Posted on 10/28/2014 11:11:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who baccedes to or buys property subject to a HOA deserves what he gets. His “ownership” is even more ephemeral than it is given the various federal and state taxes and forfeiture and eminent domain laws. An “owner” has bought limited rights to occupy and pay taxes on a piece of property until a politician or the police or some other bureaucratic agency decide they have some other use for it that will bring mor money to the government or to certain pockets.
I used to back the rules of the HOA on a lot of these but if this old guy wants to fly his flags...FUHOA! Rewrite the rules! Give the guy special dispensation. I’m sick of these a%%wipes and their US flag rules. Now, more than ever! Let her wave!
I HATE HOAs. Not many where I live now.
If it is against the Constitution to burn a flag, isn’t it unconstitutional to ban its display?
HOA’S SHOULD BE OUTLAWED. Commune-ism SUCKS.
A house with a HOA is basically a apartment that you do all the maintenance on, but with more rules. I had relatives who bought a house with a HOA, they got a nasty letter about leaving the garage door up while they were unpacking. They put it on the market within 6-8 months of moving in.
If you buy or rent in a subdivision with an HOA, there is no excuse for not knowing that the rules take your rights-been there, done that once many years ago, won’t do it again-there are very few where I am, and all in snooty gated neighborhoods I could never afford. I think HOAs are an invention of the devil...
I’ll never understand why anyone would move into a HOA community
Priceless.
It looks as if the HOA might be violating a local ordinance which was passed in 2005 and was specifically designed to prevent HOAs from banning the flying of US flags.
They knew the rules and bought anyway.
If they don’t like it they should move.
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I would rather live in a dumpster than be subject to a HOA.
No, that is not exaggeration .
HOAs are where all petty tyrant pols start out. Heavily democrat-infested.
TC
Public law trumps HOA interpretations. I think the HOA will have to back down based on the LAW where they live.
BTW - where I live, the HOA voted to disband by an 85:15 margin. It seems the HOA was too proactive in going after homeowners, and the homeowners revolted. No more HOA! Yippee!
I only have one friend who still lives in an HOA neighborhood and likes it-and he and his wife are the type who fit very well there-they cave to any authority figure, even if it will turn out baaaaad.
Our first house was in a neighborhood with an HOA, and my husband and I both hated it-we sold that house within 2 years, moved outside the city where there were no HOAs-and I’d still rather live on my own here where there are junk tractors and cars, livestock and predators than ever go back to a controlled/controlling environment like that...
Perhaps it is the president of this loathsome HOA who should move...
Agreed.
It’s like voluntarily giving up one’s constitutional rights, and who would do something like tha...?
Liberal sheep...
I’ve lived with both good and bad HOA’s. In the hands of responsible adults, they perform a useful function. Like having the guy remove the three abandoned cars from his front lawn.
The problems usually arise because those responsible adults have better things to do than actively participate in the association. When the sane neighbors won’t get involved, the kind of people who used to volunteer to be hall monitors leap at the chance, and those types routinely misuse authority to bolster their own flabby egos.
In the good HOA, we’d let those people blather on, “deciding” what “we” should do, then we just wouldn’t fund it. They tried several times to get control, we’d just vote ‘em down. Our best campaign tactic was to say, “do you really want to live in a place where whatshisname runs your life for you?”
I’d say, “don’t buy into a project with an HOA if you don’t want to be involved in running it”. First rule in running it is to limit its powers.
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