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Thanks. We have other places to keep our bees so my husband says it is not a deal breaker but the options we have are in Apex. We have been in the triangle area for 6 years and still dont have a clue where we belong here. The longer we wait the more we cant afford to be here. LOL
You may be surprised. As I said, the exact verbiage in the HOA Bylaws is super vague. But given some of the stuff I have seen them do in our 3 years here, it wouldn't surprise me if they leave it open to provide maximum air cover.
I mean the HOA had my neighbor rip up a outdoor cooking space/hardscape because two inches of the grill was viewable from the street in front of their house (extended beyond the footprint of their house). Meanwhile, I have 12 feet of hardscape that extends beyond the footprint of my home :confused.
You may be surprised. As I said, the exact verbiage in the HOA Bylaws is super vague. But given some of the stuff I have seen them do in our 3 years here, it wouldn't surprise me if they leave it open to provide maximum air cover.
I mean the HOA had my neighbor rip up a outdoor cooking space/hardscape because two inches of the grill was viewable from the street in front of their house (extended beyond the footprint of their house). Meanwhile, I have 12 feet of hardscape that extends beyond the footprint of my home :confused.
This is why I have never wanted to live in an HOA. My husband is from the UK and he wouldnt take well to all of these silly rules. Hmmm
This is why I have never wanted to live in an HOA. My husband is from the UK and he wouldnt take well to all of these silly rules. Hmmm
I take the good with the bad.
If I have to follow silly rules around paint color and pulling out trees but the trade off is I don't have to look at unkempt yards or Meth/Oxy Zombie dens with kids who run into the street in front of cars trying to get hit for insurance money like I did at our place in MA, then it's an easy trade (for me, YMMV)
If I have to follow silly rules around paint color and pulling out trees but the trade off is I don't have to look at unkempt yards or Meth/Oxy Zombie dens with kids who run into the street in front of cars trying to get hit for insurance money like I did at our place in MA, then it's an easy trade (for me, YMMV)
I guess I have always been lucky. Especially in our current home. All of the houses on our street are well maintained and it is always quiet and nothing shady going on. I have never lived in an HOA development here or in FL. Never had issues with my neighbors or the neighborhood. I guess theres pros and cons to everywhere.
I guess I have always been lucky. Especially in our current home. All of the houses on our street are well maintained and it is always quiet and nothing shady going on. I have never lived in an HOA development here or in FL. Never had issues with my neighbors or the neighborhood. I guess theres pros and cons to everywhere.
Absolutely. Good and bad everywhere. Our house here would be close to 800K in the area of MA we left. So we were a completely different reality there.
If I have to follow silly rules around paint color and pulling out trees but the trade off is I don't have to look at unkempt yards or Meth/Oxy Zombie dens with kids who run into the street in front of cars trying to get hit for insurance money like I did at our place in MA, then it's an easy trade (for me, YMMV)
It's strange to me that people think a place will surely deteriorate without an HOA. There are virtually no HOA neighborhoods in LI and places near NYC and those places are well kept and high value. They were not always as expensive as they are now but they never had crackheads.
It's strange to me that people think a place will surely deteriorate without an HOA. There are virtually no HOA neighborhoods in LI and places near NYC and those places are well kept and high value. They were not always as expensive as they are now but they never had crackheads.
Ummmmmm.... where did I state that Heritage "will surely deteriorate without an HOA"?
It's strange to me that people think a place will surely deteriorate without an HOA. There are virtually no HOA neighborhoods in LI and places near NYC and those places are well kept and high value. They were not always as expensive as they are now but they never had crackheads.
Well you never saw my old house, then. We lived in a lovely neighborhood in Old Bethpage. It was lovely except for our next door neighbors. It was an older couple whose grown, crazy son moved in with them. He had several cars under car covers. The landscaping was overgrown, which we came to appreciate as the trees partially blocked our view. He would yell at his equally crazy wife and throw things in the backyard.
I showed a house several years ago. Cute house.
Neighbors' side yard chain link fence went up to within about 10' of the porch.
Two pitbulls chained up, and they fit all the negative connotations of "pit bull."
One was chained to the dog house, which had a beer keg on top of it. He was dragging the dog house around. I don't have a clue why the keg didn't fall off.
Both dogs barking their heads off, and Keg House Dog dragged the thing over closer to the fence.
Cute house. I felt terrible for the sellers. We were there for about 90 seconds.
No HOA.
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