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garden police gone wild?
In article , "Kari" wrote:
In reality, the laws and by-laws are there to support a neighborhood style of living that others want and have pretty much established by court record. If you don't like them, don't live there. This is good advice. Yes, assume if you sign away property rights, SOMEone will be on hand to make you suffer for it. But this thread shows that a lot of people are in serious denial about the fact that HOAs came about to circumvent the inroads of Civil Rights, NOT because articles of incorporation were worth it merely to force the neighbor to mow his lawn more often, because city or county ordinances frequently sufficiently take care of the cosmetic aspects of what one must adhere to. "Innocent" buyers should be more fully aprised of the historical purpose, & still-strong underlying effect of HOAs, so they don't accidentally buy into a HOA thinking the worst thing possible is they have to mow their lawn ridiculously often, then their son marries a Chinese woman & the shit hits the fan. Second, some HOA neighborhoods consist of 2,000 or more homes. If you're a Jew or Black & know those are all automatically OFF your list of safe places to attempt to buy because nine times out of a ten it's a honky enclave accidentally-on-purpose, you will suddenly be a little happier that several states are right today (at least 40 years late!) finally beginning to undermine HOAs' bigotry privileges. Yes, such people know we wouldn't like it, & many "voluntarily" elect not to live there. But your "right" or "option" to join a HOA where the percentage of minorities drops dramatically (to as low as zero percent ) doesn't look so nifty, not if the day before you went house-hunting you naively believed that discriminatory housing policies was illegal in all cases, only to discover a half-dozen of the surrunding neighborhoods "coincidentally" only sell to whites & a huge percentage of houses on the market aren't for you -- & turns out there's very little you can do about it even if you were brave enough to force the issue & forge a path amidst all those honkies. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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