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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Unfortunately we live in a community (near Atlanta, GA) that has a VERY active HOA. Coming from the west coast I had never owned property with an HOA and covenants.
Stupid me, I thought what's the big deal? Our covenants even mention the Queen of England in them, something from when Georgia was a penal colony? Who knows?
We have way too many 'covenant police' and the policing from the HOA management firm is way to zealous too. I typically get 2 or 3 letters a year about something. Even letters complaining about something in our back yard. The only way to see our backyard is to somehow look over a 6 foot fence (approved by the HOA Architect Committee).
The things they complain about are insane. We had to get rid of a dog house because it was not built to match the architecture and paint scheme of our house. I mean really, a brick front with matching hardy plank on the sides and painted to match. Don't these Nazi HOA people have anything better to do?
With that said we pretty much had to put up with all the c%^& because of financial reasons have prohibited moving. BUT...
Retirement is next year, we WILL be moving and I can guarantee there will not be an HOA in our future.
Stupid me, I thought what's the big deal? Our covenants even mention the Queen of England in them, something from when Georgia was a penal colony? Who knows?
We have way too many 'covenant police' and the policing from the HOA management firm is way to zealous too. I typically get 2 or 3 letters a year about something. Even letters complaining about something in our back yard. The only way to see our backyard is to somehow look over a 6 foot fence (approved by the HOA Architect Committee).
The things they complain about are insane. We had to get rid of a dog house because it was not built to match the architecture and paint scheme of our house. I mean really, a brick front with matching hardy plank on the sides and painted to match. Don't these Nazi HOA people have anything better to do?
With that said we pretty much had to put up with all the c%^& because of financial reasons have prohibited moving. BUT...
Retirement is next year, we WILL be moving and I can guarantee there will not be an HOA in our future.
