How To Do Just About Everything
By eHow Home & Garden Editor
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Implementing measures to provide communities with structures and standards to be upheld by all residents is what embodies a homeowners' association. The ideal neighborhood is achieved by organizing such a group. There are several guidelines listed here that must be followed when organizing your own homeowners' association.
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PinkElephant said
on 8/3/2008 Without even reading the article, the best HOA is no HOA! I don't want to be told I can't have a clothesline in my backyard (not visible from the street or the neighbors unless they are peering over the fence) but a neighbor can plant a shedding tree right next to our property line, and I'm responsible for the debris in the pool and poolside, my shallow end is shadowed much of the day, and the neighbor is sweetly clueless but refused to replace the trees that don't seem to shade or benefit her property in any way even after I offered to split the cost.
So I don't want to be a bad neighbor, I'd like to find a solution without having to wine, dine and more or less bribe the HOA to consider addressing the issue.
It just seems wrong to have to have a rule when common sense should prevail. Even the old adage, "good fences make good neighbors" leans toward this train of thought.
PinkElephant said
on 8/3/2008 Without even reading the article, the best HOA is no HOA! I don't want to be told I can't have a clothesline in my backyard (not visible from the street or the neighbors unless they are peering over the fence) but a neighbor can plant a shedding tree right next to our property line, and I'm responsible for the debris in the pool and poolside, my shallow end is shadowed much of the day, and the neighbor is sweetly clueless but refused to replace the trees that don't seem to shade or benefit her property in any way even after I offered to split the cost.
So I don't want to be a bad neighbor, I'd like to find a solution without having to wine, dine and more or less bribe the HOA to consider addressing the issue.
It just seems wrong to have to have a rule when common sense should prevail. Even the old adage, "good fences make good neighbors" leans toward this train of thought.
PinkElephant said
on 8/3/2008 Without even reading the article, the best HOA is no HOA! I don't want to be told I can't have a clothesline in my backyard (not visible from the street or the neighbors unless they are peering over the fence) but a neighbor can plant a shedding tree right next to our property line, and I'm responsible for the debris in the pool and poolside, my shallow end is shadowed much of the day, and the neighbor is sweetly clueless but refused to replace the trees that don't seem to shade or benefit her property in any way even after I offered to split the cost.
So I don't want to be a bad neighbor, I'd like to find a solution without having to wine, dine and more or less bribe the HOA to consider addressing the issue.
It just seems wrong to have to have a rule when common sense should prevail. Even the old adage, "good fences make good neighbors" leans toward this train of thought.
PinkElephant said
on 8/3/2008 Without even reading the article, the best HOA is no HOA! I don't want to be told I can't have a clothesline in my backyard (not visible from the street or the neighbors unless they are peering over the fence) but a neighbor can plant a shedding tree right next to our property line, and I'm responsible for the debris in the pool and poolside, my shallow end is shadowed much of the day, and the neighbor is sweetly clueless but refused to replace the trees that don't seem to shade or benefit her property in any way even after I offered to split the cost.
So I don't want to be a bad neighbor, I'd like to find a solution without having to wine, dine and more or less bribe the HOA to consider addressing the issue.
It just seems wrong to have to have a rule when common sense should prevail. Even the old adage, "good fences make good neighbors" leans toward this train of thought.