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sinkhole in the parks
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I would love that. I spend a small fortune and a sick amount of time keeping my lawn up to HOA standards. I would much rather have something like this that I could just ignore and have it look good.
PolynesianPrincess
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I would love that. I spend a small fortune and a sick amount of time keeping my lawn up to HOA standards. I would much rather have something like this that I could just ignore and have it look good.
My grandmother has a winter home in Arizona and all the lawns in her neighborhood look like that! She loves it because she doesn't have to pay someone to mow her lawn every week! As much as I love a lush green lawn, this is the way to go!
I use a good bit of rock in my yard now, as much as the HOA will let me get away with, but I would love to go 100%. What sucks is most HOA will not allow it and depending on how aggressive they are, they can really make life difficult for you.
guess i started a pretty popular thread.....
i have 2 responces;
in roughly 90 percent of the U.S., there is no "city water", if you have a house, you have a well, not to mention most the farms over the U.S. use well water to water their crops, and sinkholes are non-existant. altho i cant speak for texas, it seems florida has an aversion to wells.
your right. however there is an easy solution to this problem. the nice deep green grass you see in front of the crotchity old mans house who yells at all the neihborhood kids who run across it is an invention from the post WW2 40's. all the soldiers comeing home were buying cheap subdivision houses with these "new" front yards full of grass that needed to be watered constantly, it became the norm to have it. but that grass isnt native to most of us. if we left our lawns alone, most would survive just fine using nothing more then the rainwater that falls on it. for those who live in arid climates, like was already mentioned, cacti and rocks are a native landscape for a front yard. rainwater collection tanks are also a cheap and easy water solution also. i have them for my gardens.
i have 2 responces;
in roughly 90 percent of the U.S., there is no "city water", if you have a house, you have a well, not to mention most the farms over the U.S. use well water to water their crops, and sinkholes are non-existant. altho i cant speak for texas, it seems florida has an aversion to wells.
your right. however there is an easy solution to this problem. the nice deep green grass you see in front of the crotchity old mans house who yells at all the neihborhood kids who run across it is an invention from the post WW2 40's. all the soldiers comeing home were buying cheap subdivision houses with these "new" front yards full of grass that needed to be watered constantly, it became the norm to have it. but that grass isnt native to most of us. if we left our lawns alone, most would survive just fine using nothing more then the rainwater that falls on it. for those who live in arid climates, like was already mentioned, cacti and rocks are a native landscape for a front yard. rainwater collection tanks are also a cheap and easy water solution also. i have them for my gardens.
and whats H.O.A.???
That is because of different geology. What is under the soil in one area can be very different than another. Much of Central Florida sits on limestone. Pumping water out of the aquifer creates a void. Water from rain running through that limestone into that void dissolves the limestone. Eventually the surface collapses into that void creating a sink hole.
Wells are very common in Florida. Most building codes will require you to use city water if it is available for potable water, but if it is not, you have to dig an artesian well. Shallow wells are allowed for irrigation everywhere.
Home owners association.
Goofyernmost
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Either way you will find that there are no windows or doors so basically you have stumbled into (no pun intended) the only way that Disney will refund your admission fee!
Goofyernmost
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Trying to get my perspective here (not part of the second tier discussion, but does anyone have the ability to take the black and white photo above and superimpose or label were in this picture things are currently located. In other words, if I were to be looking at an overhead of exactly the same area today, what would be in the lower left hand corner, for example. As well as the rest, of course!
Yep, here is a picture that illustrates the building up of the the second tier of the MK.
ddrongowski
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Home Owners Association... Think dictators that control what you can and cannot do on your own property. HOA's suck and should be illegal.
Oh forgot to mention, they make you pay them also.
lazyboy97o
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The lower left corner is New Fantasyland. The building in the middle houses The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Princess Fairytale Hall. Up and to the right is Cinderella Castle. The right most building is Mickey's PhilharMagic.Trying to get my perspective here (not part of the second tier discussion, but does anyone have the ability to take the black and white photo above and superimpose or label were in this picture things are currently located. In other words, if I were to be looking at an overhead of exactly the same area today, what would be in the lower left hand corner, for example. As well as the rest, of course!
Illegal? No. Have their power reigned in? Absofreakinglutely.
ddrongowski
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No... make them illegal.
Goofyernmost
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Thanks! So the right hand corner would be Pinocchio Village Haus and Small World? Correct?
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So you are OK with your neighbor painting his house neon pink and having 3 cars on blocks in the front yard lowering the value of your property?
Or are you the guy with the pink house?
ddrongowski
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Considering the houses in my neighborhood cost more then $200k I don't worry about that. But even if they did, it is their property and not anyone else's. A home is not an investment unless you are a realtor. A home is a place you live. HOA's where created by sad greedy dictator type people that have no life of their own and thus must intrude on others lives, liberties (aka freedom), and pursuit of happiness.So you are OK with your neighbor painting his house neon pink and having 3 cars on blocks in the front yard lowering the value of your property?
Or are you the guy with the pink house?
You got something against pink? You colorasist.
Just a heads up I lived in a HOA community and they would not allow you to have drapes visible in the windows. They dictated that pull down shades had to be in all windows.
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A home is always an investment. You will really be hip to that fact if you have to move and your house is no longer worth what you paid for it and you get stuck with it.Considering the houses in my neighborhood cost more then $200k I don't worry about that. But even if they did, it is their property and not anyone else's. A home is not an investment unless you are a realtor. A home is a place you live. HOA's where created by sad greedy dictator type people that have no life of their own and thus must intrude on others lives, liberties (aka freedom), and pursuit of happiness.
You got something against pink? You colorasist.
Just a heads up I lived in a HOA community and they would not allow you to have drapes visible in the windows. They dictated that pull down shades had to be in all windows.
The simple fact that your neighbor's house can and does affect the value or the surrounding homes demands that some reasonable controls, the key word being reasonable, be put in place to maintain the curb appeal.
The lion share of the homes I work on are in the multi-million dollar category, so I am no stranger to ARBs and HOAs whose rules border on the insane. However, the bottom line is you sign a contract and have to live by those rules.
epcotisbest
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Without HOA you could have a pig farm next door...enjoy the smell while enjoying your right to do whatever you want on your own property.
ddrongowski
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That is a thorn in the HOA that is in my neighborhood. I did not sign it and still was able to purchase the house. So I do not have to live by their rules and there is nothing they can do about it. See a contract is a two way street and I did not agree and thus did not sign it. But all the paper work that was required for purchasing I did sign. But still HOA's are created by sad pathetic control freaks that have no life of their own and feel that they should take away others liberties.
We will just have to agree to disagree, as HOA's are garbage and anti Constitution of the United States way of life. That is my opinion and I am very entitled to it.
Now this thread is not about that and is about sink holes, so lets be courteous to the thread starter and drop it.