What's Up With People Parking On Their Lawns?

[BP300]

I often see cars that are for sale parked on lawns. I encourage you, as I have done, to call the phone number advertised on the car, and tell the seller that it is ghetto/hick to park the car on the lawn. Call everyday just to annoy them, and hopefully they will move the car.

[RS-1080]

Originally Posted by BP300

I often see cars that are for sale parked on lawns. I encourage you, as I have done, to call the phone number advertised on the car, and tell the seller that it is ghetto/hick to park the car on the lawn. Call everyday just to annoy them, and hopefully they will move the car.

They may or may not. They may get tired of the calls and move the car..or, they may get mad at you sticking your nose where it don't belong and shut ''you'' up. I don't think you ran across the right one ''yet''. I know I'd hate to tell folks how to live on their property out here. I know what their reactions would be.

[MontanaGuy]

I have one neighbor who parks a couple of cars on his lawn which I think he's only mowed once this year so the grass is about a foot and a half high. Everyone else on the street keeps up their yards and they look nice. I would never say anything to them about it because I don't want to turn my neighbors into enemies but I don't think very highly of them. It would be like working in an office and having to sit next to someone who didn't want to be bothered by taking a bath or putting on clean clothes.

[Steve_TN]

Originally Posted by MontanaGuy

I have one neighbor who parks a couple of cars on his lawn which I think he's only mowed once this year so the grass is about a foot and a half high. Everyone else on the street keeps up their yards and they look nice. I would never say anything to them about it because I don't want to turn my neighbors into enemies but I don't think very highly of them. It would be like working in an office and having to sit next to someone who didn't want to be bothered by taking a bath or putting on clean clothes.

That is what I like about being in an effective HOA. Note I said effective. Then you can complain without them knowing it was you.

[MontanaGuy]

Steve_Tn wrote:

That is what I like about being in an effective HOA. Note I said effective. Then you can complain without them knowing it was you.

I agree with you. There can be drawbacks to HOA's though. I think I may have mentioned that I lived in Phoenix before I moved here. In Phoenix virtually every new development has an HOA but there have been instances in which they just go too far in how much they can control your decisions as a homeowner. I owned two different homes in the years that I lived there and both of them had HOA's. When I painted my house I had to go to the HOA office and select a color from a group of colors that were authorized. I can understand them not allowing someone to paint their house with some weird neon purple color but since I was the one making the mortgage payments I found it a little irritating to have to choose a color from a somewhat limited list. I have read instances in which HOA's require you to park your car in your garage and not on the driveway even if it's a Rolls Royce. That definitely going too far. There was also an incident in which a man who was patriotic and had fought in World War II and had set up a full sized flag pole in his yard. It was tastefully done and was just a simple flagpole but it violated some part of the HOA regulations and ended up causing a big confrontation and even made the local news. I think they finally allowed it to stay but I can't remember all of the details. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that an HOA can be a useful organization that keeps up home values and maintains an attractive neighborhood but it can also turn into a little dictatorship if certain individuals who run the organization become overzealous and require homeowners to adhere to regulations that defy common sense.

[Steve_TN]

Originally Posted by MontanaGuy

Steve_Tn wrote:

I agree with you. There can be drawbacks to HOA's though. I think I may have mentioned that I lived in Phoenix before I moved here. In Phoenix virtually every new development has an HOA but there have been instances in which they just go too far in how much they can control your decisions as a homeowner. I owned two different homes in the years that I lived there and both of them had HOA's. When I painted my house I had to go to the HOA office and select a color from a group of colors that were authorized. I can understand them not allowing someone to paint their house with some weird neon purple color but since I was the one making the mortgage payments I found it a little irritating to have to choose a color from a somewhat limited list. I have read instances in which HOA's require you to park your car in your garage and not on the driveway even if it's a Rolls Royce. That definitely going too far. There was also an incident in which a man who was patriotic and had fought in World War II and had set up a full sized flag pole in his yard. It was tastefully done and was just a simple flagpole but it violated some part of the HOA regulations and ended up causing a big confrontation and even made the local news. I think they finally allowed it to stay but I can't remember all of the details. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that an HOA can be a useful organization that keeps up home values and maintains an attractive neighborhood but it can also turn into a little dictatorship if certain individuals who run the organization become overzealous and require homeowners to adhere to regulations that defy common sense.

I fully agree with you. Sometimes things can get completely out of hand. It all depends on the specific HOA. Then there are the HOA's that don't enforce ANYTHING.

[BuzzCam]

Originally Posted by MontanaGuy

Steve_Tn wrote:

I agree with you. There can be drawbacks to HOA's though. I think I may have mentioned that I lived in Phoenix before I moved here. In Phoenix virtually every new development has an HOA but there have been instances in which they just go too far in how much they can control your decisions as a homeowner. I owned two different homes in the years that I lived there and both of them had HOA's. When I painted my house I had to go to the HOA office and select a color from a group of colors that were authorized. I can understand them not allowing someone to paint their house with some weird neon purple color but since I was the one making the mortgage payments I found it a little irritating to have to choose a color from a somewhat limited list. I have read instances in which HOA's require you to park your car in your garage and not on the driveway even if it's a Rolls Royce. That definitely going too far. There was also an incident in which a man who was patriotic and had fought in World War II and had set up a full sized flag pole in his yard. It was tastefully done and was just a simple flagpole but it violated some part of the HOA regulations and ended up causing a big confrontation and even made the local news. I think they finally allowed it to stay but I can't remember all of the details. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that an HOA can be a useful organization that keeps up home values and maintains an attractive neighborhood but it can also turn into a little dictatorship if certain individuals who run the organization become overzealous and require homeowners to adhere to regulations that defy common sense.

I cannot believe a HOA would ban flying the American Flag, but I know it happens. A former co-worker fought his HOA because he put a flag pole in his front yard which violated the HOA's rules. He got plenty of coverage from Channel 2, but I never heard if he won or not.

I would be mad if someone told me I could not fly my American Flag on the pole in my front yard.