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- From: bwise@hemlock.mitre.org (Barry Wise)
- Subject: Re: Neighborhood from hell
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.141314.6886@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Nov21.140321.5749@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:13:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.140321.5749@desire.wright.edu> sbishop@desire.wright.edu
- writes:
- >
- >
- > I've learned one thing from all this. AVOID ANY HOUSE THAT IS PART OF AN
- > OWNERS' ORGANIZATION!
- >
-
- Virginia now requires that any covenants/homeowners associations bylaws be
- provided to the new owners prior to settlement because of these kinds of
- problems. Knowing how overwhelming a settlement can be they probably signed
- everything without reading it.
-
- Having served on a home owners association I have the opposite view from
- yours. Home owners who move into a neigborhood and assume they can do what they
- want without thinking about the effect on their neighbors. Your friends had
- trucks and didn't think to check to see if anyone else had commercial vehicles
- in the neighborhood? Did they get a building permit for any of the work they
- had done?
-
- I've seen people paint there townhouse bright pink and can't see why other
- people are upset. She kept her yard a mess and said she thought it was 'pretty'
- that way. Oh sure, she thought it was her 'right' even though see affected the
- property values of her neighbors.
-
- Those yuppie types were there first and your friends don't have a right to
- impose there style of living on people who moved to a community with covenants
- _because_ there were covenants to prevent the sort of things your friends were
- doing. They started the harassment by refusing to obey the covenants.
- --
- Barry Wise
-