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Beartooth wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:21:02 GMT, Pat Meadows
> <pat@meadows.pair.com> wrote:
>
> >Well, I live in a place NOT subject to a HOA and we don't
> >see crappy built metal sheds that are rusting, trash all
> >over people's yards, or broken down cars littering yards
> >either.
> >There are millions of other pleasant, well-maintained, tidy
> >neighborhoods in the USA not subject to HOAs also.
> >
> >So, the credit for a pleasant, well-maintained, tidy
> >neighborhood cannot be given to the HOA.
> >
> >I don't know exactly what factors contribute to a
> >well-maintained neighborhood, but I suspect they are many
> >and complex.
>
>         You omit the name of the place (no doubt wisely, in
> view of the number of crazies on this group) -- but might
> say whether it's legally a town. Towns in VA do have
> ordinances, including ones meant to keep up appearances, and
> enforce them.  If you pitch the "news"papers that keep
> getting delivered, unpaid, to clutter your lawn, try
> glancing through the headlines for a few months. There will
> be articles on old eyesores being condemned and eventually
> razed. Not often, but it does happen. And with a hammer that
> big in reserve, the authorities who do exist in the legal
> towns may quietly persuade property owners to conform, using
> much gentler means of persuasion.
>
>         Those who live in such towns -- most of America, as
> well as most of VA outside NoVa -- have little need for
> HOAs, and may indeed get by with $10/yr for block BBQs or
> whatever. The authorities' salaries etc. come out of
> property taxes.
>

For most of these nice communities they have no need for government
enforced neatness. Maybe in the USA Today Red areas this would be
needed.

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