lawyers/neighbor/noise/Townhome associations, Baned from all auto activity Options

[Pnambic]

I was given a real nice basketball goal years ago. Nice rectangular clear plexiglass backboard, etc. I got home and was showing my neighbor and he told me that I couldn't put it up. He wasn't being mean, he was just telling me that the bylaws in the neighborhood association prohibited permanent basketball goals. He said he had been told no and thought he'd save me the trouble. I looked it up and sure enough, its perfectly OK to have the moveable ones that look like crap and are all beat up because the kids knock them down all the time. But you can't have a nice one. When I submitted a request to have an exception, I was given the "If we grant you an exception, then we'd have to do it for everyone else" bullshit cop-out. Geniuses... Still have it, in the box. Waiting for a time and place to put it up.

I remember reading a story about a lady (I think she was in Michigan for whatever reason...) who grew weary of the noise where she lived in the city, so she decided to move somewhere rural. She bought a nice little farm house and all was well. Until a few months later when the farms around her started fertilizing the fields and it smelled like manure. She actually filed a lawsuit against the nearest farms claiming they were infriging on her rights with the smell of manure. I'm pretty sure it was thrown out, but I can't seem to find the story anymore.


Like someone else said, HOA's are only as good as the people enforcing them. The scary thing is that most HOA's are not really governed by local law enforcement. Most local law let them do whatever they want as it takes work off their busy desk. There was that guy a couple years ago, about a year after 9/11 I think that had his house taken from him, by the HOA, because he put up a flag pole in his front yard.

Interesting little read...

HOA's are simply given WAY too much power. Problem is, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and we all know that the squeaky wheels are the ones that work so hard to mess with other peopls' lives via the HOA.

The rest of us who are perfectly happy to live and let live are ignored because we make less noise....so to speak....

[Dr Evil]

There was a case a few years back in San Diego where a woman had some roses growing in a common flower box next to her apartment. Thye had been there for a while when one day the HOA decided to tell her she needed to get rid of them because they were a safety hazard to the local kiddies due to the thorns. As if this wasnt enough, the HOA had boganvilla (sp?) planted as landscaping throughout the property and that plant has 1-2" spikes all over it. So, the lady pleaded to the HOA to let her keep her roses for a little while longer. Did I mention she had terminal cancer? Ya (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) She had been given lees then 1yr to live and said the roses, that she had planted a while ago, gave her some peace and asked if she could just have them there until she passed. HOA said go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) yourself. The news got involved and they still said no. Rules is rules. The people on teh board were real pieces of work, too. I will never live in a HOA. Too much power to myopic minded people the do only respond to complainers.

[dflesburg]

I suggest that since you cant work on your car you

"PUT THE BAND BACK TOGEATHER" get your buddys to come over and break out the stack amps and drum kits...

Then again, I am a butthead.

[Jake Raby]

They're now thinking of selling their house just to get away from this dog. So in their case, it sure would be nice to have someone take action

(IMG:http://www.marlinfirearms.com/Images/photo_917VS.jpg)

Permanent solution to the problem...
Effective to 700 yards.

[dflesburg]

found this guys website might help you...

Dont get mad, get even...

http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/irrespon...yyou173940.html

[highways]

Sounds like you need to give her some different types of noises to worry about. Like how about a couple loud hours of passion in the sack? Every morning at 5am.

[Jake Raby]

My neighbors pissed me off so I installed a dyno cell 50 yards from their house...

Then I added a second one....

Our antics can be heard some 6 miles away clear as a bell, with just one engine being tested. Two engines simultaneously is too much to bear from 300 yards away...

[crash914]

or do like a friend of mine,.. walk out to get your paper in the morning...just boxers. grunt and bellow loudly. stretch. quite a seen.

it worked for him...

[boxstr]

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CL

[flesburg]

Neighbors can be a pain in the ass no matter where you live.

My neighbor is a retired Judge. He thinks he is still more important than the rest
of us. Too many years of having his ass kissed by everyone in town who were afraid
they might end up in front of him someday, and it cooked his brain.

He is some piece of work.

I think a nice quiet condo would be nice, with a garage in an industrial park about a half mile away for hobbies.

[Chris Pincetich]

When I was renting in a condo the owner got letters for 1) Remove window Xmas light per defined schedule to allow lights 2) Working on car in driveway (both he and I did this) 3) Noise 4) My skateboard ramp with wheels, always stored inside the garage.

HOA are lame. Rent the condo and Get a deal on a house now, with a fat garage. Interest rates just dropped (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[BiG bOgGs]

HOAs are for retired execs and unfulfilled exec wannabes to get their rocks off playing power games. Thanks, but NO for me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/KMA.gif)

[degreeoff]

yep that is why I bought my place....1/2 acre in an antique district with cool nieghbors, I try to be respectful in the way of times making noise just the same but I AM A LOUD SOB!! and there aint a damn thing they can do!! (You should hear my 1985 wheelhorse 310-8 with my 5 hp trailer mounted leafsucker!)

[drive-ability]

I'm definitely out of place here, shi* theres only one auto parts store in the hole city (180K strong). Our parents ages from 78 to 87 live here, so family comes first even before my 914. My plane is to hang around till there gone and move up to Washington State. There I will burn a car on my front lawn once a month just for fun! I've always wanted a steam roller or a tank and there I can play with it..
This woman is a brat and I'll make sure she spends a lot of money trying to corral me.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)

[LarryR]

Man I feel for you! When we had our first house in Tempe, Arizona I got letters from the HOA about once a month. Drove me crazy. They sent me a letter saying that if I was going to work on my cars I could not have the garage door open!!! WTF keep in mind when its like 115 or so working in the garage with the door shut is nuts. I responded by keeping it only half open when working on my car. I guess the thing that made me the most angry was that one of my neighbors called the HOA b/c I was working on my car with the garage door open. Now we have no HOA and loving it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[GWN7]

Know any big bearded guys who ride harleys?

Invite a couple over for a beer....when she sticks her nose out the door to investigate, invite her over to meet the new neibours.....tell her your moving and they (the bikers) are her new neibours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Zundfolge]

(IMG:http://www.marlinfirearms.com/Images/photo_917VS.jpg)
Permanent solution to the problem...
Effective to 700 yards.

.17HMR? 700 yards? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Against prairie dogs I haven't found the .17 to be very effective out past 300 yards. Maybe you should up that to .22-250 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)




Anyway, HOAs and Condo Associations attract petty Nazi wannabes. Best to avoid them all together ... I hope you can get that farm land soon, drive-ability.

[Danny_Ocean]

I think a nice quiet condo would be nice, with a garage in an industrial park about a half mile away for hobbies.

Exactly. I bought this shop:

(IMG:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/genevawatch/garage1.jpg)

Commercial zone, only neighbor is the jail. Those guys don't complain much.

Have you thought about renting a shop, drive-ability?

(I also bought this, so I don't have to deal with neighbors):

(IMG:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/genevawatch/Catamount/DSCN0496.jpg)

[euro911]

What if your blender makes too much noise, or your clothes dryer? ... got a ping pong table?

You can't walk on eggs for the rest of your life, and be told you can't live a normal life for chrissake!

I'd counter-sue the bitch for harassment and mental anguish.



(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Yeah, get a ping-pong table and have tournaments every day for a while (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


O.T. Are you still wanting the flares John? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ... it that time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

[Wilhelm]

I had some juvenile dreams and awoke in a cold sweat:

1. Cell phone jammer.
2. Wireless telephone jammer.
3. Remote contol for her television.
4. She use wireless internet? Most people leave them unsecured wide open for you to hog their bandwidth with farmsexporn, find their files/credit card# so that you may benefit them by ordering everything they never new they needed. Sounds like shes missing a "full master" butt plug.
5. Bird nest jammed down her sewer pipe vent.
6. Drill hole in side of electric meter, jam wire in to stop gears. Powercompany will find this and will come up settlement offer with her.
7. Shared wall? Bolt a loud grandfather clock to the wall to chime on the hour.
Shut your cupoards ever so not gently.
Make your 4am expresso with the froth set for jet plane screechy.
Compost worms and other criters in a sealed jar, figure out where her electrical outlets are with a stud/metal detector and vent this ungodly stench though her outlets into her space intermittanly.
8. Toss obnoxious weed species into her lawn; blackberry, bamboo, english ivy, pot.
9. Record male-female screaming matches of the tv and set your computer to play these back randomly while your at work.

Of course any badness needs to be done in a random fashion to keep you uncaught.


What sort of sickness comes up with this anyway? Is there a psychiatrist on the board who can cure misanthropy?

Cheers, wilhelm