re: Do you like or hate HOAs? Share your experiences.

just trying to comprehend what is wrong with a shed in the backyard?

It's not the shed per se, but rather the quality of the shed.

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like y'all choose to live in a communist state

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Earlier question shitty prefab building in a private gated golf course community with almost 650 members is not par for the course, pun intended. I'd lose my shite. ClubCorp would hopefully do the same.

Above quote is I "chose" to buy into a community with a governing set of rules that I felt best fit my expectations with regards to my lifestyle. To enforce the rules I willingly knew and bought into is anything but Communist. That's a clown comment.

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List of viscious banned dogs include great danes and german shepherds

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great danes? they are some of the laziest, most docile dogs out there. wtf

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Earlier question shitty prefab building in a private gated golf course community with almost 650 members is not par for the course, pun intended. I'd lose my shite. ClubCorp would hopefully do the same.

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you really think a shed would hurt your property values?

"if we allow a shed, what is next?! someone might plant an unapproved tree in their front yard! the horror!"

you people are strange

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great danes? they are some of the laziest, most docile dogs out there. wtf

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No shite, they are the epitome of "gentle giants". Very sweet, lovable, fraidy-cat dogs. There were two that frequented the dog park I used to take my dogs to. Both danes were actually terrified of my little 20lb pug

Honestly I've dealt with both ends of the spectrum so I dont know how I feel anymore. My first condo in Miami, the whole building literally was from the same city in venezuela because there had been a sales office during the 2009 crash set up there, and it was a full 5 star building but the president kept getting elected over and over and he was omnipotent and frivolous. He kept buying all these ridiculously expensive paintings, he remodeled the lobby of a building built in 2008 in 2014 and would have staff he disliked fired all the time. Our maintenance fees were going nuts because of all his spending and nobody could do anything about it. Fees were $1.27/ sq ft which was pretty high for a non condo hotel unit.

So I sold that place and bought a new one now that I felt was super undervalued, it has all the amenities of the first building and a better location and I bought it for less per sq ft. I move in, its been a year now and I find out why its undervalued. The same condo board has been in place for 14 years now, since it opened as a remodel of a 1950s building and its a group of old people on fixed incomes and they dont ever want to approve new expenditures even though the maintenance fee here is half the price per sq ft of my first building so tons of room above to be raise, but in this case with the improvements, they need to be done bc this building needs a new pool,new lobby, new gym and it would be probably the most expensive building in town bc it has bar none the best location.

This condo board wont spend a dime which increase all our property values but probably force most of them out bc their fixed incomes and they fear getting forced out of the area, and the last one spent frivolously and it didnt increase property values at all because the building was already amazing. I dont know the varying power structures but our last building had 1 president and 1 treasurer and 1 board member for 120 unit building and the new place has 1 president and 5 board members. This new place really has votes and invites the residents to come to meetings, the last one just did what he wanted. Seems like a job where you could hook friends up much like city politics with new contracts for remodels, things like flowers every week, etc.

I know they're a necessary evil, and its a thankless job, but my god the people who run them are often just bastards. I would run, but rules state I must spend 6 months and 1 day in the building and I cant bc its a vacation home. I just want to make it nice, boost values, and sell. Very Carl Icahn-ish

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They can sometimes be overbearing and this is a pretty crazy story, but couldn't they just put the cord up where the kid couldn't get to it anymore? Or don't they think she learned her lesson?

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or get plantation shutters?
they look better anyway

Some HOAs are better than of others.

Money doesn't buy taste, thus it's a necessary evil.