[TowerTalk] [BULK] - Re: Tower Restrictions

[Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS)]

The other factor, in my case, is that I know about the CC&Rs only 
because I insisted on seeing them before even making an offer. They were 
not made available even at the closing, so it may well be that the 
neighbors have no idea that such CC&Rs exist.

Alan NV8A


On 04/01/05 12:47 pm Steve Katz tossed the following ingredients into 
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

> ::No question it pays to buy and move into a neighborhood where if there are
> any covenants, at least they're being routinely ignored and there are a lot
> of examples of the ignorance.  When scouting for a new home, I look at
> everything, including "up," and hope to find preexisting towers.  If there
> are, I knock on the doors of the tower owners and discuss things.  An
> afternoon so invested yields more information than Realtors could ever tell


> . . . in the absence of an HOA, there are probably numerous other 
> long-standing infringements of the CC&Rs that would make it difficult 
> for anybody to demand enforcement of specific provisions. E.g., our 
> CC&Rs are very simple (2 pages only; a 30yr-old subdivision), but limit 
> the "structures" beside the dwelling to sheds of a specified maximum 
> size. But *if* a tower is a "structure" (the ARRL VC I consulted said 
> that in the context of these CC&Rs "structures" refers only to 
> buildings), so are all the basketball hoops, flag poles and swing sets 
> scattered throughout the subdivision -- even apart from the tower 
> farther up the street.