Can an HOA in Az limit the cars you can own. Cars must be in the garage overnite, we have 3 cars/2 car garage?

Question

I live in AZ in a community ruled by an HOA. The HOA does not allow vehicles to be parked outside of the garage overnite. We own three cars and have a two car gargage. They tell me since I have a two car garage I can only own two cars. They said I should expand the garage (impossible) or sell the car ( which I need). In the meantime, I'm facing fines for non-compliance. Do they have that power?

Answer 1

Thechnically, they aren't banning you from owning a third car, they're just blocking you from stoing it within the neighborhood but outside your garage. Your situation is a classic example of market economics. You have a few choices, each of which will cost you something.

You can sell a car, which you claim you need a third car (I assume you have three people working in the household). You'll have to evaluate what that third job brings in vs. the cost of the fines and the additional income from selling the third car.

You can expand the garage, which is expensive so you go through the same cost-benefit analysis as above (is the expanded garage worth the additional income of the third worker?)

You could find someone (neighbor) with a two-car garage and only one car, and offer to rent from him for some amount less than the fines.

You could store the third car outside the neighborhood. The HOA doesn't restrict how many cars you can own, it just restricts how many cars you can store in their neighborhood.

Answer 2

They do have the right sadly they do. You sign something acknowledging the CC&R's when you move into a community w/an HOA. By signing that you are saying that you agree to their assine rules. I have heard HOA's limiting cars before, they can send notice when your grass is not kept up, or anything really that is in the "rules"....that is why I will never live in another HOA run community.

Answer 3

If you signed the HOA agreement, then you are stuck with the conditions that they set in it. This is why it pays to ALWAYS read documents thoroughly before signing them.

Answer 4

Yes they do have that power. You signed a legal agreement when you purchased/leased/rented the property.

Answer 5

maybe you can rent space from one of your neighbors