clover vs HOA
 But then I remembered a topic on here about what was a good grass, and some of you said you grow clover for a good sturdy grass. Seeing thats all that is in my yard ( and only in a couple of spots here and there) I wonder if I can just tell them Im from up north and this is what we grow.   Besides the clover has little purple and yellow flowers on it, so shouldnt that be in my flower bed.  Anyway just needed to rant a bit. Sun is out today so I guess Ill go pick some clover...  |
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| Don't you just love HOA's?? Imagine somebody else telling you how to run your life.....in this case they are telling you how to tend your yard, outside paint colors, etc. If your house had some historical significance, they could also tell you what what you can do inside as well. Sorry, you won't win the clover in the flower bed just as the no grass in flower beds now. As far as clover in the lawn, it's 50:50 if you win that one. To many clover is a weed in a lawn. HOAs like monoscapes lawns, perfect single grass variety. Personally I'd make my front yard as HOA perfect and not give them a chance to bitch by eliminating flower beds and go with permanent groundcovers, mulches, shrubs, lawn. P-o them! Obviously some nazi is walking around the neighborhood spying on everyone. Do you think you could push that rain westward, we are in a bad drought here. |
| trust me I'd LOVE to share the rain. My family is in San Antonio and are in bad drought too. We've had crazy storms and cold temps the last couple of months. As far as the HOA , ours likes to bitch at everything. I really only have a couple of weeds (clover) in yard and not much grass in beds. I've been planning on spreading weed in feed in my yard and clear out flower beds, its just hard when we are under tornando watches! hahaha I feel like sending them a letter saying, If you can send God a letter and ask him to hold off on the rain a few days, I will be glad to take care of my yard and beds.  |
| I'd never buy a house that I had to maintain to someone else's standards. A condo that was cared for by an HOA is a different thing, and I'm not thrilled with THAT idea either. My dad lives in a condo building. 6 units per floor, 7 floors. The way it is laid out, there are only doors to 2 units anywhere near each other. Some people were upset that folks had put a plant stand outside their door, or hung a wreath on their door. The people complaining didn't even live on the floor!!! |
| What is an HOA? |
Mady wrote: What is an HOA? A Home Owner's Association. I'm not entirely sure how this concept originated or the true upside. I think it would drive me nuts. I'm sure the feeling would be mutual  Kristine |
Mad Dog wrote: Mady wrote: What is an HOA? A Home Owner's Association. I'm not entirely sure how this concept originated or the true upside. I think it would drive me nuts. I'm sure the feeling would be mutual Kristine Definitely! |
| As the long-suffering spouse of the despised HOA "nazi" and owner of properties in three different HOA's, I can't help commenting on this. For each of our properties the HOA rules were in place prior to our buying into the Association. We agreed to abide by the rules when when we bought the property because we liked how these rules held everyone to the same standard. Most of our neighbors bought for the same reason and abide by the rules and are quite happy. Since we live in a community in a rural area, new property owners often have the mindset that because they are living in the country, anything goes. So my DH was the bad guy for 31 years, enforcing the rules that the Association put in place when the community was developed. If new owners have no intention of abiding by the established rules they should never buy into a HOA in the first place. Yes, I would like to have more than the maximum of three pets and a 5' high fence instead of the 4' fence height limit. Would I want my neighbors to have a kennel with an unlimited number of dogs next door to me? Or a 6' privacy fence between my house and view of the lake? No. So I'm glad there are rules like these in place. I won't argue that clover in your yard is really nitpicking. Are you sure that's the only thing that has been noted on your property that falls outside of HOA guidelines? |
| yep! Thats it!! About 5 maybe 6 little clover bunches (whatever they would be called) in my yard. And the grass in the flower bed is also just a small bunch on one side. If we hadnt been having rain almost everyday for the past 2 months it would have already been out. But weve had rain, tornados, and hail storms really bad and Im NOT doing yard work in that! Seems to me like they wasted HOA money on stamps and paper. All they had to do was wait till we had at least 1 nice weekend when people could actually get in their yards to do yard work. Another thing they do that drives me nuts is when we have our travel trailer home IN our driveway packing it to go on a trip, they drive by and see it and send a letter. How about getting out of your car and asking if were going somewhere. Its obvious we DO NOT store it in our driveway.And in our HOA rules it states that a travel trailer/motorhome can be left in the driveway the weekend before your trip for packing and weekend after your trip for cleaning. All Im saying is they could stop wasting so much time and money if they used a little common sense.  |
That seems pretty strict, Ryleigh, just to pack the RV-your patrol takes their job seriously. I can't imagine the stink over pet waste!  We live in a HOA area, and enjoy the benes as described by NameChange. Sometimes, though, the select rules are difficult. We find Our worst mandate, so adored by our neighbors, is the custom of stringing a certain(HOA selected) luminary around the boundary of your entire yard on Christmas eve and lighting at 6pm. Just for Christmas eve and New Years eve!! Rocky loves to freeze his a** off untangling, replacing bulbs, stretching extension cords, etc on Christmas eve. His last tribute involved bright PINK bulbs found at big lots  I believe he's done  |
| I had the expience of living under an HOA for about 14mts that we rented. We were forwarned by the former Renters that the HOA will send you a letter if grass is growing in the cracks of the driveway slabs or sidewalk slabs. Those are my pet peaves as well, so I always kept them clean, but they were an older couple and living in Florida, vegitation grows very quickly. I did talk to the neighbors around us and many had been given warnings about the same thing. When we moved in I spent a week just pulling weeds out of all the gardens. You couldn't see the weeds from the street, but the bushes hid a lot. We never had a "run in" with the HOA as others had...we volunteered to keep the common pool area up, my hubby also went to all the meetings. My sister bought a home in Michigan with an HOA and the Rules and Regulations were as thick as a bible. One thing I would highly recommend is if you do belong to an HOA to make sure you go to some of the meetings...a lot goes on that you need to know. Would I buy a house in an HOA neighborhood? No probably not...I'm pretty independant and don't like to be told what I can or can't do other then what the city has already layed out. |
| I would never live in an area that has an HOA, I am not a rule breaker but after working so hard to put in a lawn in miserable sandy soil anything green is good. Dandolions aren't so bad and we are ones that planted clover for a sturdier root system. Everytime I see one of those communities all I can think of is the song, Boxes, tiny boxes. I know they aren't tiny but all in the same color range, all have the same mailbox, most can't have a clothes line and whatever else they can come up with. We have a neighbor across the road and a little west of us. He built his own place with found objects. They never clean anything up and it's a real eyesore but at least he's free to live the way he choses. Luckily I can't see it unless we drive by. |
| I just looked up home owner's association in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association), seems odd to me for the US. I thought private property was sacred in the US! I would have a lot of trouble living in an area with a HOA. |
ICH wrote: Everytime I see one of those communities all I can think of is the song, Boxes, tiny boxes. I know they aren't tiny but all in the same color range, all have the same mailbox, most can't have a clothes line and whatever else they can come up with. I know. Completely devoid of personality or anything else. And so odd in a country where freedom of expression and individualism are so highly valued. Kristine |
| Look, there's nothing wrong with buying/living/owning/renting/whatever in an area with either restrictive covenants or an HOA or even an "overbearing" HOA, if that's what you want to do. It's just not for me. David, that's what the US is/used to be all about; freedom to do whatever you want without almost any interference from a central government. Including the right to associate with others to build a community (condo, town, county, state) with rules of your choosing. |
Baba wrote: I just looked up home owner's association in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association), seems odd to me for the US. I thought private property was sacred in the US! I would have a lot of trouble living in an area with a HOA. I think it is a good idea...run amok Having standards that you can enforce can be a good thing for a neigborhood. They can also get out of control.I live in a townhouse community...so it is the HOA that contracts the lawn people, the snow removal etc...that is a plus. There are some "rules" I find ridiculous...I can only have two plants/pots on my front porch...that is a rule I don't follow, but have never been reprimanded for  I don't know that I would buy a house in an area with an HOA. Some of the weird rules have a good reason though. Our parents live in a rural-ish AZ in an HOA community and any lights that anyone puts in outside have to be downwards facing/aiming. That is to help cut down on light obscuring views at night...it sounds weird, but has good intentions. |
| YA'LL JUST BE QUIET AND MAINTAIN YOUR YARDS AND FOLLOW YOUR ACC STANDARDS....YOU PURCHASED A HOUSE IN WITH A HOA AND KNEW IT UP FRONT... |
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