I live in a 25 home HOA, I was the Prez for 15 years. I gave up being the Prez last Summer. Now the new HOA Prez says I can't have my RV on my property because its against the CC&Rs (which is true) to store an RV on the driveway or street, and that I have to move it to another location (think $50+/month) with no security.
Being the past Prez of the HOA, I know the CC&R's very well, they have no legal mechanism to fine me for anything other than late payment penalties for dues.
This HOA is pretty laid back, or was until the new Prez got elected, who I think is overall doing a fine job.
I told her that I wasn't going to move my RV off my property. Most houses have a short, like 25 foot driveway, and I understand not parking boats, RVs, etc on the street in front of houses or taking up their short driveways. It makes the neighborhood look congested and trashy.
However, I happen to have a 350 foot driveway and you can't even see the house from the street. She said "but people can see the RV when they walk up your driveway to go back into the "nature area", which happens to be my 18 acres of oak trees. I said that if it bothers people that much, I'll not allow anyone to wander up my driveway to walk through my Oak Tree backyard. She said I'm "not being a team player in beautification of the neighborhood". I said "I don't really care, people can walk up my driveway and enjoy my side area or not, but I'm not moving the RV. They don't like it, I'll put out an email to the HOA saying they can't walk up my driveway to enter my Oak forest (the average lot size is one acre, I happen to have 18 acres and about 1,000 acres of wild lands behind me).
Here is a pic of my house from the street, and a picture of my house 2/3rds of the way up my driveway. If it totally affects people's sensibilities, I'll buy a camo cover for the front of the RV.
