Yeah - I think had we (rather, my husband) felt like dealing with it we could have made an argument and taken it to the attorney on base here.

That sounds like a much better run group than this! There are only only 30-40 houses in our neighborhood and I still don't even know who the president is. We have followed up a few times to get added to the "HOA FaceBook" to be made aware of things... but so far that's crickets. We only found out any of it by a neighbor stopping by with a "finalized" copy of the guidance book and asking why we hadn't submitted to the AC.

We have a time clock here of just 2.5 more years, but we will be making sure we do our HOA research before leaping on a house next time around - or avoiding an HOA entirely depending on where we are stationed. Funny you mentioned Summerlin, as that area is one I'm researching for the next relocation. I'll keep Sun City in mind.

Well, what is done is done - all we can do is move forward. We now have approval and have ordered materials - shingle was finished this weekend. This was our first experience with an HOA, we had asked when buying the home for some sort of documentation about guidance here and were told by the realtor and seller that there wasn't any - searching for our HOA returned nothing and the email address we reached out to bounced back.

Definitely! We will be using Red Guard, too.

We could try to argue it's mobile/non-permanent which would get us out of the brick but then it isn't permitted to be visible from the street and must be 7.5ft from the fence/house... which we can't work out with a pool in the yard (inground). I was definitely going to try that!

Well, we will only live here for the next couple of years being having to move - though I would hate for it to fall apart on the next family.

We are planning to wrap a skirt around the bottom as well as do some landscaping around it (there is now a ramp also), to hopefully make it not look so weird... hopefully.

This is really helpful, thank you. I'll be looking for The Old House for some visual aids. We've done tile work before and it seems similar, just a PIA.

Unfortunately, not in the market here and with interest rates being what they are. We will be moving in two and a half years (military), but now know we won't being going somewhere with an HOA.

So we did try for brick vinyl but were directed to a section outlining no vinyl. I am, however, considering looking anyways and see if we can find something that looks real enough it won't be questioned.

Thank you!! Glad to see we weren't off on the steps.

Yes, they require it match the architecture and design of our home (brick or stucco, in our case it's brick) as well as have shingles. We tried for brick-look vinyl, which they don't allow.

Unfortunately we have the president of the HOA on our case who has referenced a "no vinyl " policy in the handbook (which we didn't know of until recently). And he lives two doors down.

I would be a okay with it - we had initially planned for vinyl until the president stopped by. Maybe we will poke around and see if we can find any that are passing enough...