[Mishmash] New Homeowner

[Richard Barth]

Requiring building permits for towers (at least those over a certain 
height) isn't unusual. Plus you may need
FAA permission if the tower is high enough and you're close enough to 
an air field. Those are at least
predictable: You know what the rules are before you start and you 
either agree to meet them or not.

The real problem of course is the How Owners' Associations (HOA). You 
know about that one but the other
Mishmashers may not be aware that HOAs have been a thorn in the side 
of hams for years. More and more
developments have them, and they often have arbitrary authority to 
forbid outside antennas. The FCC put in
place a rule a few years ago that prohibits them from meddling with a 
home owner's right to put up a TV
antenna, but ham antennas, CB antennas, shortwave listeners' antennas 
and the like are fair game to the
HOA bureaucrats.

One local ham recently explained his method of dealing with the 
problem: He has some wire antennas in place.
If the HOA gives him any flak, he'll take them down, and put up the 
biggest, nastiest and ugliest TV antenna he
can build right in front of his property where everybody has to look 
at it every day.

He's had no problems with the HOA.

Some local governments have another way of dealing with people who 
let their grass and weeds grow too high.
They send their own crew to cut the stuff, and then send you the bill.

Going to Dayton this year?

73,

Dick



At 04:31 PM 4/22/2013, you wrote:
>Dick,
>
>      The dimensions on the yard are 100' wide by approximately 200' long.
>It is not perfectly rectangular, though.
>
>      There is a work shop out near the back of the property.  It doesn't
>have electricity or it might make a good ham shack.  But I've got a
>ham buddy here who is a retired electrician.  He says he might be
>willing to help me run power to it from the house.  As long as we dig
>a trench, I'd run telephone wire and an Internet run out there as
>well.
>
>      I was amazed at what it appraised for after we settled on a price for
>the house.  It appraised at $18k more than I am paying for it.  After
>the ten per cent down payment, it left me with a pretty substantial
>equity just to begin with.
>
>      As far as putting up antenna towers (or flagpoles, for that matter),
>you need a permit from the city or county to do it in this area.  The
>reason is that the winds are very strong around here and we have them
>from time to time (sixty mph is not unusual).  They usually want them
>to be strong enough to withstand ninety or one hundred mph winds.
>
>      The police have a Code Enforcement department.  If you let your grass
>grow and look ratty, you'll probably get a knock on your door.  If
>you are a repeat offender, they will probably issue you a citation.
>
>      And if you put up any signs that don't meet the code, or make any
>changes that don't meet the code, you'll probably get cited as well.
>
>      Hope all is well with you, Dick.
>
>      Regards,
>
>
>
>                                               Fred
>
> > Congratulations, Fred. Looks like a nice place.  I'm amazed at the
> > difference in prices between a nice house like yours and
> > what the same thing would cost around here.
> >
> > Room for antennas in back, I assume?
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
> > At 12:26 PM 4/22/2013, you wrote:
> >>Greetings, everyone.
> >>
> >>      I wanted everyone to know that as of Friday, I am a new homeowner.
> >>
> >>      I got the keys on Friday just after they got me listed as the owner
> >>of the property in the county records office.  And I had a great
> >>moving crew that got me moved right in.
> >>
> >>      Of course, everything is still stacked in the living room.  But I
> >>will get there some way.
> >>
> >>      If you want to look at the house, check this:
> >>http://lascruces.paragonrels.com/publink/default.aspx?GUID=456b90e 
> e-032f-46d0-b861-d8e05c4e4e00&Report=Yes
> >>
> >>      Regards,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                                                 Fred
> >>
> >>
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