The courts made the right decision. Its sad that the subdivision mafias due this. We looked at homes in several sub divisions but after reading all of their restrictions we could not picture ourselves being cookie cutter residensts. Our five acres in the county is perfect and I can look out my back door and see my fiver.

It is a very narrow decision. It does nothing to overturn any HOA or other parking regulations regarding RVs. The ruling actually just affirmed that a Judge's ruling that the family in question had special health needs that made the RV a necessity and therefore a variance should be granted to the codes was within the power and discretion of that judge. What happened is a judge granted a variance. An appeals court said that was overstepping the judges authority and the Supreme court of Louisiana overturned the appeals court and said that the variance was within the judge's legal authority. It was actually not a ruling on HOAs and parking regulations, it was a ruling as to what a judge can and cannot legally decide.

I thought you were given the rules in writing and signed to acknowledge those rules before you bought into an HOA. I dont see how anyone can complain about what they themselves agreed to. I may just not understand it though.

IMHO it was a bogus decision.When you sign up to live in a HOA you agree to abide by their rules. The rules that everybody agrees on. (That is why I would never live in an HOA controlled area.)If they can't abide by the rule they agreed upon they need to move to a place where there are no such rules.This is just another take on the old move next to an airport and then complain about the airplane noise IMHO. :S

Halmfamily wrote:The courts made the right decision. Its sad that the subdivision mafias due this. We looked at homes in several sub divisions but after reading all of their restrictions we could not picture ourselves being cookie cutter residensts. Our five acres in the county is perfect and I can look out my back door and see my fiver.I also owned 5 acres in the county once. Besides my fiver, I could see 4 single wide mobile homes from my property. No codes so each had 4 cars (1 ran and the other 3 were on jacks). There are trade-offs to everything.

20K and 2.5 yr fight secures a win over HOA for RV parking

107 Replies

TOOBOLD
Explorer
Oct 04, 2014
I think we just have to agree to disagree. The family had their day in court and the Louisiana Supreme Court saw it their way.
bid_time
Nomad II
Oct 03, 2014
I guess I shouldn't have used the word "professing" that clearly is not the case; "alluding" would have been better choice.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
don't know about that but the street view is of a Sunseeker, with two slides on drivers side. many/most of the houses around there were more conducive to parking a motorhome, drive on the side of the house, etc. not dead ended into the house. the one in front does not look like the one in the story linked. more white whereas the one in story is grey? image data in street view was 4-11. perhaps he bought a new RV?
bumpy
toedtoes
Explorer III
Oct 03, 2014
Wasn't the photo in the article of a Class A??
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
found a picture of his house. evidently has a circular drive in the front, his Class C is parked parallel to the street, across the entire front of the house. has two additional vans in the drive way and one pickup truck. I can see why the neighbors would object to that unsightly parking lot.
bumpy
dodge_guy
Explorer II
Oct 03, 2014
:S Unbelievable!
2012Coleman
Explorer II
Oct 03, 2014
bid_time wrote:
hypocrite - A person given to professing to possession of virtues and beliefs that they do not possess. Looks like I used it correctly. Will you be needing the definition of "virtues" also?
Yes - you can use google. Word comprehension? Not much help there. Not going to try to figure out how you know about beliefs I was professing that I may not have. Doesn't matter - just another nincompoop to add to my block list.
Cloud_Dancer
Explorer II
Oct 03, 2014
Obviously, there has to be rules. And, if you want more rules you have to pay more.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Oct 03, 2014
bid_time wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
Who are you guys to tell someone how they should live their life? Let them live it as they see fit! Odviously the state supreme court seen it that way!
Why shouldn't the guy next door to you get to raise pigs in his yard than if: "Let them live as they see fit".

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bumpy
bid_time
Nomad II
Oct 03, 2014
dodge guy wrote:
Who are you guys to tell someone how they should live their life? Let them live it as they see fit! Odviously the state supreme court seen it that way!
Why shouldn't the guy next door to you get to raise pigs in his yard than if: "Let them live as they see fit".