ignorance, judgment, neighbors
SO my wife and I bought our first MH finally! But first lets rewind. About a year and a half ago, we bought our first home, 2000 square ft absolutely beautiful in a quite dead end neighborhood. I k...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:
Most neighborhoods have deed restrictions when they are first formed. This is something that most developers use to show new buyers how the homes are to be built and maintained, etc.
Now that it is established that deed restrictions are in place,you need to look at the realities of them. If your housing development DOES NOT have an HOA, deed restrictions are useless. The local building department DOES NOT enforce deed restrictions. Deed restrictions are enforced by the HOA and this enforcement is paid for by an assessment to ALL homeowners. If you do not have monthly assessment payments going to an HOA, you do not have one and there is no money available for legal enforcement.
Basically without an HOA, the deed restrictions become unenforceable and you can basically tell the little old lady, and any other neighbors, to pound salt.
Now, forgetting deed restrictions, you need to find out if there are any CITY ordinances that prohibits parking an RV out front of your house, etc. Some cities do have such restrictions and those are enforceable by the building code enforcement folks.
If there are no CITY ordinances restricting your RV, or flag pole, then enjoy yourself and forget about others.
This post makes sense, if you don't pay a HOA then who enforces it's "rules" ? Anyone could go type up a list, call themselves the HOA and make your life miserable.
Even if the HOA is non-existant, I still wouldn't live in a place with catty, gossipy neighbors who have nothing better to do than hide behind Facebook!
Best of luck!
