[strato58]

Im not moving because I have to...Im moving because I want to....
Looking for the southwest not Texas....Lived in Az in the early 90's and loved it. Visited Vegas and loved it....
Thanks for your advise mommom but there has to be land somewhere in that area....Im sure not everyone wants to live looking at a block wall from their kitchen window just several feet out.

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by strato58

Im not moving because I have to...Im moving because I want to....
Looking for the southwest not Texas....Lived in Az in the early 90's and loved it. Visited Vegas and loved it....
Thanks for your advise mommom but there has to be land somewhere in that area....Im sure not everyone wants to live looking at a block wall from their kitchen window just several feet out.

Good Luck in your search, strato58!

[strato58]

Thank You MomMom....the quest is on.....!!!maybe we will be neighbors if you live in a non hoa area...i promise to take care of my yard!

[jjameson922]

We understand Strato, and you obviously trust after you've laid out your money for the biggest investment of your life (your home) you're willing to assume that every neighbor near you intends to live with the same values as you. Like MomMom said, I too live by a high standard and don't need a HOA to keep me on the straight and narrow but I want to be a part of one because there is always one or two that live without reason and common sense. There was one on here recently; she was hoping she could find a house with a casita for her mother because she needed to earn extra money and their intentions were to rent out that bedroom and little kitchen casita to any stranger and their people that wanted to rent. How would you like to have that next to you without any controls?

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by Chinga

Honestly? I would rather have the neighbors with 12 junked cars in their yard and 2 beat up couches, then some neighborhood ninny measuring my grass and checking what time I put my trash out.

I would not last long in an HOA neighborhood.. lol

Hey, have I got a neighborhood for you!

http://www.city-data.com/forum/las-v...other-you.html

[Jukesgrrl]

Originally Posted by Chinga

I will never, for the life of me, understand why people CHOOSE to live UNDER an HOA.

Pay so you CANT do what you want with your property?

yup, sounds nuts to me.

I'm new to the Southwest. In the five states I've lived in previously, I never encountered HOAs, but there were always public zoning laws or neighborhood governmental agencies that enforced order. I rented once in Bethesda, MD, and we got a visit from the (I'm not making this up) "Environmental Protection Agency" because our landlord didn't cut the grass often enough. Here, you don't see that kind of oversight, which is, I assume, why you have the need for HOAs.

Over on the Tucson page a military guy who's been living in Tucson for a couple of years wrote in to tell why he WON'T be retiring in Tucson. He described the city as "sporatic ghetto," and surprisingly few people disagreed with him. I never cease to be amazed as I drive around Tucson how a goodly portion of reasonably expensive properties are in disarray. No landscaping, garbage cans everywhere, kids toys and bikes everywhere, cars parked willy-nilly, falling-down sheds, paint peeling off house exteriors. I'm not talking about a bit untidy, I'm talking unsightly.

The HOA in my neighborhood CAN be a pain. Yes, I do get mad when a frond from my fan palm touches the edge of my block fence and I get a letter or when my neighbor's guests park their cars in front of my house I get blamed for disobeying parking regs.

But if the alternative is what I see everyday in some of the non-HOA areas, or what that poor woman described here about somebody running what appeared to be a car repair business in the house across the street from her, I'll take the nasty-gram from the HOA.

I didn't pay more than a quarter of a million dollars for a house to take a 50% chance that I will live across the street from someone whose idea of landscaping is an expanse of blowing dust. Those sound like pretty bad odds to me.