SIGNS II: Freeper fights back at neighborhood meeting.

self | Sept 19, 2002 | WOSG

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Congrats...but the problem seems to be your own doing...did you or did you not agree to the covenants when you bought the house? They should not have removed the sign. That said...If you did agree, to break a provision and then snivel about it being enforced, is...well, what a liberal would do.

Read the other thread on this point ... It is simply not the case that I happily "agreed" to this provision, which by the way was NOT ENFORCED for the previous ten years of my living in this neighborhood. You are forced to sign onto association if you want to buy a house in these neighborhoods and you are ROUTINELY not told of covenant provisions until the closing. It happened to me. We werent even aware of fine print and even if we were, what could we do about it? Have you successfully bought a house and said "well we dont like these provisions, let negotiate over them" Sorry, non-negotiable.

If you dont like the provisions, you buy and cross your fingers your neighborhood isnt "run" by the would-be "Napoleonic complex" types ...

The idea that it is 'snivelling' to stand up for own rights and trying to have a friendly neighborhood not run by fascists, btw, I find a little insulting.

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I'd still like to know if they can require you to join the homeowners assn when you buy a house. I don't see how they could, but I've known for a long time that the law is an ass.

$30/month in homeowners assoc. fees says they can require you to join ... If I can get out of it, someone tell me how!

[zeugma]

Sorry for the late replies, but I just noticed it in my 'posts to you' page.

To follow up, I'd like to ask if you contested signing the thing when it was initially presented to you at closing? That's the place to say no, though I would hope there was a way to opt out at a later date.