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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Was this your first-ever home purchase?
I ask because checking codes/restrictions on a property before buying is sort of standard procedure for experienced homebuyers. For those restrictions to be valid they must be recorded somewhere in an accessible place. Hard to understand how you could have missed them until that "200-year-old-lady" showed up with a copy!
In any case:
I think I read elsewhere here that your new-to-you Moho is a 1985 that you paid $3500.00 for, and that you were working on ripping things out etc in order to "make it yours". It's my understanding that this is exactly the kind of situation that deed restrictions are meant to forbid...could that form any basis for neighborly complaints?
Don't get me wrong- I'm a die-hard do-it-yourselfer and have lots of unfinished projects all over my property- Don't think I could pass the blood test to buy into an HOA community! ;)
I ask because checking codes/restrictions on a property before buying is sort of standard procedure for experienced homebuyers. For those restrictions to be valid they must be recorded somewhere in an accessible place. Hard to understand how you could have missed them until that "200-year-old-lady" showed up with a copy!
In any case:
I think I read elsewhere here that your new-to-you Moho is a 1985 that you paid $3500.00 for, and that you were working on ripping things out etc in order to "make it yours". It's my understanding that this is exactly the kind of situation that deed restrictions are meant to forbid...could that form any basis for neighborly complaints?
Don't get me wrong- I'm a die-hard do-it-yourselfer and have lots of unfinished projects all over my property- Don't think I could pass the blood test to buy into an HOA community! ;)
