[fintstone]

For those of you that do not have an HOA, here is a notice from mine that I just received (house is a rental). There are 27 homes in this small, gated subdivision. Each is valued at about $580K and sits on 1/2 acre. There are no amenities that they maintain other than the electric gate, the 2 1/2 blocks of pavement that they have swept now and then, and some shrubs at the entrance. Here is the notice...(you can see from their photo that it is a literal pigsty):



Note the catchall "neat and attractive" which can be anything they say it is. The $20,328 that I have paid them in fees on time every month ($121 a month for over 14 years) gets me one or more of these almost every month most years that I have to get fixed long distance. Sometimes I get them fixed...like "paint fading on fascia" and spend a grand...to find out they really wanted the window trim painted and they write me up again and fine me because I did not paint the window trim. Then I still have to hire a painter for that..