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[quote=Anonymous]Which is why my old NON-HOA over years had to regulate common sense.

1. No kitchens or full baths in basements. 
2. Parking on property on new builds equal to at least number of bedrooms.
3. Any addition 50 percent or more causes house to be taxed as a new build
4. set back requirements at front of house, sides of house and back. 
5. NO ATTACHED GARAGEs and MUST HAVE a grage. I like this one. It requires at least a one car garage on back of house, with a driveway on left side of house. Meaning each house has a buffer on one side without a house on top of them. Mandating a driveway to back of house with garage is kept hours from being on top of each other on both sides 
6. two story max height. 
7. NO MOTHER Daughters with out permits. It is zone single family only. Single family is single family not you, your parents, your husband parents and uncle and aunts. 
8. Percentage of lot you can build on requirements. 
9. no Airbnbs
10. Town garage collection pick up paid in taxes. The garbage men will report excess trash cans etc as evidence of illegal rental apts. We had one neighbor with 8 trash cans every day which was a 75 year old couple. Turned place into rooming house. 
11 strict parking rules. My town most streets were no overnight parking. So hard to rent out if tenants have no place to park but on your property and if they do you stick out as an illegal rental.

This is all without an HOA. Just have good zoning laws and enforce them.

Or even better just do what Hamton Bays Island did years ago. They had a huge problem grouper houses, kids renting house for summer and jamming 30 people in, resturants and bars renting or buying houses to cram with staff for summer. 
Landscapers and construction companies doing same in the summer

Was a huge quality of life issue for normal residents and they would hit them with fines and penalties but they would just pay tickets as way cheaper.

Well Hampton Bays sent out a notice to all rental units and group houses that starting January 1st the following year they will be 100 percent strick enforcement on all grouper homes. All will lose their COs, their will be a 1,000 a day fine and town will go after all owners personally for tax fraud for operating a hotel with our a license and not paying hotel tax. But they will grandfather all existing homeowners who are renting if they sign this form and get it nortorized and return to town and make the property a legal rental.

The following year they tripled the property tax on these homes as now labeled commmercial properties and cut the property taxes 60 percent on the owner occupied houses.

One clean shot over next few years one by one the investors slowly disapeared and ones remaning paying high taxes.  [/quote]

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