Don't know how amerikkka can be all about private property and have HOAs at the same time
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 made it inconvenient to explicitly deny housing to minorities via redlining. And thus HOAs popped up everywhere to continue the tradition through subtler means.
Plus homeowners are incentivized to be as militant about maintaining and increasing property values as much as possible
HOAs are just a tool that developers use to turn buyers into renters into perpetuity. They're a classic take on American Property Law.
I was looking at a house in East Houston that was selling for a fairly modest $250k (in a neighborhood where $300k+ was normal). The only catch was the $600/mo neighborhood association fee. The neighborhood association's entire job was to maintain this skinny little fence that ran around the property of six units, on a strip of land that was still owned by the developer.
this was basically how I grew up. With how many transmissions I swapped out, you'd think I would have figured out my gender sooner
shitty project cars on the lawn, shitty project motorcycles in the garage, shitty project furniture in the house :lenin-laugh:
my entire neighborhood is bottom pic and it makes me proud we're dirtbag and not HOA but also sad that everyone's that car dependent. I don't know a single fam on my street that can car pool, because they all got different shitty jobs on different sides of town with different schedules and public transit is practically nonexistent.
many of us have gardens, just not in our front yards lol
The world would be better off without either of these two people
A guy near me has like 50 garbage cars in his yard. Idk how he even parks his actual car, because every square inch is already occupied by a vehicle that clearly has not been moved in a decade. As anti-car as I am, I gotta respect the dude's commitment.
wild prairie with tons of habitats for dragonflies in order to maintain the mosquito population gang
How well does my local flora grow in my run down cars? Probably better than in the lawn.
Lawns versus Cars?
Really Sophie's Choice shit going on in this thread. Is there a None Of The Above option available?
No HSA here, only the city can tell me what I can and can’t do!
Never got the appeal of perfect untouched lawns. Its like they only exist to be photographed
The barren lawn is weird. Most nice houses with big lawns tend to have at least a couple of old oak trees artistically planted in the middle.
Growing up, one of my friends had a yard with three trees spaced out on a flat lawn, such that you could just drop a cone perpenticular to two of them and get yourself a pair of soccer goals. A dozen of us would be out there in the summer kicking the ball around. And in the winter, we'd fill the area with snowmen (and kill all the grass in the process, driving the parents up the wall).
