Posted on 05/19/2022 6:55:37 AM PDT by DFG
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That cannot be part of the bylaws; they usually only apply to signage on the property/home - not a freaking truck.
Malus, a perfectly good Latin word that means both apple and hammer...
Or one tellign people they cannot have an American flag on thier porch?
Or not having one sign for each candidate that they support?
What next, no firearms?
So you are okay with the HOA running him out of the neighborhood?
Understand, I was president of an HOA back in the 90s and I see their value but it should be on the edges, the extremes. I liked that they kept commercial vehicles from cluttering the neighborhood, abandoned vehicles, etc.
Why I live in the country. I had “Clinton Sucks” cut into my pasture in 200 ft letters in ‘94. My place is on approach for Gray Army airfield / Killeen airport. He flew over it at least 3 times.
Typically, and I know from experience, mostly the busybodies will be the ones volunteering for the (unpaid) board and committee positions. And they love to make up rules for everybody to follow. They live for this stuff.
When I bought my current condo, I was supplied with a three ring binder full of rules and regulations and since I moved in, they've probably added about thirty pages to that!
You will see things like "Christmas wreaths can by hung from doors starting on December 15 but must be taken down by January 6." Then surely somebody will complain at the next HOA meeting and the wording will have to get changed to "Holiday wreaths", and the date range might be adjusted to accomodate Hannukah even though the Jewish people do not hang wreaths on their doors from what I can gather.
Yes, people will get together at HOA meetings and actually argue that stuff back and forth!
I attended exactly one HOA meeting and vowed to never attend another one. For two plus hours it was about the landscaper pruning too much off the trees and about dog poop in common areas. Then some woman got up to screech about dogs "peeing on the grass" forcing her to remove her shoes at the door and walk around her unit in bare feet.
I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty decent HOA board but you couldn't pay me enough to put up with that kind of nonsense.
The guy agreed to abide by the rules and regulations when he bought his home in a subdivision that is governed by an HOA. Why the hell would you decide that some (or ALL) of those rules and regulations should be arbitrarily ignored?
Understand, I was president of an HOA back in the 90s and I see their value but it should be on the edges, the extremes. I liked that they kept commercial vehicles from cluttering the neighborhood, abandoned vehicles, etc.
You are being totally inconsistent here. Would you be OK if I had a commercial vehicle covered with political bumper stickers?
If you don't enforce the rules and regulations meticulously, you have completely surrendered your authority to determine what is "the edges" and "the extremes."
Now, other than you and a latin professor, find me anyone other than you that knows that.
Google translate does not bring up, hammer, in its Latin to English program. Nor does: translate.com translateking.com https://www.onlinetranslationpro.com/latin-to-english-translation https://translate.google.com/?text=malus%0D%0A&sl=la&tl=en
You must be using a different Latin to English dictionary
Now, if I use English: Hammer Latin: Malleus https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=la&text=hammer&op=translate
https://www.onlinetranslationpro.com/english-to-latin-translation English: Hammer Latin: Malleus
This is my home, is a small western PA town, on a one mile around cul-d-sac with about 100 houses.
My house was one of the first, built in 1979 so the neighborhood has under gone several family changes over the years.
No rules except self imposed ones, like mow the lawn, keep your house looking like a home and no trash lying about.
There is only a single undeveloped lot, directly across the street from my house and it is owned by a {conservative} woman that lives further up the street.
The lawn is always well taken care of and during the voting season full of Trump/pubbie signs.
Any demonRAT signs are removed by me [with her permission] and she plans to built a new home, and sell the one she now owns.
The houses are selling in the high $300, low $400K range so it is a nice, middle income neighborhood.
I flew the American flag for 40 years but replaced it with a Gadsden flag in November of 2020 and it will fly until America is changed back to a Republic.
T Shirt I saw on an older man at Sam’s Club early this week:
I IDENTIFY AS NONBIDENARY.
Made me smile.
Torn here. The picture shows his trucks with 4 flags and a decal across the back of the truck. Not a bumper sticker. Imagine those flags and decal if the person was a liberal. Looks tacky as hell and glad he’s not my neighbor
Welcome to HOAs. Nobody ever reads the fine print, then they find out why that neighborhood sucks.
They’re not the government. He signed on. He pays his membership. He’s stuck with the rules. The constitution does not stop you from signing your rights away.
HOA = freedom of association
Exactly.
I agree with your comments. Do the bylaws specify vehicle signage. If not, then the HOA should lose.
I stand corrected. But I submit that malleus and malus have the same root.
In Roman times, a hammer was a more or less apple shaped knob on a handle.
Calling it “trader activity” seems a bit of a stretch.
no worries, sir/mam....either way, most of the guys that would be on that side couldn’t tell the difference regardless.
He should take to social media, the media, and posters on telephone poles and publicize the names and addresses of the HOA commandos. Don’t let them be the board. Freeze the target, personalize. Alinsky rules on them.
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