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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Neighbor vent!
Ugh, our neighbors want to start an HOA... We are 9 townhouses with veryityle shared space. I think the people that live in the end units are trying to say we are responsible for their side yards. I don't agree. Am I wrong? Also the front units have lawn outside of their fence. Would you consider this community lawn? I can't use it so I don't know...
This is too slow to keep typing!!
Re: Neighbor vent!
if it's only 9 houses, i'd fight it. how big is the side-yards? my parents live in a 100+ homes community w/o an HOA...there's an entrance area with a sign, etc...and that, i honestly have no idea who maintains it! but some people come around every few years asking for donations. since there's only 9 houses, i think you can get away with doing donations/volunteers to maintain that side yard.
the truth is, HOA's (if ran well) are generally helpful and can increase property values--but they are a lot of hassle, and with 9 homes and little shared space, i don't think it's worth it.
HOA's can limit architectural changes (no one can pain their house pink, or build an ugly extension), can enforce yard maintenance, parking enforcement, holiday decorations, limit amount of renters...... seriously, with a small community, it's not worth it. but if it's bigger, and problems can arise, it's worth it.
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Earlier I tried to compromise and say we will all maintain the side yard next to the driveway and we could use it to keep garbage cans. The people who live there vetoed it but now want us to maintain the yards.
We have an email group and talk. We have split expenses before. I just don't get bringing in a 3rd party to do this...
And they just started complaining about my cat =(
Unless their side yard become communal space, I don't think you need to help pay for it.
Personally, I hate my HOA and I think they're a good for nothing POS organization. When we move we're really going to try and find a place without an HOA.
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Goes in their yard. This whole thing is getting silly...
I told everyone it would make our places hard to sell... We shall see!
One neighbor said he was putting chicken wire down to keep the cats out.
I might have emailed them and said I would help any neighbor put it down if they wanted but I won't keep my cat inside... They made me b!tchy!
i don't hate the HOA..i just think the pres of our HOA is super annoying.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
You ARE your HOA. You dont count.
haha. shhhh! you're ratting me out!
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
haha, I'm on our HOA board, so I don't hate it
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I don't like HOA's for single family developments, but definitely think they're useful and valuable for townhome complexes. It's nice to actually have a set of rules that are fairly applied, that way you don't have to worry about neighbors complaining about certain things, etc.