South Carolina Hams fight to amend homeowner association restrictions

There is a community right near us that voted (a number of years ago) to dissolve their HOA and all covenants.

 

It's good that you don't have to move into one! The freedom that you feel must be overwhelming.

 

And where is that community? You must have the old name prior to the elimination of the HOA...

 

Kinda absurd when you have billions of wireless / mobile devices all packed into street blocks to no end
and those all have antennas. Being bathed in RF on a daily basis like that is at best a health science experiment.

 

I live in a city row home, the neighborhood here was created during the First World War, long before HOAs were even thought about.

If you must live in one, I sympathize with you. Many areas of the country are absolutely loaded with them and it's almost impossible to find any property that isn't HOA encumbered.

I hope you're able to get out of an HOA neighborhood soon.

 

If at all possible, never buy a property in an HOA restricted area.

 

I saw your QTH on QRZ. No need of a lawnmower for sure. It must be concerning having neighbors only the distance of a cement block away....Always worrying if you are talking too loud....Good for you and sharing the same wall...I will take the HOA driven misery of having my neighbor at least ten feet or so away and having a front and back lawn. We don't have to whisper in our yard or take our dog down the street to some 20' x 20' grassy spot in our HOA!

BTW.. do you have to park your car on the street or do you have your own attached two or three car garage like most of us miserable folks in an HOA?

I don't think that many of us home owners in HOA's will give up what they have for what you have!

 

Since this post is talking about restrictions, I invite anyone to drop by and answer this survey
How many of you live in an antenna restricted home or apartment
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?th...-home-or-apartment.765689/page-9#post-6818931

 

Why?

 

It's an ongoing topic today which is constantly talked about.

So how many of us, do or do not live in restricted neighborhoods?

 

K0UO, no HOA's out at your place is there?

 

No HOAs, but I do have Tower restrictions because I live on an public airport.

 

Where I reside now, the subdivision had a simple one page CC&R document that was mostly about the numbers and type of livestock that was allowed. One of the provisions was that they expire in ten years unless the homeowners voted to keep them. It was before my time here, but I was told that nobody even wanted to hold a vote, lol!

 

Purchased the house in 1996 and noticed an announcement in the local paper about a tower ordinance proposed by the local government.

Went to the municipal building and spoke to the town manager and told him of my concerns. He indicated the proposal was all about cell phone towers, and they had no requirements for ham radio towers and had none planned. I doubt there has been any change.

 

I would watch the issue carefully anyway. Whatever language they come up with to ban cell towers might well also accidentally ban amateur radio towers.

Tim