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Participant[quote=localguy]I have been running the HOA and chairing the ARC for a few years out here where I live. The management company will send out the letters that to me seem heartless and devoid at times of common sense. That being said, we do have restrictions on playsets, basketball hoops. etc…. I always tell the homeowner, just respond back that you will throw a plant up to screen it, or you will “move” the structure as it is “temporary”. Get on with life. We actually have one home owner who volunteered to drive around and provide a list of everyone who is non-compliance! Thanks dude….but, no thanks. I always side with the homeowner within reason. Someone mentioned speaking with the HOA in person, great idea. The letters that the management company send out are just legal non-sense most of the time. Do a little work, find your board member, and ask that person to apply a little common sense. In conclusion, I would leave your playset right where it is.
Localguy[/quote]Good post, thanks.
Yes we can definitely screen it up, in fact our other next door and rear neighbor both have no problem with it at all because they can’t see it. We are even willing pay our neighbor to plant trees in their own yard if they open up for a talk. We are very reasonable people, but it is hard to do anything when the other person is angry and unwilling to talk.
Our development have pretty big lot, although our playhouse is on the hill, it is not directly facing their house, It is at least 50-60 feet apart. it is in such an angle that we can see nothing inside their house but just their windows.
ParticipantOur neighbor think we are invading their privacy because the playhouse is on the slope and the kids can see their house from the playhouse and they also think it affect their property value. While I don’t see how a beautiful playhouse from your neighbor’s yard can lower your property value, I understand where are they coming from and therefore I am not saying who’s right or wrong. However the privacy issue can be fixed by planting some trees.
If the table is turned, I would not mind the playhouse from my neighbor at all. After all it is just for kids and its not like someone is living in that playhouse. My kids only go out to play once in a while or when they have friends over. Childhood is so short and they will outgrow it in a few years anyway. My husband and me are just shocked how they destroy our relationship with no reserve. Who knows our kids may end up in the same class and they are only in the first grade now. We were so looking forward to invite their son to come over to play in the playhouse and now no way for it to happen. Feel so bummed since we are new to the neighborhood and we are planning to stay here for many many years.
Back to the HOA, the responsibility of HOA is to take care of the maintenance of the common area. So our biggest argument is that our backyard is not visible from any common area. Can the HOA still force us to take it down because our next door neighbor complain about it? We are the homeowner too and how can they protect the interest of one owner over the other? As for the CC&R, the wordings are ambiguous like ‘ include but not limited to’. So potentially we have to get an approval if we want to dig a hole in our yard !!
Just wish I know more about the decision making process of the Hoa board.
ParticipantHi Flu, thanks for the response, it’s Santa Fe Promontory HOA.
We are going to say we are not in violation and take one step at a time.
What make me sad is that that neighbor has a kid as well, he is in the same school and same grade as my son. They ban him from playing with my son and try to influence another neighbor to do the same. Poor kids they have
no idea why they can’t play together as they were friends before.I have been thinking whether to send them a letter but doubt it would change anything except making him feel more superior.
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