Seems to be pretty common here in S. Florida. I live in one of these HOAs where trucks are banned. It’s stupid, I know… A couple of years ago, a new guy moved in on my street and first thing he did was buy a big ass F-150. Of course, one of the neighbors ratted on him to the HOA so the guy started circulating petitions etc. and ended up having to sell his truck.
Apparently, trucks are for poor people or something… bitch, do you know how much a truck costs these days?
I think the dude probably has a meth lab in his garage (being Florida and all), so doesn’t want to be opening and closing his garage door.
As a Floridian that statement pisses me off. People always stereotyping us because we live in Florida. Why don’t you learn something about our houses before saying something like that???
For your information, mobile homes don’t have garages. Houses do, but not our Fleetwoods. Once we can afford actual houses, we either quit selling meth or let our children take over the family business and just keep the trailer as an investment property.
While I know sweet FA about HOA’s there are By-Laws in many municipalities against parking commercial size trucks or vehicles in driveways and a contractor I used for many years sold his own house (in North York, Toronto) because of a neighbour, living in an adjacent recently built house, complained. I suspect a By-Law carries a little more weight than an HOA. I know another who has a similar truck, but the neighbours don’t complain because he tends to fix all their houses for free.
Pickups have basically become the soccerdad vehicle.
Minivans used to be the soccermom vehicle but minivans are passe now so soccermoms have moved over to SUVs. So now SUVs are the soccermom vehicle and dudes are like, shit… I need to get a big 4 door pickup.
Most pickups these days are never used for hauling stuff. They are practically luxury vehicles.
Didn’t read this article, but saw it elsewhere. There a bunch of cases of HOA’s with similar outdated wordings, and they have all lost in court. The word truck in most cases is around commercial vehicles.
So 1 this is not an unusual story, and there is an easy fix, hopefully the HOA see’s going to court is not worth it. In one case the HOA had to pay the guys $20k legal bill.
I live in a sub with an HOA, built early 70’s very very few rules, Keep your grass cut, no RV’s in the front, other stuff about keeping junk out of the front yard.
Current residence is the first in a non-HOA ‘hood and it’s the first one I’ve felt it wasn’t needed. Mainly the price point keeps the riff-raff out. Previous neighborhoods would have went to crap if there wasn’t someone enforcing the most basic covenants and those weren’t exactly in starter home price points. People will do whatever the hell they want with no consideration for their neighbors.
I only recall receiving one reprimand letter for not refreshing the landscape beds with pinestraw or mulch. I sent them pictures of the common areas that looked like shit and said I’ll refresh mine when they refreshed theirs. Didn’t hear back, but the common areas got refreshed about a month later and so did my beds.
Owner can’t keep his Rivian on his driveway because HOA are a bunch of idiots. (yes he should have read the rules. Yes the rule is outdated and stupid)
https://www.teslarati.com/...bullied-hoa-florida/
I loathe HOAs, but the dude has a three car garage. Clean out one bay and park his $100K vehicle in it. Why have $100 worth of junk sitting the garage and a nice vehicle sitting outside. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Depends. Many garage bays are not deep enough to park a full size pickup truck. Mine isn’t.
Not saying that’s the case here but my F150 at 232" long doesn’t fit in the single deep bay of my garage. The Rivian is about 15" shorter.
Given the entire HOA is “no trucks” I’d imagine the builder made sure to build the garages big enough for a truck. My truck doesn’t fit in my garage either, but then I bought an “old used” house. My Challenger just barely fits in it.
I just looked at the homes for sale in his neighborhood. Looks like they were all built in the late 90s and early 2000s.
My home was built three years ago and my truck doesn’t fit.
But are you in a HOA with silly rules? Those houses would have terrible resale if you can’t own a truck.
Yes, I live in a HOA neighborhood with silly rules and homes as expensive as the one from the article. Our HOA does not have a rule about pickups in the driveway. Thankfully.
In the states where I have lived, HOA rules are filed in the country recorder’s office, along with the deed and description of the property. The deed says that our property is bound by HOA covenants. When you buy the property, there is no reason to be unfamiliar with the rules.
HOA rules have benefits and burdens. I have a hard time with people purchasing a house subject to rules, accepting all the benefits of the rules, and they crying about a burden from the rules.
If the rules discriminate illegally, I can understand complaints. If the rules are unfair (trucks are okay but no rv’s), that’s a petty issue to be resolved by the neighbors. I don’t know why it’s newsworthy.
HOA covenants are essentially a contract between all home owners. They typically have a provision to change them. Ours requires a simple majority to change the contract. So if you feel a part of the contract is silly or outdated, then propose a change and convince 50%+1 of the home owners to agree with you. Otherwise, honor your contract.
I am the president of an HOA and we are filing suit to stop one homeowner who is building a detached storage building. Our contract prohibits detached buildings. He argues that it is his property and that he should be allowed to do whatever he wants on it. There is always that one person who wants a race to the bottom. When you sign a contract, live by it. Otherwise move the fuck to somewhere that does not have them.
I’ve never lived in a neighborhood with an HOA and can’t imagine I ever would.
I’ve never lived in a neighborhood with an HOA and can’t imagine I ever would.
You hear the horror stories but it isn’t really that bad. I’ve lived in 3 different HOAs over 25 years and it has never kept me from doing something I wanted to do. The petty politics can actually be pretty entertaining.
I live in a new neighborhood. The board president manages with passive aggressive Facebook posts. One day the post was a reminder that if you have a fence, you are responsible for keeping the weeds trimmed on both sides. I couldn’t think of a single house in the neighborhood that had put in a fence yet. I walked outside to look around and the one house in the neighborhood with a fence was the one directly behind the board president.
I garden, have compost piles, etc. This year I decided to just let about a 1/3 of my backyard go wild.
I’d guess that wouldn’t fly in most HOAs? But then again, I wouldn’t really know.
I garden, have compost piles, etc. This year I decided to just let about a 1/3 of my backyard go wild.
I’d guess that wouldn’t fly in most HOAs? But then again, I wouldn’t really know.
It would fly in ours. All of the lots are 3/4 to 4 acres. Our covenants say very little about the landscaping other than requiring the first 10’ along the road to be maintained. Some yards are full of manicured plants, some are left natural. If it is important to you, read the covenants/contract before you decide to buy and then rail against some aspect of them.
10+ years in my HoA neighborhood. No issues and silliness here in my experience. I think that has more to do w/the people heading up these things. If they view it as a power trip then things can get silly, otherwise reason can prevail.
In this case, once I read the “…Country Club resident…” in the first sentence of the article, I was thinking, yeah, rules are probably inflexible. Rivian owner shoulda known ahead of time about rules. Silly or otherwise.
I suppose he could try to fight it by sticking to the rules. Can’t be visible overnight? Get a car (truck) cover. Voila, truck is not visible. If it can’t fit in the garage, (b/c of length?.. Put it in there, but leave door open. Even it a bit sticks out, he could argue that it is in the garage.
In the states where I have lived, HOA rules are filed in the country recorder’s office, along with the deed and description of the property. The deed says that our property is bound by HOA covenants. When you buy the property, there is no reason to be unfamiliar with the rules.
HOA rules have benefits and burdens. I have a hard time with people purchasing a house subject to rules, accepting all the benefits of the rules, and they crying about a burden from the rules.
If the rules discriminate illegally, I can understand complaints. If the rules are unfair (trucks are okay but no rv’s), that’s a petty issue to be resolved by the neighbors. I don’t know why it’s newsworthy.
HOA covenants are essentially a contract between all home owners. They typically have a provision to change them. Ours requires a simple majority to change the contract. So if you feel a part of the contract is silly or outdated, then propose a change and convince 50%+1 of the home owners to agree with you. Otherwise, honor your contract.
I am the president of an HOA and we are filing suit to stop one homeowner who is building a detached storage building. Our contract prohibits detached buildings. He argues that it is his property and that he should be allowed to do whatever he wants on it. There is always that one person who wants a race to the bottom. When you sign a contract, live by it. Otherwise move the fuck to somewhere that does not have them.
The HOA rules for our neighborhood have been updated several times, including once while we’ve lived here, and the rules seem to reflect what people want: weed-free yards, trash bin management, and remodel projects that match the look of the neighborhood. The architectural committee has updated the color and style scheme. We have a xeriscape option for yards now.
Not everyone likes the same things. When my parents visit, my mom makes comments about how uniform and soulless our neighborhood is. Her neighborhood in MT is different— it includes a few really heinous remodel jobs and some year-round garage sale/ outdoor living areas that make the houses look very dumpy. Sometimes I agree with my mom—the grass is a little too neat and tidy. The hedges are severe.
The houses in my neighborhood are more expensive than the houses in the identical neighborhood to the west that has no HOA. I think it’s because the rules require maintenance. I think our neighborhood is a safer, better investment from a financial perspective.
I’ve never lived in a neighborhood with an HOA and can’t imagine I ever would.
Kind of a nightmare scenario for me.