re: Anyone else have horror stories involving an HOA harassing them or their tenants?

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someone wants to paint their house like that then let em. What someone does to their own property is their own business.

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So if I buy a house next door to you (say 200 feet from you) and use it for nuclear waste storage I should be well within my rights to do so?

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Are you suggesting that private property is immune to laws, covenants and regulations?

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how on in the world do you gather that from my post?

I already pointed out that its weird to me that people want more

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Louisiana is full of neighborhoods with cars parked in front yards, trash and shite strewn all over the place, and every financed toy proudly displayed in the driveway. No thanks

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Did you just drive through my neighborhood before posting this?

In our case we were provided a copy of the bylaws/convents when house shopping but weren't asked to sign anything at closing. As first time homebuyers we thought nothing of it until we later learned that the HOA was never actually formed, and the bylaws document we were shown was practically garbage. I thought "oh cool, frick a HOA" but that sentiment was short lived. None of the below issues were really prevalent when house shopping but in hindsight, I wished we'd have purchased elsewhere.

Not long after moving in the guy directly across the street bought a mid-90s project Mustang. Since he didn't have room in his garage since his $40,000 giant lifted ATV was in there he parked it on his front lawn. It sat there for nearly a year on flat tires until he traded it for a non-running Jeep, which promptly took the Mustang's spot on the lawn. They eventually moved out and took all their junk cars with them.

A few houses down is a house that's rented, but the owners are pieces of shite who rent to the first assholes who will sign a lease. Their first tenant was no doubt selling drugs, throwing massive parties, but they refused to do shite because the lease was in the grandmama's name, who didn't even live there. After enough complaints, calls to the cops, they agreed not to renew their lease after a swat team showed up at 3am to arrest the guy who lived there. They trashed the place before moving out. They then leased it out to a dude who does construction work, who will regularly have trucks/trailer/etc parked on the front lawn. On days he doesn't need his excavator he simply unloads it off his trailer and leaves it parked on the lawn for days. He recently showed up with a school bus for frick knows why and parked it across the yard. Nearly 20 neighbors reached out to the homeowner and got ZERO response/help, finally someone pulled some strings at the city and the tenant was told to move it or have it towed/be cited and it disappeared but the construction trailers soon took its place.

Yea this isn't some hood of $500k+ estates but is still a subdivision of $250k custom homes in Lafayette. They built a DR Horton copycat neighborhood next door and that place is better kept most times than ours.

Stuff like this is negatively affecting home values as well as the gap in $/sqft inches ever so closer to the neighboring DR Horton hood.

Our next house will be on 50+ acres.

TLDR: You'll hate HOAs until you need HOAs.

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are you comparing public roads to private property?

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I think the point is that just because you own something, it doesnt give anyone the right to do whatever they ant in any circumstance. It's more like apples to monkey wrenches but I agree with the basic sentiment.

The ownership of something does not supercede laws, covenants, etc.

You giving out short term leases?

Damn, your situation sounds like a nightmare.

We live in an older neighborhood in Lafayette with no HOA, but thankfully all of my neighbors on my street are good people who take care of their homes and yards thankfully.

HOA’s can be a royal pain in the arse, but they do serve their purpose of keeping home values up by forcing people to do proper upkeep on their homes.

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They literally are.

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well then those people are retards because everyone knows that we live under government restrictions

the point is the willingness to put more upon yourself

I feel like you all know this, but want to pretend some of us are arguing for anarchy

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I feel like you all know this, but want to pretend some of us are arguing for anarchy

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Ummmm...you're the one who started replying to rebuttals on JBirds comments. Is he retarded, maybe.?.? But arguing with people rebutting his ridiculous comments doesnt mean people think you're arguing for anarchy, it means his comments were incorrect.

Knighting for them doesnt do much to help your cause.

Some of the comments you've picked out were direct responses to his comments not insinuations at anything else.

A lot of you big city baws are huge DBags, just saying