[Towertalk] deed restrictions

[Mike Lazaroff K3AIR]

Well, Joe, your homeowner's association is definitely in the minority.
Around here ALL homeowner's associations specifically prohibit ham
antennas/towers as well as a million other things that some developer felt
necessary to prohibit.  These "associations" exercise more power than any
local municipal government and personally, I'm offended that they are
allowed to do so.  The idea that someone can create such restictions that
forever bind all successor owners is something that flies in the face of
private property rights that we have in this country.  The fact is that it
is getting near impossible to buy new property without running into this
garbage, and there is no right of appeal as there is in the case of zoning
laws.  I settled for an older house with less land than I would have liked
to avoid these busybodies who have nothing better to do than to watch all
their neighbors and dictate how other people can use the property that
they're going to spend the next twenty to thirty years paying for.

73, Mike K3AIR

> > When I sold real estate, I advised all my ham clients to avoid CC&R
> > developments like the plague if they had *any* intention of staying on
the
> > air.  Until these homeowner association nazis are reigned in, it's still
a
> > good idea.
> >
>
> Back off the attack level just a bit.  Although some homeowner
associations
> are serious about enforcing their CC&Rs, "homeowner association nazis" is
> unnecessary ... and I'm offended by it.
>
> In case anyone cares, there are CC&R associations that do not prohibit
> amateur antennas.  There are at least four hams in my community ... at
> least three have towers.  I made very certain before making an offer on
> my property that the CC&Rs did not prohibit towers and talked to some of
> the hams already in the community before closing.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, K4IK
>
> PS. I just happen to be Vice President of the homeowner's association.
>