Rainbow veterans flag? Oops, I didn’t notice the lack of an S. I guess that one is saying a veteran lives there.
Can’t find it as an actual flag, but it would be perfect:
https://www.zazzle.com/firefighter_american_flag_lgbt_q_gay_pride_flag_fi_t_shirt-256022302872804724
Same with this one (it’s more aspirational than true, though):
That’s because the only stories ever posted are about the bad ones.
There are over 370,000 HOAs in the US. The vast majority are run just fine.
This is true. They mostly just pay to maintain the landscaping and redo the roofs every twenty years. Occasionally there will be a problem with one neighbor being particularly disgusting well beyond a petty grudge.
It’s honest after all - a surprise attack on an unarmed man by an armed one, with another armed man as backup, is about as representative of prewar Souhern honor as possible
Absolutely. I’ve lived in the same townhouse for 40 years, and we’ve two minor issues over all those years. Oh, and the one disgusting neighbor? He lived across from us for about 10 years.
Even I think the better course of action might be to pick a flag that is explicitly about first responders, while also being pro-LGBT.
But, at the same time, I see no problem with dragging things out as the neighbor appears to be doing. Nor in continuing to point out that there other people with flags that aren’t for first responders.
I dunno about that… Sitting around in the break room at work, whenever anyone happens to mention their HOA, I’ve always heard a chorus of folks agreeing that their HOA is awful, too, and never heard anyone say that theirs was OK.
I found the perfect thing! The Gay Pride Florida flag!
Kinda proves the point. No one talks about their HOA if all is working as it should. Why would they? People only talk about the bad ones.
Also, I suspect people just do not like writing a check every month they think they would not have to if only there was no HOA. So they grumble about them.
Well, I’ve read all the stories, and believe every one of them. But in OUR subdivision, where we’ve lived for 33 years, our HOA has been quiet and seemingly harmless at worst. We’ve had one interaction, in 2010 when our wood shutters were disintegrating. We were in the process of working out a roof/siding/shutters job when we got a letter saying (politely) “fix yer shutters”. We replied saying “Working on it” and that was that. As part of the project, we changed the roof color; that had to be approved, but it was no problem to do so.
Clearly we’ve lucked out; just offering this as ONE positive case among the many horror stories!
For those keeping score at home, here’s the HOA reply
Nice, huh?
Fortunately for my friend, a helpful neighbor had already lowered the flag to the ground; that happened a few days ago. She didn’t get it on camera, but despite being a large backyard, it’s fairly close to MAGA. Her husband had tried to re-hang it, but it was bent.
I suspect she’s done.
And thus concludes this edition of Maga Stories.
(I don’t know about you, but it sort of had an Empire Strikes Back ending…I don’t exactly feel like the writers gave us a happy note to go out on).
Wait. Wut!?
Someone came in her yard and bent her flagpole to the ground?
Am I understanding you?
And why was the flag hanging in the backyard?
I believe it was anchored into a tree.
Dunno. Maybe cause that’s where the flag hanging spot was.
ETA: she just texted me that she might hang it in her window like a curtain.
I agree with your post except I would change it to say, “Clearly everyone else was unlucky…”
Yeah, you go girl!
Won’t the HOA police window coverings?
My Sister got dinged in hers for putting up the wrong mini blinds.
Turns out they wanted a particular kind. They were kinda metallic looking. You could choose from a set of colors that matched brickwork in neighborhood.
As it was the person who custom ordered these blinds was on the HOA board.
So yeah. It’s a captive customer base.
My Sister sold that house. Moved into another HOA neighborhood.
My HOA is OK.
We have a very, very lose HOA. We went to a meeting once (pot luck really) and some smart ass friend elected my Wife to be on the board. She found out they have no insurance and ‘resigned’.
About all they do is a summer pot luck and a clean up the valley day. We don’t pay to be on it, but if you want to pay $25 a year, I think you can still get a ‘news letter’ every couple of months.
I think I saw some by-laws once. Only one cow per acre. We are a high mountain valley, there are no cows here.
It all depends on what’s in the by-laws. Some HOAs have tons of crazy restrictions, some don’t.
Ultimately, though, you signed a contract to abide by whatever nonsense is in the by-laws, your only hope of winning is if your actions are supported by those by-laws. Like, they may have a rule on flags, but no rule on what color you paint a fence, so you can have a rainbow fence but no rainbow flag.
Looks like a no-overgrazing restriction; depending on the area, that’s a plausible ratio for not damaging the land.