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Speaking from experience, if you live in the united states you should be very cautious with this. Many municipalities and hoa's have pretty draconian expectati

Speaking from experience, if you live in the united states you should be very cautious with this. Many municipalities and hoa's have pretty draconian expectations for your landscaping. Municipalities in Florida and Ohio have litigated and fined homeowners for that which they perceive as nuisance plantings or general nonconformity. My former residence, while not under a hoa, did have a township restriction that inundated me with calls and mail from the city demanding I remove my front lawn herb garden and tomato vines. I had to fight the city for nearly four months before they dropped the issue, but they even went so far as to send landscapers to my doorstep to "confirm" an appointment I never made.

vuln 3y ago
> but they even went so far as to send landscapers to my doorstep to "confirm" an appointment I never made. Do you know this for a fact? I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising lawn engineer decided to use publicly available list of “ordinance violators” as a lead generation tool.
- kortilla 3y ago
  They don’t even need a list, they can just drive around and look for violations. I can always tell when my weeds are getting unkempt because I start getting unsolicited landscapers coming to my door and leaving business cards.
  - vuln 3y ago
    True but with the list you know they are facing fines. So there is a call to action of sorts that the potential customer needs it done ASAP to avoid further penalties and fines…
InfamousRece 3y ago
My HOA once fined me $39 per dandelion on my lawn. They claimed there were 6 dandelions although I counted only 4. Lawns are serious business here and they must be kept in perfect condition.
- 1letterunixname 3y ago
  Having an HOA is an open invitation for the most sociopathic neighbors or for-profit management company to tell you what you can and can't do with your property, even more so than city and county code enforcement. "John Oliver on homeowners associations: ‘Glorified debt collectors with the power to upend your life’" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/10/john-oliver-homeowners-associations-last-week-tonight https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/10/john-ol...

vuln 3y ago

> but they even went so far as to send landscapers to my doorstep to "confirm" an appointment I never made. Do you know this for a fact? I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising lawn engineer decided to use publicly available list of “ordinance violators” as a lead generation tool.

kortilla 3y ago
They don’t even need a list, they can just drive around and look for violations. I can always tell when my weeds are getting unkempt because I start getting unsolicited landscapers coming to my door and leaving business cards.
- vuln 3y ago
  True but with the list you know they are facing fines. So there is a call to action of sorts that the potential customer needs it done ASAP to avoid further penalties and fines…

InfamousRece 3y ago

My HOA once fined me $39 per dandelion on my lawn. They claimed there were 6 dandelions although I counted only 4. Lawns are serious business here and they must be kept in perfect condition.

1letterunixname 3y ago
Having an HOA is an open invitation for the most sociopathic neighbors or for-profit management company to tell you what you can and can't do with your property, even more so than city and county code enforcement. "John Oliver on homeowners associations: ‘Glorified debt collectors with the power to upend your life’" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/10/john-oliver-homeowners-associations-last-week-tonight https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/10/john-ol...