Restricting rights, how much is too much?

If you can pay $1 million for the place, you can afford the appropriate lawyers if there is a problem.

It is your land – do what you like..

Actually, I suspect that there are no bylaws relating to testing jet aircraft engines……..

beejay76 said :

As long as it is screened on all sides to a height of 2.1 metres and completely invisible to any and all other people on the estate.

Does the management plan have anything to say about erecting 2.1 metre high fences on your property?

I understand where rules like this come from, but personally I would prefer law *requiring* all houses to have a clothes line.

A quick look on Allhomes shows that houses out at that estate are starting at about $1,000,000 (only based on four places for sale, but I’d guess that the ‘cheap’ houses wouldn’t drop below $700,000 or so), so I’m not sure I’d go and compare the places there to hobby farms…I’m sure there would be plenty of residents who would be aghast at the thought of livestock in the area.

I’m sure that if you can afford to pay upwards of $1 million for a home, that building a drying area outside wouldn’t be beyond your means – and something made out of nice timber screening, with a few cm gap between the slats to allow airflow, would I’m sure get the job done just as well as if the hills hoist was plonked in the middle of the yard.

It’s not like there’s really and shortage of rural areas to buy into around Canberra, and if the restrictions at this place are too restrictive for a potential buyer, they’re not short of alternatives. It just sounds to me like whoever runs the estate has their target market firmly in mind, and they’re catering to them. I’d bet there are plenty of people who live there who bought at that location in part just because of rules like that.

My relos live at Weetalabh. Most residents seem to completely ignore those so-called rules.

It is my belief that real-estate agents make most of that stuff up so that the development will sound more exclusive and thereby command a premium.

beejay76 said :

georgesgenitals said :

Jumping to conclusions much?

My friend’s words, although I think it’s a fairly reasonable conclusion in most cases. Although with the minimum size of the houses, you could easily slap in a drying room next to the 4-car garage and pool room.

It was probably a bit of a snippy comment anyway.

😛

georgesgenitals said :

Jumping to conclusions much?

My friend’s words, although I think it’s a fairly reasonable conclusion in most cases. Although with the minimum size of the houses, you could easily slap in a drying room next to the 4-car garage and pool room.

astrojax said :

agree, georgesgenitals, but bedclothes and other bulky things are difficult for this solution – as is the idea of being able to air things, like blankets, etc…

What we have tended to do is do ‘regular’ washing during the week, and then do the bedclothes and stuff on weekends. We often put things on clothes horses in the loungeroom, and then open the windows and door (we have large windows on three sides of the room plus a security screen door), and find that this works pretty well while we’re home on the weekends.

However, there are only 3 of us in the family, so don’t have heaps of washing, and we’ve kinda developed this approach over a number of years. When we moved in to our house it was a brand new suburb with few houses built, so we got in the habit of drying washing inside to avoid the inevitable dust from nearby building sites.

If I was the OP, I would find a place to locate an outside washing line where it’s discreet and non-obvious, and simply hang the washing out there anyway.

Simple. You own, possession is nine tenths of the law, you dry your clothes wherever you like. Obviously not on the fence between you and the neighbour, but if you choose to put up a clothesline and dry your clothes on it, the chances of any member of the hoity toity brigade in your estate actually doing anything about are essentially, zero, and even if they act, what are they going to do? Seriously, what can they do? Think about it.

So, you brazenly dry your clothes, they seek to stop you brazenly and feloniously drying your clothes, and you agree to comply. The next time your clothes are hung out, they’re not drying, they’re on a field trip. The time after that, they’re at school of the outdoors. So then you get a legal notice that clothes are not to be visible in your grounds. Then youwander around buck naked to comply. And so on.

Stipulations such as this are basically meaningless against a determined person who wants to stand up for sensible Australian rights at home.

agree, georgesgenitals, but bedclothes and other bulky things are difficult for this solution – as is the idea of being able to air things, like blankets, etc…

as to the op, i guess the pertinent thing is tenants agreeing to these restrictions. that said, no clotheslines on a couple of acres because it might be unsightly seems a lot obnoxious and i’d probably not agree to move in…

“Residents are therefore forced to dry clothes in a dryer.”

Jumping to conclusions much? We don’t use our outside clothesline at all (never have), but rather hang our washing on fold out clothes horses inside in the sun.