Neighborhood Ass-ociations

Just one more example of people who let power go to their heads...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_re_us/anti_peace_sign


I had a neighbor yell at me about something in my yard (a kiddie pool, I believe) saying it was lowering his property value. I asked if he was planning on selling the house in the next hour, and when he said no, I reminded him that if someone were going to look at buying his house, and the presence of my son's kiddie pool would have an impact on the sell price, I'd temporarily move it to the back, if need be.
I also reminded him that every single time he walks out in shorts made for a 14-year-old, with his nearly 60-year-old nuts almost hanging out, it lowers my property value.

Issue resolved.

 

My favorite part of that story is the guy firing all the board members b/c they refused to go along with his anti-peace sign nonsense.

What a fucktard!

 

the thing about home owner associations is that you agree to abide by their rules when you buy the home.

my favorite one ever was when a resident here in a suburban south florida community complained (actually not to the homeowners association but to the city council) that the neighbor who parked his police car in his driveway lowered the property value of everyone's home. um, no. a visible police car makes the neighborhood safer. safer is good, not bad.

 

Yup, that's all you needed to know about this little man's power trip.

 

Actually, I didn't buy the house so I could be a part of the association. Fuck them all, actually. I couldn't give a rump about a one of them, and while I understand their necessity, as a whole these associations take shit way too far.

 

At one point, our group decreed that you couldn't put the garbage out for the next day's collection until after 7 p.m. the night before. Of course, I go to work at 5 p.m. Still, I get a special delight out of taking the trash out at 4:55 and looking for ass-ociation officials to smile at.

 

Understand their necessity? Fuck that. It's my property, I'll do with it as I damn well please (not that I'm a property owner, nor will I be in the forseeable future).

 

Well, if you somehow bought a nice house in a decent neighborhood and your neighbors decided to paint their house in a rainbow motif and put up pink picket fence, you may feel differently about it.

(Feel free to substitute camouflage for rainbow and black for pink if it works better for you)

 

Sorry, I'm too big a believer in freedom of speech and all that crap. It's their property, they can do what they want with it. I don't want anyone telling me what I can and can't do, so I wouldn't presume to tell someone else what they can or can't do.

 

Yes, but if your home is worth $250,000 and no one will buy it because of the fright next door, you may feel differently.

 

If your home is worth $250,000, someone will buy it. Perhaps not for the profit you'd hoped, but nevertheless, it will sell.

 

So it's OK if it cost me $50,000 because the neighbors want to get wacky with their color scheme?