Garage/Yard Sales

Bill,
Are you gated or ungated, single family stand alones or villas, condos?

Bill,

Sorry I don't have a model rule for you. However, I would suggest that if the BOD is adamant about adopting a rule prohibiting garage sales, other than the assn sponsored garage sale, they would consider allowing any member to have a garage sale in conjunction with selling their property or moving from the community. My HOA sponsors a garage sale twice a year but there is no rule prohibiting a garage sale at any other time during the year.

We are trying to limit the amount of traffic through the community as well the additional parking of community streets, neighbor yards and/or driveways.

Agree with Donna.

Our local municipality restricts homeowners to only 2 garage/yard sales per year.

Also, permits are required.

Check with local zoning restrictions first. It may be their dog to leash.

John,

The $5.00 is paid to the County. From there, only the Government Gods know where it goes. I heard once that it goes into a fund for enforcement costs but???

thanks everyone for replying. I'm actually looking for POA's/HOA's that have something in their docs and how it is written.

I agree with Susan. While we don't suffer from this problem in our community, it is an area for enforcing a reasonable rule by the association.

I'm going to bring this thread up from the past. First time poster here, great forum, will use extensively now I know about it.

We are a small HOA with 13 units. The big issue we have with garage sales is the noise and traffic it brings into our common area at a very early time. These garage sales are not HOA organized, but become a surprise to all residents when it does occur.

What do you all suggest. Currently we don't have any restrictions on garage sales in our CC&R's. While we haven't had an owner/renter abuse this by having garage sales every weekend, the option could occur.

Do most of you sponsor some sort of "Twice Annual all HOA" garage sales?

i'm going to play devils advocate here.

in this economic climate where people are losing jobs, are having difficulty making ends meet, are being taxed into poverty, are losing homes, do we really need to be hounding people for chronic garage sales?

most of the time the people who start doing chronic garage sales are peole who are just rying to keep a roof over their head and their head above water.

when the economy is good and unemployment is low than i can see a need to enforce such a rule as there is no real legitimate reason, but in this economy we should really be helping our neighbors keep their heads above water, not help drown them and before you say go to flea markets the government has stuck their fingers in that now too. i went to sell at a flea market and they wanted my SS#, PH#, Address, DL, $25.00 for a table and handed me a sales tax and income tax reporting form you needed to fill out and return to them upon leaving.

now that i am done playing devils advocate (and i hope mods will leave this message intact)

most municipalities limit yards sales to 3 x 3 day weekends (fri, sat, sun) a year per an address. some require a fee/permit, some don't, very few have no restrictions. some do 2 weekends, some do 5 weekends, some ban yardsales entirely save for a once or twice a years municipal sponsored sale.