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There is a house for sale on the corner a few houses down that is for sale and will never sell. Its been customized with an inlaw apartment inside with a separated garage . Nice house but a weird layout that is too custom for most people. That and it has a small yard bordered front and back by roads. They have had it on the market for $700K+ for a long time since the old guy who lived there died. No bites . Lots of nice big houses with big yards in Yakima for less. Anyway the family hasnt been able to sell it so they put it up as a Air BnB to get a little income flow. I got a letter in the mail yesterday from another one of our neighbors wanting to have a meeting of the HOA so that we can discuss the covenant and modify it if needed to ban short term rentals. They were concerned about the traffic and strangers in our nice quiet neighborhood. So I'm reading this letter thinking to myself " Hey dumbass, we don't have a freakin' HOA or a covenant in our neighborhood " . Morons.
The first house I bought had one. Never again. We had the typical busy body HOA Nazi walking around with her clipboard every tuesday handing out "friendly warnings" Friendly warnings? Couldnt wait to sell that place. I'm not the kind of guy who would survive long under an HOA. No parking on the street, no parking your boat in the driveway, No firing up open headers , no painting cars in your driveway etc. They even make you wear pants when "watering the lawn". Ive heard of some in the south in some of those gated community golf course sort of places that don't even allow you to own a pickup truck and keep it in your garage. Not for me.
The first house I bought had one. Never again. We had the typical busy body HOA Nazi walking around with her clipboard every tuesday handing out "friendly warnings" Friendly warnings? Couldnt wait to sell that place. I'm not the kind of guy who would survive long under an HOA. No parking on the street, no parking your boat in the driveway, No firing up open headers , no painting cars in your driveway etc. They even make you wear pants when "watering the lawn". Ive heard of some in the south in some of those gated community golf course sort of places that don't even allow you to own a pickup truck and keep it in your garage. Not for me.