Do you have a duty to fit in with your neighborhood?

[bergencounty]

 What are your thoughts on this?

 When you remodel or rebuild, do you have a duty to your neighbors to maintain a consistent style for the neighborhood? Have you experienced something similar?

 

 

 http://www.houzz.com/discussions/177349/Do-you-have-a-duty-to-fit-in-with-your-neighborhood-

[Fayanne]

 not me! lol.. living on 29 acres... my neighbors are 1/4 mile away...

[desertrose69]

No, we all live in the same company provided housing. All with the same landscaping, etc.

[duets]

yea, I don't like HOA's

[stuswf]

Me neither! That's why I live in the country now!

The big orange splot by Daniel pinkwater is how I think neighborhoods should be (the ending)...praise all of us mr plumbeams!

(I do wish our neighbors would put up a fence though-----so no one has to see their pure crap junk piles...I don't care how they live... I just don't wanna see it!!!)

Quoting duets:

yea, I don't like HOA's

[Austinsmommy126]

Yes, we have a strict hoa. I like it though...helps keep the home values up when everyones house looks nice and presentable.

[catchup29]

Not with this house, thankfully. We do have certain restrictions on activities due to living right on the Chesapeake Bay, to keep the water healthy.

Last house I owned, I had to ask permission to paint my shutters a different color then the original. I was denied and that attributed to me selling. Ridiculous!

[dana63]

Nope! We live where my grandma lived for 40 years just across the street and nothing has really changed.

[flowrsgalore]

Our neighborhood has an association. It has lots of rules & restrictions. I don't know all the scoop but you hear bits of news from neighbors occasionally when someone has gotten into trouble. The board really has a hard time really enforcing some of the stuff. Yes we have an architecture approval before you can build too.

[kokyuhomama]

Wow!  We were considering moving into some kind of neighborhood after we sell this old beast we live in, but now I'm reconsidering that.  I can understand why people in a neighborhood want to set some standards, but if something happens and a family is unable to, it adds a little too much pressure for my taste. 

[LFosterfarm]

 if we were to remodel or anything, I wouldn't worry about what others thought, our landscaping is entirely different than anyone in the neighborhoods.