Posted on 03/22/2015 10:11:54 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
At some point in the development this "property right" is transferred to a trust in the form of a homeowners association, which is charged with enforcement of those covenants in perpetuity.
My property in Oregon has covenants, but they are retained by the survivors of the original owners and there is no HOA. Originally part of a fruit orchard, the original owners desired to limit the kind and number of livestock that future occupants could keep, and also stipulated that the property could only be owned or occupied by members of the Caucasian race. The race restriction was nullified by state law decades ago and the livestock restrictions seemed reasonable to me but they are a part of the title and I must either abide by them (within the limits of superior law), or convince the owners of those restrictions to remove them.
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