Sounds like a homeowners association.

Put in a clear garage door.

I'm I the only person in the world who would never live in a friggin sub division?

I don't get it! What are the advantages of living in a sub division? I don't want someone telling me what I can and can't do with MY PROPERTY! If I want lovely pink flamingos in my yard, then by god, I don't want someone telling me I can't put them there!

When we're dancing
On the lawn
Pink flamingos
On the lawn

There are no problems in Germantown TN; it's the place where the wealthy and well-to-do Memphians hide from the plebian scum-of-the-earth rest of us.

I'm afraid I would be telling the HOA where they could stick the door opener

Some residents of this upscale Memphis suburb say ordinances have gone to far.

This article is to stupid.

I have a friend that lives in a Home Owners Association (HOA) and basically the people who live in that community are not allowed to open their garage unless they are driving a car in or out.. no time other than that.

/did not RTFA

Some Bass Playing Guy,

Home owner associations don't typically sneak up on people. And a HOA has to be disclosed before you purchase your home. So if anyone is biatching, they knew what they were getting into.

/not in a HOA

I wish I had a garage.

Not all Sub-divisions are like that.
In the one I live in, There were/are only rules about the percentage of brick you have to have on the front of your house when built.
Other than that. Rock on.
Before we moved there, we did look at other houses in other sub-divisions with crazy ass home owner association rules which we decided were too retarded. We were buying a house and getting away from landlords and all that bullshiat. Did not need someone else telling me what i can and cannot do with my own farking house.

Carports surrender.

I see your pink flamingos and raise you...
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Damn Germans!!!

/someone had to say it

I don't get it! What are the advantages of living in a sub division? I don't want someone telling me what I can and can't do with MY PROPERTY! If I want lovely pink flamingos in my yard, then by god, I don't want someone telling me I can't put them there!

00squirrel: It's called "preservation of property values". People choose to live in a neighborhood with an HOA so that their neighbors can't do anything that would lower the property values or make the house otherwise unsellable.

Lots of people have horror stories of overzealous HOAs that ban even the most mundane things. I, however, have heard more horror stories of people in neighborhoods without HOAs who try to sell their home but can't because of their neighbors. I knew one guy, for instance, who had to mow his and his neighbor's grass for months before anyone would buy it, because his neighbor didn't care about his lawn at all.

Hey, I live in Germantown, Maryland! Germantowns rule!

/much better than Frenchyville

Farked that one up...

HenryFnord:

There are no problems in Germantown TN; it's the place where the wealthy and well-to-do Memphians hide from the plebian scum-of-the-earth rest of us.

It's hard enough to buy a lotto ticket in Germantown.

HOA people want everybody's house to look like no one lives there.


/and they are jackasses

Is there anyone who has both:

1. Spent at least a year surfing the internet,

AND

2. Continued to believe that we live in a free country?

Seriously, the argument against communism was always (aside from being 'godless') that we didn't want committees to rule our lives, deciding when, where, and what we could do.

Seems like we perfected the art of blind hypocrisy a long time ago.

(Thinking of, "The Association," by Bentley Little) *shudder*

I work in my garage a lot. I'm either wrenching on my Jeep, or else I'm doing woodworking, painting, or metalworking. The goddamned doors (I have a huge garage) stay open nearly ALL the time, and if someone has a problem with that, they are welcome to come talk to me about it. (Preferably when I'm holding a 3' length of stainless steel pipe)

Well, you can tell no one RTFA. This isn't a HOA. It's a town, or a city, I'm not sure what it's considered. They also can't have signs over like 10' tall, or brightly painted buildings and such. It's weird seeing little small Wal-Mart signs in front of a red brick Wal-Mart. I believe the same new ordinances also limit your grass to 6" high.

As for HOA, mine saved me from the crazy purple lady across the street from painting her house bright ass purple. Now it's just a real pale lavender, so I thank them. Plus, they mow my grass and keep up the streets.

first off, the headline is wrong. people can oopen their garage doors when they want. they just can't leave them open.

second. anyone who buys a home in nighborhood with a HOA knows what they are getting into. in exchange for high property values, you agree to abide by sometimes annoying rules (many have restrictions on the color you may paint your house, where on your lot you can place a pool, what type of fence may be used, etc etc).

third. There are rich people in TN? Since when?

squidloe:

Some Bass Playing Guy,

Home owner associations don't typically sneak up on people. And a HOA has to be disclosed before you purchase your home. So if anyone is biatching, they knew what they were getting into.

/not in a HOA

Actually, some HOA's are fairly dead. I am very lucky to live in a division that has a very dead HOA. So far, I've lived here a year, and not heard a peep. And I hope it stays that way.

The problem is when you receive a copy of the HOA bylaws, and when you abide by them, but the HOA adds new stupid bylaws on top of that or refuses to let you get a perfectly good extention put on your house, for example.

You can never tell how stupid your HOA is just by looking at the bylaws.... a stupid HOA kept my parents from redoing their deck for YEARS, even after their deck fell down and became a hazard. It took all of their neighbors plus my parents to get the HOA to finally approve a new deck so that eyesore could be removed.

The HOA's reasoning? They didn't want any modification to the house at all.... even though the existing deck was structurally unsound due to land erosion.

What about green houses with purple polka dots?

Our homeowners association started fined us this year because our trees didnt bloom at the "right time".

It made these guys happy:

Those in disbeleif have never been there.

There are two kinds of people in Germantown, TN. Rich snots and the people who work on their yards/houses/etc.

We have a subdivision here which won't allow you to park a car that's over 10 years old in your driveway unless you can certify that it is a valuable antique auto.

Wasn't there an episode of the X-Files where a monster would kill people whose houses looked different by sundown? Maybe we need one of those!

Wow.

I'm glad I moved out to BFE -- anyone comes on my property and tries to tell me what to do with it, I'm loosing the Doberman.

It seems like the more concentrated a population is, the more likely it is that there will be some nosey bastard telling people how to live their life and keep their property. As soon as civilization comes to my neck of the woods I'm moving again.

daltonj: Damn Germans!!!


That german lived like a whore!

Germantown was nice at one time, but now it's really no safer than the rest of Memphis (which I think is up to the 2nd most dangerous city in the U.S.)

I remember the bygone days when as long as you remembered it was a speed trap, you were fine. Last time I was there I was suprised to notice that the youth (guessing 15-16 year old) going into gas station (my wife was in) was packin'...

Most of the Memphis area is a complete shiathole, making the few nice areas not worth living in. Any farkers living in Memphis.....I'm sorry...your town sucks.

Must... resist... Nazi... Germantown... reference...

Too... obvious! ARGH!

Believe it or not, anyone know what the safest zip code in Memphis is? What area of town?

We have that rule in my subdivision. It's not an upscale neighborhood, either. Luckily we haven't heard any backlash on this rule. Most people leave them up while working outside and no one cares. I'm just waiting for the grumpy retiree to move in and start enforcing all the crazy rules.

/they also tried to outlaw fences in the HOA bylaws

God, but we're such an anal society.

WTF should it matter if someone wants to paint their house bright farking purple?

But then again, I would never want to live in a subdivision anyway...

dookster

There are a lot of country stars who make TN their home, specifically around Brentwood and Nashville. So yes their are rich people in TN

/used to live there but fled to WA

love the favicon on that site...

That entire town is farked. This is the same town (not subdivision) that gave me a ticket cause my car was ugly.

Forbidden.

I knew one guy, for instance, who had to mow his and his neighbor's grass for months before anyone would buy it, because his neighbor didn't care about his lawn at all.

The neighbor has a good idea there.

I personally think a lawn is the stupidest concept on the planet. Wasting petroleum, spraying out environmentally harmful chemicals, wasting hours of precious personal time, all for a big...green...thing out front. Why?

If I ever get a house, first order of business is replacing the lawn with something that I don't need to take care of, but still looks good enough that it won't piss off the neighbors too much.

The Grundler
GIS for "star wars car" safe search off NSFW

Funny yet scary - farkworthy.

people, this is not about a HOA, this is about town/city ordinances and code enforcement.

Midtown IS Memphis

Go Lynx! (worst mascot ever)

/former memphian

Analogy:

I personally think a lawn is the stupidest concept on the planet. Wasting petroleum, spraying out environmentally harmful chemicals, wasting hours of precious personal time, all for a big...green...thing out front. Why?

Blame the English...

And you could make the same argument for golf courses...

*ducks flying clubs*

dookster

By the way, Memphis is one of the shipping hubs of the country. I-40 and I-55 intersect here and those are the two longest and most traveled interstates in the country. Lots of rich people here. Hicks, but rich hicks.

CruJones

No idea, might even be Germantown....or maybe Bartlett area (lotsa cops in Bartlett!). I guess I could clarify my previous statement and say that IMO, Germantown is still a crappy unsafe place to live, just like the rest of Memphis.

My wife is from Frazier, not too far from the Chelsea and Brown intersection. I really hope that was one of the worst areas considering the number of times it was on the news after yet-another-murder-in-Memphis.

/misses the old school punk scene in Midtown

Since no one seems to care, I'll answer it anyway. 38103. Downtown. Least crime per capita, especially the residential areas. The South Bluffs and Mud Island areas are actually damn nice. Plus, on the island, I get to watch all the girls go running by the river in the afternoon.

/Mud Island is Memphis

It's not a garage, it's a carhole!

Innermonkey

The Antenna? See the Exploited show there, perchance?