We don’t have HOAs in Europe, and why would the city complain?
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If anything, the landlord would complain, but I have high hopes they will never discover it. If they do, I made the whole contraption easy for me to remove (no tools needed!).
Why would they not? I’ve heard that Europe is extremely strict when it comes to altering the facade of your building; is that no longer the case?
I mean I’ve literally seen videos of garages in The Netherlands with the door being disguised as a normal wall with a window, to maintain the appearance of the original building. Am I wrong about this?
I guess what I meant mostly when such rules are imposed (your house can only look like this and that from the outside), they would come from a public administration like a city (like in my case) or regional government - not a private org like an HOA. Very probably associations like that exist everywhere in some shape or form, but I figure at least in my country they would have much less power because there tend to be just laws for that.
I meanr it’s very unlikely for the city government to complain about my windows because my building isn’t owned by them and it really looks very inconspicuous from the outside.
And I can’t think of a government department that goes around the city checking for ugly windows and writing them up like parking tickets. There is a construction police, but this is not the kind of thing they are watching for…
If that’s the case I’m genuinely surprised that the city/HOA isn’t complaining.
We don’t have HOAs in Europe, and why would the city complain? Edit: If anything, the landlord would complain, but I have high hopes they will never discover it. If they do, I made the whole contraption easy for me to remove (no tools needed!).
Why would they not? I’ve heard that Europe is extremely strict when it comes to altering the facade of your building; is that no longer the case?
I mean I’ve literally seen videos of garages in The Netherlands with the door being disguised as a normal wall with a window, to maintain the appearance of the original building. Am I wrong about this?
I guess what I meant mostly when such rules are imposed (your house can only look like this and that from the outside), they would come from a public administration like a city (like in my case) or regional government - not a private org like an HOA. Very probably associations like that exist everywhere in some shape or form, but I figure at least in my country they would have much less power because there tend to be just laws for that. I meanr it’s very unlikely for the city government to complain about my windows because my building isn’t owned by them and it really looks very inconspicuous from the outside. And I can’t think of a government department that goes around the city checking for ugly windows and writing them up like parking tickets. There is a construction police, but this is not the kind of thing they are watching for…
They exists for apartment complexes with individual owners, but it is not something the typical renter would have much experience with.