I agree here.

Damn straight. Ain't no city slicker gunna tell me how to live.

try building in an hoa hood, I have met some real winners in the power hungry dept.

I drew and submitted plans for a large deck in one, got all permits and got started, hoa said I needed one from them and an arch review, wanted me to pull posts I had already set.
it did not end well for them when I pointed out they had no authority to permit me for anything, never went back there after I got done.

bunch of busy body idiots are on most hoa boards, I think they are a bad deal.

I don't think I would do well with a HOA.

That guy lives about 2 miles down the road from my gate.

Just what I was told. They used to eat catfish from the ponds but they said that so much went into the pond behind his house that he wouldn't do it any more. "Contaminated" is probably the wrong word.

A huge yard sale . I will bid $4.45 for floor jack and $1,27 for the burn barrel.

It’s alright we keep ours pretty chill. dont make your neighbors live next to trash is pretty much my motto . We have to go all Karen sometimes and I hate it but it’s what I/ we signed up for . Don’t get paid to do it there’s no crazy perks I just do it to try and help the community.

Not all hoas are bad even tho I know how freaking annoying they can be on both sides of the fence .

10 bucks takes the Busch fridge and the aluminum ladder .

When I moved into a new development in San Antonio I got written up for putting my trash out for pickup, on trash day, but in a plastic trash bag instead of the authorized trash can. It was the day that the trash company was scheduled to deliver my trash and recycling cans. LOL

Where I am living now in the country there is an HOA that really only covers 1 item. Use and maintenance of the gravel road that serves 3 homes. There had been an ongoing feud between my other 2 neighbors on the road and it was getting in major disrepair. Potholes deep enough people were driving into the ditch to avoid them. Couple ties a year the one neighbor would try to refill the holes with gravel that had kicked into the ditch, but they would open right back up. The older guy would then complain night and day that the other one was not doing it right and all his kids traffic was tearing up the road. Oh, the road, its an easement on the old mans property. The older one even went so far as to have a few loads of (wrong size) rock brought in and then tried to block the other neighbor from using the road until he paid his share of the costs. He even went so far as to try to put a lean on the guys property to get the money. The larger gravel slowed down the kids, and made it really rough for them to fly up and down the road on their motorcycles, but didn't solve the issue. After years of this, I repaired the pot holes with some concrete mix, 3/4 and smaller gravel last fall and the holes never opened again. The HOA simply says that 2 of the 3 of us have to agree on actions to maintain the road, and that we all have to share in the costs. Old guy just moved out, so maybe with the new neighbor coming in we can have peace in the neighborhood, naw, what is the fun in that. LOL

All that's lacking is a big sign saying, "The dog will eat your butt". Actually saw that at a house in rural SE Oklahoma.

This is where I was at with my proposal. I sent it to the arch committee and basically told them, "hey, I'm super flexible - make whatever changes you want and I'll make sure it isn't a huge cost driver and I'll build it however you want me to." They just replied that it had been denied - didn't try to work with me at all. So I appealed, which goes to the full HOA. I offered to downsize and to take any suggestions the community had on material/design changes, but they all said they liked it how it was and voted to approve it and now the arch committee (well at least one guy) is up in arms over it. He resigned the following day. Never meant to tick anyone off. I'd still downsize it if it would make him feel better, but I'd have to go through the approval process again and I'm not doing that.

The point of the restrictions is to keep the place from looking like trash, not for neighbors to control every aspect of what you build. Wish folks would keep that in mind.

I lived in the Autum Creek Subdivision in Friendswood, Tx years back. They filed against me for the color of my screens on my windows. They wanted them black, I had dark brown. I sold the house so I have no idea what happened.

I have a good friend that lived in the subdivion down in Brazoria County. This is the place the HOA lady was hated, one of the people that lived in the subdivision shot her. Pretty sure she lived. I think it was BarX Subdivision. My buddy told me she was the meanest get in your face scream at you person that ever walked the earth. He said everybody that lived there pretty much hated her. This whole deal with this lady made the news in the Houston area. Seems like all this went on in the mid 90's.

Seems like there was another HOA person up north of Houston that was shot too.

HOA's where you have barns and sheds seem to be the ones with the most problems.

I lived in a subdivision with no HOA. Kid across the street parked his car in the front yard, on the grass. No engine, no hood, 4 wheels in the summer, 2 in the winter (snowtires) with 2 cement blocks. Sat like that for 3 years.he couldn't park in the driveway because the pick-up truck frame (no motor no bed) was blocking the gate. I like my HOA.