Speaker to Animals wrote:
Dude, I hear you. But a lot of people don't respect fundamental property rights in this country. It's hard enough just to avoid the stink of HOAs in a lot of the suburban areas of this country. Too many people got it in their heads that your lawn is everybody's business.
Oh don't even get me started on HOAs. An coworker of mine, 20yrs ago now, had a tree come down on his house in a pretty nasty storm, literally a branch came through the roof over their bedroom and they were lucky not to be injured. A "lake community" with an HOA. He had someone over the next day to cut the tree up - but the storm was a Friday night and the HOA bylaws prohibit any power equipment (except lawn mower, weed whacker) or construction on a weekend - he got fined for the noise. Talk about adding insult to injury. He had a tarp on the roof to keep the weather out while dealing with homeowners insurance and getting someone to repair it - HOA rules gave him 3 days to get the "unsightly" tarp off his roof, or get fined. If you raked the leaves in your front yard into a pile in the fall and they were there more than 24 hours it was a fine - doesn't matter if you broke your leg in there somewhere, that's no excuse. Grass couldn't be above a certain height, same thing, a broken leg is no excuse, pay someone to do it then or be fined.
I wouldn't want to put up with that shit for anything.