re: OT - Forming a HOA

Y’all weirdos can have the neighborhood life. Not for me.

I was in an HOA for all of 6 months before we as a community discovered that the developer had bought the land for the subdivision from the guy who owned the local nursery and just happened to have helped draw up the charter for the HOA...curiously, each home had to have sod, not seed grass, at least 3 semi-mature hardwoods placed at precise intervals through the yard and at least 6 evergreen shrubs arranged just so...aaaannnnd...we all paid dues to maintain an out lot that just so happened to be “maintained” by the guy who owned the nursery. Incidentally, he also had all those hardwoods, shrubs and that fantastic sod at the best price in town...only price in town as well.

Needless to say, once a real estate attorney moved into the neighborhood, he immediately collected signatures to dissolve the HOA and surrender the out-lot back to the dude who owned the nursery.

Will never return to HOA life...there may be some that are ok, but as many here have already stated, it’s usually some retired, power-hungry dickbags who want to tell you what to do with your own property.

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Y’all weirdos can have the neighborhood life. Not for me.

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frick a neighborhood....CONDO...with assigned parking spots and a deeded slip for the boat. That's the ticket....just pay for maintenance and live life instead of worrying about a pile of bricks going to rack and ruin.....I don't even need a kitchen in a place to live....a microwave, refrigerator and a kuerig and I am golden.

Who the hell is cooking in the US any longer< Seriously??? Every restaurant AND every grocery store is PACKED?????? How???? One or the other ought to catch a break every once in a while but nooooooo....both are full of people anytime they are open....and most of those people have some sort of home with a kitchen in it that they only use to store food, either uncooked from the grocery store, or in Styrofoam boxes from restaurants, until it goes bad and is transferred to the garbage can.

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If my wife would go along with it I'd live in a travel trailer in a Walmart parking lot until they ran me off and then I'd just move to the next one....I have everything I need in my motorhome and its a vehicle so there ain't any need in worrying about resale value....keep it running and when you're done with it some fool will want it as the fulfillment of a dream. A trailer is even better becauase its cheaper on the front end. I have discovered the secret to a happy life is a small nut...to hell with owning shite!

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You sound like a prime candidate for a tiny house, not saying that's bad or anything. Ever considered it?

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You sound like a prime candidate for a tiny house, not saying that's bad or anything. Ever considered it?

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I'd love it but my wife suffers from mental illness in that she thinks 3000 square feet is a tiny house......

We move across country every time the rent is due...since 2007 we have moved 7 times with an average distance between moves of about 2400 miles....bought and sold houses 5 of those moves....have been very fortunate in that one or both of our employers have paid for all real estate transaction costs and have made out pretty good every time....but we are going to get burnt at some point and get stuck with a pile of bricks in an area we don't want to live in or in an area where our earnings wont be as much as they would be were we "free" to move. When people stayed put from the womb to the tomb owning a home made sense...its never been an "investment" as many people think of it because it was a necessary expense and usually one that, after maintenance costs, interest and taxes was a wash as far as value increase goes, but now that most people will move at least a couple of 3- 4 times in a career owning real estate and what it is cracked up to be....and with taxes as they are now its almost impossible to itemize more than the standard deduction so there isn't even that plus to owning....

The maintenance dues for the out-lot went to guy at the nursery as well. It wasn’t maintained. It was just patch of undeveloped land on one corner of the subdivision.

WG, im 32, live in Lamar county and work all over Atlanta. It’s miserable but I love coming home to the farm. I’m looking to lose the “project manager” title ASAP. Got a few ideas of going into business for myself right now. We will see.

You and Dawgs Life were the reason I included the follow up remark.

I feel confident you wouldn't give two shits about my wife's wreaths other than when she puts up the damn orange UT one...

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When I'm old and retired I would probably love to live in the coutnry wiht a lot of land. At the moment as a relatively young person with a job in the city that is not feasible.

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Owning land is like farming. It's something you have to save up for. Fencing, cutting grass, weed control, clearing fallen limbs or trees, fence maintenance, barn repair, etc.

So I have read through this...if it's a nice neighborhood like you say...I am assuming the rent is pretty high? You are worried about riff raff coming in to rent an expensive house?