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The madness ends when you have to sell your home and can't because: * The neighbor to the left has 4 broken down cars in the front yard and a backhoe/excavator
by rtp4me 4y ago
The madness ends when you have to sell your home and can't because:
* The neighbor to the left has 4 broken down cars in the front yard and a backhoe/excavator in their back yard
* The neighbor to the right has essentially a dog pound (er: "rescue") with animals barking all day/night
* The neighbor across the street has not done any lawn maintenance in over a year. The grass is so high you can find wild animals living on the property.
* The assessed value of your home has plummeted because the entire neighborhood is in similar disarray.
But, yeah, they have "freedom" to do whatever they want.
- gs17 4y agoMy city handled all that, without needing an unaccountable HOA. Lawns that got overgrown would be mowed and the bill sent to the homeowner. There was a limit on the number of pets you could have, and broken down cars weren't allowed on front lawns.
- emodendroket 4y agoSo if we swing back around to the topic of the article, cities have also had these "you must have a grass lawn" codes that are being decried, so not having HOAs wouldn't seem to fix the issue either.
- gs17 4y agoCities are more accountable (the same city had a rule against vegetable gardens in front lawns and a citizen got it overturned without having to get themselves elected IIRC) and are much less likely to overstep their bounds into arbitrary aethetic rules. No need for an extra layer of bureaucracy at least.