What is considered a house trailer?
We have been living in our sticks and bricks neighborhood for eleven years. Neighborhood has HOA with covenants. We moved into this neighborhood because the covenants didnt prohibit rv campers. Coven...
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travelnutz wrote:
In our state, meeting occupancy living codes and under 400 Sq Ft living space with having wheels under it as a single unit is classified as an RV and is/must be licensable as an RV only.
Over 400 Sq Ft living space on wheels or with axles and wheels is classified as a manufactured mobile home and is not licensable. Must have permits to transport it as 102" vehicle/trailer width is the max without having permits for any roadway use.
Always scratching my head as to why people desire to live in an HOA controlled area. If you own your own property and pay taxes on it and meet the legal voted on and passed into law state division area occupancy codes and keep the property site in acceptable maintenance and repair, that should be the ONE and only governing requirement. Not an HOA telling you what you can or cannot do on your own privately owned taxes paid property. Your home is your OWN castle and doesn't belong to anyone else or should be you told what to do on it as long as it's within the written laws of the state you live in. Not HOA controlling desires.
We have a very nice wonderful large home (2800 sq ft with a large attached multi-stall garage an over a 1000 sq ft finished off to match the home 6" thick floored toy barn 22' high to the roof peak about 80' behind with it's own separate driveway and all is always kept up to snuff) and will or would NEVER live in or under any HOA stifling controls! Period!!!
I personally like an HOA (as long as it's not too strict, like the one I run), because it does keep values up, and prevents someone from parking 10 cars in their yard, or placing a mobile home on a lot next door to someone who spent a lot of money to build a custom home, or leaving their entire yard unlandscaped or full of weeds, etc. But if the HOA gets over zealous and creates too many strict rules, it lowers the property values IMO, because it starts to deter people from wanting to live there. I know in my area, my neighborhood has the least strict rules out of all of them and that's why we picked it. Most require RVs to be inside an outbuilding or garage, so our "rules" about RVs are pretty lenient compared to that. But even with limited rules, which people agree to when they purchase their home here, there's always people who think the rules don't apply to them, the worst of which being middle aged men :)
It's also next to impossible in our area to find a neighborhood that's newer than about 1990 that doesn't have an HOA of some kind.
