[duxup]

Yeah I had a neighbor who decided it was time to open his in home auto repair shop.

Fortunately the HoA board didn’t look kindly on it for a variety of reasons/ issues.

He eventually moved. I hope he found a good place with a big garage and fewer neighbors to do that thing.

Same with the rental party house (before the days of air bnb(but same issues)).

[woah]

What's wrong with a guy repairing cars?

[duxup]

Single car garages, connected townhomes, limited parking.

Dude operated at all hours with air tools and etc and took up all the guest parking with broken down cars, leaking all sorts of stuff. He was also dumping all sorts of shit in storm drains and dumping his greasy parts and trash in other people’s trash.

The catch was this wasn’t a constant thing (well not until he chose to go full asshole), just often enough to be a pain, then stop, folks hope he was done, and then he would start up again.

Even had his customers wandering around looking for where he stashed their car and asking to park in front of people’s garage… other times not asking. A few would empty their car trash on the lawns and streets.

Edit I was curious and I googled him, someone with the same name got into tax trouble a few years later. I would not be surprised.

[lupire]

Aren't those cases covered by zoning laws?

[duxup]

Depends how obvious it is .

Put a car repair sign up then yeah. Be more “quiet” about it and claim and you are fixing a friends car and it becomes less easy / an ordeal for the city or county to act. Unfortunately the car repair guy was not honest and that was an issue.

Party house was a bit of an ordeal.

HOAs tend to fill a lot of zoning gaps.

[JackFr]

It turns out comprehensive zoning laws are not universal. HOAs are typically a response to inadequate (or at least perceived inadequate) zoning regulation.

However the concept of nuisance has existed in the common law for centuries and insofar as someone’s behavior might be a nuisance it has always been actionable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance_in_English_law

[rdtwo]

They are but enforcement can be lacking. The hoa can nickel and dime a person enough that they will take the 10% property value hit to move

[bluGill]

There are legal limits to what zoning laws can cover. So HOA can be a way to sidestep state laws.