Unreasonable Deed Restrictions. Need Help (Houston: fit in, rental, HOA)

[Carreratwo]

Can you believe our neighborhood board members of Hillshire Lakes. King Property Management, InTown Homes - Houston are requiring us to garage our daily driver truck I use for work or store it. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in the garage !! - yes, even if it's empty ! Any ideas on how to get a ride to and from storage morning and night? Other options? Can they do this? The deed restrictions to prohibit street parking. The board has the ability to make case by case exceptions. They decided not to make an exception. hmmm. Maybe they don't like trucks. It's even nice, shiny, new looking. Help me out here friends, what can I do?

[Tassy001]

If it is in the deed restrictions, they can do it. You state you use the truck for work. Does this truck have logos?

[mikeyyc]

Move?


Are your streets public, or private? If they're public, park on the street. So long as you are complying with city bylaws regarding parking, and are parked on public property, there's not much the HOA can do.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by mikeyyc

Move?


Are your streets public, or private? If they're public, park on the street. So long as you are complying with city bylaws regarding parking, and are parked on public property, there's not much the HOA can do.

The HOA can stop property owners (and, I think, their renters) from parking on the streets, they agreed to that when they bought the property. An HOA can't do much about a non-property owner parking on the street, since they didn't agree to the deed restrictions and aren't bound by them.

[mikeyyc]

Originally Posted by WRM20

The HOA can stop property owners (and, I think, their renters) from parking on the streets, they agreed to that when they bought the property. An HOA can't do much about a non-property owner parking on the street, since they didn't agree to the deed restrictions and aren't bound by them.

A company truck would probably, technically, be a non-property owner, as the registered owner would be the company.

[trbstang]

Private gated community, so they made the rules you agreed to when buying or moving into the community. You have a few options, but none you will like. Buy a smaller truck that fits in the garage, park the truck outside the community, enlarge the garage to fit the truck if possible, or move. It stinks, but those are the rules everyone has to obey since they all agreed on it.

I guess you could buy an old cheap junk car to drive to the storage area where your truck is and park that in the driveway. As long as there is another car in the garage that is OK according to the rules.

Hilshire Lakes - King Property Management

Good luck!

[crone]

Every subdivision with deed restrictions that I have ever heard of says no commercial vehicles, period.

The county can always come out and post no parking signs. That just happened a street not far from me. The truckers were using a public street for a parking lot. The nearby residents complained and next I knew, no parking signs.

[gwarnecke]

Could you use the guest parking area?

HOA for our condo rental unit has a similar restriction, and for awhile we had more cars than could fit in our dedicated parking. Extra cars were parked in the visitor lot for months (but moved/used at least every other day), HOA didn't complain.

[mikeyyc]

According to your parking rules, if the garage is occupied by another vehicle you can park in the driveway. Although you're boned if your truck is larger than 3/4 ton, as Section 7.03.1 covers that off.

[Houston321]

Every HOA I have ever been a part of also did not allow commercial vehicles, unless they can be garaged. No surprise here.