re: Anyone ignored their HOA bylaws about building shed/workshop? details in post

Not sure what your definition of $$$ is but perhaps an attached lean to addition to the back of your home would be allowed.

Lean To

First and foremost, what you view is nice, might not be viewed as nice by others. And they may have chosen that neighborhood to ensure they don't deal with living next to what they consider unattractive since the HOA prohibits it.

When an HOA doesn't enforce things, it goes to shite fast. My parents neighborhood has the shed problem. Although they can build a shed, it must be out of the same materials as your house. So they built a 20k small shed. Neighbors started throwing up cheap Lowe's pre-built sheds and the HOA slowly disbanded (or never really started). Now it's noticeable that they have random cheap sheds everywhere. They feel like they wasted a lot to build there's.

Not saying your she'd is probably ugly, but that people have different ideas of what's nice and it slowly leads to more relaxed acceptance. So it is good to nip it in the bud. Also, the street issue is typically unenforceable as others have said. We deal with that here in my neighborhood too, and my wife works for the government, so she knows it's useless to call.

Have you looked into building an attached shed? That would probably solve your issues.

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2nd) Fairly certain they are legal document that restrict your rights and are filed down at the city/county offices. Onus is on you to find what restrictions are on your land before you purchase.

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I came here to post this. The fact that nobody "provided" you with a copy of the restrictions is irrelevant. It's your duty as a buyer/owner to know the restrictions of your lot/land and to abide by them. They should be filed at the clerk of courts office or possibly on your HOA's website for your convenience.

Or, if they have a prominent TV shyster as one of their officers they will hire one of his low life buddies to sue you. I say this not so hypothetically.

Knowing the rules and following the rules would be the right thing to do. If you can just say "frick it" and build your shed, why can't your neighbor say "frick it" and begin to park a boat in his front lawn.

My parents put one in their yard. No one knew about it because it was set in the back of the property and there are woods behind their house. HOA found out about it 3 or 4 years later but there was a 2 year statute of limitations so they got to keep it. Winning.

Google "due diligence".

Remember to do this before you buy property in the future.

And your predicament is exactly why we chose to buy in a neighborhood that had an HOA that was voluntary only and it is primarily to maintain the small neighborhood gardens or what not.

frick an HOA. Our last neighborhood had an overzealous hoa that would literally come out and measure the height of your grass. I'm not talking about overgrown lots but lots that were well maintained. Neighbors and I nicknamed whomever was doing it the grass nazis

Just go to the President of the HOA and ask him or her. This will make life easier in the long run.

...I just...I just can't imagine living somewhere that doesn't allow you to build a simple garden or tool shed in the backyard

do you all not have fences?

or do the roofs offend people?