[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Jayhawk

I will never understand people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy into a community, only to push the envelope at every turn to try and circumvent the rules, regulations, and policies of the same community.

I guess for some, if there is nothing to complain about, life just isn't challenging.

Rules, regulatons, by-laws, or whatever else you want to call them, are all written before one house is ever built within a community. They are usually taken from a compilation of other HOA documents and there are specific attorneys who often write them. Our documents are much more involved because the developer rules here and it is either his way or the highway.

However, having been in real estate for 30 years and been involved with many associations, I have never known an assocation that did not make changes to their documents, as the years went by. The proper word is "updating" and all documents need to have this done periodically.

It is not unusual for a homeowner to question or want to make a change that is not within the docs because, frankly, many of the rules are archaic and some never even made sense when they were created. Many times the rules simply have to do with the creator's ego.

I think your reference of people "pushing the envelope" to "curcumvent the rules" is a little exaggerated. Homeowners just want to make some changes to make their property reflect their taste, even though it may not be good taste in someone else's eyes. That's why we have the ARC.