| FlintTony |
11-24-2013 05:22 AM |
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Originally Posted by shadowgray396
(Post 49428)
I thought you were in some kind of gate community or some kind of neigborhood association that was trying to stop you from building. Is it leagal to hunt around your area? The last thing you want to do is have someone shoot the pet deer in your area.
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That was last year. I had 3 acres that was in a HOA. The guy had 350 acres that he sub-divided into smaller parcels, some 5 acre, some 10 acre, some 20 acre, and the small 3 acre lots. I wanted to build basically the same thing on the 3 acres that I am building now. The HOA didn't think I needed that big of a garage. We ended up going the legal route. They finally decided that I could in fact build what I wanted. They said the building was too tall, but the Covenants of the HOA say you can't store a motor-home outside. I had to show them the actual dimensions of a MH and had to make them understand that you can't put an 11' foot high vechile in a garage that is only 10' tall. But, after finding out what a bunch of ass-holes a HOA can be, I wanted no part of them. So I sold that property and bought the 20 acres I have now. It is very secluded. There is wildlife galore on the 20 acres. I'm only about 1/8 of a mile from where I was before. I had no idea the power that a HOA has. They can tell you what color your roof can be, what color siding you can have, what landscapeing you can have. I researched Section 7.20 of the Florida code extensively, which deals with HOAs, and was shocked at how many rules they can put in place and enforce. My brother was the first one to buy property in there, I was the second. All the members in the HOA bought years after we did. The HOA rules consisted of 11 rules when we bought. After the millionaire lawyers bought property, they made new rules. The rules now consist of a book that is a half an inch thick, with all kinds of legal mumbo-jumbo. They actually did me a favor, as the 20 acres is a million times nicer property. |
