To all you ''Residentent Association'' Types !

mikemac1 · 29-05-2012 03:43PM

I remember reading there are apartment blocks in the USA where you have to be approved before you are allowed buy there. Your future neighbours will decide

Somewhere like Central Park Avenue in New York

So if you have the wrong background or are not "old money" you may get rejected by the other owners

Being Jewish for example may help you or hinder you, depends who already lives there and if they want you

Sleepy · 29-05-2012 03:48PM

Have to say I've no problem with that. Who wouldn't like to be able to prevent a bunch of scrotes from moving in next door?

mongdesade · 29-05-2012 03:50PM

In the same house the last 25 years...I maintain my property, keep it clean etc. & surrounding verges outside my home are mowed & kept in order...I keep myself to myself.

Don't know the neighbours, don't want to know the neighbours, although I respectfully acknowledge them in passing...don't even know the name of the street next to me, don't need too, I know where I live...

Residents association gives me a wide berth, I think the sight of me & my biker buddies drinking a few brews with all the bikes parked in my front drive of a weekend deters them from calling

PS I am respectful of the fact that my neighbours might not appreciate the sound of v-twin motorcycles arriving en-masse & accordingly ask the lads to arrive at a suitable hour & not to fire them up too early of a Sunday morning.

Placebo Effect · 29-05-2012 04:56PM

mongdesade wrote: »

In the same house the last 25 years...I maintain my property, keep it clean etc. & surrounding verges outside my home are mowed & kept in order...I keep myself to myself.

Don't know the neighbours, don't want to know the neighbours, although I respectfully acknowledge them in passing...don't even know the name of the street next to me, don't need too, I know where I live...

Residents association gives me a wide berth, I think the sight of me & my biker buddies drinking a few brews with all the bikes parked in my front drive of a weekend deters them from calling

PS I am respectful of the fact that my neighbours might not appreciate the sound of v-twin motorcycles arriving en-masse & accordingly ask the lads to arrive at a suitable hour & not to fire them up too early of a Sunday morning.

Hells Angels Irish Chapter HQ?

mongdesade · 29-05-2012 05:09PM

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Hells Angels Irish Chapter HQ?

Hell no, no association with those or any other 1% club

IvySlayer · 29-05-2012 05:25PM

stovelid wrote: »

I'm not from Lucan.

I can drop over with some baby pics and scones though.

I'm a Lucan head too :pac:

Our Association doesn't do much, BUT when someone wanted to convert a house near us into a apartment block opposite us we all rose up and lodged a protest to the Council!

Sea Filly · 29-05-2012 05:51PM

Sleepy wrote: »

We live in a similar size estate now ourselves and, tbh, if we weren't renting, I think I'd be having a go at setting up a similar residents association to the ones my mother would have been involved with when I was a child.

Slight bias there.

toexpress · 29-05-2012 06:04PM

I was nice to neighbours once, then they stole from me, threw paint over my car, hurled abuse at me, threatened to burn my house down, cost me thousands. But to be fair they proved why rent allowance people shouldn't be allowed in private estates

The OP is right keep your distance from neighbours

Sea Filly · 29-05-2012 06:12PM

toexpress wrote: »

But to be fair they proved why rent allowance people shouldn't be allowed in private estates

No they didn't.

toexpress · 29-05-2012 06:14PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

No they didn't.

Course they did! That sort should all be in one area of a town not allowed to mix with the rest of us that way when the rozzers need to execute a warrant they just head to Knackeragua saves time and resources in this financially tougher recession type days everyone keeps going on about

Pottler · 29-05-2012 08:59PM

I live on an estate too, I'm thinking of organising speedbumps to slow down traffic on the way in - Tradesmen appear to be going much too fast up my driveway and are scattering the gravel.

mattjack · 29-05-2012 09:16PM

Sleepy wrote: »

I think it's an awful shame people think this way tbh.

I was raised in a number of different estates and the Residents Associations were quite good when I was a kid: there'd be a clean-up day of the estate once or twice a year where all the kids would help pick up the litter whilst the adults did some landscaping on the common areas etc.; an annual children's party where they'd rent out a bouncy castle, fill us with coke and sweets and let us run riot and an annual barbeque for adults to get locked and get to know their neighbours.

It led to a sense of community, of knowing who your kids were playing with on the road and friendships between a lot of the neighbours.

I grew up into in one of those larger estates that had an RA that organised kids days out, summer projects etc, sports days.... there was approx 1000 houses in the estate.

Eventually the RA organised a football tournament between the various roads, even organising referees and jerseys etc.

The event ended with the GARDAI being called, various parents being ordered home and two arrests.

One of the best punch ups I ever did see....

To this day I can still see two ol' ones pullin' the hair out of each other with about 600 hundred kids eggin' them on.

Teyla Emmagan · 29-05-2012 09:45PM

I'm on the resident's association. And it's a thankless task a lot of the time, especially when you are going to meetings in a cold hall in the middle of winter. The same people end up doing everything because no matter how many times you ask, no one else will put their names forward. And there is a lot of tedious 'taking other people's opinions on board' stuff. But then you organise a community event that goes really well, or help a bunch of neighbours object to planning permission, or sort out illegal dumping and then it all seems worthwhile again.

And I am not looking to be best buddies, just to help make the area I live in as nice a place to be as possible.

Wiz are much maligned in the RA.

cafecreme · 29-05-2012 09:56PM

toexpress wrote: »

Course they did! That sort should all be in one area of a town not allowed to mix with the rest of us that way when the rozzers need to execute a warrant they just head saves time and resources in this financially tougher recession type days everyone keeps going on about

They are, its called south county Dublin-all of the criminals that are a scourge to decent society live there- reckless bankers, greedy barristers, corrupt politicians and senior civil servants-they even send their kids to the same schools. Unfortunately the good people who live there all get tarred with the same brush

coolchillie · 22-06-2012 08:55AM

Well said four18. Those who disagree are the same ones who sit in their own misery looking for something to complain about. I have them living next to me also.

To all you ''Residentent Association'' Types !

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