re: OT - Forming a HOA

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Dose this house have full kitchen on both levels? Is the septic/sewer system rated for multiple families? These are a couple of barriers to having two families in a single-family house. Check county planning or zoning office.

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Good questions. No (not that I am aware) and no. Will do.

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But, the fact that you are ok with your next door neighbor being a renter and then you don't want one down the street, is curious.

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Let me clarify. It’s not that I’m “okay” with what the current neighbor does. I would absolutely prefer that he did not, either; however, he built his house 21 years ago and has been renting it the last 12. There really isn’t anything I can do about his situation outside of waiting on him to sell it. He has been pretty good about screening people, so it hasn’t been a problem. And because I figured any action to prevent future rental usage of the other properties would need his support, his interests would have to be protected. In looking over the issue, I came across the 20% cap example as something that is common and it just so happens, that would be exactly what we would need to allow him to continue what he’s been doing while also supporting making changes to prevent us going down the slippery slope of becoming a majority rental neighborhood. It’s not as big of a deal when the neighborhood has 150 homes. But each of these has a potentially much larger impact on each of the others.

Again, I would prefer no one was renting, but I was trying to look at this logically, knowing that that neighbor would have to support any measures to limit future use. I do NOT care anything at all about the ethnicity of whomever lives in the house. I DO care about property values and just having some stability in the neighborhood. The guy renting the house next to us just had his third tenant in the last 4 years move in yesterday. No one stays long in these situations and that kinda sucks.