Direct TV in Oakwood? (Patterson: rental, houses, transfer)

[CJCsMom]

I know that Oakwood has some rules about what you can do to your house, so we are wondering if they allow Direct TV? We are very possibly getting transferred to Wright-Patterson and have been researching where we would like to live.

Oakwood is on our list, so we were just wondering about Direct TV dishes and if they allow them on the houses in Oakwood. If we can't, it isn't a deal breaker, but getting Sunday Ticket would be nice.

[Ohioan58]

This explains it: Installing Consumer-Owned Antennas and Satellite Dishes

In short, federal law mandates that any resident in any community can put up a small satellite dish, regardless of zoning laws, if they have control of an outside area. Exceptions being rental units, where the residents must share a common dish antenna. This supercedes all community covenants, etc.

Now, Oakwood is very "treed", so a dish may not work anyway. Out here in the country where we have most of the view of the open southern sky, there was no place that we could place a Dish Network antenna so it could pick up all of the satellites all of the time. So we dumped Dish and got Time Warner. But that was a technical issue.

IOW, Oakwood can't tell you not to do this particular thing. Happy viewing!

[CJCsMom]

Good to know! Thank you. We lived in an isolated community in the high desert of California, when my husband was at Ft. Irwin, and the only thing available to us was dish network or direct tv. They didn't want to run cable out to where we were.

We actually like cable better, but my husband was born and raised in Pittsburgh, so the draw of the Steelers on NFL Sunday ticket makes Direct TV a temptation.