pb4uski
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Where I lived the city was responsible for clearing the sidewalks of snow.
HOA's are needed when people share common ownership of property. If one does not want to be part of an HOA don't buy a home with common ownership.
HOA's are needed when people share common ownership of property. If one does not want to be part of an HOA don't buy a home with common ownership. If one can live with wining a few and losing a few, the HOA should be fine. An HOA is a tool to deal with common ownership. How good or bad it is, depends on the board members and the owners.
I'm looking forward to an HOA, sheriff's office doesn't have time to deal with my ignorant neighbors dog and I don't want to shoot it.
I wonder if there are any new developments that lack HOA. When we were looking at possibly moving out of state, we looked at numerous SFH developments on 1 acre or more - and every one had an HOA.
the shoveling snow thing really got to me, but there are LOTS of people here that don't do it within 24 hours (or ever)
why do people need to be walking on the sidewalk when there is ice/snow on the ground? get on a damn treadmill or something
the first time some lady was walking in 6" of snow on my sidewalk and looking at me as I pulled in at 6pm after a long day at w8rk up my 30 degree driveway digging in ruts with my studded tires. irritating[/rant]
So, we're going to replant the ugly Euonymus, although we'll put them in a few feet further from the foundation, and maybe accidently leave one out.
We're probably going to sell the place within the next 5 years after DD and family move on to a single family home.
I'm at the other end of the spectrum. A patio home on a 50 x 100 ft lot. The golf course is my backyard, but I don't have to maintain it.
Seeing this made me think of some of the homes/lot sizes I see on the home-buying shows, where they describe both the home and lot size in SQ FT! Living here in flyover country that seems really odd. Even tiny city lots are listed as "1/8 acre," not in SQ FT.A 50'x100' lot...
And then there are the armadillos, spiders, arsenic in the water supply, tornados, drought, high property/school taxes, and other interesting aspects of living in Texas. All of these, along with the use of acres rather than square feet in real estate ads, probably inspired the time honored saying that "Texas is a whole 'nother country."Seeing this made me think of some of the homes/lot sizes I see on the home-buying shows, where they describe both the home and lot size in SQ FT! Living here in flyover country that seems really odd. Even tiny city lots are listed as "1/8 acre," not in SQ FT.
And then there are the armadillos, spiders, arsenic in the water supply, tornados, drought, high property/school taxes, and other interesting aspects of living in Texas. All of these, along with the use of acres rather than square feet in real estate ads, probably inspired the time honored saying that "Texas is a whole 'nother country."
Maybe when we decide to sell I can start a new trend and advertise the house "Located on a 217,800 SQ FT lot".
Where I lived the city was responsible for clearing the sidewalks of snow.
+1
Same here, now I don't but there is no law requiring me to shovel.
Imagine the 80 yr old neighbor forced to shovel, a heart attack waiting to happen.
City plows the road, why not the sidewalk ?
I wonder if there are any new developments that lack HOA. When we were looking at possibly moving out of state, we looked at numerous SFH developments on 1 acre or more - and every one had an HOA.
I'm not sure our suburban township could get the many miles of sidewalk plowed within 24 hours. They can barely keep up with the roads. Of course they could hire more people and buy more equipment, but that would cost a lot of tax money and some winters we only get a few snow storms.
What does the 80 year-old neighbor do? Hire the teenager down the street to shovel. Or a neighbor with a snow blower takes care of it for him/her. Here in SE Pennsylvania, we don't get a lot of snow but sometimes we get a lot at once. Last winter, after a storm dumped 20" of snow in one day, everyone was quite neighborly helping each other clean up.