I’m guessing the rule is either here or here.
And, as a township zoning administrator, let me say this: do not call up and try to speak with authority! Be cheerful & ignorant and blame your highschool for teaching about how congress adopts a law but not how local government actually works.
Hmmmm. If you’re talking municipal guidelines, Akron, OH seems to have an 8 inch limit on your grass.
My lawnmower was broke, so was I, so it took me a few months to get it mowed… actually, I mowed last month, after neglecting it for 8 weeks. Two foot grass in the back yard is a BITCH.
Yeah, and homeowner’s associations are a PITA.
Honestly, I would probably go to jail if I was subject to one… I don’t suffer fools gladly, and I would likely lose my temper with the first representative or attorney they sent over… either that or play some rather heinous pranks aimed at hosing the property values on the entire neighborhood.
I’ve just recently closed on a house. While looking, a big warning sign for me was whether the neighborhood had any sort of homeowner’s association, as several of my friends have had bad problems with the Neighborhood Nazis in the past. Good luck finding a relatively new house which doesn’t have any sort of HA.
I ended up buying a house which does have a CC&R. There are no recurring dues, however, and there’s no enforcement… which means that, although adding a covered deck to my backyard is technically against the CC&R, there’s nobody who can tell me that I can’t do it.
I hate jerks who try to tell me what I can and can’t do with my property.
Ah, I should add…
One of the houses we looked at was actually quite nice. Three bedrooms, decent sized, in a nice quiet neighborhood. Well manicured lawns, HUGE lots (rare, for this area), and in a fantastic location… and the price was suprisingly low.
Then I found out why- the HOA dues were $250. PER MONTH. And those huge lots? You couldn’t fence them in. Basically, you got these nice lots… and you couldn’t actually use them for anything. That’s why the houses were so damn cheap.
Sure looked nice. A shame the HOA didn’t actually, you know, increase the property values- they ended up lowering the property values. Despite the insane housing market, here, that house is still on the market, three months later. Nobody wants to buy it, or any of the other houses in the neighborhood.
Be careful–the BTK Killer was basically an L&I inspector in his town. . . .
Don’t worry, I’d get first strike advantage!
Oh. Wait. You’re talking to the OP.