No, because some people choose that life and no amount of help will make a difference.
Here in Dallas it was tried over 10 years ago... million of dollars were spent to refurbish several old hotels and make them liveable, rooms were offered free of charge to homeless people to give them a place to get back on their feet, to give them a place to have a hot shower, give them a mailing address so they could look for work (you might find it hard to get work without an address), etc.
After 6 months, most of them were empty, the homeless didn't want them. Probably had something to do with a requirement that in return for a FREE PLACE TO LIVE, they had to actually look for work, or attend job training.
I kid you not, a free place to live, a working bathroom with a toilet and shower, an address to use to get back on their feet and the homeless by and large didn't want it.
The Father, as far as I'm concerned, was totally morally justified in this, it is his duty and responsibility to defend his family.
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As a side note, when they find the shooters in France who killed those 12 people, they need to be taken out behind the barn and shot as well. What they did is evil and they will never be welcome back into society.
I used to live in Long Beach in 2005, a 2 bedroom apt there was $2K a month, bleah!
My current mortgage, PITI included, is $2,200 a month, and that is a 15 year mortgage.
I'm one of those silly people who put money down on his house in 2006 and paid extra each month, then refinanced two years ago and DIDN'T take any cash out.:)
Yea, I know I'm paying off my debts, I'm so unamerican! As it stands, I have a 15 year, 3.5% fixed rate mortgage, that is darn hard to beat. I'm still paying extra on it, so it will be paid off in about 7 years.
The political will for a drawn-out war simply was not there.
I didn't say it was... I said it should have been.:)
Regarding your issues, they are all reasonable, but I point back to, "we had the nuclear bomb and Russia didn't", that would have ended it 1946 regardless of anything else.
To get a world in 2015 where there was no cold war, no testing of thousands of nuclear bombs, no communist Russia or China? Yes, I think it would have been worth it.
My wife and I have been talking about moving out of the city for just that reason. Right now, we have about 10 feet between our house and the houses on either side.
Big houses, but stuffed together. Since I live in Texas, you'd think we have all the land in the world to spread them out, but no...
3,800 sq/ft, 5 bed, 4 bath, 3 car garage, and almost no land at all! Blah...
About 1 acre is probably all I need however, unless it is trees, then more would be nice. Have to move further outside of town for that however.
In my case, the rules for above ground pools are clear and written into the initial HOA rules that everyone has, so no one can claim ignorance.
That being said, people do have kiddie pools and no one cares about those, what the rules are really there for are the big 15' wide 4' tall metal frame semi permanent pools.
The irony is that you can have a Jacuzzi hot tub in the back, along with a trampoline, a kids swingset, and an inflatable bounce house... but no above ground pool.:)
Here's the secret to HOAs / Condo statras etc... don't just get the bylaws. Get the minutes to the meetings. READ them. Its the biggest investment of your life... you can afford to spend an evening reading.
^THIS times ten...
Really, if you think 2-3 hours of reading for a six figure purchase is too much, then frankly you deserve whatever you get...
Can someone explain to myself and the rest of the none Americans why The HOA can order them to remove it from their property unless there is equivalent of a council bye law or something , Though I guess private gated communities may be different over there.
Because the owner agreed to the HOA rules when they bought the house.
Keep in mind that the reason it exists is so that your neighbor can't put out something ugly that YOU don't like. The door swings both ways.
They can't force you to become part of it, they don't have eminent domain.
If it is part of the deed, then you don't have a choice, you can't buy the property without it.
If you try and don't join and pay, they can force the issue by filing a lien against your property. In many states, they can then foreclose to force payment.
I'm also free to buy in places with HOAs and tell them to suck my shotgun. First nigger to come to my door with this horseshit gets their shit blown right off.
:) Everyone is a tough guy on the Internet, but that isn't how it works...
They'll send you a letter or a post card, followed up by a Certified Mail Return Receipt letter, followed up by another one, followed up probably by a notice of lien on your home.
Push hard enough and in some places they can simply foreclose on your home, and if you think your tough guy shotgun helps, keep in mind that they won't come to your door, the Sheriff will.
They are often more expensive, as you are paying for the "privileged" of having someone boss you around.
I'm paying for the "privilege" of being able to tell my neighbor that he can't paint his front door pink, much less his whole house.
My home is worth $400K, which is actually cheap for this area (average list price in my zip code is $748k).
There is always some fool who thinks he can do whatever he wants and doesn't care about anyone else. The HOA is the means by which that fool is stopped. Every other year or so, we have to use it to stop someone, works every time.
And yes, you do have to agree to follow the same rules, but that is what civilized people do, follow the rules they agreed to follow. It isn't rocket science.
Municipal governments have been requiring H.O.A. corporations as a condition of granting building permits to housing developers.
That way, the home owner gets to pay the private H.O.A. corproation for traditional municipal functions like parks, street maintenance, trash removal, etc., while the government still gets to collect taxes for those goods and services they no longer have to provide.
I can only speak to my local situation...
But our HOA dues are $540 a year, and that includes a private playground for the kids and a community pool, as well as the common areas.
Streets and sidewalks are still the city's responsibility. They only become ours if we gate the community, then dues would go way up of course.
You are exactly why I like having an HOA, even when they don't work in my favor...
Get into an expensive enough neighborhood and your pranks won't go over very well, people with more money than you have can bankrupt you with lawyer costs.
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No, because some people choose that life and no amount of help will make a difference.
Here in Dallas it was tried over 10 years ago... million of dollars were spent to refurbish several old hotels and make them liveable, rooms were offered free of charge to homeless people to give them a place to get back on their feet, to give them a place to have a hot shower, give them a mailing address so they could look for work (you might find it hard to get work without an address), etc.
After 6 months, most of them were empty, the homeless didn't want them. Probably had something to do with a requirement that in return for a FREE PLACE TO LIVE, they had to actually look for work, or attend job training.
I kid you not, a free place to live, a working bathroom with a toilet and shower, an address to use to get back on their feet and the homeless by and large didn't want it.
Go ask 100 real estate agents, if fewer than 95 of them say it will, I'd fall down shocked.
Unless you have a X99 motherboard with a silly expensive CPU, your Core i7 is 4 cores with hyperthreading.
If you actually spent a thousand bucks to put a true 8 core chip on a HTPC, well... wish I had your money to burn :)
Because it affects the value of your home.
If they paint theirs pink, it might cut 10% off the value of your house.
Gorbachev did the right thing for the human race, and for that he won the Nobel Prize. Frankly, well deserved in my opinion.
I give you this example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
The Father, as far as I'm concerned, was totally morally justified in this, it is his duty and responsibility to defend his family.
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As a side note, when they find the shooters in France who killed those 12 people, they need to be taken out behind the barn and shot as well. What they did is evil and they will never be welcome back into society.
:) Re: California...
I used to live in Long Beach in 2005, a 2 bedroom apt there was $2K a month, bleah!
My current mortgage, PITI included, is $2,200 a month, and that is a 15 year mortgage.
I'm one of those silly people who put money down on his house in 2006 and paid extra each month, then refinanced two years ago and DIDN'T take any cash out. :)
Yea, I know I'm paying off my debts, I'm so unamerican! As it stands, I have a 15 year, 3.5% fixed rate mortgage, that is darn hard to beat. I'm still paying extra on it, so it will be paid off in about 7 years.
The political will for a drawn-out war simply was not there.
I didn't say it was... I said it should have been. :)
Regarding your issues, they are all reasonable, but I point back to, "we had the nuclear bomb and Russia didn't", that would have ended it 1946 regardless of anything else.
To get a world in 2015 where there was no cold war, no testing of thousands of nuclear bombs, no communist Russia or China? Yes, I think it would have been worth it.
If you think that remotely compares to the situation as it then existed at the end of WWII, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Texas :)
Mmmm... 3 acres sounds nice...
My wife and I have been talking about moving out of the city for just that reason. Right now, we have about 10 feet between our house and the houses on either side.
Big houses, but stuffed together. Since I live in Texas, you'd think we have all the land in the world to spread them out, but no...
3,800 sq/ft, 5 bed, 4 bath, 3 car garage, and almost no land at all! Blah...
About 1 acre is probably all I need however, unless it is trees, then more would be nice. Have to move further outside of town for that however.
That does sound dodgy...
In my case, the rules for above ground pools are clear and written into the initial HOA rules that everyone has, so no one can claim ignorance.
That being said, people do have kiddie pools and no one cares about those, what the rules are really there for are the big 15' wide 4' tall metal frame semi permanent pools.
The irony is that you can have a Jacuzzi hot tub in the back, along with a trampoline, a kids swingset, and an inflatable bounce house... but no above ground pool. :)
Rules on things like this should be covered by the local council not your neighbours.
That isn't how the law works in the US...
Fair enough, then let me help you out...
Both the Republicans and Democrats are full of it and both need to go...
Does that make it easier? :) Voting for either one of them just keeps the current situation the same.
Other people's property isn't yours.
When it affects the value of my property, it becomes my concern.
You don't have the right to harm the value of my property.
Here's the secret to HOAs / Condo statras etc... don't just get the bylaws. Get the minutes to the meetings. READ them. Its the biggest investment of your life... you can afford to spend an evening reading.
^THIS times ten...
Really, if you think 2-3 hours of reading for a six figure purchase is too much, then frankly you deserve whatever you get...
Can someone explain to myself and the rest of the none Americans why The HOA can order them to remove it from their property unless there is equivalent of a council bye law or something , Though I guess private gated communities may be different over there.
Because the owner agreed to the HOA rules when they bought the house.
Keep in mind that the reason it exists is so that your neighbor can't put out something ugly that YOU don't like. The door swings both ways.
They can't force you to become part of it, they don't have eminent domain.
If it is part of the deed, then you don't have a choice, you can't buy the property without it.
If you try and don't join and pay, they can force the issue by filing a lien against your property. In many states, they can then foreclose to force payment.
They don't generally have to take you to court, they can file a lien against your home, then sue to foreclose.
Fighting a HOA with that attitude, at least in Texas, is usually a losing proposition.
The worst part, they are using your own dues to fight you. :)
Just don't have a crappy attitude and follow the rules. If it says no above ground pools, then... don't put one in... :)
I'm also free to buy in places with HOAs and tell them to suck my shotgun. First nigger to come to my door with this horseshit gets their shit blown right off.
:) Everyone is a tough guy on the Internet, but that isn't how it works...
They'll send you a letter or a post card, followed up by a Certified Mail Return Receipt letter, followed up by another one, followed up probably by a notice of lien on your home.
Push hard enough and in some places they can simply foreclose on your home, and if you think your tough guy shotgun helps, keep in mind that they won't come to your door, the Sheriff will.
They are often more expensive, as you are paying for the "privileged" of having someone boss you around.
I'm paying for the "privilege" of being able to tell my neighbor that he can't paint his front door pink, much less his whole house.
My home is worth $400K, which is actually cheap for this area (average list price in my zip code is $748k).
There is always some fool who thinks he can do whatever he wants and doesn't care about anyone else. The HOA is the means by which that fool is stopped. Every other year or so, we have to use it to stop someone, works every time.
And yes, you do have to agree to follow the same rules, but that is what civilized people do, follow the rules they agreed to follow. It isn't rocket science.
I got an awesome house in an awesome neighborhood -- there's a guy a block away who painted his house purple, and has a car that matches the color.
That is fine, but it also affects the resale value of your home, and not likely in a good way.
If enough people were to infiltrate the HOA, could the HOA vote to disband itself? That might be a fun hobby...
You use the term infiltrate like it is some secret thing. The HOA rules will spell out how that happens.
In my case, it takes a vote of 75% of the owners (out of 245 we have) to disband the HOA.
Yea, that isn't happening here. :)
Municipal governments have been requiring H.O.A. corporations as a condition of granting building permits to housing developers.
That way, the home owner gets to pay the private H.O.A. corproation for traditional municipal functions like parks, street maintenance, trash removal, etc., while the government still gets to collect taxes for those goods and services they no longer have to provide.
I can only speak to my local situation...
But our HOA dues are $540 a year, and that includes a private playground for the kids and a community pool, as well as the common areas.
Streets and sidewalks are still the city's responsibility. They only become ours if we gate the community, then dues would go way up of course.
Not here, we have rules about when holiday decorations can be up, Christmas lights (or holiday lights if you prefer) have to be taken down by Jan 2nd.
I know, I've gotten a notice that mine were up too long last year. :)
You are exactly why I like having an HOA, even when they don't work in my favor...
Get into an expensive enough neighborhood and your pranks won't go over very well, people with more money than you have can bankrupt you with lawyer costs.
Winning isn't required, just ruining you is...