Rofl. Some company passed out flyers today, offering to replace our wooden mailbox post with a PVC one for a cost of course. Someone posted to the neighborhood message board asking if they conform. Then someone else posted this:

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"The developer of xxxx placed a wooden post and black mail box with white numerals. The HOA covenant specifically states " as similar to current" which would mean wood post. Therefore it is my opinion that our posts need to be wood unless a 2/3 vote of the HOA is taken to change to another material. Should this vote be taken, no home owner may be allowed to change their post unless the post is such as needing replacement."

Unreal.

9/23/2008 9:28:01 PM

this is what happens when normal people get some power

see student government, federal government, et al

9/23/2008 9:29:17 PM

at least your hoa has a messageboard. i offered to take care of my hoa's website for free and i got the runaround

9/23/2008 9:29:32 PM

jesus


ima live in BFE, NC thankye -none of that mess

9/23/2008 9:30:21 PM

hoa's are useful for some things (albeit, not for the majority)

for instance, this covenant keeps your neighborhood from looking like shit when people put up PVC mailboxes

9/23/2008 9:30:25 PM

i wish someone would come change my mailbox

9/23/2008 9:31:15 PM

me too

if it rains my shit gets wet

9/23/2008 9:31:52 PM

This is why I'm glad I live in a non-HOA neighborhood. Not having to pay monthly HOA fee ftw.

9/23/2008 9:38:34 PM

we got a posting from our hoa about a month ago on the front door saying that the private parking lot is being repaved, and we'd have to get street parking permits.. they plan to tow any car left in the lot when they begin

but didnt give a date or even any indication of when it may or may not be

awesome

9/23/2008 9:40:12 PM

It's clearly time to begin the purge.

Citizens, grab your rifles. We are going to take this HOA down starting with its head.

[Edited on September 23, 2008 at 9:41 PM. Reason : lylylyly]

9/23/2008 9:41:21 PM

HOAs need to be shot.

9/23/2008 10:19:14 PM

i will never have a goddamn thing to do with a fucking homeowner's association

9/23/2008 10:21:47 PM

i'm on my HOA's board - HOAs serve an important purpose if handled correctly - sadly a lot aren't - the people that whine rarely every step up so it just continues down that path

we had a big meeting tonight to go over 12 amendments - 4 to the bylaws and 8 to the covenants - 47 votes out of 73 already - have 30 days now to get the rest

we were just turned over to the residents by the builder late last year and the template bylaws and covenants we were given had tons of holes

for the bylaws we just need 2/3 of quorum which equates to only 19 yeses and for the covenants we need 2/3 of the entire neighborhood which is 49 yeses - out of the 26 houses left we think we can get the 10 more yeses on some of the line items we need but it'll take ~2 weeks to track down some of the more elusive people

9/23/2008 10:40:07 PM

http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3

fuck hoa's

9/24/2008 9:05:00 AM

What good little communists you are

9/24/2008 9:10:36 AM

i will do my damnedest to never live in a place with an HOA

9/24/2008 9:18:25 AM

no HOA ftw!

9/24/2008 9:50:06 AM

yeah, i don't have one right now, but i NEVER hear of anything good coming from them

9/24/2008 9:50:37 AM

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"for instance, this covenant keeps your neighborhood from looking like shit when people put up PVC mailboxes"

A PVC mailbox is virtually indistinguishable from a wood one from the road. Someone else has chimed in claiming the covenants were updated in April, and anyway, the original covenants didn't make a specific stipulation on wood, just general style. If anything, a PVC mailbox will make the 'hood look nicer.

I've been lucky with the two HOAs I've been under. My last one was $33, and that got me nice pool access. The current HOA is $45 a month, again, we get pool access, and this one does a few more events.

I don't know that an HOA is really necessary, however, some neighbors a few doors down have had vehicles (and trailers) parked on the street perpetually, and I feel pretty confident if I wanted to get them off I could used the HOA to enforce the rules.

9/24/2008 9:57:25 AM

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"A PVC mailbox is virtually indistinguishable from a wood one from the road"

It's not that hard to tell the difference between shitty cheap plastic and wood.

9/24/2008 10:03:28 AM

You're right. It's probably easier to tell the rotten in need of paint wooden posts from the pristine (though maybe needing a little wash) PVC posts as you drive past at 20-30 mph from the road

9/24/2008 10:07:26 AM

Well, I'm just saying, most people regard pvc as cheap.

And wood needs no paint. If the wood is already painted, then whatever, pvc won't look much different. I was thinking natural, nice wood.

[Edited on September 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM. Reason : +]

9/24/2008 10:08:19 AM

I plan to use the hollowed out skull of an HOA developer as a mailbox to save myself the trouble of erecting a "Git off ma land!" sign, with obligatory shotgun holes.

9/24/2008 11:44:27 AM

my dues are $25 / year. it goes towards treating the little pond with chemicals and insurance if some kid falls in. $25 / year is worth it to me to keep people from painting their houses purple with orange shutters.

9/24/2008 11:50:48 AM

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"And wood needs no paint. If the wood is already painted, then whatever, pvc won't look much different. I was thinking natural, nice wood."

That's a completely different situation. I can imagine almost all posts in your average neighborhood in Cary, Raleigh, etc, will have a white post and black box.

9/24/2008 11:54:19 AM

Who the fuck puts their mailbox on a fucking pvc pipe?!

9/24/2008 11:56:46 AM

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"i will do my damnedest to never live in a place with an HOA"

9/24/2008 12:16:23 PM

Quote :

"i will do my damnedest to never live in a place with an HOA"

9/24/2008 12:23:08 PM

Quote :

"i will do my damnedest to never live in a place with an HOA"

9/24/2008 12:24:37 PM

we have one at my townhouse. they keep the grass cut and weed-eaten, but now we are having a problem with the fire code. people keep parking in the "street" and not leaving 6 meters for the firetrucks to get farther inside the neighborhood. i wanted to complain because it is always the same people, not visitors, but we're supposed to have a bunch of people come stay with us in a week or two and i don't want to be hypocritical

9/24/2008 12:24:50 PM

Rofl. People that say that either want to be eccentric with their property, or have never lived in a place where their neighbors were eccentric and that bothered them.

9/24/2008 12:25:11 PM

Or they just have 5 cars on the property and an old boat that hasn't run in 5 years

9/24/2008 12:28:05 PM

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"they keep the weed eaten"

9/24/2008 12:28:57 PM

lol white people and their rules

9/24/2008 12:39:50 PM

weed-eater
weed-eat
weed-eaten




or "trimmed with a weed-eater" i guess

9/24/2008 12:49:07 PM

They eat the weed is the point son.

9/24/2008 12:50:14 PM

nah, we just keep it smoked around here. I haven't done any thc baking in a while, but I haven't had much fresh material to work with either.

9/24/2008 12:52:33 PM

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"Citizens, grab your rifles. We are going to take this HOA down starting with its head."

two in the heart, one in the mind

9/24/2008 2:16:24 PM

Or weed-whacker if you're not in the south.

9/24/2008 2:19:22 PM

What does the South have to do with it? Drunk rednecks in Wisconsin are forever shooting each other during deer season. Pennsylvania probably has more guns per capita than Johnson Co.

9/24/2008 2:22:19 PM

he's not talking about guns.

9/24/2008 2:24:14 PM

bwahaha

9/24/2008 2:25:38 PM

It seems like one hellacious game of mailbox baseball would get the ball rolling.

9/24/2008 2:57:47 PM

how self-important does an HOA have to be for it to have COVENANTS

9/24/2008 4:24:39 PM

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"how self-important does an HOA have to be for it to have COVENANTS"

they all do? people that have never had a neighbor do something stupid to detract from property value wouldn't understand i guess

9/24/2008 4:39:11 PM

Yeah, we have a couple covenants in mine. One is you cannot have any cars/boats with expired tags in the driveway/sideyard/backyard.

9/24/2008 4:46:43 PM

i have no problem with the rules

but calling them "covenants" is beyond ridiculous

9/24/2008 4:51:57 PM

In some instances, you're talking about covenants concerning million dollar plus pieces of property. Calling them 'rules' is a bit unprofessional in this case if you ask me.

9/24/2008 4:54:57 PM