It pays to read deed restrictions BEFORE you buy!
Simple solution: change the rule.
go to a sign shop and have large magnetic signs made to festoon your car with and park it out front for the world to see....
They knew the rules when they bought the house.
I live in an HOA. I love it. Keeps the neighbors from junking up their homes lowering my investment. If you don't like it, move.
Bad title. It should have been "Woman faces fines for putting up a sign". It doesn't look like the content of the sign was relevant to her getting fined.
The Westchase Homeowners Association, as a private organization, has the right to make such rules (assuming the rules don't violate any laws), and the homeowners are legally bound to obey them. This rule, though, is one I think the HOA should change.
Oh boy...
Another "Woman Arrested for Petting Dog" post.
I just hate mental-deficients writing headlines...
If Stacey Kelley adds "Home For Sale" and "$10 Million" in small letters she should be OK.
Expect Hannity and his ilk to raise this issue to gain ratings.
It seems to me the fine is for doing something she agreed not to do. It has nothing to do with supporting our troops.
Headline is BS. She is facing a fine for violating CID CC&R's. If she doesn't like it she can move out.
LOL!!! Reporter added the "the"?? "In country" is how military folks say "I was there."
A few comments from one who is a member of a Florida Homeowner Association (Code Enforcement Committee) here in Orlando.
No matter what one's hot buttons are, the purpose of rules and covenants of a HO Association is to maintain property values. Signs in yards that say "We support our troops" and "Bush went to war for oil" are both equal in terms of being against code in our HO Association.
This HO Association made a grave mistake in lowering the fine to $1 a day. The next time Suzie puts up a sign in her front yard saying "Suzie Q Slut's Whorehouse Open For Business", she can use as precedent that they only charged $1 a day to this other person and not $100 a day like she is to be fined. The biggest gripe I have had about our HOA is the lack of consistency in code enforcement. Because volunteers run these things, there often is a lack of professionalism, consistency and good management.
I have always wondered where many FR members live, being that so many pounce on HOAs. I can only assume many live in the slums. Most moderate priced sub-divisions have homeowners associations. Who wants their neighborhood to fall into a degenerating slum because of lack of code enforcement?
I have another question for many of you. If you bitch about the codes that keep a sign supporting the troops from front yards, but--on the other hand--you are outraged that the Mexican flag flies in the classrooms of many inner city schools, are you being hypocritical?
Just because you (and I) support the troops, that does not make it right to allow a yard in the neighborhood to look like a flea market, and MOST homeowners are far more concerned about maintaining their property values than in having protests, demonstrations and advertising material in the yards of their neighborhood.
the woman did NOT face a fine for supporting the troops, as opposed to not supporting them.
she faced a fine for the sign, period.
extremely misleading title to the article.
HOAs suck.
I'd sooner burn down my house than deal with those b*st*rds.