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.

[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.

[bvilchez]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by bvilchez

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.

[mad4maduro]

Originally Posted by pnoon

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

[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......

[hotreds]

Smoking would be Verboten.

Today...KISS Dinner (6:30 pm - 7:30 pm)

Maybe this place is cooler than it seems?

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by Blueface

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!!

[newcigarz]

Originally Posted by M1903A1

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

Or roast a pig in your driveway.

[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!?!?!?!?!?!?

Originally Posted by newcigarz

Or roast a pig in your driveway.

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!



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

[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.

[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!!

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by captain53

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.