I don't think I would be "approved"...

[68TriShield]

to live in a place like this.
I try to be gentle to the environment but I would not want my neighbors for lack of a better term,up my ass like it would be here.

What are your thoughts on this type of living?

http://www.libertyvillage.com/index.html

[markem]

I have two different friends who did the build-from-scratch co-housing thing. For one, it wasn't a good fit and they left about 4 years ago. For the other, it has been their dream eden.

It has its pluses and minuses just like anything else.

[St. Lou Stu]

Yeah, I really don't like people that much. :D

[pnoon]

Not for me.
I won't buy a home with HOAs let alone this setup. I don't want some strangers making decisions on what I can or cannot do to a home that I own.

[replicant_argent]

I would be a great people person if I actually "liked" people. Chances are there would be a Rumble in Brighton when the "co-residents" came after me with pitchforks, a bucket of tar, and a sack of feathers.

[bvilchez]

Not for me.
I won't buy a home with HOAs let alone this setup. I don't want some strangers making decisions on what I can or cannot do to a home that I own.

Well I bought a home with HOA's and that's enough for me!!!!

Bad enough I can't do anything in my front yard but don't tell me when to cook dinner!!!!

[pnoon]

Well I bought a home with HOA's and that's enough for me!!!!

Bad enough I can't do anything in my front yard but don't tell me when to cook dinner!!!!

No $hit.

And what do you say when they hand you kool-aid?

I'm all for a green environment but wow.

[captain53]

1 home with a HOA was one to many f'n bunch of arseholes for me, sold it and moved in 2 years and just the term HOA pisses me off. Life is best in a shack in the middle of 100+ acres surrounded by fences and trees outside of any kind of zoning area......:td:td:td

[Smokin Gator]

I'd probably be about as OK as I was were we used to live. When I started making charcoal, burning downed trees, smoking meat every weekend, and shooting a rifle it all went downhill pretty quickly!!

[hotreds]

Smoking would be Verboten.

[GHC_Hambone]

Today...KISS Dinner (6:30 pm - 7:30 pm) (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:;)

Maybe this place is cooler than it seems?

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[Blueface]

Not for me.
I won't buy a home with HOAs let alone this setup. I don't want some strangers making decisions on what I can or cannot do to a home that I own.

Peter,
It is awful.
Not very many homes one can buy in South Florida without HOA's.
Nazis I tell you!!!

[forgop]

Today, I looked up the covenants of the HOA for the house I just bought. This one just baffled me:

"Frequent barking or howling of dogs or annoying behavior of pets to homeowners, can result in the pets being impounded by Animal Control."

Sorry, but if I have my dogs kept in my fenced back yard at all times and animal thinks they're going to step on my property and impound my dogs, the HOA and animal control has another thing coming.

Personally, I like the protection of not living next to Jethro and having his '78 Camaro on blocks in the driveway or that annoying car parked on the street every freaking day.

[captain53]

Today, I looked up the covenants of the HOA for the house I just bought. This one just baffled me:

"Frequent barking or howling of dogs or annoying behavior of pets to homeowners, can result in the pets being impounded by Animal Control."

Sorry, but if I have my dogs kept in my fenced back yard at all times and animal thinks they're going to step on my property and impound my dogs, the HOA and animal control has another thing coming.

Personally, I like the protection of not living next to Jethro and having his '78 Camaro on blocks in the driveway or that annoying car parked on the street every freaking day.

Give it 6 months, I would take Jethro living in a motorhome on blocks over any a-hole I ever met that was active in a HOA.

[forgop]

Give it 6 months, I would take Jethro living in a motorhome on blocks over any a-hole I ever met that was active in a HOA.

I've been in a HOA for 7+ years now and like I said, it's not great, but I'd rather deal with the HOA than a redneck neighbor operating a car repair shop out of his garage.

[Smokin Gator]

I've been in a HOA for 7+ years now and like I said, it's not great, but I'd rather deal with the HOA than a redneck neighbor operating a car repair shop out of his garage.

To each his own brother... and I know what you are saying. However, I would rather live next door to Jethro who was working than some tight arse who was more concerned with the color of my mailbox.

[junkinduck]

I've been in a HOA for 7+ years now and like I said, it's not great, but I'd rather deal with the HOA than a redneck neighbor operating a car repair shop out of his garage.

I am that redneck neighbor without the running the garage part. I live in the center of 50 acres so nobody much cares if I piss off the porch and shoot big guns in the evening. Don't think I could stand people telling me what I could park in the yard or how many cars, tractors, trucks, jeeps, campers, dogs, cattle, hogs, you get the point.
Back to the rolling rock and oliva.

[M1903A1]

Peter,
It is awful.
Not very many homes one can buy in South Florida without HOA's.
Nazis I tell you!!!

Just wait'll they tell you not to chuck your plugged cigars in the lake anymore!! :ss

[newcigarz]

Just wait'll they tell you not to chuck your plugged cigars in the lake anymore!! :ss

Or roast a pig in your driveway. :D

http://www.fototime.com/2C9B6F4462AFD2A/standard.jpg

[icehog3]

We put a high priority on listening to each other's point of view & working things out.

Yeah. Ask Klugs how that works out. :r

[MedicCook]

For $300K I want to park my car in a garage attached to my house.

[Ashcan Bill]

OMG - a yuppie commune.

I believe I'll take a pass. :D

[bvilchez]

The HOA really doesn't bother me too much but certain things like homeowners can not park the boats in their driveways irks the living crap out of me. I personally don't own one but WHO THE HELL CARES IF HIS BOAT IS ON HIS DRIVEWAY!?!?!?!?!?!?

[icehog3]

that looks sweet!!!!!

Nothing like some roast pig in F-L-A. :)

[bvilchez]

Nothing like some roast pig in F-L-A. :)

I think I want to try that this spring/summer. Google here I come.

[pnoon]

I think I want to try that this spring/summer. Google here I come.

Now that just might get the S.H.I.T.ers to come up your way. :D

[bvilchez]

Now that just might get the S.H.I.T.ers to come up your way. :D

Then rest assured it will be done. Just give me some time.

[stitch]

I would get banned from the site if I used the language required to express my opinion of that. :fu2 -(P

[mithrilG60]

Today, I looked up the covenants of the HOA for the house I just bought. This one just baffled me:

"Frequent barking or howling of dogs or annoying behavior of pets to homeowners, can result in the pets being impounded by Animal Control."

There would need to be a precise definition of what exactly qualifies as "annoying behavior of pets to homeowners" but I'd actually support this on a whole and think it should be a city wide by-law. I absolutely cannot stand yappy, barky or whiny dogs. More to the point I can't stand owners that allow their dogs to be that way since it's not the animal's fault, it's the owners.

[forgop]

The HOA really doesn't bother me too much but certain things like homeowners can not park the boats in their driveways irks the living crap out of me. I personally don't own one but WHO THE HELL CARES IF HIS BOAT IS ON HIS DRIVEWAY!?!?!?!?!?!?

I don't like seeing boats, campers, etc left outside. My current HOA is lenient in the sense of allowing it for a couple of days, but after awhile, it becomes annoying IMO.

[forgop]

There would need to be a precise definition of what exactly qualifies as "annoying behavior of pets to homeowners" but I'd actually support this on a whole and think it should be a city wide by-law. I absolutely cannot stand yappy, barky or whiny dogs. More to the point I can't stand owners that allow their dogs to be that way since it's not the animal's fault, it's the owners.

I'm not one to leave my dogs out to bark at everything that moves. They are indoor dogs and I don't want to hear my dogs outside barking any more than somebody elses dogs. That said, I just take issue with the HOA acting as if they or animal control has the legal jurisdiction to enter my property and take my dogs for barking in my back yard. If they're out roaming the neighborhood, I have no grounds to complain. But I will tell the HOA board they have no grounds to demand that my dogs be impounded.

[Rabidsquirrel]

But I will tell the HOA board they have no grounds to demand that my dogs be impounded.

They do if you sign the HOA agreement when you move in.

[tobii3]

Or roast a pig in your driveway. :D

http://www.fototime.com/2C9B6F4462AFD2A/standard.jpg

What the hell is that? a CAT?? Shish-ka-pig??

Damn, some of y'all need to know what a REAL Pig-pickin looks like!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/tobii3/davidcamera004.jpg

And there ain't NO WAY in hell I would live in a "commune" that didn't allow me to be normal.

[Whynot]

I don't like seeing boats, campers, etc left outside. My current HOA is lenient in the sense of allowing it for a couple of days, but after awhile, it becomes annoying IMO.

I'm not one to leave my dogs out to bark at everything that moves. They are indoor dogs and I don't want to hear my dogs outside barking any more than somebody elses dogs. That said, I just take issue with the HOA acting as if they or animal control has the legal jurisdiction to enter my property and take my dogs for barking in my back yard. If they're out roaming the neighborhood, I have no grounds to complain. But I will tell the HOA board they have no grounds to demand that my dogs be impounded.
Isn't that contradictory? I take issue with the HOA telling me what I can park on my property. As long as the camper/boat is in good repair, I see no problem.

[mad4maduro]

And what do you say when they hand you kool-aid?



:r

[forgop]

Isn't that contradictory? I take issue with the HOA telling me what I can park on my property. As long as the camper/boat is in good repair, I see no problem.

I'm just not the type that likes staring at stuff (boats, campers, never-moved cars, etc) for extended periods of time.

[tobii3]

so, um, sit in the backyard?

:D

[MiamiE]

I say **** HOA's. I hate them that much. Fortunately I have the choice to not live in one. If I want my boat or buggy in my driveway it's going there!!!

[forgop]

I say **** HOA's. I hate them that much. Fortunately I have the choice to not live in one. If I want my boat or buggy in my driveway it's going there!!!

Not in my neighborhood. :r:r:r

[captain53]

I say **** HOA's. I hate them that much. Fortunately I have the choice to not live in one. If I want my boat or buggy in my driveway it's going there!!!

Amen Brother!:chr