The HOA is coming after your truck

[Subyman]

Then park the truck in the garage and car on the driveway. A boat if he has one belongs in storage, which is what my HOA requires.

Oh, that would suck if he had a nice car like a Corvette that he wanted to keep out of the weather but his HOA forces him to park it in the rain. :twisted:

 

[DCal430]

Truth be told, I don't really like all my own HOA rules. I have to notify my HOA if I have more than one guest parking at my house over night. But the area I wanted to live only had HOAs. Some of the rules seem too much.

 

[MrPickins]

Then park the truck in the garage and car on the driveway.

Why? 😕

 

[Gooberlx2]

I have to notify my HOA if I have more than one guest parking at my house over night.

Is this a condo community or something where parking is limited? It's like they don't anticipate people might have lives.

 

[DCal430]

Is this a condo community or something where parking is limited? It's like they don't anticipate people might have lives.

No normal street single family homes. They like to make it look like no one lives in the neighborhood.

Here the parking is you can park up to 2 Cars on the driveway if you can show you own more cars than your garage was designed for. If you do someone who come over verify this and place a sticker on your car, giving that car a right to park on the driveway over night. You get one guest placard, any more guest requires 24 hour advance notice to the HOA.

 

[Gooberlx2]

No normal street single family homes. They like to make it look like no one lives in the neighborhood.

An odd strategy. Do kids take advantage of the extra space and play games in the street or something? Driving down what would otherwise look like a deserted neighborhood would be weird and off putting, imo, were I looking for a place to live. Probably not as bad as it seems in my head.

 

[Blackjack200]

What you haven't read and understood is that not a single one of my posts was directed at the OP. It was directed at the completely false characterization in subsequent posts that HOAs are havens for nitpicking residents that try to unreasonably control the behavior of their neighbors. In addressing that point, I wrote about how people move into HOA-controlled areas because we don't want - among other things - people parking their commercial vehicles in residential areas.

Nowhere have I written that the Orlando's pickup truck is or is not a commerical vehicle. In fact, I made clear in one of my posts that in my own association non-commerical pickup trucks are clearly allowed. Here's the relevant excerpt:

But CZroe, you, and others couldn't be bothered to read all of that post. You apparently want sound bites, and four paragraphs is just too long for your attention spans.

Pro level ownage right there.

As far as this case is concerned, I believe the rule said 'private passenger automobile', no? It sounds to me like they mean cars, but maybe the case will turn on what is commonly referred to as an 'automobile'.

 

[Subyman]

Pro level ownage right there.

As far as this case is concerned, I believe the rule said 'private passenger automobile', no? It sounds to me like they mean cars, but maybe the case will turn on what is commonly referred to as an 'automobile'.

I'm still not understanding this exclusive association people have with automobile meaning only car. I've always thought of automobiles being the category of nearly anything that normally drives on the road other than heavy equipment like semi-trucks.

Even Automobile magazine reviews vans, SUVs, and trucks.

 

[MrPickins]

No normal street single family homes. They like to make it look like no one lives in the neighborhood.

Here the parking is you can park up to 2 Cars on the driveway if you can show you own more cars than your garage was designed for. If you do someone who come over verify this and place a sticker on your car, giving that car a right to park on the driveway over night. You get one guest placard, any more guest requires 24 hour advance notice to the HOA.

That sounds like a terrible place to live. :\

 

[Cozarkian]

I'm still not understanding this exclusive association people have with automobile meaning only car. I've always thought of automobiles being the category of nearly anything that normally drives on the road other than heavy equipment like semi-trucks.

Even Automobile magazine reviews vans, SUVs, and trucks.

I agree. Automobile means any vehicle manufactured and sold by the automotive industry. The limiting words are "passenger," which excludes big rigs, and "private," which excludes buses and taxis.

 

[Blackjack200]

I'm still not understanding this exclusive association people have with automobile meaning only car. I've always thought of automobiles being the category of nearly anything that normally drives on the road other than heavy equipment like semi-trucks.



Even Automobile magazine reviews vans, SUVs, and trucks.

Does "Car and Driver" review trucks? I honestly don't know, but the word automobile has always meant "car" to me.

 

[Blackjack200]

I agree. Automobile means any vehicle manufactured and sold by the automotive industry. The limiting words are "passenger," which excludes big rigs, and "private," which excludes buses and taxis.

You can have a private passenger van.

In any case, I'm not saying that my view on 'automobile' is correct, but it seems clear to me that the pickup truck is a private passenger vehicle, so it seems like the only potentially ambiguous part.

 

[CZroe]

Pro level ownage right there.

As far as this case is concerned, I believe the rule said 'private passenger automobile', no? It sounds to me like they mean cars, but maybe the case will turn on what is commonly referred to as an 'automobile'.

...and, yet, you (and senseamp) seem to think it was just the "smart-people word" for "car." That is hilarious!


I am dumbfounded at how you could possibly think that he was owning anyone while expressing such profound ignorance.

An automobile is any vehicle that moves under its own power. That's why I need automobile insurance for my motorcycle. That misunderstanding is clearly why you and senseamp have such a problem understanding this:
A CAR IS A CLASS OF AUTOMOBILE JUST LIKE A TRUCK, VAN, SUV, OR MOTORCYCLE. If they meant "car," they would have said "car."

Automobile has NEVER been equated with "car." The whole point is to have a general term to reference all classes of self-propelled land vehicles.

DUH.

 

[Blackjack200]

...and, yet, you (and senseamp) seem to think it was just the "smart-people word" for "car." That is hilarious!


I am dumbfounded at how you could possibly think that he was owning anyone while expressing such profound ignorance.

An automobile is any vehicle that moves under its own power. That's why I need automobile insurance for my motorcycle. That misunderstanding is clearly why you and senseamp have such a problem understanding this:
A CAR IS A CLASS OF AUTOMOBILE JUST LIKE A TRUCK, VAN, SUV, OR MOTORCYCLE. If they meant "car," they would have said "car."

Automobile has NEVER been equated with "car." The whole point is to have a general term to reference all classes of self-propelled land vehicles.

DUH.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Automobile

 

[Blackjack200]

An automobile is any vehicle that moves under its own power.

 

[Blackjack200]

An automobile is any vehicle that moves under its own power.

 

[Blackjack200]

An automobile is any vehicle that moves under its own power.

 

[CZroe]

You done making an ass out of yourself yet? Did I say that I was writing the exact legal or dictionary definition with no assumed words left out? You actually expected me to specify "with wheels" and "for use on roads" and you actually think that you can ignore what I said because I left that part out?

You have a problem.

Nice job linking to the Wikipedia page for "Car." Try reading the definition.

 

[Subyman]

Does "Car and Driver" review trucks?

Yes.

 

[ElFenix]

My 2008 Chevy Trailblazer has Texas truck tags. Though these days I don't see truck tags on SUVs even the larger Suburbans or Expeditions.

i think they got rid of the truck tags when they went to 7 digit plates

 

[Blackjack200]

You actually expected me to specify "with wheels" and "for use on roads" and you actually think that you can ignore what I said because I left that part out?

Nice job linking to the Wikipedia page for "Car." Try reading the definition.

...and, yet, you (and senseamp) seem to think it was just the "smart-people word" for "car." That is hilarious!
DUH.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

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You're doing a good job representing your typical HOA; pedantic jackasses who would rather argue an insane point than admit they were wrong. If the wording on the HOA agreement had said car, you'd be in here posting pictures of railroad cars.

 

[werepossum]

Try to convince the judge that the vehicle registered in the same state as a passenger vehicle is actually a passenger vehicle? Is that like going to court and trying to argue that since your birth certificate lists you as male that you are actually a male?

The HOA set the rules. The guy followed them. Some asshole wrongfully thought he could rulebook the guy, for whatever reason, and he/she/them is/are just as wrong as you are.

And I would absolutely love to live in your neighborhood. No one is better at "rulebooking" and pissing off people like you than I am. If I was him I wouldn't have brought this to court, I and my kids would have had one hellofa time pissing you off even more and all within the legal rules set forth. We could make it a monthly BYOSP (bring your own spray paint) party to paint the non-commercial and definitely non-pickup $500 vehicle and watch you chase your tail trying to pass new bylaws. New bylaws that would probably take me 5 minutes driving in my pickup to have more fun with.

To answer your actual question though, it seems like most of America "wants" to since it is the best selling vehicle over multiple decades. Perhaps you're just a douchebag, the kind of douchebag that makes other rational people concerned about purchasing homes in a HOA because someday a douchebag like you might be making the rules? Or perhaps just about every one else , socially not this thread, s wrong and you are right. I'll leave you to ponder on which is more probable, personally I already know.


ETA: Unlike you, most of us aren't afraid of living next to those normal everyday subhuman (obviously in your opinion) working folk. If my neighbor needs a truck to make a living and he owns a truck I say good for him. You say get the fuck out, despicable. Oooh, his mere existence might cost you exactly nothing on your property value but sucks to be him eh?

Well said, sir.

People who wish to surround themselves with "people like us" are in my experience the most miserable excuses for human beings commonly endured.

 

[Blackjack200]

You're doing a good job representing your typical HOA; pedantic jackasses who would rather argue an insane point than admit they were wrong. If the wording on the HOA agreement had said car, you'd be in here posting pictures of railroad cars.

Except that I already admitted my definition of automobile could be wrong a few posts up. But it seems you, like a few others in this thread and many who belong to a HOA, can't be bothered to read.

 

[CZroe]

Except that I already admitted my definition of automobile could be wrong a few posts up. But it seems you, like a few others in this thread and many who belong to a HOA, can't be bothered to read.

...while simultaneously continuing to express your ignorance by declaring us "owned." 🙄

I like how you linked a boat to point out that I wasn't specific enough when I did specifically say "land vehicle."

I guess you aren't done making an ass out of yourself. Are you actually defending your idiotic assumption that "automobile" equals "car" by linking to the Wikipedia page for "Car?"