HOA first meetings....

Woke up to a man's voice outside the tent saying, 'Hello'. I asked who it was. When he replied, "Don Geist", I had to do a quick mental calculation as to whether I wanted to be confrontational (Get off my land!) or pleasant.... First impressions that is with the HOA President. LOL  Opted to be pleasant this time. Show him around my build site. Tell him who I was, my plans, how I am going about it, etc.

He was concerned. Attempting to inform me regardless of it being a permit exempt structure,  'ALL' buildings must be run by/approved from the Architectural Committee. Hmm. Ok.

I gave him my hand-drawn version of the 'Work Shed'. After explaining it a bit. Metal roof, colors, blue beetle killed pine siding, whatnot. He took it to a meeting.

Leaving me to ponder what I would do should it not be approved. ( I was thinking of going for an RV and just park that on the plot! In spite of course. ;-) )

After returning to my tent a couple hours later, only to find my piece of paper weighted down by a few rocks. Proudly stating 'Approved - Don Geist' in the corner.

Game on!

I think my cute shed drawing won the board over. The fact it doesn't look like a crap-shed helps.