For the last last few years I have been working on my layout, but with much regerts, I have to take my layout down. My HOA company recently changed and they are going to be enforcing the no street parking rule that has been on the books, yet not enforced for the almost 11 years that I have lived in Arizona. We have to move another car into the garage so we can get our Daughter’s car out of the Street. Fortunately, Playa Desnuda is easy to move, and all structures and trees are not permanently attached. I can still set up my layout and and run trains. Now if I could only convince the wife to let me set it up in the house…where the cats and kids won’t mess with them.
That's a bummer but hopefully you can get some quality real estate in the climate controlled environment!
One of the reason I never have lived anywhere there is a HOA and never will. Hopefully though we will continue to watch the electrics being built.
Two of the neighborhoods where I was resident had gatherings about forming an HOA. Both were soundly voted down.
We have an HOA in our neighborhood and one facet of their governance that I'm appreciative of is architectural review, which assures that your neighbor doesn't paint his house in polka dots with purple roof shingles or doesn't park derelict cars in his yard. In a large subdivision, there's always a nut or two who do such things. This helps to retain property values, which helps everyone …. except the nuts.
Sorry to hear of you loosing your layout John, I know how much you have worked on it and have enjoyed following your progress. Hopefully you will be able to restart it at some point in the future.
I hope so too. The Playa Desnuda has become a fixture here and I've always enjoyed watching bremner's progress on it. I so admire his detailed planning, his roster, his study of the prototype and the resulting scratchbuilt structures -- it's modeling in its most traditional form and proof that fun can be had with layouts of any size.
Wow, thanks for the compliment. Playa Desnuda is more in hiatus, and I am going to try to convince the wife that I need to set it up in the loft....
I don't post often, but visit just about every day and have really enjoyed seeing your layout & work. I really like the concept too! I hope you can reestablish it in a different location and look forward to seeing more in the future!
thanks, I am planning on waiting until the holidays pass and try to set it up again in the loft...after the Christmas tree comes down.
