I dont aspire to be in a subdivision.....ever. Home owners associations? I dont get them...you are required to pay to be part of a group that can tell you what you can and cant do on/with a piece of property that YOU are paying for...not them. If I wanna keep my christmas lights (including ones on the mailbox) up from halloween to easter Im gonna do it. If I dont feel like cutting my grass for two weeks, I wont do it. And if you dont pay your home owners association dues to be told that this year, cedar chips for landscaping arent allowed...they can put a lien on your property....wtf?
Give me an old farmhouse in the middle of no where so that if I want to go get my mail in the nude I wont be fined by the neighbors or so that I dont have to buy christmas wrapping paper or fundraising popcorn/cand bars from every kid in the neighborhood so that I dont look like scrooge.
Im jealous of lurkette and ratbastids new house