Open Garage Doors? (Phoenix: crime, home, live in)

[kell490]

I find most of the people who complain about what is going on inside a neighbors garage are old retired people who are angry or depressed about being old have nothing to do they should mind their own business .I have one or two neighbors I talk to they are always complaining about other people. My neighbor he complains about people who decorate for Halloween because people ring his door bell he hates garage sales too I always joke about him being the king of the neighborhood when I see a garage sale if they got that approved by him we are not in an HOA he should move to one.

[wase4711]

anger, depression and bad attitude are not conditions that are reserved for just "old retired people"

[MNSvenska]

Originally Posted by wase4711

anger, depression and bad attitude are not conditions that are reserved for just "old retired people"

AMEN to that! I'm pushing 70, active and nothing much bothers me.

On my FB newsfeed, there are so many, with the above characteristics, that are young enough to be my grandchildren. I don't understand it at all. I hope that they get some needed help.

[wase4711]

agree; thats why I dumped Facebook a long time ago..sick of the hatred and negativity that is all over that waste of bandwidth "social" network

[Bummer]

HOAs vs No HOA . . .

Unfortunately, the necessity for HOAs is fairly simple . . . "indifference and arrogance."

I am not a big fan of HOAs, however, I fully understand the reason they have become so popular and commonplace.

[pbenjamin]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

I wish my HOA would enforce parking on the correct side of the street. I’ve never seen people do it anywhere as regularly as Phoenix. It’s as lazy as it gets.

Not really an HOA issue, it's a city issue. In Phoenix, if this concerned you, you would call parking enforcement, I assume that Scottsdale would have something similar.

We get a lot of that in our HOA-less neighborhood. A few weeks a go, somebody, not sure if it was the police or the parking folks, did a sweep and ticketed several cars.

[Coop01]

Originally Posted by JGMotorsport64

An open garage?! The horror

I am so glad I don't have an HOA.

ROTFLMAO!

Some people just can't it if someone is enjoying their property. Little tyrants with manicured little dogs that live in ticky-tacky neighborhoods walking around checking the height of blade of grass, the condition of lawn furniture, faded or non-conforming paint and worst of all ............ open garage doors.
HOA's - little fascist concentration communes.

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Here is my take on an open garage. Without basements, some people have their sh_t stacked and piled up inside their garage. I say close that eyesore! For those people, get rid of the crap that you are not using.

In another example, the same house with a well kept highly organized garage (they always seem to have those epoxy floors) doesn't bother me a bit. Therefore, the HOA writes a general rule and will write the messy ones and overlook the well kept garages.

To the OP, take a picture and post it. I'll bet I know which camp your garage falls into (cluttered, stuffed, and unorganized). You might not see it that way so let us all be the judge. If it is messy to us, close it or minimize it being open. Because some of your neighbors (like me) hate that messy look. I'd say NORMALLY HOA's are rational and the NORMALLY pick their battles with people who simply cannot grasp what is wrong with purple paint, chickens in the back yard, over grown trees brushing up against our house, leaving their garage cans out for weeks at a time, weeds growing at knee lengths etc etc.

So I take the good with the bad. Give me an HOA that might be pickier than not having one at all. I'll take that trade-off all the time.

[Bummer]

I could not agree more, MN-Born . . .

BEAUTIFULLY STATED.

[bdeclee56]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

Here is my take on an open garage. Without basements, some people have their sh_t stacked and piled up inside their garage. I say close that eyesore! For those people, get rid of the crap that you are not using.

In another example, the same house with a well kept highly organized garage (they always seem to have those epoxy floors) doesn't bother me a bit. Therefore, the HOA writes a general rule and will write the messy ones and overlook the well kept garages.

You are getting at a good point: If the HOA issues fines for generally messy conditions (overgrown grass, trash piled outside, etc.), then you would think that they would allow open garage doors IF the garage is well-kept and neat. That way they could ticket the messy, unkempt garage-owner.

However, by choosing to write a rule that no garage doors may be open, the HOA is punishing those of us with pristine garages.

For you car people out there, here's a pic of the car my husband built in our beautiful, epoxy-floored, organized garage. Unfortunately, we no longer own either the car or the garage.

https://imgur.com/m1Yobn7