HOA horrors?

[Skellyii]

I wish I lived next to you so I could paint my house "flamer pink"

Something like these houses??

 

[PCustoms]

Something like these houses??

Absolutely.

OP's comments of "flamer pink" pissed me off if you can't tell. Unless that's a new Sherwin Williams color I'm not aware of I don't see any reason for it

 

[tool_scrounge]

I had a coworker with an artistic flair who painted their house 20 different colora. The neighbors referred to it as “toon town”

 

[RalphInCA]

OMG if I had to sit through a HOA meeting and discuss/argue the various hues of color to insure compliance with the color code. I'd be wasting my valuable time to do, I dunno, take a dump or work on my motorcycle in my shop. I understand the rationale of a HOA color code to make sure your neighbor doesn't paint his house Flamer Pink or Fire Engine Red instead of HOA approved Meadow Beige, but to argue various hues of one particular color is ludicrous. Angle of the light or even an undercoat color can affect the result. Not to mention most men cannot distinguish subtle hues. Like some commercial from years ago, wife shows and talks about five different hues of a color with unique names for each, asks her husband what colors does he see, and he says "ummm,....blue?"

The situation you describe happens EXTREMELY rarely.

 

[mm08822]

OMG if I had to sit through a HOA meeting and discuss/argue the various hues of color to insure compliance with the color code. I'd be wasting my valuable time to do, I dunno, take a dump or work on my motorcycle in my shop. I understand the rationale of a HOA color code to make sure your neighbor doesn't paint his house Flamer Pink or Fire Engine Red instead of HOA approved Meadow Beige, but to argue various hues of one particular color is ludicrous. Angle of the light or even an undercoat color can affect the result. Not to mention most men cannot distinguish subtle hues. Like some commercial from years ago, wife shows and talks about five different hues of a color with unique names for each, asks her husband what colors does he see, and he says "ummm,....blue?"

My color pallet stops at 32 (maybe less). I never needed the bozo sized box of crayolas. Others, however!!

 

[PugetDude]

Absolutely.

OP's comments of "flamer pink" pissed me off if you can't tell. Unless that's a new Sherwin Williams color I'm not aware of I don't see any reason for it

 

[egdede]

Don't tell me to lighten up when people are making anti-gay jokes from 1985....

 

[Skellyii]

IBTL

 

[andyvh1959]

Absolutely.

OP's comments of "flamer pink" pissed me off if you can't tell. Unless that's a new Sherwin Williams color I'm not aware of I don't see any reason for it

Sorry if I offended anyone. My sense of humor goes a bit off rail on occasion. "Flamingo Pink" would have been as effective a descriptor of someone's sense of house color. So lets settle back and not turn an already eight page thread into something in a different direction.

 

[PugetDude]

I thought this was a thread about HOA's.

 

[egdede]

It was until a mildly homophobic joke was made. I hate snickery cr@p like that.

 

[PugetDude]

My HOA doesn't regulate residents *********.

 

[Rc_Guy]

I've learned a lot from this thread.

1) I really am the epitomy of "Get off my lawn".
2) I'll never buy a place where I can see neighbors.

I have a 14' long 6' tall solid privacy gate and matching fence with cameras all over. I thought that was private until the city started using drones to spy on people and see what else they could tax. I found out about this when I tagged a car once and was enlightened to the personal property tax owed on a tractor I bought. I had no idea aerial surveillance was even legal.

Are you saying that you were specifically told, or know somehow, that your tractor was discovered by aerial surveillance and not some record of the sale ?

Yes. It was a cash sale on a used Kubota. There was no paperwork other than a bill of sale, which I filed away when I got home.

And you didn’t argue it and just say you were borrowing a friends tractor?