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The HOA document is an agreement that both the OP and the guy with tall grass agreed to. It is unfortunate that the HOA does not have the teeth to enforce the rules that everybody agreed to. Why should the OP have to move? There is considerable time and expense involved in moving. The OP is living up to his end of the agreement by mowing his own yard. The guy with the tall grass should as well. Yes, the OP can go to court over this but that is expensive and time consuming as well. The HOA needs to "grow a pair."
Yes this is America but the right to do what you want whenever you want is not unlimited. You can't shout FIRE in a crowded theater. If you purchase a home in a HOA community, then presumably you have read the CC&R's and have agreed to live by them. If you can't live by them, don't buy there. If you read them but now you find that other neighbors have a different interpretation of the CC&R contract -- well you need to be able to work with them. If the OP points out that the CC&R's require that lawns be kept mowed, then mowing once a week is not unreasonable. If the guy with the tall grass doesn't like it, then maybe he should move to the country where there are no CC&R's.
Put yourself in these shoes - you're trying to sell your house and potential buyers are scared away because the house next door needs some attention, i.e., the grass hasn't been cut in ages and there has been no basic maintenance in years. Ignoring the problem winds up effecting your ability to sell.
People who aren't up to the task of caring for their home and/or yard shouldn't be homeowners in the first place. It's like having a kids and expecting it to raise itself. I've seen many people get into homeownership by the skin of their teeth and then fail miserably at it. And if you move into a subdivision with certain standards or HOA rules just follow them...nobody is that special that things don't apply to them.
People who aren't up to the task of caring for their home and/or yard shouldn't be homeowners in the first place. It's like having a kids and expecting it to raise itself. I've seen many people get into homeownership by the skin of their teeth and then fail miserably at it. And if you move into a subdivision with certain standards or HOA rules just follow them...nobody is that special that things don't apply to them.
How quick do those rules demands for replace a broken mower?
I meen things like that tends to breake in bad timing. Is it allowed to wait for next pay?
Or must it be done same day. i remember the lawn in this situation was half mown when mower broke.
I bet its a reason for that the house owner had and old mower. Not evry one got 250k$ in bank.
for slaming door on some seller or sumthing. i dont se any problems with. even if the seller "sels his work for mowing"
And honestly. du u realy meen that if some one dosent pay tousens evry month for home maintance. and not having 100% perfektion att their home 24/7 they should not have a home att all? Where they live? under a bridge? Maby not allowed to live?
I would prefer mowing my lawn twice a year then baling it and selling the bales to a stable. Fortunately my condo association mows the lawn so I don’t have to.
The OPs issue is exactly why their are HOAs as ordinaces have failed to accomplish what they were set out to do.Your best bet is to move as that neighborhood is likely going downhill quickly in value.
A month ago we had a neighbor who cut down a forest of tall beautiful trees just because he did not like the shade. Now we have an opposite problem with one neighbor on the other side. He has not mowed his lawn in almost a month. It has been rainy here in Northern Va and the result is the grass has been growing like crazy. It is spring and the grass always grows fast until around June 30.
Anyway, in our beautiful neighborhood of $600K homes we have a neighbor who refuses to mow his lawn. One of the other neighbors asked him about it and he got an angry response to mind his own business and he will mow when he feels like it.
What should be done? There is a homeowners association but the rules have no teeth.
Spray it with Roundup.
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