For those of you with "Garage shops' and zoning...

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btw, I wouldn't live in a neighborhood that had an HOA or covenant or anything else that strives for that much conformity. On the other hand, I wouldn't like my next door neighbor's place to look like a trailer park.

Kind of hard to have it both ways.  And the sad thing is take a moderate HOA where over the years tries and finally succeeds in upgrading the deed restrictions and you can get screwed anyway.  Been there in last HOA.  We sold and moved out, but that was over 20 yrs back.

My son bought in a neighborhood where he got 'tagged' for not having enough bushes to hide his foundation and then again for needing to pressure wash his drive and sidewalk.  Nice area though, lol.

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It seems there are some developments that have their panties pretty wadded up about things and others that seem to be more lax as long as you don't chit the bed with things.  But if it's written down, it can bite you in the ass. All it would take is one ass hole of a neighbor to decide he does not like the color of the trim on your house.

Any city or unincorporated county place should have it all spelled out, so unlike me, and my first ten years, you should know the situation well in advance.

btw, I wouldn't live in a neighborhood that had an HOA or covenant or anything else that strives for that much conformity. On the other hand, I wouldn't like my next door neighbor's place to look like a trailer park.

After living in that neighborhood, I decided to not live in covenant controlled neighborhoods anymore. What many people seem to like (conformity, all the houses looking alike, etc.) I don't really care about. I also kind of (in general,) tend to like the people more in slightly lower income neighborhoods where everyone isn't always checking up on one another. I don't want to live next door to Sanford and Son, but most neighborhoods maintain a tasteful, reasonably well maintained look and have nice people for neighbors.

(It always puzzled me that in my old neighborhood you couldn't park a car on the street for more than three days but it was perfectly fine for the guy across the fence from my yard to have three big dogs who went ape sh*t every time you came anywhere near it...)

[Frog]

Actually, 72 hours for a car to be in one place is probably a fairly common law, it just gets enforced differently as the cops sure can't keep track of all vehicle locations (yet).
It's the law here, but first a warning is placed on the windshield. If that doesn't get seen and handled in a timely manner, then it may get towed.

[Ripcord]

Actually, 72 hours for a car to be in one place is probably a fairly common law, it just gets enforced differently as the cops sure can't keep track of all vehicle locations (yet).
It's the law here, but first a warning is placed on the windshield. If that doesn't get seen and handled in a timely manner, then it may get towed.

I can see the reason for that if it's parked in town, but this was right in front of my house (in a cul de sac) and everybody knew it was my car. Nobody else wanted to park there and it was obviously not abandoned or anything like that. When I moved it to my driveway and moved my truck to the street, suddenly everything was just fine...but I still don't know how any of that in any way affected the lives of my neighbors...

[Shanarchy]

Actually, 72 hours for a car to be in one place is probably a fairly common law, it just gets enforced differently as the cops sure can't keep track of all vehicle locations (yet).
It's the law here, but first a warning is placed on the windshield. If that doesn't get seen and handled in a timely manner, then it may get towed.

I can see the reason for that if it's parked in town, but this was right in front of my house (in a cul de sac) and everybody knew it was my car. Nobody else wanted to park there and it was obviously not abandoned or anything like that. When I moved it to my driveway and moved my truck to the street, suddenly everything was just fine...but I still don't know how any of that in any way affected the lives of my neighbors...

You should have just said "Sorry about that." and moved it, and parked it in front of his house for the next 71 hours.