Holy Smokes! Did I ever open a can of worms on my show today?
We were doing a follow-up to this story from last week...
Subdivision Apologizes For Barring EvacueesI asked about the provision that limited one family per house. Who is that designed to keep out? Is there a racial component? Callers went ballistic!
OCALA- A homeowners association is apologizing for telling residents that subdivision rules would keep them from temporarily housing Hurricane Katrina evacuees. The Majestic Oaks Homeowners Association says it made a serious error when it told residents that hosting families from the devastated Gulf Coast would violate deed restrictions. Board members say they believed that having more than one family in a house for an extended period would violate subdivision covenants, exposing homeowners to litigation. The board says they were well-intended but wrong. Residents in the 500-home subdivision are now free to offer shelter to people who fled the storm's destruction.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 4:13 PM
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Pat:
You sure love to stir up the crap even if its just to stir up crap.
Not all HOA's are so overweening. Restrictive covenants are established to protect everyones home values. Deed restrictions protect one from having a next door neighbor paint zebra stripes on their house; or park 5 junkers on blocks in their front yards; and to maintain their property.
Communities that have deed restrictions post that fact at the entrances; sales listings state if their are deed restrictions or not.
If one doesn't want to be restricted buy somewhere else - if one buys a home in a deed restricted community - follow the rules.
I personally don't give a rat's ass if my neighbor is white, black, brown, yellow, purple or pink - I don't want the 3 bedroom 2 bath house next door occupied by 25 people from 6 differenct families. Either would you.
I reside in my first community with a homeowner's association. Yes, the landscape looks nice, including the grass cut to a mandatory level, there aren't cars on blocks, but there is a loss of privacy that is uncomfortable, to say the least. No, I have never been sited for one of their restrictions. One mundane restriction...cats can not be outside, however dogs often run free. I have both and they are inside or on a lead. If a family chooses to help another family in dire need, can't we have some compassion and set aside the restrictions for a period of time. One of our presidents ran the association like the gestapo. I would be working in my yard and he would stand in the street, watching. He is gone and things are much better.
This is right up there with the HOAs that barred flags after 9/11.
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