Anyone Live in Adams Farm?

Cherokeekid88

Cherokeekid88

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Thinking about moving over to Adams farm. We drove around there last night and it looks like a really cool area....lots of trees and is a well established community. Not too crazy about the HOA fees, but all the houses def have alot of character...anyone live over in that area or know anyone that does? How do you/they like it? drawbacks? positives?
 
There use to be some good area to ride dirt bikes and go wheeling behind one neighborhood in Adams Farm. I use to take my dirt bike over to my buddies house who lived there. That has been many years ago. I think development has killed that fun.
 
The HoA use to be a pain in the ass....that was 98-00. Had a buddy that lived there and they would always bust his balls about too many cars, grass not perfect etc etc.
 
snappy said:
The HoA use to be a pain in the ass....that was 98-00. Had a buddy that lived there and they would always bust his balls about too many cars, grass not perfect etc etc.
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The same buddy told me the HOA sucked. His friend up the street couldn't keep his jet ski in his driveway. He had to put it behind a fence in his back yard.

The guy across the street put up his own fence, and the HOA complained that he didn't do a good job. The guy had to pay to have it rebuilt.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
As long as the HoA keeps people from letting their house go to chit...Im good. Now if they start complaining about little stuff....
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They will and do.. I will break it the way I saw it back in the day... Adams farm was set up as the new "it" place for the people that didn't have the big money homes but wanted to act like snobs and uptights. Unless it has changed alot, kiss having a taged wheeler goodbye. They tried to control how tall the grass was, how your fence should look, how friends you can have over(number of cars in the drive even for a dinner gathering etc etc), heck my buddy even got a letter because his kids wrote on the his sidewalk(not the one at the road but the one at his door step) with chalk. He was always having to defend his actions at HOA meetings and the head guy was power tripping.

I lived in a neighborhood about 2 miles from there.
 
We looked at it. When the development was started it was nice. but it has progressively become more and more dark with little homies walking around with their pants half down. hate to sound racist, but that was a big turn off to me.

My personally opinion of the homes themselves are they are a neighborhood or quick built stick homes. some people like them, I prefer a more solid built home. actually I prefer a Farm house with land, but that's a different housing idea all together.

I don't think you have kids to worry about schools, but I don't think that's a good school district which would only concern you for resale purposes.
 
hmmm.. we drove through there last night and honestly...it wasnt dark at all. more dim then anything :) Might have to have a talk with some of the neighbors...we are scheduled to look at 3-4 houses either tonight or tomorrow. I really like how the houses are not right on top of eachother and all the trees...which I know can potentially be a bad thing...but I just hate all these newer developments with no trees and all the houses look the same.
While I agree with not having an HOA...i think they can be helpful in just letting people do stupid stuff to their house that brings down the value of others peoples home. I will talk to our realtor and see how she feels about the HOA over there.
 
well 3 of the houses we are looking at have Masonite siding...I am not that familiar with it, other than its a cheaper alternative to vinyl and needs more upkeep....what are you guys' opinion on Masonite? run away or is good if you maintain it?
 
scotty6336 said:
"You mean to tell me there's an association that exists only to tell me what I can and can't do on my own property?..AND I PAY THEM FOR IT??!!!"

I'd NEVER move anywhere with a HOA....
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The HOA doesn't tell you what you can and can't do, the developer is the one to blame. When he sets up the development, he builds covenants and files them with the Register of Deeds. So, you should be more frustrated with the developer, not the HOA. The HOA is merely ther to ensure the covenants are abided by and that the "common" property is maintained. However, once the HOA puts new covenants on the books, then yes, they do tell you what you can and can't do.

Hell, I don't want my neighbor to paint their house bright pink and have 14 llamas in the back yard grazing. The covenants and HOA keeps this from happening in a residential neighborhood.
 
rockcity said:
Hell, I don't want my neighbor to paint their house bright pink and have 14 llamas in the back yard grazing. The covenants and HOA keeps this from happening in a residential neighborhood.
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I honestly don't care if my neighbor wants to paint their house bright pink and have 14 llamas, that's why I bought enough land that I don't have to see them!
 
When we were house shopping in 96-97, our realtor told us there was some shoddy construction going on there. Honestly though, in hindsight, I think all strip builders are gonna cut the same corners. We still looked at a few there, I can't remember what we didn't like, why we didn't buy there.

I have also heard HOA horror stories from a few co-workers. The key to an acceptable HOA, is to keep the neighborhood small so you don't end up with the possibility of being outnumbered by too many people. I've lived in 2 HOA's and had some junk laying around. I know if I was in Adams Farm (huge HOA), someone would've anonymously complained about something, resulting in a few notices. When they are smaller, the rules don't seem to be as tightly followed, people know each other and complain face-face.

I also miss "hearing stories" about people wheeling that land. It was a convenient place to get a quick fix or test some new mods.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
well 3 of the houses we are looking at have Masonite siding...I am not that familiar with it, other than its a cheaper alternative to vinyl and needs more upkeep....what are you guys' opinion on Masonite? run away or is good if you maintain it?
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Masonite is shit. Masonite doesn't tolerate getting wet. It's just a press board, so once it gets wet, it swells and disintegrates. In an exterior application, the paint is the only thing keeping it together. If you buy a house with Masonite siding, make sure that you're getting enough of a discount on the price so that you can afford to replace all the Masonite with Hardie.

But for the record, I wouldn't want to own a house with vinyl siding, either. It fades, it's flammable as hell, and it's easily damaged.
 
Be prepared to not be able to work on your rig in your driveway if you buy in that neighborhood.
 
Don't trust that Realtor.....do the research on the property yourself. You might have a good one, but most of them are sharks circling for a sale.
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
Don't trust Realtors
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FIFY.

Don't believe ANYTHING that ANY realtor tells you. Ever. Realtors have no liability, so they can and will tell you anything to make the sale and get their commission.
 
We are actually looking at one of the houses in Adams farm tonight.....we road by it on Saturday and got out and looked at it...then siding "looked" brand new....now I am no Masonite expert...but it looks really nice and clean....my realtor did say that he needs to be repainted like every 5 years or so....Now I am really second guessing even wasting my time going to look at that house....corner lot..nice grass...exterior looks very upkept..new roof, ac unit, and new deck....has alot of things going for it...just don't know about that masonite and the HOA in adams farm.
 
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