There was a group of people on the other side. The Mustang tried to take the direct route.

It seriously looks like he just opened the door and walked out saying, “I’m done for today.”

Basically, you nailed it.

I once had to convince an HOA in a Boston suburb that my Avalanche wasn’t a truck. I began by explaining it was really a modified Suburban and gave the history of the Suburban and origin of SUVs. I think they got tired at some point and gave in. I consider this to be a great achievement.

Do not resist the temptation. Think critically about the world in which we live and how it works. Investigate the things that don’t make sense to you. Be curious. And be angry and baffled by what you find out. It’s only rational.

Delta Thinks Its Employees Are Morons

Maybe it is good for business? All of the people stopped will end up eating in the area to kill time.

You have to pay them too. There have been homes foreclosed upon for under a dollar owed to the HOA. 

I figured they would have hooked up some tanker cars to it so it carried its own water.

I know a town where the train stops in the middle of town so the conductor can get lunch. It’s a private rail line and doesn’t run very long trains, so he somehow gets away with it. The locals hate it but can’t seem to do anything about it. 

The bad thing is there are two lawyers on the board. The way they changed the rules was the covenants allow the board to make an architectural control committee that is appointed, not elected. The ACC then has free reign to make design standards without approval.

The rules were not even presented to the homeowners until after the citations started going out. What makes me mad is that they basically implemented the new rules while the house we were buying was under contract without telling us. We asked about the HOA before buying the house, and everyone said it was no problem.

In my experience, basically all HOAs are based on a restrictive covenant. The HOA is the enforcement arm of the covenant. I guess it depends on if the covenant has guidelines for establishing a board.

In many cases, ther argument in favor of an HOA and the citations they give is that it ultimately increases property values. Even if they don’t lower property values, just break even, then why have them in the first place? Why stress everyone out about how many cars are in the driveway or the color of the door if it…

The missile traveled a thousand miles before streaking down on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific

They approached someone holding a chainsaw to give him a citation for a fallen tree? I have to admit that takes guts. 

I should have mentioned that, based on my understanding, while some portion of the buyers avoid HOAs very few ask to see only houses within an HOA. That is why less people will end up looking at an house in an HOA. I admit 40% is the upper value of the range I was referencing.

I guess this is why I was looking for more of a wide-ranging study. I felt like no one had done the study because: a. it is really not that interesting; and b. if they did prove HOAs lowered property values, suddenly half of the houses in the US lose value, making a big mess of the market/economy.

I guess the question is whether the HOA houses were less to begin with, then the rate of decline would not be predictive. I know in my area, a nice house with an HOA tends to go for less than a run down house without one, but it is antidotal. It is hard to find the exact same house, lot size and etc with/without HOA.…

Yes. Yes they did.