AP STORY
Good grief, When brilliant foreigner's come to live in America they need to be advised by their Peers about our laws and customs.
Come to think about it allot of us American born get into trouble buying from fast talking realestate bankers.
First time I ran into the Home owners Association I was perhaps 25 and looking to buy in California. At around that time a song had come out about --Tickie tackie boxes all in a row------So one single family home we looked at looked exactly like all the others on the street.
Coming from New England and a died in the wool Yankee the neighborhood reminded me of Navy housing. Fortunately the Agent was honest and informed me that there was an association and I would have to follow rules to live in my own home.
So some neighbors I do not know can tell me how to live ???? How many cars I can own, what color to paint my house, no kids bikes in the drive way or on the lawn ??? No flags of any kind or holiday decoration's, lights outside on the roof or in the shrubs.
Although the back yard was a good size and fenced in only one dog allowed and that under 25 pounds. We at the time owned a Saint Barnard. Hell it was much cheaper to stay in Navy Housing with a heck of a lot more freedom.
So people with money come here and buy into a home and have no idea that even if they pay cash for property, taxes and what not some neighbor that has a stick up their Ass can now tell them how to live. Suddenly the home of the free became a country to them a Communist State where they were allowed no rights on their own property without a stranger saying Ya or Nay.
I understand his frustration and bewilderment. I would guess the stress of loosing at his Job and having strangers on his property checking out if he was adhering to someone Else's rules must have been a shock. His family must have felt terrorised by the neighbors.
I have yet to meet anyone but Gay couples that are willing to live under those conditions and be happy with it.