Senate Bill 1588: Fencing Guideline for HOA’s

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Senate Bill 1588. There’s quite a few things contained within this to do with H0A, right? But what we’re going to discuss right now is what this has to do with just the fencing component. We’re going to break it down. So Senate Bill 1588 was passed last year. And it’s it was put forth in a way to regulate highways. It was felt that they had a little bit too much control. And thanks to realtors, they pushed this agenda and it got passed. So Senate Bill 1588 in whole is new laws for Texas homeowners. And he was right. So but right now we’re going to discuss just fencing, right. Because there are several items within it and we’ll hit them over the next couple of days. So, you know, a portion of this is about fencing. We’re going to take fencing out of this and talk about only the fencing. So homeowners anywhere in Texas will be allowed to put up a perimeter fence around their property for added security, front sides and or back of property. The whole thing. So before who was would regulate and say, hey, you can only have your fences. You know, they regulated the size, the height. And the materials. You can’t have it all the way up to distance. Of the home. It can only be, you know, it has to be five feet back. I mean, they had all these specifics regarding fencing, so now they all go away. And the only thing that he was will be able to control is the material of it. So this is for added security. This isn’t for privacy, it’s for security only. So, okay, so let’s talk about that because it appears like now the front of the property, right. So is what’s in question for the most part. So that’s that’s really interesting because it specifically states that he was cannot restrict it. So a new fence or gate around the front of the driveway, front yard is allowed. So can you imagine if around the front yard there’s a fence and say you have a front entry, that you have the gate like we have in the back of our house, we gate off the whole back yard, including our driveway, that if people did that in the front, I think. Well, now it becomes more European because over there they have a lot of these like perimeter walls they do. Around their property. You can’t even really see the homes. You can’t see the home at all really. And they have like a ten foot brick wall around their house. I don’t know that I am all on board for for this. I understand the security part of it, but I don’t know, I guess if they regulate it by material that you can have the iron gate. Right. But I was also thinking about the height. How high can this be? Can it be as tall as your home? So I do think that they’re city and county guidelines, right. If you are in a not in an unincorporated area, but if you are in the city limits, then you have city guidelines. And I think the cities enforce the height. But there were some subdivisions that said you can only do a six foot fence, not. In a not an eight foot. It was like so you can almost see in some. That was a weird thing, right? I don’t think people really liked that into the yard. But this isn’t about privacy. This is only addressing security. So you guys just want to and then as it goes on just a little bit more, it talks about things around the pool. And so do you want. To they’re allowed to install a perimeter fence around their pool, as well as security cameras and motion sensors on the property without prior approval. So you don’t need approval for that. It’s just the perimeter around their their property that you do still have to seek approval from your HOA for the material only though that’s the only that’s the only input they can, they can give or restriction that they can give. So you can’t put security cameras outside of your property, which I don’t know. Maybe I don’t know how you would put how you would be allowed to put a camera outside your property. Well, think about this. What if. Behind our house. We have an alley. Yes. And there’s a little grassy area right there and there’s tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realestatenewstv/message