Ever use your tractor for revenge?

[zr2blz]

Hi JnJ,
Yep I can see your house from mine (I'm the light brown house at top of hill if you look straight up 8E). I also can see DIA (Denver airport) which is 60 miles by bird and the wind mills in Wyo (50 mines + away). I'm at 6,200', driveway is .3 miles all uphill, but its worth the drive.

 

[radioman]

His story was something about helping a friend move and his friend not wanting the landlord to think there was more people living at that house. It all sounded like BS to me. The house was on the next street over and I didn't know anything about who lived there.

Hmm - I'm inclined to beleive you. I don't think a landlord would care as long the tenants were paying and not making a mess. Besides, how far would the nearest rental property be out in the country if that's where you live?

 

[hitekcountry]

Besides, how far would the nearest rental property be out in the country if that's where you live?

I no longer live there I sold the place 2 years ago.

This was up in the mountains and there were rental properties mixed in to where you wouldn't know which was rental and which was owner occupied. Understand that a rental could be a little cabin or a large Million $ home. The mix of economic levels was part of what I found fascinating. I could show you examples where You can find someone living in a single wide trailer a few hundred feet through the woods from a couple of multi M$ homes. Over all maybe 10% rental.

 

[Zephrant]

Reminds me of when I was still in college- My girl-friend was house sitting for a friend of her over-protective mother, and I wanted to spend some time with her. I would park my car a few blocks away and walk over so the mother (or a friend) would not see my car in the drive.

Betcha a box of donuts it involved seeing a girl on the sly....

 

[archerm3]

I've turned down a 60ac parcel for $75,000 in a beautiful Colorado valley with nearby lake etc. because it was part of a HOA. I'm not about to let a small number of neighbors determine what I can do with my property.

Heck, the reason I live in the real country in an old farmhouse is just to get away from HOA's. The only choice around here was agland or smalltown slumhouse if you don't want an HOA.

I don't want anyone telling what I can or can't do on my land.

 

[archerm3]

Yeah I don't care to much for HOA either. But it's hard to find much that isn't part of one out here that is worth moving into. There are some neighborhoods we looked at that didn't have HOAs (that we could afford), and half of the houses and properties looked good but the other half were junkyards or trash heaps.

Personally I keep my place looking good, and don't want to risk a "good" neighbor moving out only to be replaced by somebody that wants to keep everything they've ever owned regardless of it's condition or usefulness piled up in the back yard.

In fact, that happened to the guy selling the house in the non-HOA neighborhood that we looked at. And man he was pissed too.. Great looking place (with a HUGE garage ) next to a place that they just let go to crap with junk everywhere. He is going to take a loss if he ever does manage to sell it.

Now if I could afford a place with enough land between me and "them", I wouldn't want an HOA either. Any body want chip in to help out with the mortgage bill?

actually, it sounds as if you are an HOA's biggest spokesperson with that statement.

 

[jnjpream]

I do believe HOA's have their place. Most of the time they are useless annoyances because most people are consciously courteous to their neighbors. The HOA has it's place when one person moves in that has absolutely no regard for his neighbors.

For instance: Your new neighbor has a dog that craps in your yard where your toddler plays. You approach the neighbor and politely mention that their dog is doing so. They in return say "My dog can crap where ever it wants to, now go away." If your neighbor has signed an HOA agreement saying they agree not to let their dog crap in anybody's yard but their own, then they have no right to let their dog do so and action can legally be taken against the neighbor. Without the HOA you are stuck picking up your neighbors dog crap everyday before going outside to play with your kid.

Now if you had plenty of room between you and your neighbor the problem would probably never occur. And if it did, you would most likely be able to shoot the freaking dog and bury it w/o anybody knowing (Or hang it's carcass on a fence post so your neighbor can plainly see it. Your choice ). Thus no HOA needed nor wanted because the HOA might have a rule saying you can't shoot your neighbors dog.

You could make the example of a neighbor filling their tiny yard with piles and piles of junk and litter that seriously affects the value of the properties around it. Maybe there are some out there that appreciate a good scrap heap, but I am not one of them. Again if there was enough distance between me and the neighbor it wouldn't be a problem, but I cannot afford that.

Unfortunately living with an HOA has its own set of problems.. So it's a compromise I choose to deal with.

 

[mjncad]

When I lived in Highlands Ranch, a mega HOASS suburb south of Denver, the people behind me had a small yap-yap ankle biter dog that got through their fence to crap in my yard.

Before I'd mow my small yard, I went on poop patrol and any crap I found in the yard was flung onto the neighbor's deck using a garden trowel. If I wanted to pick up crap, I'd own a dog. After a while, they got a clue and found a way to keep their mutt in their yard.

Now the only crap I find in the small acreage yard are rabbit pellets and the occasional fox turd.

 

[CrownHawg]

Oh, now you did it! You got me started on dog crap! Several years ago, our neighbors accross the street got a (1) english setter dog. It didn't take this dog long to figure out that crapping in MY yard was much more fun than in IT'S yard. I figured, no big deal, it's just fertilizer. Fast forward 3 years. This 1 dog has puppies, and 3 of these puppies manage to "stay" with the mother. Now there are 4 very large dogs that are very fond of my yard. I have mentioned to my neighbors "boy, those dogs sure can sh*!" They just chuckle and shrug it off. Now, like others, I take a shovel out and "relocate" the feces to their yard/driveway/porch/sidewalk . Now these are neighbors, whom I like, but without coming right out and telling them to "STOP THE SH$@", or worse, shoot the crappers I am left to scooping.

Oh, these "dogs" are not very well behaved or taken care of. 2 of them have mange....

In keeping with the spirit of this thread, our covenant states nothing about "feces"...

 

[Zephrant]

In keeping with the spirit of this thread, our covenant states nothing about "feces"...

That would be self referencing, wouldn't it? Might get in to a recursive loop...