[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]When I was a kid one of our neighbors was restoring an old WWII trainer aircraft. He even started it up a few times (that was a real kick !!). I became a private pilot as soon as I could afford it.
Another neighbor worked in construction and hired and trained several of the kids on our block, (he used to park the trucks in the back yard).
Another neighbor was a special effects self-employed guy who had a work shop in the back yard, my buddy growing up used to spend a lot of time there, now he is an award winning special effects Supervisor/Coordinator. For a lot of A list movies.
I doubt any of that would have ever happened growing up in a HOA scrubbed neighborhood,[/quote]
Don’t be so sure. I have had a 1.8T engine from sitting on the garage floor for months while I did stuff to it, and currently have a partially dismounted c320 front end from an otherwise totalled accident that my relative did two months ago. The older neighbors in CV leave me alone. Some young neighbor punk gave me the evil eye one time and told me that HOA rules says no working on cars in garage and no partially dismantled cars in garages… I told them politely that it’s not like I’m going to have a Harley Davidson midnight bash with kegs in the garage and politely told them that if they didn’t like it, report it. But I also gently reminded them that CCRC also says that
(1) “thou shall not use garage a storage or convert garage into entertainment and/or fitness room”
(2) “thou shall not park cars outside unless there are more cars than garage spaces”
and then gently reminded them that they have a nice 3 car garage, with nice fitness center/entertainment center and interestingly none of their 3 cars are in there…”It would be a shame if you had to actually park your cars in there, wouldn’t it?” Never heard from them again…
There’s a hidden rule about HOAs in some of these communities. No one likes being a rat…And everyone is in one way or the other in violation of some HOA..So don’t nit pick on the small stuff.
