HOA Problems - Loading and Unloading

[DHoon]

Hi, I’m fairly new to camping. We picked up our first Montana about a month ago. We generally pick up our 5ER from storage and park at our house overnight while we load for a trip. Now our HOA is giving us a problem aboutparking it in the development overnight.

Just curious if others have had similar issues? if so, how did you resolve it?

Thank you! We love camping so far so it wouldn’t terrible if our HOA czars force us to full time!

[rvman]

I have never had a problem over multiple days in the driveway but I have also been a Trustee and Treasurer of our subdivision since 1999. Membership has its privileges.

[Tom N OH]

You couldn’t pay me to live in a HOA neighborhood. No way, no how.

[AZMont]

Our HOA allows for 72 hours. Not being able to keep your RV near your home overnight is a pretty tough restriction. Many of us load up and then pull out in the early AM. May be a good idea to find other RV owning neighbors and go to your next HOA meeting to get something a little more realistic, 24 hours, 48 hours, etc... My 2 cents......

[Montana Man]

Our hoa has provision for Friday and Saturday night parking. We pretty much do what we want but try not to have it on the street more than 3 days non weekends and the association is casual about minor infractions. Read the hoa rules yourself to see what they say. We enjoy the hoa because it keeps hillbillies from storing trailers, and other junk, on the lawns and driveways.

[Last2Die]

Rv parking no issues with HOA.

[jimcol]

Originally Posted by Montana Man

We enjoy the hoa because it keeps hillbillies from storing trailers, and other junk, on the lawns and driveways.

Our HOA allows 72 hours in the driveway. I agree with Montana Man!

[DHoon]

I agree with you. I appreciate the covenants to keep our neighborhood looking nice, however, I believe the intent of our restriction is to keep folks from storing RVs, boats, or non-running project cars in their yards, not to keep RVs out if the neighborhood completely. I would be perfectly happy with something realistic like 36 or 48 hour max.

[Tom N OH]

It’s really none of my business what someone does on their own property. They bought it, they pay the taxes on it.

[BB_TX]

Some HOA rule with an iron fist. Others look the other way on minor infractions. But all it takes is one neighbor to complain.

[Skw774]

NO HOA. MINES in the backyard. I do have a friend that has the same issue when they bring it home to load.

[Montana Man]

Originally Posted by Tom N OH

It’s really none of my business what someone does on their own property. They bought it, they pay the taxes on it.

People buy into a communities that have hoa's. Therefore agreeing to the rules. Not, an hoa taking over a community and imposing new rules. Keeping high standards for where we live shouldn't have to be put into rules to follow. Unfortunately some people are slobs and don't care about creating an eyesore and bringing down home values around them. RV's sometimes do not fit into every communities plan and that should be taken into consideration before purchasing.

[AZ Traveler]

I would not want to live in a neighborhood that permitted long term RV storage. All vehicles belong in the garage and not in your driveway or the street - we are happy with these rules and knew them before buying the lot. Its a choice you make when you decide where you want to live.

With concurrence of all the neighbors on my block and the HOA president I sometimes park overnight if I get in too late to get it back in storage.

Our HOA is very reasonable to live with.

[twindman]

Our HOA allows 48 hours on the street. And no VISIBLE camper of any kind in your yard (behind the 6 ft cement block walls). I have had a rig for 14 years and maybe went over 12 hours once.

[McRod]

Originally Posted by Montana Man

Our hoa has provision for Friday and Saturday night parking. We pretty much do what we want but try not to have it on the street more than 3 days non weekends and the association is casual about minor infractions. Read the hoa rules yourself to see what they say. We enjoy the hoa because it keeps hillbillies from storing trailers, and other junk, on the lawns and driveways.

You agree with your HOA until you become the subject of them thinking your the hillbilly. Then you realize you've been funding one more layer of government. Pretty much the reason neighbors in HOAs don't sit out on the front porch, afraid someone will report them.

OP:. I would go with your plan A. Sell the house, travel the country looking for land that you can do whatever you want without worrying about if someone is going to report you. It's called freedom.

[McRod]

Originally Posted by Montana Man

People buy into a communities that have hoa's. Therefore agreeing to the rules. Not, an hoa taking over a community and imposing new rules. Keeping high standards for where we live shouldn't have to be put into rules to follow. Unfortunately some people are slobs and don't care about creating an eyesore and bringing down home values around them. RV's sometimes do not fit into every communities plan and that should be taken into consideration before purchasing.

Housing prices in HOAs dropped right along with everyone elses in the market crash. The idea that they protect prices is really not accurate. If the markets down, it's down everywhere. If it's up, it's up. The point is, the market determines value, not your neighbors RV or house color.

[1retired06]

Never an issue

[Theunz]

I was in (not living) a new development one time that was so ritzy that if you bought a new Cadillac your neighbors would feel sorry for you. At the gated entrance there was a sign that read “HIGHLY RESTRICTED COVENANTS”, I bet that was a fun place to live, err more like exist!!
That being said, you knew what you signed up for when you bought and the only way around it is to get enough support to take it before the board.

[mtlakejim]

Originally Posted by Tom N OH

You couldn’t pay me to live in a HOA neighborhood. No way, no how.

Amen and double ditto!! That's why we have 20 acres in the Ozarks!! Nearest neighbor is about a mile away. We can do just about anything we want with our property. Never have understood folks wanting to live in town anyway. Particularly RV folks. We go to the countryside for vacations but live in a town? Why not LIVE where you vacation??

[sourdough]

Originally Posted by DHoon

Hi, I’m fairly new to camping. We picked up our first Montana about a month ago. We generally pick up our 5ER from storage and park at our house overnight while we load for a trip. Now our HOA is giving us a problem aboutparking it in the development overnight.

Just curious if others have had similar issues? if so, how did you resolve it?

Thank you! We love camping so far so it wouldn’t terrible if our HOA czars force us to full time!

HOAs....a blessing to some, a curse to most in my experience. If you bought the property/home within the HOA you signed off on whatever it is that they think they should enforce. Right, wrong, indifferent....they now control your property. How to resolve it? You follow their rules - unfortunately.

I've owned properties over multiple states to have "as my own". An HOA makes sure it is "not your own", but theirs....with zero investment. In big cities some love HOAs to keep the undesirables out and the residents within boundaries. I don't/won't live in a "big" city. Although courted many times to relocate for job opportunities, a "city" has nothing to offer us but irritation.

Any home I've ever built and lived in I 1) made sure it was in the best place, 2) made sure the property had good restrictive covenants and 3) dodged anywhere that had an HOA. The likelihood of an HOA improving your property value is the same as it is that it will depreciate it. Smothering owners with nonsensical restrictions just make folks want out or not be there at all. Good example is my little brother; built a new home in a very nice neighborhood with an HOA with strict covenants- he thought that was good. Home completed he started to landscape and had folks come in, plant trees, flower beds etc. Hmmm, HOA did not approve of the TYPE of tree or the TYPE of flowers - he had to dig them all up. Went to put up a fence; No, you can't have that kind of fence (material), no, it has to be this high, gaps have to be this wide etc. - completely, totally ridiculous. But, IMO that's what happens in city life.

I'm sorry for the situation you face and hope you find a solution. Mine is my property next door that no "entity" tells me what to do with.