HOA Vent

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my neighbor down the street spends at least 10 hours a week on his yard.

At our last HOA meeting he complained about a house that had its red wagon out all summer. Yup that was me. It was pulled up next to our steps and used every day.

It has been 100+ for 2 weeks and the weather changed and it has been raining for the last 3 days.

He complained to the HOA about my dead bushes (which were removed last week--but I get the complaint today) and the red wagon.

I'm passive agressive and my wagon is staying put.

[teflep]

I'd move the wagon around, maybe add a prop or 2 as well.

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Jul 11, 2012 12:17:22 GMT -5 teflep said:

I'd move the wagon around, maybe add a prop or 2 as well.

I was tempted to get some flamingos

[twotrue]

I got suckered into joining our HOA board and the only good thing has been that we have not once be sited for DD's trampoline that is stored on the front porch. She uses it daily and I'm just too lazy to pull the thing in and out of the garage.

I'd leave the red wagon and maybe even get it a tricycle to keep it company.

[pixy0stix]

I'd get more:

[caden]

He'd have a coronary living next to me. I second more red wagons, with the umbrellas to make them even more noticeable. Maybe some Little Tike Coupes...

[SusanBAnthony]

This thread is full of win.

We moved from a neighborhood with large lots, to a typical city neighborhood with tiny lots. I forget all the time and let the kids pee in the yard. I get so many dirty looks. Oh well!

[OscarQ]

Add a kiddie pool to the mix. Be like my trashy next door neighbors (who don't have young children) and use the kiddie pool yourself.

[Chirp]

My HOA needs to step up their game.

My next-door neighbor has 3 cozy coupes, a big plastic wagon, a tricycle, a bike, two strollers and a ton of random toys in their front yard at all times. Right now, they have 5 newspapers laying at the end of their driveway too. The front of their house is neat and clean compared to their backyard.

I live in a townhouse development. The front yards are about 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, sloping down from the house to the driveways. It takes skill to get all that crap to stay in a sloping front yard that small.

[Deleted]

He complains that it is hurting resale values. I find that amusing because I'm on the newcomers committee and whenever we ask why people chose our 'hood they all say because people were outside and houses looked lived in.

[Deleted]

I don't know about what it is with neighborhoods with HOAs, that they attract so many cantankerous old people. Same deal in my subdivision.

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I'm thinking of putting my bike racks in the front yard now too... then I could actually park in the garage

[emisi]

Jul 11, 2012 12:49:50 GMT -5 @septimus said:

He complains that it is hurting resale values. I find that amusing because I'm on the newcomers committee and whenever we ask why people chose our 'hood they all say because people were outside and houses looked lived in.

Wow, really? One red wagon outside is hurting real estate values? Pretty sure the market isn't quite that fragile.

What an annoying old fart. Even if he's not physically old, he obviously is mentally.

[debatethis]

Jul 11, 2012 13:12:49 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Jul 11, 2012 12:17:22 GMT -5 teflep said:

I'd move the wagon around, maybe add a prop or 2 as well.

Totally this. I would do something different with that wagon every single day. And in the winter, I would decorate it seasonally. Halloween wagon, Thanksgiving wagon, Pearl Harbor day wagon, Christmas wagon, I mean, any possible holiday that I could think of, I'd put something on that wagon.

My grandma's neighbor ladies (they're all on one block and all widows) have a goose war going on.
They each sew outfits like this and "costume bomb" eachother's geese.
I think you should get a whole gaggle of them and dress them in festive holiday wear!

OR, there's these that I just saw on pinterest that would be awesome:

[secretlyevil]

Jul 11, 2012 12:17:22 GMT -5 teflep said:

I'd move the wagon around, maybe add a prop or 2 as well.

:Y: :Y: :Y: :Y:

[livinitup]

Get a great big barrel off a construction site, ratty looking, fill it with standing water and call it a pool.