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K1VSK

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2020, 08:35:19 AM »

Waiting for Cynthia, well played!
using childish names is “well-played”?

Some people (actually the same few characters) have a compelling need to feign superiority by belittling others. Meanwhile, HOAs keep selling like “hot cakes”.
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KS2G

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2020, 08:45:38 AM »

I'm sitting in my air conditioned living room, chatting with my wife, and sipping a Tasty Adult Beverage. Outside it's 90 degrees, with a heat index of 101, and there are six men mowing my lawn. Yeah, a better antenna would be nice, but ya know...

I'm sure there are lawn care services in your area that do that for folks who can put up antenna because they don't live in HOA communities.
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AC2EU

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2020, 09:10:36 AM »

5 acres, lots of trees to hang antennas and provide cooing shade as well as transpiration. NO HOA.
The Geico commercial appears to have a ring of truth to it-NO THANKS!

Better hope they don't decide to have a "dry community" . Kiss your adult beverage goodby.

K7JQ

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2020, 11:46:30 AM »


The Geico commercial appears to have a ring of truth to it-NO THANKS!


The commercial is obviously an over-the-top humorous depiction ;).

The truth:
1. Approved front yard trees and shrubs...Yes. For example, no out of place looking
    palm trees in a desert-themed community. Logical?
2. Looking in trash cans...No.
3. Cutting down hanging plants...No.
4. Checking the height of mailboxes and sawing them off...No.

I don't see the point of people who don't live in an HOA denigrate the concept and those that live in one. Really, who cares where someone else lives ::)?

However, I do think that the originator of this topic, where he seemingly rubs it in that someone else mows his lawn, left it open to anti-HOA comments :).
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WB2KSP

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2020, 01:55:10 PM »


The Geico commercial appears to have a ring of truth to it-NO THANKS!


The commercial is obviously an over-the-top humorous depiction ;).

The truth:
1. Approved front yard trees and shrubs...Yes. For example, no out of place looking
    palm trees in a desert-themed community. Logical?
2. Looking in trash cans...No.
3. Cutting down hanging plants...No.
4. Checking the height of mailboxes and sawing them off...No.

I don't see the point of people who don't live in an HOA denigrate the concept and those that live in one. Really, who cares where someone else lives ::)?

However, I do think that the originator of this topic, where he seemingly rubs it in that someone else mows his lawn, left it open to anti-HOA comments :).

The reason for so many anti HOA comments is because for many people wanting to move into a new home it's a difficult job finding the type of house many of us are looking for where we can also enjoy our hobby, ham radio. For most owning a ham radio and making use of it requires a erection of an outside antenna. So, it isn't that we have no interest in HOA communities because many of us would have no problem moving into such neighborhoods, if they allowed us to put up an antenna. If you live on a postage stamp sized piece of property I could understand why neighbors wouldn't want you to put up a 50 or 100 foot tower. That's understandable and reasonable. If I want to put up a spider beam on the roof of my home and a vertical or wire antenna in my back yard, none of which has any physical impact on my neighbors, and they say forget it. We don't like it so you can't have any antenna. That is unreasonable. A properly constructed and installed antenna can not be compared with someone putting up a chicken coop and raising barnyard animals next door or parking a HUGE vehicle in their driveway. Anyway, it's because of this refusal by strangers to allow us to enjoy our legal hobby should we want to purchase a home in certain neighborhoods, that we are anti HOA. I hope this explains at least my reasons for making the statements I do. By the way, I've been in touch with a real estate agent in New Mexico and she had sent me links to some really fine homes which meet my criteria.  The only issue now is how their health care services rate. Florida, home to the elderly has quite a few subpar hospitals, when compared to say, NYC which has many state of the art hospital facilities. My father died of coronary failure,  shortly after seeing his cardiologist at a supposed teaching hospital in Tampa and given a green light. My mother in law was diagnosed with heart failure in NY . She was put on Coumaden as a test patient in the 1980's and lived another ten plus years because of her doctor at Columbia Presbyterian, in NYC.
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W9FIB

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2020, 04:26:55 PM »

Waiting for Cynthia, well played!
using childish names is “well-played”?

Some people (actually the same few characters) have a compelling need to feign superiority by belittling others. Meanwhile, HOAs keep selling like “hot cakes”.

I didn't invent the commercial or the name. Thought you were smarter then you seem to portray with that comment. Or is it that you just have no sense of humor?

I found humor in it so that's why I posted it.  :)

But then again I would rather live in a house surrounded by AM, FM, and TV stations with all the added RF hash from commercial 2-way on those towers than live in an HOA.

But that is why I don't. Rider makes easy mowing of the big yard. I have 7 vehicles in my yard with 6 being roadworthy and running, licensed, and insured. I rebuild older trucks as a hobby (which is the 7th vehicle) and get no complaints. I build electrical panels in another shop on my property. Have another shed with used truck parts and surplus electronics in it. Cut and split my own firewood (stored in my woodshed) for my fireplace that's lit almost all winter and my fire pit on my patio in the summer. Do my own snow plowing in winter. And have antennas to enjoy HR with.

Why in the (insert your favorite word here) would I want to move to an HOA and give up the life I enjoy?  ;D

Actually Cynthia would have a heart attach inspecting my property.  8)

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K7JQ

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2020, 04:53:18 PM »

David WB2KSP,

I completely understand YOUR frustration in trying to find a new home that checks all your desirable features, except for antenna restrictions. However, many of the comments on this forum topic are from those who feel *ALL* their rights and freedoms are compromised in an HOA, besides just antenna restrictions. As if living in one is comparable to a Nazi occupied territory ::). Nothing could be further from the truth. What's amazing is that all but possibly a few of the anti-HOA crowd have never lived in one! And those few have maybe had a sour experience with an issue or two. Nothing is perfect, not even living outside of an HOA. How can you negatively comment on something you've never experienced? As I've said before, why should anyone care where someone else lives, and belittle them or the "HOA concept" for it?

Pertaining to your rationale where you don't understand all the fuss about having a properly installed ham radio antenna on your roof or backyard, the fact remains that signing a CC&R agreement is a legal binding contract. It doesn't matter if you think it's unreasonable. Yeah I agree...as a ham it sucks, but that's the way it is. We all have choices and priorities...sometimes compromises must be made. Again, nothing in life is *perfect* ;).

73 and be safe,  Bob K7JQ 
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K1VSK

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2020, 04:57:42 PM »


The Geico commercial appears to have a ring of truth to it-NO THANKS!


The commercial is obviously an over-the-top humorous depiction ;).

The truth:
1. Approved front yard trees and shrubs...Yes. For example, no out of place looking
    palm trees in a desert-themed community. Logical?
2. Looking in trash cans...No.
3. Cutting down hanging plants...No.
4. Checking the height of mailboxes and sawing them off...No.

I don't see the point of people who don't live in an HOA denigrate the concept and those that live in one. Really, who cares where someone else lives ::)?

However, I do think that the originator of this topic, where he seemingly rubs it in that someone else mows his lawn, left it open to anti-HOA comments :).

The reason for so many anti HOA comments is because for many people wanting to move into a new home it's a difficult job finding the type of house many of us are looking for where we can also enjoy our hobby, ham radio. For most owning a ham radio and making use of it requires a erection of an outside antenna. So, it isn't that we have no interest in HOA communities because many of us would have no problem moving into such neighborhoods, if they allowed us to put up an antenna. If you live on a postage stamp sized piece of property I could understand why neighbors wouldn't want you to put up a 50 or 100 foot tower. That's understandable and reasonable. If I want to put up a spider beam on the roof of my home and a vertical or wire antenna in my back yard, none of which has any physical impact on my neighbors, and they say forget it. We don't like it so you can't have any antenna. That is unreasonable. A properly constructed and installed antenna can not be compared with someone putting up a chicken coop and raising barnyard animals next door or parking a HUGE vehicle in their driveway. Anyway, it's because of this refusal by strangers to allow us to enjoy our legal hobby should we want to purchase a home in certain neighborhoods, that we are anti HOA. I hope this explains at least my reasons for making the statements I do. By the way, I've been in touch with a real estate agent in New Mexico and she had sent me links to some really fine homes which meet my criteria.  The only issue now is how their health care services rate. Florida, home to the elderly has quite a few subpar hospitals, when compared to say, NYC which has many state of the art hospital facilities. My father died of coronary failure,  shortly after seeing his cardiologist at a supposed teaching hospital in Tampa and given a green light. My mother in law was diagnosed with heart failure in NY . She was put on Coumaden as a test patient in the 1980's and lived another ten plus years because of her doctor at Columbia Presbyterian, in NYC.

If someone “can’t” find a home which fits their desire, they didn’t look very hard (or long). But we’ve been down that road before and you keep getting lost.
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KK4GGL

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2020, 11:19:51 AM »

Waiting for Cynthia, well played!
using childish names is “well-played”?

Some people (actually the same few characters) have a compelling need to feign superiority by belittling others. Meanwhile, HOAs keep selling like “hot cakes”.
Unfortunately
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AC2EU

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2020, 11:45:13 AM »

Waiting for Cynthia, well played!
using childish names is “well-played”?

Some people (actually the same few characters) have a compelling need to feign superiority by belittling others. Meanwhile, HOAs keep selling like “hot cakes”.

I think it comes down to those who LIKE ultra-conformity and those who DON'T. It's not whether it's better, it what a person wants.
The OP is obviously happy as clam.

On the other hand, if I lived there, I would feel like I was living under the  Kim Jung UN regime.
Never liked bureaucrats trying to run my life... wasted too much time fighting capricious zoning rules and building inspectors who thought they were god. Yes, some even make up their own rules!
Again...no thanks...
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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #25 on: July 26, 2020, 07:34:18 PM »

Three words... Robot Lawn Mower!!   ;)
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KC0W

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #26 on: July 31, 2020, 01:01:39 AM »

 Welcome to Saipan where pretty much anything goes. While planning for my towers installation a few months ago I called the islands planning office inquiring about the maximum height I can go for my tower. “Two hundred feet anywhere on the island” I was told. I asked if that included residential neighborhoods. “Anywhere on the island” came the answer for a second time. I inquired if I could get that in writing on official letterhead. “Of course” he said.

                            Tom KH0/KC0W
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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2020, 02:59:08 AM »

I'd guess that 200 ft limitation is to protect aviation. There was a pilot in Hawaii that claimed a surfer threw his surfboard high into the air to damage his airplane.  ::)
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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2020, 07:34:08 AM »

Any ham who lives in an HOA and cannot figure out at least some clandestine way to get on the air (attic antenna, rain gutter,  flagpole, mobile antenna on car in driveway etc.) would probably be better advised to take up golf.
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K1VSK

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Re: I totally LOVE my HOA
« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2020, 08:34:20 AM »

Any ham who lives in an HOA and cannot figure out at least some clandestine way to get on the air (attic antenna, rain gutter,  flagpole, mobile antenna on car in driveway etc.) would probably be better advised to take up golf.
golf is much more difficult.
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