On Jan 26, 1:43 pm, Dick Grady AC7EL wrote:
When I was shopping for my house in Pahrump, NV, I already was a ham so
I knew enough to look into CC&Rs against antennas. Whenever I found a
likely prospect, I went to the County Recorder's office to look up the
deed and any other documents like CC&Rs and easements. The house I
finally bought did have CC&Rs, but they were mainly about minimum house
size and setbacks; not a word about antennas.

Another development in Pahrump had a no-antennas clause in the CC&Rs.
And this was not a upscale hoity-toity area: the CC&Rs restricted
houses to be mobile homes, i.e., manufactured and trucked to the site.
A ham I knew lived here. The house belongs to his current live-in
woman friend, so in a sense he did not have much choice in the matter.
:-) There is no restriction on antennas on vehicles parked in the
driveway, so for VHF and UHF he ran cables out to the antennas on his
motorhome. For HF, he ran a long wire from the house to the detached
garage using very fine wire. While we were in his back yard, he
pointed it out to me from about 10 feet away, and I could not see it!

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:44:10 EST, "Michael J. Coslo"

wrote:
On Jan 25, 8:22 am, wrote:
What I mean is that if your job is at X and your spouse's job is at Y
and the decent schools are at Z, there's a practical limit on where yo
u
can live and not spend your entire life commuting. On top of that, mos
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people have definite money and time limitations.

And I suspect that they have a strong sense of "Right now!"

Sometimes "Right now" is imposed on people.

My brother-in-law worked for IBM, and he was promoted and transferred
every 3 years to a different state. (Inside IBM, the joke is that IBM
stands for "I've been moved!") IBM sold his old house for
him and paid
all of the expenses of buying a new house. But if he didn't buy right
away, he would lose out on these benefits in purchasing the new one.
My sister and he literally had 2 weeks to finalize their selection of a
new house in an unfamiliar city and sign the purchaseagreement.

I'd certainly try to negotiate needed time. If they only have two
weeks, I wonder if IBM has a whoops! clause. A person can have their
life turned into a train wreck by buying a house that turns into a
money pit, or is a a meth neighborhood, or the like. Otherwise it
makes a company that forces you do make such gambles a bit less
desireable to work for.

While this is veering off into OT territory, we all have choices. I
won't live in a antenna restricted neighborhood. I'd buy a house in
the countryside first, I'd rent and wait. In the end, it's all about
choices. For me, some things that I consider choices, other might
consider that it is something that they are mandated to do and that
they have no choice. That's pretty sad IMO, because I think that
people actually have more choices than they think they have.

But my hobbies are as important to me as my vocation, so I will live
in a place where I can enjoy Ham radio.
- 73 de Mike N3LI -