ricechex, when it comes time to buy your next house, buy one with an hoa. I know everyone has different feelings about hoa’s, but it is obvious that you would have no problem with the added rules and it would eliminate situations like this. This is not an insult, I am the same way and I know this about myself, that i cannot live in an area only governed by municipal codes, I need extra rules. It doesn’t make me good or bad, but is has made life easier once I realized this about myself.

In the house I owned that did not have an hoa, I had a similar conflict, while it wasn’t the view that bothered me but my neighbor’s similar work vehicle blocked my view in pulling out of my driveway onto what was a fairly busy street and there was nothing I could do about it. It also blocked the view of motorists if my kids were playing in the front yard and went after an errant ball. Rather than make him change, I moved where he and his ilk dare not travel, to the dreaded land of strict hoa’s. There is nothing wrong with him and nothing wrong with me, but we are better off not being neighbors. His raiders sheets as window coverings made him happy and were a source of pride, to me they were an eyesore and a cause of increased blood pressure (no offense allan, I would have been bothered by charger’s sheets).

I did have an aquaintance once that was a nice guy but was definately a member of the dirt people tribe. He asked where I lived, i told him and he said that he liked it there and even looked at some houses there but couldn’t buy a house there because he has montster trucks, toy haulers, quads and boats. Then he said that the hoa there was too uptight and had too many rules, to which i agreed out loud and to myself I said “thank god.”