lniles, I have to take issue with the HOA comments since I have some tales from the other side of the BBQ. While I’ve never owned an attached home I have a few in an HOA and non HOA. Once you live in an non HOA SFR you come to appreciate the retired guy giving tickets to the neighbors. These are actual events from my non hoa experience and on my street alone. This was not a ranch area but a generic beige stucco/red spanish tile roof tract and it was new.
1. Guy has two giant raider nation flags outside his home for the duration of football season every year. He doesn’t have blinds or cutains, he has “raiders” sheets tacked up to all of the windows facing the street.
2. Another guy decides to remove his lawn and plant corn in the front yard, not one or two stalks, but the entire front yard.
3. Another guy tires of the four shades or beige stucco in his neighborhood and decides he needs to paint his house baby blue.
4. Next door neigbor has christmas lights up for eight years.
5. Another neighbor decides he has too many people living in his house so he converts the garage to rooms, put the motorcycles and dune buggies in the driveway and the seven cars and a toy hauler on the street, there isn’t enough room in front of his house so the toy hauler is in front of my house, for two years. I can’t see the road when I back out of my driveway. He did move it while my for sale sign was up at my request.
So you can hang your wetsuit in the shower or all this can be yours.
