Ben, is this your name right? The name you filled in the profile, so I don't think I need permissions to call YOU with YOUR name.
I'm speaking to a human being to which their parents gave a name, so I believe is a form of respect calling you with your name instead of a sad nickname.....
If being called with your name upsets you just tell me how you'd like to be called.
Clarified this:
I just wanted to make the point about few things I wanted to do today but could not and decided to do that now even if you decided to do not post here anymore.....
Since you called me in a speech you did I just wanted to clarify it was not the concept I meant with my words, so pulled me out from what you probably supposed I meant.
I don't hide at all this thread left me distraught about many things, things I didn't think were just possible...it is also true this thread gives to talk mostly to people experiencing or who had experienced certain bad and extreme situations in fact of crazy HOA.... so in the +1000 people who have seen this post is comforting just 5 or 6 had such stories to tell....
I don't think it is a problem about a country being authoritarian or not here...nor about people having to fight for their rights and freedom...
Control freaks are a problem pretty much worldwide, I just have two in my condo wanting to decide everything from wall colors of the hall to a mandatory repainting job of the balconies and height of hedges in the common park....and lots of other things, an example is when one of these ladies called and paid personally on her expenses a painter and painted the hall in Barf color everyone disliked than her... another one is when they complained about the steam coming out dryer vents in cold days and asked the 8 families owning a vented dryer of 31 living in our condo to remove them and vent them internally! At condo assembly after the two gooses expressed this HUGE problem I just stand and replied with these kind words " who the hell cares about what you assume is a problem other than you two?" Got an applause from all the rest of people laughing so hard, condo administrator snigged....but we all know they're mad women and so ignored them as we always do...
Not a problem since they're just a few of bored houseviwes wanting to control others... they also complianed once about clothespins dropping accidentally on the condo lawn....
In Italy in the 2005 the lawsuits among neighbors reached the 212'000 in a year..... I bet more than half were because of contol freaks...or the most classical troublemakers maniacs....
But when there is an high concentration of control freaks in a single neighborhood, condo etc here we have problem like people wanting to decide what color you've to paint your internal walls, or when you can leave garage doors opened, christmas light colors and such crazy things.... things that as I said left me stunned!!! But that you can't fight if you're the only "sane" among "insanes", like in a opposite situation where your neigbors would be <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">filthy</span></span>, noisy etc.......
There should be the need to laws protecting a Home Owner's freedom against control maniacs HOA, but this is a phenomenon raised in the time and recent years I guess...and I think soon will born organizations fighting the Crazy HOA....
But again, USA of course is not all like that, in a wide nation as USA is would be normal to find many extreme stories like these nationwide...it DOES NOT mean it is a problem in every neighborhood of USA the fact of crazy HOA or control maniacs.
My uncles lives in a wonderfull high class town in Maine, a vacation place also, sorrounded by wonderful hi-class rich Villas and properties....
Well, I never heard of such rules from their HOA's apart the two normal common sense ones everyone should and would follow like keep lawn decent and no trash around... no fence restrictions, nothing of the crazy rules mentioned above.
Well, regarding clotheslines, pulleys etc.. I've seen so many even in those hi-class neighborhoods and ugh, those houses are expensive as hell, I just cannot think if they had no clotheslines keeping value low!!!! LOL
Many had T shaped lines in the front near garage and some pulleys in the side of the home from window or balcony, many T shaped fix lines just on the Front entry of the expensive "On the Ocean Villas"...
Same was for the neat near town of Saco or Old Orchard beach....
Many even in Massachussets hi class neighborhoods (at least Marlborough ones)...
Not to mention NYC in Queens, Brooklyn etc....
It's all about locations and concentration of mad people all in one neighborhood, there're neighborhoods and neighborhoods... there're people and people.....
Have a nice weekend whatever you plan on doing.
