Anyone ever had to deal with condo associations or other development boards about installing hot tubs? I just helped my Mom move into a new home in April and was back to visit over the weekend. We got to walk the neighborhood and tour some houses still under construction.
I don't consider this a condo in the sense I am used to. She has a single floor 2 bedroom free standing home. There will be similar home on one side and a 4 bedroom place on the other. She is located between the 8th and 9th holes of what will be a pretty nice golf course. But this is something of a condo community in that all the landscaping and grounds work are done by the golf course (I don't know a lot about this subject) They don't give you the thick book of association rules until closing.
In talking to some of the neighbors, I get the board is getting nasty about somethings. I guess they have a no satelite dish rule, but I thought those went out with the old 8 foot dish days. I heard that one family has a hot tub and that they might have to remove it. I found the site and you wouldn't even know the hot tub is there with the wonderful landscaping these people have done. Hard to believe these kind of rules exist. I can see the need for some neighborhood standards, but its not like they have an old Airstream on blocks with "show me your teets" banners flying in the front yard. I guess I won't be moving here when she passes on. My Mom could careless about hottubs as her MS prevents her from using one, but now she is worried about her life size plastic illumnated Nativity. She was told at closing it was ok, but now I have to wonder