Trees are so lovely — up to a point. We have townhome hell, where developers buy a train carload of burlapped saplings and stick them in the ground without regard to where the cable or water and sewer pipes run to the house or where the water meters sit near the sidewalk. Within a couple of years, they are ginormous and you have roots tearing up sidewalks, pushing underground pipes until they spring a leak and dumping massive amounts of leaves in the yards and especially rain gutters because they looked nice planted too near the houses when they were little. HOA won’t let you remove them without replacing them with something equally threatening. To quote Scarlett O’Hara, “As God is my witness, I’ll nevah buy in an HOA again!”
*** To quote Scarlett O’Hara, “As God is my witness, I’ll nevah buy in an HOA again!”***
Agreed, at least, not if we can help it!!
A couple of years ago, there was a neighbor on the board as president who was just a power hungry beeotch. She made things difficult and unfriendly here for 2 years.
One time she sent a nasty letter to a homeowner threatening them with hefty fines if they didn’t maintain their lawn as often as she wanted. What she didn’t know is that it was an elderly couple, and the husband passed away from CoVid the month before. Well, other neighbors heard about the widow’s dilemma, and mowed her lawn for her.
People are still helping out that family from time to time, but that was one incident (among several) that were just outrageous. People need to be compassionate instead of sticking by the fine print on the by-laws sometimes. I am so glad I don’t live near that lady. She would be hard to get along with.