New owner of California's "Flintstones" house sued by city after adding dinosaurs

[anon75430791]

@Grey_Devil

This is not a uniquely American thing, i have an aunt that lives in Sweden and her neighborhood has a historic protection so there are a lot of rules of what they can and can’t do. Everyone has to have city approved paint colors, windows, etc, etc.and it’s not terribly different from what an HOA would do.

I do get the purpose of a homeowner’s association, and to some degree i’m for it. However expectations rarely reflect reality, where HOAs end up being way more of a nuisance.

I sit on my HOA board in my condo building. It’s fine, there’s bigger fish to fry.

It’s the city’s historic district board that has really done their best to ruin my year. Trying to drive up window repair to 4x my estimated cost, and forcing the work to be done by companies owned by the board members.