was a positive sign...then later the same eve., another dog walker came by with his wife and their two dogs - both leashed this time - a small dog and a Dobe<Doberman> - the Dobe was a quite a welcome sign and helped me feel more comfortable with the "dog aspect" of the neighborhood. :D
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When we were snowed in and it took us days to get our driveway done because my husband's knee was broken and I have RA, there was a very friendly lab belonging to people whose car was stuck. They were trying to pull the car out with a huge truck. Anyway, the lab decided to take advantage of the pathways I had dug in my driveway to come visit and make his mark in the snow. Around here tons of people walk their dogs off leash. There are walking paths woven through the town, separate from sidewalks and these are in wooded areas, over creeks, it's really quite pretty. Everyone is respectful, if your dog doesn't do well off leash then they don't walk it off leash and if they see you coming and you're shortening your dog's leash they call their dog to them and hook them up. It's a really fantastic place for dogs.
 
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