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| Thread ID: 134797 | 2013-08-14 03:08:00 | Can they do this? | Cato (6936) | PC World Chat |
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| 1351295 | 2013-08-14 03:08:00 | Mum is looking to buy a house or preferably a section to build on and came across this: www.karaka-lakes.co.nz Can they tell you what you can and cannot do with your property that you have purchased? Minimum house size? No fences at the front? You're not even allowed to park on your front yard? And 500$ per day fine until whatever they don't like is sorted out? WHAT BS. These clowns can't be serious can they? This is the realm of councils isn't it? If this is legit, this sort of thing common? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1351296 | 2013-08-14 03:38:00 | Yes legit, and common | plod (107) | ||
| 1351297 | 2013-08-14 03:55:00 | Many new subdivisions include this. | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1351298 | 2013-08-14 03:55:00 | What sort of pathetic world are we living in that one would get fined $500 for parking on his own front yard? | Cato (6936) | ||
| 1351299 | 2013-08-14 03:56:00 | If you don't like the requirements, simply live where you can leave what you like on the front lawn. It will probably be a fair bit cheaper, especially when you come to sell. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1351300 | 2013-08-14 04:09:00 | Buy or build next door to it and design it however you like. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1351301 | 2013-08-14 04:18:00 | If you don't like the requirements, simply live where you can leave what you like on the front lawn. It will probably be a fair bit cheaper, especially when you come to sell. ;) Settle down Cato, there's an area to suit your needs in just about every city and major town, Auckland has two, called south and west, Wellington has Wellington and most smaller towns manage to organise a suitable no-go /anything goes area. You wouldn't want your Mum living in any of those areas, and the only way to secure a civilised environment is via covenants. I saw an article yesterday about somebody who breached a site agreement by building a deck. Cost her megabucks in the end, she had to pay her fellow residents' legal fees and lost the deck as well. Covenants are lifestyle and enjoyment of peaceful occupation protections, not restrictions. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1351302 | 2013-08-14 05:27:00 | No they are definitely restrictions no matter what the reasoning behind them. I was looking at a section and they even specified the roofing material and a minimum number of roof levels. It's elitism to stop the riff raff moving into a nice area. Personally I don't like being told what I can do on my own property even if I'd probably have done it anyway. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1351303 | 2013-08-14 05:50:00 | No they are definitely restrictions no matter what the reasoning behind them. I was looking at a section and they even specified the roofing material and a minimum number of roof levels. It's elitism to stop the riff raff moving into a nice area. Personally I don't like being told what I can do on my own property even if I'd probably have done it anyway. Th riff raff probably couldnt afford to live there. It does keep everything neat & uniform in that area. Stops your neighbor putting a awefull rusty corrugated iron fence around the section, stops neighbors building a god awefull ugly house & filling up the lawn with dead rusting cars. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1351304 | 2013-08-14 06:05:00 | Lot of that going on in places like Queenstown ... pay $500,000 for a bit of dirt and you can't build anything that costs less than a million ... petty cash really, don't know what all the fuss is about ... | SP8's (9836) | ||
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