Maine is going to be cake as homes are hard to sell there, you get a couple of acres in the right place, at least the places and homes we've been looking at...but here in Vegas, different story. I am embroiled in an HOA situation right now, not because of the Inverted V in the backyard, but for a missing plant in the front yard. The only issue is that its not missing, theres been a plant there for a long time...but i just keep getting these fine notices of $50 a pop for repeated violation. This is after 2 people from the property management and an HOA board member came out and met me to walk the yard, they physically SAW the plant. The old guy from the HOA was an insufferable bastard, old and grumpy. He walked around the yard like a military officer doing an inspection, but i know my shit with this stuff and he didnt scare me like he wanted to (he was starting to piss my wife off, though, i had to step in and take over a couple of times, dont mess with an island woman). The other two were cool and didnt want any trouble. I have high rez pictures of the Lantana flowers i put in there, and copies of everything, im not paying any fines. They sent me another notice before about "securing the cable on the side of the house"...thats my coax, so i did, they had no idea what it was for. I sent the pics and compliance letter by registered mail, but they dont communicate to eachother down there.

The point being, most of these HOA buzzards dont know their ass from a coffee cup, they just like to meddle and nitpick without any real knowledge of how things work, what they are or what its used for. I knew i would have to have an antenna that could come down in a hurry. I know i am in violation, but so are most of the houses on my street for one thing or another. We knew what we were in for, we accept that the HOA is a part of the deal, and we are also over it. We are putting our house up on the market next year and moving out of state when it sells. No more HOA's for us, we learned our lesson.