Read the contract you signed before being allowed to purchase the home. It was more than likely quite clear about leaving abandon/unregistered cars out. How about putting it in your garage?

There's an asshole at the end of the street with two in his garage, four in his driveway, and seven more cars on the streets - he has to park them up and down the street to fit them all. The two in the garage are fine but the 11 others rust buckets are taking up way more than his share of the street. If he wasn't right near the entrance to the subdivision I would have turned him it. If the SHTF I plan on taking those cars and making baracades with them.

Open headers - oh you are an asshole.

Quoted: I dont think a private homeowners Assc can seize property legally, I mean who do they think they are the Govt.  I would tell them to go fuck themselves and you will take physicall action if they try and steal your property or call the cops when you see them doing it.

The answer is YES THEY THINK THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

Advice first:

Read your deed and then read the home association rules.  Most associations have the right to put a lean on your property as the standard clause to punish you for not being a good marxist.  The one and only time I lived in one, they actually had a tow rule even if you parked a registered car in your drive overnight.  Hopefully you will find a loophole but the bastages will close it if you do so in effect you will most likely get screwed.

Best advice I can give you is move the hell out of there as soon as you can at whatever hardship you must endure to do so for now you are on their list.  I have been there and done that.

Story:

A friend of mine took a transfer from Houston TX to LA and asked if I would rent his home till he could make his way back to Houston rather than take a loss on selling it.  I moved in and had to leave for business that night leaving my wife to arrange for getting the utilities put on etc.  That night the gestapo showed up at the door and verbally abused my wife with all kinds of threats.  My wife was actually terrified of this yelling and screaming man who was upset cause the grass wasn't cut and trimmed.  He could care less we hadn't spent our first night in the house.  

Upon my return I confronted the gentleman in a less than prefessional manner and while he laid their advised him that any further action on his part would result in more of the same.  Every morning this asshole would wave hi and I would shoot him the finger.  The cutting the grass rule turned into a edge the grass rule.  The no junker rule turned into a no cars in your driveway rule. The no antenna's rule turned into a no clothesline rule even though all the yards were fenced with privacy fences.  It just kept getting worse and worse.

I couldn't take it anymore so I called my friend and advised him I couldn't live in this manner and would have to move out.  Unfortunately the association had already placed a lean, kind of a fine, on the house for being empty more than two weeks prior to my renting it.  Being in the middle of the housing market crash of 83, my friend was going to lose $80,000 if he sold the house.  Upset, he rented the house to a very nice biker gang.

Get out now.

RANT

Homeowner associations are a scourge on the American way of life and a perfect example of a communist commune where a hand full of party members tell the rest how to live and hold power over everyone like God himself.  It's one thing to band together to finance and maintain common property such as a condo complex and a totally another to start making lifestyle decisions.  Open ended associations with the ability to change the rules is a blight on our society and totally contrary to the American way of life.

BTW, the subdivision I live in now has a deed restriction on the house size and that's it and pretty damn much takes care of any issues without the gestapo committees.

Tj  

three words: hillbilly blue tarp.

Quoted: Quoted: Homeowner associations are a scourge on the American way of life and a perfect example of a communist commune where a hand full of party members tell the rest how to live and hold power over everyone like God himself. Except that people voluntarily join these things!  We did screenings of every homeowner when they bought, and every homeowner got a copy of the rules.  I can't tell you how many times some dipshit, after being told verbally and in writing PRIOR TO BUYING, that they weren't allowed to have a sattelite showing would run one up a pole within a week of moving in.  And then bitch about the fines! It's one thing to band together to finance and maintain common property such as a condo complex and a totally another to start making lifestyle decisions.  Open ended associations with the ability to change the rules is a blight on our society and totally contrary to the American way of life. I have never run into an "open eneded association", and I'm not really sure what you mean by it.  In order for our rules to be amended we had to have (IIRC) 2/3s majority of a quorum of the homeowners, not just the board, approve it.  The only change that had ever been made in 15 years was the banning of renters.

You just made my point.  The rules changed thus open ended.  It's simply not fair to the 1/3 that bought their homes 15 years ago to now tell them that if they go through hard times, they can't rent but have to sell their home of their dreams with no hopes of getting it back.  The interview process is also another example of a subdivision setting the social standard of the community. Nor is having the majority approve who you sell your property to right and possibly forcing someone into bankruptsy. That's a discrimination lawsuit just waiting to happen.

You were stupid enough to sign the rules when you bought so now have to live with the new ones, simply doesn't cut it in my book.  Personal property should be personal.  No antennas usually equate to no flagpoles and old glory bites the dust along with microwave dish.  What's next, home interior inspection, style of furniture, or hey no guns?

Just cause you are on the committee and try to be fair doesn't mean the process is. In the one I lived in it only took sending out a notice then a majority vote at the monthly meeting of whoever was present.  People were singled out on their hate list and the others lived in fear of being put on it with the result being a rule aimed right at them like a clothes line that can't be seen from the street or the size of a dog kept in the same privacy fenced in yard.  

Like I said my community has a simple deed restriction of 3,000 sq ft minium.  That is it and pretty much takes care of all the other issues that would come up that would lower your property value without a committee.   HOA pretty much means community property and not yours to do with as you like and being on the ruling junta doesn't make it any more right than joining the communist party makes communism right.

If I have a problem with a neighbor, I will take it up with the neighbor one on one and not rely on the power invested in me by a building contractor.

Tj

Well TZ, point is made.      Time to sell and move in order to be happy.   If that Blazer was a golf cart you wouldn't be posting.

Tj