HOA Boat Storage Rules

[AZBoatDreamer]

I did a search before posting this question.

My HOA has a rule where we cannot store a boat in the drive way or visible from the neighbors house or city street. So my plan is to install a RV Gate and have the boat hidden in the back yard. The next option is storing it at an off site storage facility.

So my question is HOA home owners where do you store your Boat?

David

 

[Friscoboater]

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I have the same problem. the good thing is that I face the outside of our neighborhood so all I had to do is build a bigger fence. They have not popped me yet. the best thing to do is ask them. If you spend alot of money and they poopoo on it, you are out the cash.

 

[salty87]

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my neighborhood isn't too uptight about where it can be parked but we aren't supposed to have more than 2 outside.

mine's on the side of the house, pretty much the very back of the driveway. it's on grass though and i never park cars there....i sort of extended the 'driveway' for boat parking.

 

[jheeziee110]

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my neighorhood is terrible about it. i fish late sunday nights every night and i get in at 11 or twelve. so instead of pulling all my gear out and wakin my neighbor up withunloading everything i just leave it for monday when i get off work, i gett letters all the time, and i park my boat in the back yard, so i just take my boat with me to work on mondays

 

[witenite0560]

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My advice: Move! I can't stand HOAs that won't even let you keep your stuff, neatly at home.

 

[AZBoatDreamer]

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My advice: Move! I can't stand HOAs that won't even let you keep your stuff, neatly at home.

I would have to buy an old old house to be in a non hoa neighborhood in my location. Thanks for the thoughts.

 

[nitsuj]

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This seems to come up a lot on boating sites and classic car sites, even motorcycle sites from time to time. I can't believe more people don't lobby to have these rules changed. Or that enough HOA neighborhoods haven't lost enough people to look at changing the rules. I can't believe people buy houses knowing that they won't be allowed to store their belongings on property they paid money to own. No offense to those of you in those neighborhoods, but I think my house would be on the market the first time someone told me I couldn't keep something I own in MY yard or driveway.

 

[fishrdan]

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No personal experience, but my friend did the same thing you are thinking of, put in an RV gate to pull his boat and 16' camper in the back yard. After that, someone complained they could see the top of his camper so he had to add another row of block to his fence.

Gotta love HOA's.

 

[AZBoatDreamer]

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No personal experience, but my friend did the same thing you are thinking of, put in an RV gate to pull his boat and 16' camper in the back yard. After that, someone complained they could see the top of his camper so he had to add another row of block to his fence.

Gotta love HOA's.

We have a corner house with one neighbor and we are best friends with them Beside they are storing a RV trailer without HOA knowing it. I wont tell.

 

[Plasma George]

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This seems to come up a lot on boating sites and classic car sites, even motorcycle sites from time to time. I can't believe more people don't lobby to have these rules changed. Or that enough HOA neighborhoods haven't lost enough people to look at changing the rules. I can't believe people buy houses knowing that they won't be allowed to store their belongings on property they paid money to own. No offense to those of you in those neighborhoods, but I think my house would be on the market the first time someone told me I couldn't keep something I own in MY yard or driveway.

President of our HOA and boat owner....You're missing the point dude. People WANT to move into these typse of communities because Rules exist that keep the community up to certain standards.

No trailers of any kind, no cars on the grass, trashcans out of site, property must be kept neat. We pay a landscaper to groom our front community, and flowerbed the sign areas. When you think about buying here, you're told it's a cCommunity with dues, and Rules.

The community behind us doesn't have an HOA.....and to be honest, they have a trashier look as you drive through and see peoples properties and what gets "accumulated."

Same square footage, who's housing value is higher ?

I store my boat in the driveway if I'm working on it over a weekend, mostly it's at a storage place for $40 a month.

 

[Chiliando]

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When I bought my boat last year I brought it home on Sunday about 5 PM so show the wife. I had already aranged to store it in a facilty as I do not have enough room in either side of the house.

One of my neighbors called the city and Monday morning at 10 am I had a warning ticket on my front door. And I don't live in an HOA!!

 

[marine4003]

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President of our HOA and boat owner....You're missing the point dude. People WANT to move into these typse of communities because Rules exist that keep the community up to certain standards.

No trailers of any kind, no cars on the grass, trashcans out of site, property must be kept neat. We pay a landscaper to groom our front community, and flowerbed the sign areas. When you think about buying here, you're told it's a cCommunity with dues, and Rules.

The community behind us doesn't have an HOA.....and to be honest, they have a trashier look as you drive through and see peoples properties and what gets "accumulated."

Same square footage, who's housing value is higher ?

I store my boat in the driveway if I'm working on it over a weekend, mostly it's at a storage place for $40 a month.

I'm with you, i enjoy living in a gated community with rules,keeps the property value high,tidy and clean. i also have a new 7500 sq ft warehouse,so i have plenty of room to store my 2 "smaller" boats- 22 Celebrity & 13' Whaler, i used to winter store at the local storage facility $30 month....Harley stayes in the garage...Denali..outside.

 

[nitsuj]

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President of our HOA and boat owner....You're missing the point dude.

I get it. But it would seem to me in a community like that, you'd have more people of means. People who can afford boats. I can see how a rusty old Pinto in the yard would make the place look trashy, but a $50,000 cruiser?

Same square footage, who's housing value is higher ?

I guess it depends on who you ask. To me, the house where I can do as I see fit with MY property has a higher "value". But I guess we're getting off topic.

More to the topic at hand: If the HOA doesn't want a boat in the yard and can enforce it, could they also demand that you not build a fence high enough to hide a boat? That would be my concern.

 

[AZBoatDreamer]

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More to the topic at hand: If the HOA doesn't want a boat in the yard and can enforce it, could they also demand that you not build a fence high enough to hide a boat? That would be my concern.

This is my concern. I would spend money installing RV gate and extending the block wall and HOA finds out I'm hidding a boat there. Time to go read my HOA CC&R.

 

[nitsuj]

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Yeah, it wouldn't take them long to figure it out. It's not like you can just quickly pull it in there under cover of darkness. People will notice you towing it around. And nosey people will watch to see where it disappears to. Maybe you can go to the HOA and ask them to let you bend the rules as long as it stays hidden and doesn't detract from property values.

 

[airdvr1227]

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In the new home construction biz here in Ohio. Most HOA deed restrictions I've seen force you to erect a building to store your boat or RV in.

 

[Yreka]

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President of our HOA and boat owner....You're missing the point dude. People WANT to move into these typse of communities because Rules exist that keep the community up to certain standards.

I guess it depends on where you live.. Out here HOA's are not generally well received. The newer developments were almost all HOA ( like it sounds to be currently in Arizona), however they quickly fell out of favor. Now, it seems to be about 50/50. In fact, new non-HOA neighborhoods even took to advertizing the fact. I wouldn't be surprised if HOA actually hurt your resale in certain circumstances.

The paper ran a survey not too long ago, something like 2/3's did not favor them. The general sentiment was "sounded like a good idea moving in, living hell in practice". Its only a matter of time until you get a nazi with too much time on their hands running the show.

 

[MushCreek]

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I'm all for HOA's for those that want them, but it's spreading far beyond that. In a nearby town (in FL) you cannot have a boat in your driveway- anywhere in the city limits! They also passed a law that you can't have a vehicle longer than 17' in your driveway. Come to find out- the mayor's Caddy was 17'6"! I'm moving to SC, which follows IBC 2006 for building codes, like many other states. What you may not know is that within those codes, there are very specific rules about keeping your grass cut, no trash in your yard, etc. The one that got me is that you cannot have an unregistered car on your property unless it is in a building! So if I bring home an antique car to work on, I HAVE to keep it in a building, even though I have 7 acres of woods. Of course, just about everybody in rural SC violates that rule- usually 5-6 times over. But technically, they could enforce it any time they want to. My land is in an unincorporated area without zoning, but I still have to abide by the building code. Soon, there will be nowhere that you can move to without all kinds of petty rules. Sure glad this is a 'free' country.....

 

[jdlough]

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I used to live in a town house in the HOA suburbs, because there was no choice. Everything in my price range there had an HOA. I hated it. Most people don't buy an HOA place because they prefer it. They usually don't have much choice, or don't realize what they're in for with HOA officials with clipboards and measuring tapes measuring fence heights or flower boxes or some such stupidities.

I finally decided to move after three HOA meetings debating weather my flower boxes were "an integral part of my deck rail" (in which case my deck rail was 6" too high", or were "an unauthorized construction above my deck rail". It didn't matter - either way these were illegal flower boxes.

I finally could afford to quit that job, buy a piece of waterfront land way in the boonies, build my own house, and plant about 300 tobacco plants. Thank God or Bill Gates or whoever for telecommuting.

Also, I LIKE the look of a boat in the driveway. I figure interesting folks live there. I envied them when I lived in my HOA.

And Plasma George? If people you know LIKE those rules, well, you hang out with the wrong kind of people. People who like to go to HOA meetings.

Jim

 

[Mike Robinson]

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HOA? What's that? Home owners association I assume.

I live in a very small town on a remote island where everyone does pretty much as they please. No building permits etc. The down side is that some places have derelict vehicles and partially finished buildings etc. My neighbors place is a disaster, he's slowly cleaning it up though. Very slowly.

Like every choice, there are pros and cons.