The World encroaching? Move your driveway!

bigpete · May 9, 2005

Well, thanks for all the comments guys. This has been interesting to say the least. This was really about the project, not the reason for the project--as someone pointed out. I guess I just added the reasonin' as seasonin', as they say. If it helps anybody to understand more, there was no way to see this coming and no way I would spend this amount of money and time out of hate, anger, or to just be exclusive. We're happy here. if we really weren't, well ...we had a choice to put our house on the market when Grandpop apologized and told us what his heir was going to do. we thought about it but knew we had alternatives. So, my wife and I truly consider this a property improvement project. And yes, I am still allowed to gripe about the reason on occasion. It has nothing to do with the future occupants or what somebody might misjudge us to be.

When we bought we were told by the realtor and the neighbors that the old guy would never sell and that the land was not buildable that close to the creek. We actually talked to the old boy to verify the first part, which he did. Good enough for a family of four seeking a good sized, private parcel of turf, timber, and home. The first part held true--he didn't sell it. Lack of smart regulation allowed the other part to happen--it's just too marshy for anything quick and simple there.

Hope he turns out to be a good neighbor now. That's a completely separate thing from wanting privacy. All my other neighbors are good neighbors and none of us want to look in each other's windows. At least I hope there aren't any voyeurs out there in our neighborhood /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Doug_Myerscough · May 9, 2005

You did a fine job! I have some neighbors who could benefit from your idea.
Soon after I bought the acreage my wife and I are living on somebody sold off 10 acres down the road, broken up into 1 acre plots for mobile homes - directly across the street from someones nice house near the entrance to their horse ranch - yeuuck! The trailer that wound up directly across from them had a yard full of garbage from the first week and the garbage pile grew until the owner of the trailer was sent to jail for accidentally shooting (of all people) the garbage man, didn't kill him thankfully. The bank took back the trailer and cleaned up the property although they only mow it every few months, it's better than the garbage. The trailer has been torn up so badly that I doubt if anyone will ever buy it for even close to what is still owed on it.

Poncho · May 9, 2005

BigPete.... I understand exactly what you are talking about not taking time and thinking things through. I had a neighbor build a house and had 2 entrances on 5 acres. He placed both driveways directly in front of my house and a neighbors house. Now our front porches look directly at his house. Our neighborhood is very rural and everybody is actually very selective about the positioning of homes and out buildings to help preserve some privacy. A TV show once said "landscape smart - we all share the same backyard"... how true is that! Great job on coming up with an alternative.

KiotiJohn · May 10, 2005

Clinton, what part of Florida are you located in?
What type of restrictions are you going to have to follow yourself? I've been hearing a lot of awful things happening to people who moved into neighborhood associations, and they're not happy to be so restricted.
John

GerardC · May 10, 2005

My goodness... its my posts getting deleted by the moderators but it is you guys posting offensive junk like this. Do you not know how wrong it is to judge people by the quality or price of their houses?

The guy did nothing wrong. He lives in a lesser priced house than the ones around him. Big deal. Its the uppity types that are saying they would shine lights in his living room on purpose because he moved in where he did.

I find that view of this whole scenario very offensive, but yet I fear this will be another of my posts that will get deleted. I guess we'll see soon enough.

I couldn't agree more! My posts are getting deleted too. Guess that the REAL TRUTH CAN'T BE SAID! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

CLinton_in_FL · May 10, 2005

I live in Jacksonville, and bought property that backs up to Dymond D Stables. I only have a very few restrictions. Like 2300 minium house, everything has to match the house (stable, garage etc.), one farm animal per fenced in acre, must have an attached 2 car garage not facing the road, and your house must face in a certian direction (depending on the lot), no trailers, no junk in the yard, etc.. Other than having your power come in from a certian place, that is the jist of it.

Also John, the Kioti dealer on 301 mention that you posted on here often. I have been doing a little toy shopping.

KiotiJohn · May 10, 2005

( I live in Jacksonville, and bought property that backs up to Dymond D Stables. )
Well then, you know I also live in Jacksonville. My neighbors can't have junk cars and stuff like that either, as they are trees!
Since this a tractor forum, I won't get into the way I feel about restrictions.
So you've been out to Bigtractorsupply? Dave Williams is a great guy to deal with. Very friendly, and tries to give good prices up front. I hope you end up getting something fun from him!
You go to MY HOME at the top of the page, click on that, and then set your personal settings so we can all know what kind of property, location and equipment or other information that may help members answer any questions you may have in the future.
As to the original post, I'm not into judging what other people do as to their private lifes/privacy. I found the post interesting in the project and the responses to be quite human.
John

riptides · May 10, 2005

( I won't get into the way I feel about restrictions. ) I'd like to hear it!

Great thing now about restrictions and HOA's is they must be disclosed as you are purchasing your property in VA.

That is great, because you know exactly what your getting into.

The only problem we have of course is the county just cannot keep up with the development. So I am in Farm "zoned" land, surrounded by suburbs "zoned" land.

You can imagine what happens when a neighbor asks me to move my implements from their backyard "view".

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

riptides · May 10, 2005

( A TV show once said "landscape smart - we all share the same backyard"... how true is that! ) Very true.

Unfortunate a lot of county/state zoning issues creep into play.

My beef has always been with the supervisors that rezone areas without actually visually seeing them. I am sure that happens quite a lot in other places too. Then the newly mapped "suburbs" have no protective easements on their borders, or restrictive easements on their borders, and they tend to exercise their new property rights onto their neighbors.

I think the originator of this thread did a great job on covering up someone elses setback error.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif