On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:05:57 CST, "KC4UAI" wrote:

Well.. If truth be told, I knew in advance about the restrictions.
However, this was *only* because I asked. CCNR's are not normally
disclosed in total prior to writing a contract on a house. Your only
indication that there *might* be CCNR's is that you are told that
there is an HOA who collects dues and how much the dues are. In my
experience, if you see HOA dues, you should assume the CCNR's restrict
antenna installations. And walking away from your contract will cost
you the earnest money if the reason is that you found the CCNR's too
restrictive.

Depends on where you are. In California and some other states, the
seller's agent must produce the documentation of CC&Rs and HOA
Regulations before the contract goes into effect, and I insist - for
myself and my clients - that a clause be inserted into the contract
that the buyer has a set time such as five days to back out with no
penalty if there are restrictions on antennas or if the seller's agent
fails to produce the above documentation to prove that there are no
such restrictions.

When we were in the process if buying our house here in 1999, we
didn't wait for the seller's agent -- we had our agent telephone her
office to get the CC&Rs on every house that we were interested in
(they are on file with the county recorder and can be obtained by
FAX). There was one brand new townhouse that we really liked that
really screamed "CC&Rs" but the search did not reveal any. I didn't
trust the search, and we passed it by. We settled for our third
choice, a 30-year old house that had CC&Rs but no HOA, and nothing in
the CC&Rs would serve as a restriction to what I wanted to erect.
--

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net