Whats wrong with pink? (painting, plank, bathrooms, cost)

[Coldjensens]

Well she really is not a very good singer and her lyrics are somewhat vapid. However I do not know of anything wrong with her as in she has a disease or something.

[scuba steve]

Originally Posted by Charles

Your neighbor's house is in your neighborhood.

I like having an HOA tell me what colors my house can be.
I like having an HOA telling me I can't park a boat in my driveway.
I like having an HOA telling me I can't put a 50 foot ham radio antenna on my roof.
I like having an HOA telling me my grass is one inch too high.
I like having an HOA tell me I need to repair my gate.
I like having an HOA tell me I need to keep my garage doors down when not in use.

I grew up in a neighborhood with no HOA and currently live in one. None of those things were a problem in either. You might as well have written

I like having an HOA keep Godzilla away.
I like having an HOA provide volcano insurance, just in case.
I like having an HOA hire Superman to patrol the streets and scare off sketchy looking people.
I like having an HOA bring me peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on my birthday.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Besides, don't you more accurately mean, assuming you're an adult, that you like having someone tell your neighbors that they need to do things exactly the way you like them?

Exactly.

And from

Do homeowners associations raise property values? - Free Online Library:

"these organizations were practically unheard of in 1960, but today some 54.6 million people in the United States United States live in various neighborhood associations. That figure continues to rise each year "

and

"We have shown that HOAs increase house value. Our data indicate that houses in HOAs in Northern Virginia are worth, on average, more than 5 percent more than similar houses in the same neighborhood but outside of HOAs. Given those large advantages, it is not surprising that HOAs are growing rapidly."

[scuba steve]

About home values, correlation =/= causation.

HOAs are growing rapidly in TX anyway because you have two options:
Construction from the mid-'70s - present (all of which have an HOA unless it dissolved)
Construction roughly pre-'70s which doesn't have one

There is no in between unless you are in a truly rural setting. They all have one. Cities seem to like it; there are far fewer public parks in parts of the city developed in the last 35 years or so.

I used to think the same way you seem to about them - I was on the board at the last neighborhood we lived in for a long time. But since moving and seeing so many different areas it became apparent that the boogeymen we feared were exactly that. Misconceptions for the most part.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by zonababe

If I lived next to the Hello Kitty house, I sprinkle a path of kitty litter leading to their door.

Good traction in the snow, but it does make a mess. Maybe pea gravel instead?

I just showed the spouse the Hello Kitty house; he said "If you did that to our house, I'd have to move!" Hmmm ...

[BuffaloLight]

Well I was going to snap some photos of pink houses but I searched around and found some.

Here is a blog post

You have to scroll through a few of his pages on flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15947776@N06/page77/ - broken link)

Another few flirk pages. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gml527/page128/ - broken link)

Anndddd one more. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbarawise/page295/ - broken link)


So.... I don't get it? They just don't look bad to me.

[Jellybean50]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

I grew up in a neighborhood with no HOA and currently live in one. None of those things were a problem in either. You might as well have written

I like having an HOA keep Godzilla away.
I like having an HOA provide volcano insurance, just in case.
I like having an HOA hire Superman to patrol the streets and scare off sketchy looking people.
I like having an HOA bring me peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on my birthday.

LOL... love it. Same here.

AND i have a rose-colored front door...horrors!!

I better repaint it before i get ready to sell...

I dont like rules. One reason i'm worrying about moving into a condo (i havent bought yet it yet). I also dont like cookie-cutter houses, in Stepford-type neighborhoods. But... whatever blows your skirt up...

[Cattknap]

The right shade of pink on the right house works for me. No neon pink though please.

[Caladium]

Now purple is a color I wish was used more often. Lilac is nice for Victorians, and deep purple would look nice on other styles. It looks good with most landscaping. I don't know why we don't have more purple houses.

[scuba steve]

Like some mentioned, it's a very hard color to get the right shade of... I know a few that've tried on interior walls and it either came out Barney colored or sort of blue looking.