[Cincinatus' Wife]

FRANK NIEMEIR/AJC STAFF Scott Korowotny's car collection includes this 1972 Ford LTD full-size convertible, which the Ford buff is restoring. His family also lives in the garage.

[farmfriend]

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[ApplegateRanch]

>>The only thing the lawyers agree on is that the situation might have been avoided if the covenants were better written or if a review committee had been in place early on.<<

And the only thing I agree on is buying COVENENT FREE property. On general priciples, I can't stand these 'home owners' associations' that are all the more prevelant as time goes by. Hide-bound, petty Hitlers run them, for the most part.
Glad we bought in civilized area...and enough property to not have to look at any neighbor that 'offends' by daring to have different tastes or needs.

[richmwill]

If living across from a garage "ruins your life"- you have more issues than I can even imagine.

[Prime Choice]

I'd say Korowotny acted in good faith and the neighbors are just being petty.

If the plaintiffs in this suit don't like the way the garage (built to covenant spec) looks, I'd say let 'em pony up the cash to give it a "prettier" exterior. Otherwise, they can take a long walk off a short pier.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

A difficult situation. I have to say that I wouldn't like to stare at that out my window either. I've lived all over the states and this time made sure I bought an older home in an established neighborhood so there would be no surprises. I was tired of dealing with it. I've watched the value of several houses plunge because of garages and other eyesores over the years.

[Flyer]

Scott Korowotny's car collection includes this 1972 Ford LTD

A '72 LTD is part of a "collection"?

Hmmm. . . maybe I can sell him part of my "collection".

[FreedomFlynnie]

Maybe I'm just young and iggnerunt, but...

Who bloody cares what someone else builds on their own property?!? If I were buying a house, I can't imagine letting something like someone else's buildings bothering me. If I wanted to be so anal that I insisted on controlling the view outside my window, I have the perfectly legal option of buying all the property within eyesight.

It's important to me that I have a nice clean car. I wash and vacuum out my car regularly, and it annoys me when my car gets dirty or rained on. I guess I should be able to demand that every car I drive around be washed regularly, or I should be able to force those drivers to go and buy new cars. After all, the rest of the world should have to bow to my personal preferences regarding anything I see, hear, smell, or touch. < /sarcasm >

[sergeantdave]

The same rules are vague when describing what buildings — garages or houses — must look like. Four short paragraphs govern building materials, size, colors and locations. And they say metal siding is OK.

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This says it all - the rules are vague, written to allow people some broad measure of choice on what's built on their property.

The whiners are typical of big city socialist scum moving into a pleasant rural community and trying to impose their Marxist controls on normal people. We have a few of these morons in our community. They're shrill, screaming nincompoops who live isolated and bitter, mumbling to themselves as they aimlessly walk in circles shaking their fists at imaginary monsters. We mostly ignore them. If they get out of control, we exert community pressure to chase them back into their $300,000 dungeons.

[tacticalogic]

"It's a rural area," he explains.

"Rural area", garage/machine shed. Go figure.