no RV parking

toedtoes wrote:
That would be my house. No one in my neighborhood has a problem with my house. My trash cans do not drop house values. My trailer (and my motorhome which is parked there also) do not drop the house values.

This is my problem with HOAS and the people who like them. They think that everything not liked by them lowers house values.

A house painted pale yellow doesn't lower house values. A bird bath in the front yard doesn't lower house values. An American flag in the front doesn't lower house values. Yet these are all things that homeowners have been taken to court over by their HOA (and the owner with the yellow house had simply repainted the house in the SAME color it was when they bought it).

Everyone in my neighborhood has their own personal style. There are no cars on blocks or toilets or such. There are all sorts of other things. There are trailers and motor homes and boats. There are decorations and furniture and trash cans and garden hoses. And guess what? We all know we all have garbage cans and garden hoses - it's not like we're fooling anyone by hiding them. The fence that you are disgusted by is owned by my neighbor - an elderly woman with health issues and a fixed income. If she doesn't have the money to fix her fence, I'm certainly not going to condemn her for it.

It may not hurt the resale value, but I would never buy into a neighborhood where people leave their lawn care equipment , their trash cans and furniture in the front yards. But you are right about resale values, a neighborhood like that already has that stuff factored in and one more mess doesn't move the needle at all.
BTW, if my neighbor was sick, elderly and couldn't repair a fence that was in extreme dis-repair to the point people are disgusted by it, I would fix it for them. Odds are great I wouldn't be alone in that endeavor because my other neighbors would pitch in. Just because we are required to keep our neighborhood neat doesn't mean we are a bunch of donkey tails.