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These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
All depends.These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
HOA's are typically located on private property so the members can decide what city/county services they want to use. In any case rural areas by themselves typically don't have gov't trash removal either.These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
I've heard of HOAs that also include internet access.These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
Or maybe, and bear (pun intended) with me on this one. Have you thought of renting a panda from a zoo for the weekend? They like bamboo. Kinda like people using goats to clear out brush."Asking for a friend"
Yeah we have a diagonal neighbor that our next door neighbor complained about, both are about 72 and the diagonal one has bamboo planted at the fence area that encroach to the next door's yard. This really ruined their gardening and they had to hire people to dig out the root that encroaches. He tried to negotiate to have them removed but were ignored, he tried to ask the cities if they can be asked to remove due to being a non native species or pest and there was no regulation on that. I told them, the only way to do it is either to secretly poison the bamboo with roundup, hot steam, or out live the neighbors.
Fly over country.Where is this place, I need to move, lol.
These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
We do dump runs in Dad's truck, have 2 honda pumps so are our own fire department. A well for water, and sewer lagoon. When it snows I start the loader and plow our 600' driveway, and the yard.The way a lot of suburban areas have been developed, even if they are pretty densely populated, they may not be covered by a municipality that handles everything.
I live in a small city, Center Point, on the outskirts of Birmingham, AL, within the same county. It's a large county, with a lot of "cities" surrounding Birmingham, because they don't want to be annexed into Birmingham for a variety of reasons. You can't really tell where Birmingham ends and these other cities begin except for some city limits signage though...and the services offered. My city is small, and was only incorporated in 2002. Previously it had just been unincorporated Jefferson county (which in the 60s-70s was actually the most populated unincorporated area in the US). Why they even bothered to incorporate this part in 2002 I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure it was to avoid higher taxes that would come if it was annexed into Birmingham. The thing is, we pay for everything here. Trash pickup is a pay service through Advanced Disposal, you get a yearly fire department bill, policing is just the county sheriff, etc. It isn't a podunk town though, it's a very suburban area. Birmingham provides its residents trash collection twice a week, has a police department, and doesn't mail you a fire department bill, and now Center Point's sales tax is the same, so whatever advantages were gained from incorporating as a city seem to be a wash to me. I guess being incorporated as a city is sort of like HOA lite in that there's more code enforcement and such than if it was just unincorporated.
Thankfully we don't have to use Advanced Disposal, so I do dump runs myself. Not paying for something I'm going to forget half the time.We do dump runs in Dad's truck, have 2 honda pumps so are our own fire department. A well for water, and sewer lagoon. When it snows I start the loader and plow our 600' driveway, and the yard.
It is also a $ thing.This has become a major problem with race tracks across the country. Several drag strips and oval tracks, built 30+ miles out of the city back 50-60 years ago, have been encroached by sprawl right up to the track's property. People build/buy houses right next to the track, and then they have the nerve to sue the track to be shut down due to noise. Of course the track ends up closed in the end and bulldozed down to make way for more sprawl.
Where I lived no, it was an unincorporated area. Had separate water and sewer bills from 2 separate companies even!These HOA's people are posting about where the dues cover trash pickup, etc. Are they not part of the city utilities?
It is also a $ thing.
If you are a strip that makes maybe 8k a month, and suddenly someone offer you 100M for your land, you probably would want to sell it asap and build another one 3 hours away too.
Airports, gun clubs, a short line industrial railroad someone I know owns....This has become a major problem with race tracks across the country. Several drag strips and oval tracks, built 30+ miles out of the city back 50-60 years ago, have been encroached by sprawl right up to the track's property. People build/buy houses right next to the track, and then they have the nerve to sue the track to be shut down due to noise. Of course the track ends up closed in the end and bulldozed down to make way for more sprawl.