On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:16:44 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:44:01 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
> wrote:
>
>>I don't get the reaction against HOAs. The function of an HOA is to
>>keep the values up and the neighborhood nice. If I have good taste
>>then what I do is not a problem with the HOA. If I have bad taste then
>>chose to live in an HOA area to be able to tap someone else's good
>>taste. HOA meetings can get petty but they are easily ignored as long
>>as what you're doing is good stuff. If you want to leave junk in your
>>yard or paint ugly colors I don't want you in my neighborhood anyways.
>>Move to some place with no rules and so likely some place that looks bad.
>
>Yahbut...we needed to repaint the house, which was plenny 'spensive,
>Loosey. We used the HOA chart of permissible colors and proceeded to
>repaint the house. Between the choosing of the paint, the painting of
>the house and the finish, the HOA took that particular color off the
>palate. We had to re-repaint the house or risk getting sued by the
>HOA. And the DH is a very good lawyer who figured it was less
>expensive to re-repaint the house than go to war with the HOA.

I thought the expensive part of going to court was paying the lawyer.
What am I missing here?

>And I have never seen an HOA board that didn't include the *most* anal
>retentive morons in the development. I'd use the term "Nazi," but the
>first one to toss that perjorative out...

And that doesn't happen in government? Our mayor carved up an airport
runway in the middle of the night because he wanted to make a park.
Talk about nazi crap.

Lou