RE: RE: Serious??
My thing is, Jason, that I feel that the HOA's role here is to maintain an acceptable standard within the neighborhood, not to enforce everything to the letter of the CC&Rs. I sure don't want them breathing down my throat. You have to take our neighborhood for what it is. It's a decent middle class neighborhood, it's not Brandywine Pointe, it's not a Cool Springs, Franklin, or Brentwood neighborhood, it's Hickory Hills in Mount Juliet, TN, and it always will be.
I personally don't think anything is out of hand in our neighborhood. Sure, there are people every summer that should mow their lawns more frequently, but that's not my problem, it's theirs. There are a few people that have some junk on the sides of their houses, but that's the exception, not the rule, and I'm ok with that.
It just bugs me that people get so worked up about the small stuff, to the point where they turn to the HOA to work out the personal problems they have with others in the neighborhood instead of just talking to their neighbors, or just getting over it all-together.
Whatever it is, I have a hard time believing it's bad enough that a third party has to get involved to settle these types of things. Live and let live, if the neighborhood starts turning into a slum that's different, but I don't see that happening, not even close, there is plenty of pride in ownership left in Hickory Hills.
By Thad
My thing is, Jason, that I feel that the HOA's role here is to maintain an acceptable standard within the neighborhood, not to enforce everything to the letter of the CC&Rs. I sure don't want them breathing down my throat. You have to take our neighborhood for what it is. It's a decent middle class neighborhood, it's not Brandywine Pointe, it's not a Cool Springs, Franklin, or Brentwood neighborhood, it's Hickory Hills in Mount Juliet, TN, and it always will be.
I personally don't think anything is out of hand in our neighborhood. Sure, there are people every summer that should mow their lawns more frequently, but that's not my problem, it's theirs. There are a few people that have some junk on the sides of their houses, but that's the exception, not the rule, and I'm ok with that.
It just bugs me that people get so worked up about the small stuff, to the point where they turn to the HOA to work out the personal problems they have with others in the neighborhood instead of just talking to their neighbors, or just getting over it all-together.
Whatever it is, I have a hard time believing it's bad enough that a third party has to get involved to settle these types of things. Live and let live, if the neighborhood starts turning into a slum that's different, but I don't see that happening, not even close, there is plenty of pride in ownership left in Hickory Hills.
By Thad