We had an AM radio station in our back field when I was growing up. You could listen to it coming in over the toilet. :OYou MIGHT want to look closer at the FCC part 15 rules, here is the sticker on a electronic device that I have sitting on my desk:
Note part 2 "this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation"
As a unlicensed device, it is the responsibility of the device to deal with interference.
A licensed amateur radio operator does not have those restrictions as long as they are transmitting within the power and frequency limits for their licensed frequencies (ie: their antenna feed line is not "leaking" and transmitting on the wrong band).
If your unlicensed equipment cannot handle the interference from properly functioning equipment belonging to a licensed user (be it an amateur radio operator, a radio station, a TV station, police officer, weather/airport radar, etc), legally speaking that is YOUR problem, not theirs and the FCC will tell you that. Now,an amateur radio operator may be neighborly and help you fix your equipment (such as installing a bandpass filter on a TV line), but they are not legally obligated to.
If your unlicensed equipment is interfering with properly functioning equipment belonging to a licensed user, that is your problem and you are legally required to stop using it, or fix it.
See Title 47, Chapter I , Subchapter A, Part 15 for the law.
Aaron Z
Easements and HOA (HOA's) Home Onwers Assocaition's STAY AWAY!!
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One of the reasons that California is ridiculed is because you see and need to deal with problems long before the rest of us do. I remember hearing about the smog and brownouts back in the '60s and '70s, which brought about emission controls on automobiles.
Despite us critics if your state stopped shipping produce for just one month the rest of us would notice the difference in our grocery selection and bill.
Yesterday though I was looking at canned fish and seafood in the grocery store; and there is one brand which "cannot be sold in California."
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That's a new one on me. Wonder why?
I do know of many products that are legal in Nevada but not California. Certain oil based paints, lacquer, and a whole family of similar products. I think the Dry Treat sealer for tile and grout is also prohibited. I did buy a generator from Tractor Supply-- had it "shipped to store" to a California Tractor Supply. It arrived with a big "NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA" sticker on it. Sitting in a TSC in California. I asked the manager about it, and he said: "Oh, you got one of the good ones!"
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Good for you. You’re lucky you didn’t have to try and fix “your” damaged roof when minimal approval time (from others) is 45 days.
CincyFlyer
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So it appears that many folks don't read the HOA agreement, or perhaps neglect to do a search for easements, before they purchase a home. My property has a high-pressure gas pipeline running down one side, with an easement granted decades ago. No bother to me, as I cannot build anything within 10' of the property line by building code. My driveway is also shared with two other neighbors, but it's still my driveway. When I bought the house I had an attorney draw up a new agreement on shared maintenance, and the other two neighbors happily signed it. Note that in Ohio, as in many states, you cannot use a property purchase to "land lock" someone, so they'd get to use it in any case. I always plow it (gotta have my winter recreation!), and they fill in holes in the crushed limestone.
Currently I wouldn't fit in good with an HOA unless they allowed piles of tractor implements "on display".
Currently I wouldn't fit in good with an HOA unless they allowed piles of tractor implements "on display".
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Same response as to the last "lucky" comment ...
No, it was not luck. I did my due diligence prior to purchase. The HOA home I bought was completely stand alone with no interconnected roofs of other properties. I did have to do a roof repair when I removed my satellite dish prior to sale and I needed no prior approval for that work. Common development properties with common walls or connected roofs add layers of complexity and potential for problems that I don't want. So, in my case, it is not an objection to an HOA, but a desire not to have common walls or common roofs.
This is the problem with blanket statements like: "Never buy into an HOA." There are so many flavors and variants that statements like that cannot stand up. Others had problems with repairs to an interconnected roof-- generating stories of how bad an HOA is. But I don't have an interconnected roof in any of the 3 HOA's I have owned in.
I now own beautiful rural property in Northern Nevada, it has pasture and water rights with ditch water, and a soon to be completed brand new home. Fabulous property and I am lucky to own it. It's the one with the HOA that is legally still in place but defunct from lack of interest or need. Had I heeded the "blanket advice" I would have missed out on a great opportunity. Had I heeded the "blanket advice" I would have also cost myself $150k in profit from the HOA home I lived in while shopping for the larger property.
I see so many buyers not do their buyer investigations and due diligence prior to purchase. I agree that control freaks on an HOA board can be a problem, but I also wonder how many of these "problem situations" arose from buyers who didn't fully understand what they were buying into?
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On the 55 an older HOA neighborhoods. I have a client who moved to one of these gated communities. I've worked for her, her sister and her brother on their houses for years. She likes to travel a lot and this is a nice house that the HOA takes care of all the yard work. They also do all of the repairs to the houses, and supposedly all of the home improvement projects. Basically they have a crew that works there full time doing all of this. The guy mowing your lawn is also the guy that fixes your house. She wasn't happy with the quality of work they performed, or their inability to do basic things that ended up her having to pay the HOA extra to hire an outside professional to do these things. $250 extra to install a ceiling fan on a 10 tall ceiling. Seems that added height costs a lot more in labor. So for a few years, she hired me to do all these things for her, including adding a bunch of dusk to dawn light outside of her house. The HOA caught on and fined her, then forced her to remove what I did because the lights do not meet HOA standards. Nobody else in the neighborhood has lights around their house, so there was not a standard. After fighting them for awhile, she gave up and has the HOA do everything. She isn't happy with it and complains, which she said has resulted in her yard not being maintained and things disappearing or being damaged. The last that I heard, she is looking at moving.
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That borders on criminal doesn't it?
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That doesn't sound so different from our city's zoning and code enforcement. You can repair electrical devices yourself, like outlets, switches and fixtures, but you cannot add those same types of devices without a permit. Same things, but stricter enforcement in historical districts.
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I think there are so many different types of HOAs out there, that people tend to stick them all in one bucket.
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