I'm lucky I live in a gated community, and own the 40 acres around it. I just recnetly finished customizing my son's f150 a couple of months ago. It spent time inside the shop as well as outside for 6 months. When I bought my first home, it was in a HOA. I'm a country boy. 6 month with the upidy ***'s their BS was enough for me. I like doing custom work and help other people with theirs, sometimes the cave gets a little crowded so some of the autos spend a little time outside. The rats chewing wires on my wifes envoy is the only neighborhood complaint I've had. I like the rats better than living in town. and I'm still only 10 minutes from work. Country living at its finest. I sit outside and shoot the rats and armadillos and opossums, when they interfere with my HOA.

 

if it was me id leave it in the driveway all day long(if i had daily driver too) then wait till about 11 at night to pull it into the garage then wake up early and first thing i do is pull it back out into the driveway tehn leave it all day and do that every day......

 

haha. good one. kudos to the guy who said to get a Mk. LT and convert it to a F-150. I'd screw with them so bad!

 

BS

HOA's have the power to place leans(sp) against ones home for not paying dues or even class action lawsuit, but they can't seize a house. Or is that a Texas thing too?

I'm part of three HOA's due to the fact the developments have not reached the minimum capacity for the HOA to be handed over to the people. Therefore the builder is still the HOA and these people really beat us up. "We want nicer flowers in the entry way", "You guys need to water the grass more, it needs to be greener", "There's dust blowing right in our windows when the trucks go by, you need to clean the street", ughhhh. I've heard some pretty ridiculous complaints from these fine folks.

Not allowing trucks,commercial vehicles, campers, trailers, etc overnight parking in driveways is very common and really should be expected.

Good luck op.

 

Welcome to a condo community. They stated he lives in a "gated community", a condo.

Don't agree with it, but its nothing new. But most ive heard was vehicles can't be eyesoars, I don't see why they'd pick on a clean rustless truck.

 

I was going to leave that one alone about taking the house but you are right. They can collect fines in court for dues and infractions if you dont pay but I cant imagine someone loosing their house from HOA action or their own willing inaction.

Where I live you cant park commercial vehicles, campers, trailers and things like that but in this case they seem to have made exceptions for certain types of PU trucks that don't make sense. They allow the cheap honda truck and allow the avalanche along with the escalade pu? but they treat the upscale Ford F-150 and the F-150 differently?

All that home owner has to do is cry truck discrimination (when rules were changed after he moved in) find some other omitted truck owners in the development, tell the Association they will sue for the cost of selling the homes and moving... and the Association will back down.
Since the story made the news they already made some sort of different arrangement. Allow all or none.

Just out of my Development this house on a corner always has 2 large school buses parked back to back in front of the house. Who would want to look at 2 yellow school buses 24 hours a day weekends and holidays and 5pm to 7am 365? Some rules are better than none.

 

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=362154

Anybody hear about this? Was spread across quite a few forums.

 

The one thing that bothers me, is that what if it didn't fit in his garage? I have a SuperCab with a 6.5' bed, and I have 3" of clearance from my back bumper to the wall, and 6" of clearance from my front bumper to the garage door. What if he had a SuperCab or Screw with an 8.5' bed? Then what? Would they make him move? Maybe sell his truck? What the hell is their problem?


I say he should rebadge his truck with Lincoln emblems THEN see what they say. Because it's the SAME THING.

 

+10000000

Phil

 

My folks have a real nice house that is involved with a HOA & it to has all sorts of rules. You are not allowed to have commercial vehicles parked there unless doing work, you cannot build a garden shed to name but two rules. It seems taking it to an extreme not to allow the homes owner to park his own vehicle in his driveway!!

 

If they had a rule banning trucks then I would say he would be screwed. But they are not banning trucks....they are trying to discriminate just like OG said. Never gonna fly I say. And allowing the Lincoln but not the Ford because "Lincoln caters to a different class of people" is just an admission of why they are banning his truck.

And besides, his truck is gorgeous!!!!

 

That's some crazy stuff. Funny too. I have to give it to this guy......he's got a set.

 

yeah... good luck to the HOA. most people dont own their home, the bank does. so all they can do is keep levying more and more fines...

 

first i think it is stupid that they depict what can be parked in your drive way, but there is something else. if the HOA is so hell bent on not having trucks in the drive way because they are un"classy" at night, why are they allowed during the day. i mean who really goes into a gated community at night, wouldn't it make more sense to not allow them in the drive way during the day since this when it would easily be viewed?

 

The Stonebriar community in Frisco is gated...it is a VERY nice neighborhood. It is not a condo... Most of the homes there are over 500K. In Cali, or NY, that translates to well over a million dollar home. They do not want work trucks. IE, the kinda crap that Manuel drives. They want nice trucks. I understand what the HOA is trying to accomplish, but they fall short when concerning this particular owners truck. He could buy Mark LT badges. That would be funny.

HOA's are sometimes harsh, but they make the neighborhood a nicer, cleaner and more pleasant place to live. Judge all that you want, but most of yalls comments are out of ignorance. The board of this particular HOA in Frisco IS out of line, and the guy will eventually get to park his truck where he wants.

CNNMoney.com ranks Frisco Texas as the 38th best place to live in the United States.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/money...PL4827684.html

Rant, bitch and moan... I would love to live there, but then again, I roll in a KR



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