My goal in life, now that I’m living under an HOA, is to flout/change as many rules as possible.
The community will become self-governing in a few years, after the last lot is sold, and my list currently includes:
1) Exempting from the no kids under 18 for more than 2 months rule anyone who has custody of the child:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/us/orphan-teen-kicked-out-grandparents-hoa-trnd/index.html
2) Getting rid of the rule that you can’t park your car in the driveway overnight.
3) Extending from 48 to 72 or 96 hours how long an RV can be parked in front of your house.
4) Getting rid of the requirement to pay a 50% HOA fee surcharge for the 3rd resident of a house, who is usually an elderly parent.
5) Colored lights in the backyard - MYOB!
I’d run for the board to fight you on most of those...lol!
1) They can sell and move back in when he’s legal. When we bought in a senior place, it was to AVOID young folks.
2) We have a “no overnight street parking“ rule here. Next town over does not. People park on the street because they have too much shit to fit in their houses...or they turned their garages into illegal added rooms...and then they wonder why the night marauding “theft from auto” jackasses are always targeting them. They can get rid of stuff, buy a bigger house or rent a storage unit and increase everyone’s property value! (Where MiniSue and her boyfriend live is a ghetto looking mess to me. There are two, separately owned VERY deep lots, each with a house on the street. Then one house has four little rental units behind it and one has five, each with a single garage. So, nine residences and NOBODY parks in the garage and everyone has at least two cars. Ergo, always two dozen cars parked all over the place.)
3) Forty-eight is already too long...but...to load and unload, it will have to do.
4) Maybe, only those 3rd residents who USE facilities should pay that. Most senior places assume one or two residents and base fees on dividing those costs fairly. But, maybe EVERYONE could have different levels of membership because there are probably some couples or solo residents who use
none of the facilities so compared to a family of three using many of the facilities, those homebodies are overpaying.
5) I don’t know how offensive colored lights are, but if the neighbors can’t see them...
I don’t know if the rules where the grandparents of the orphaned teen live allow them to rent their place out...but they might do that for the four years until he’s legal. Where
we lived, he would become legal ONLY if he could establish that he was there as a caregiver.
Full disclosure...I fought, and won, the No RV Parking rule where we lived. But our RV was teensy, only 21’, and SMALLER THAN other vehicles that were parked every day there but did NOT contain a bed, stove, toilet. So the restriction was based on what was INSIDE, and I fought it, and won, on that basis.