Lotz_of_Questions
May 2, 2007, 11:42 AM
I'm not sure if this is the right section but Here it goes.
In January we bought our first home. A townhome. Our next door neighbor is the HOA president. She came to say hi, and seemed really nice.
Later she started looking at every little detail. She told us that no business cars needed to be in the parking lot. So my hubby now parks his truck and trailer outside in the street. OK that's fine I understood.
Then she came over twice , the first time because her baby was sleeping and my TV was too Loud. I told her I'm sorry that I'll try to turn it down. I didn't think it was loud. But what ever. The second time we had family over with younger kids and they were playing. She came over to let me know that her baby was sleeping and the kids were being to loud and woke her baby up. I told her I was sorry but the kids were playing and there was no way I could make them just sit there, they are kids and they play, laugh, and what ever little 4-6 year old kids do.
About a month ago we bought a truck. It had a truck shell. Since it's a work truck we took off the shell and put the shell in our back yard. The next day we got a letter asking us to remove it or else we would get fined. The propertly belongs to the HOA since we have no fence to divide our property. So we moved it and put it under our deck. Which on the letter said that anything under our deck was our property and we could store it there.
Well yesterday I come home, find a note from HOA telling me to remove the shell because the neighbors were complaining.(OH MY GOSH) I was not in the mood (stressfull day) so the first person I thought about was my next door neighbor (HOA president). I knocked and I kindly asked if she had a problem with me having the shell under MY DECK. She said YES BECAUSE HER DOG IS SCARED OF IT!! OH MY GOSH GIVE ME A BREAK!! I told her the dog didn't need to be on MY property and I was not going to move it just cause of her STUPID DOG BEING SCARED OF IT. So she said the our homes need to look nice and that was just cludder and that in a week she was going to have family over and she wanted her house to look nice, and the shell made it look ugly!! OH NO SHE DIDN'T, so I told her... That's my property, as long as your house looks nice, don't worry about mine.! I was burning up by then but I just told her I was sorry she felt that way and that I was going to talk to Management.
Today I talked to management, they don't have a problem with me having the shell under MY DECK, and it was our neighbors complaining. So I explained that it was because of the dog that they wanted me to remove it and he laughed. So I told him I was going to leave it there, he told me OK and that's it.
Now my question is, can the HOA do anything to me about this? Just because the HOA president's dog is afraid of the Shell do I have to remove it? Please help and tell me what to do with this CRAZY PICKY DUMB Neighbor!
PS SORRY SO LONG!
In January we bought our first home. A townhome. Our next door neighbor is the HOA president. She came to say hi, and seemed really nice.
Later she started looking at every little detail. She told us that no business cars needed to be in the parking lot. So my hubby now parks his truck and trailer outside in the street. OK that's fine I understood.
Then she came over twice , the first time because her baby was sleeping and my TV was too Loud. I told her I'm sorry that I'll try to turn it down. I didn't think it was loud. But what ever. The second time we had family over with younger kids and they were playing. She came over to let me know that her baby was sleeping and the kids were being to loud and woke her baby up. I told her I was sorry but the kids were playing and there was no way I could make them just sit there, they are kids and they play, laugh, and what ever little 4-6 year old kids do.
About a month ago we bought a truck. It had a truck shell. Since it's a work truck we took off the shell and put the shell in our back yard. The next day we got a letter asking us to remove it or else we would get fined. The propertly belongs to the HOA since we have no fence to divide our property. So we moved it and put it under our deck. Which on the letter said that anything under our deck was our property and we could store it there.
Well yesterday I come home, find a note from HOA telling me to remove the shell because the neighbors were complaining.(OH MY GOSH) I was not in the mood (stressfull day) so the first person I thought about was my next door neighbor (HOA president). I knocked and I kindly asked if she had a problem with me having the shell under MY DECK. She said YES BECAUSE HER DOG IS SCARED OF IT!! OH MY GOSH GIVE ME A BREAK!! I told her the dog didn't need to be on MY property and I was not going to move it just cause of her STUPID DOG BEING SCARED OF IT. So she said the our homes need to look nice and that was just cludder and that in a week she was going to have family over and she wanted her house to look nice, and the shell made it look ugly!! OH NO SHE DIDN'T, so I told her... That's my property, as long as your house looks nice, don't worry about mine.! I was burning up by then but I just told her I was sorry she felt that way and that I was going to talk to Management.
Today I talked to management, they don't have a problem with me having the shell under MY DECK, and it was our neighbors complaining. So I explained that it was because of the dog that they wanted me to remove it and he laughed. So I told him I was going to leave it there, he told me OK and that's it.
Now my question is, can the HOA do anything to me about this? Just because the HOA president's dog is afraid of the Shell do I have to remove it? Please help and tell me what to do with this CRAZY PICKY DUMB Neighbor!
PS SORRY SO LONG!