Posted on 02/15/2015 9:08:46 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Using Agitprop and elements of the Delphi propaganda method (3), lethal Home Owners Associations (HOAs) are moving north out of huge Miami-Fort Lauderdale territories up along Florida’s I-95 corridor to take over more and more personal property rights of unsuspecting homeowners in gated, HOA communities. And the effects are not pretty! “Resetting the default position. . .exploits the structure of the choice to encourage a more desirable option,” says Cass R. Sunstein, author of the book NUDGE. (1) Employed by the Obama Administration as a regulatory czar, it was Sunstein’s job to have the American people do what the government wanted them to do, all the while believing it was actually their own idea!
A heuristic is a term applied to getting a student or other type of governmental human unit to do what government wants them to do by programing certain choices involving quick decisions and empirical thought processes rather than theory based decision. Most conservatives should be quite aware of the United Nations inspired Agenda 21, Seven/50 attempts to take over private property of unsuspecting Americans. ”Choice Architecture,” a devastating term developed by Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler, is defined this way: “…If you want a person to reach a desirable outcome and you can’t change the heuristic she’s following, then you have to meddle with the choice architecture, setting up one that when matched with the given heuristic delivers the desirable (for govt) outcome,” writes the former Obama czar. (2) Nudging HOA residents along the path of cessation of private property rights plays into big government agendas!
Remnants of Agenda 21 are destroying the peace of neighborhoods and towns in South Florida. All along the coast, citizens and local governments are being traumatized by the All Aboard Florida project that seeks to run at least 32 trains...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Anyone who has lived in an HOA neighborhood understands the petty politics involved, sometimes the absurd rules - and there’s almost one “narc” who thinks their job is to spy on the neighbors to make sure they’re not adding a non approved deck or keeping their boat in the driveway too long or whatever.
On the other hand, it is 100% voluntary to live in an HOA neighborhood - and they do keep odd ball houses from ruining everyone’s property value.
But not a gov/political issue.
I live where there is a HOA, and never again.
Bingo. To say this article is convoluted is an understatement.
and here is the lovely Czarina of Nudge....
Maya Shankar is a senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Her mandate is to supervise the organization of a federal government ‘nudge squad’ that will subtly change the behaviors of bureaucrats — and the rest of us. The book ‘Nudge’ has become a bible for advocates of ‘choice architecture’ decision-making in government. (Engineering Evil)
We’re looking for a vacation/future retirement home in Vegas. It’s extremely difficult to find homes not in HOAs. I just won’t have it.
...and the great thing about liberty is that we are all free to live in a non HOA property or an HOA property. I have had an HOA in one of the last three homes I’ve lived in - and we were pretty lucky. Not too bad, but I’ve heard horror stories.
There was even a Frasier episode based on this...
Don’t buy or live in a HOA neighborhood.
If enough people don’t do this, developers will not create them because they will not sell houses.
Ahhhhhh....the trials and tribulations of living with other people. Lawyers make a good living off those trials and tribulations.
I’ll never forget the instructor in the class I had to take to get a gun permit. He was talking about guns in homes, etc. and mentioned he lived in a condo. “Kind of like socialism” he said with a weary expression.
Condos and HOAs are petri dishes for neighborhood tyrannies. If you get decent, level-headed people in management, fine. If you get liberal busybodies who have never had power before, watch out. They will want to spend your money and micromanage your use of your own property. The stories I’ve heard from people have convinced me to avoid them.
Valid - but there horror stories the other way too...people painting their houses pink and purple, or keeping 4-5 cars on the yard, etc - the kind of thing that can also drain 10s of thousands of dollars from your home equity. It's a case by case thing for me.
OTOH, without a HOA, you can wind up living next door to someone with a washing machine in the front yard or with people sacrificing goats in the backyard. And don’t think that the police will help - they hate getting involved with this stuff - and don’t think that just living in a “good, upper-income” neighborhood protects you from this either.
When people want to live in a nice neighborhood cheek-to-cheek, an HOA can help. The HOA can enforce rules that help everyone’s property values.
I was in one where there was no common property & the homes were spread out. After 6 years of HOA fights, we voted to disband the HOA by an 85:15 margin.
When my wife and I first met, she liked them because you could keep from living next to a neighbor with his RV parked out front. From my perspective I said that I would NEVER live in one because I value my OWN freedom too much.
We’re now in agreement. We live next to a guy in a dilapidated single wide, but it’s ok since he’s 500 yards away and 80 feet down in the valley. We don’t see it.
I can’t imagine living in a neighborhood where my neighbors can tell me what color to paint my house.
After 30 years in the mortgage industry as an underwriter, corporate exec and mortgage broker I have counseled people a million times about HOA’s. Just make sure you know what you are getting into before buying in a community with an HOA. There are good points and bad points. Personally I would never ever even consider it.
The Republicans hire Political Scientists. The Democrats hire Sociologists and Psychologists. The Political Scientists can tell you how many Republicans are in each block. The Sociologists and Psychologists can tell you how to get people to vote Democrat. The Republicans can look at the thermometer and tell you the temperature in a room. The Democrats build a fire or open the window to heat or cool the room. The Republican Party “observes”. The Democrat Party “acts”. Which one has a future?
“OTOH, without a HOA, you can wind up living next door to someone with a washing machine in the front yard or with people sacrificing goats in the backyard.”
That is what the pro-HOA folks said when we disbanded the HOA. 3 years later, there are no polka-dot houses, no washing machines in the front yard (zoning violation) and no one has offered any goats as a sacrifice to anyone.
Lots of folks HAVE spent money fixing up their homes or yards, though. It is easier to do than when the HOA BOD used the “Anything goes for people we like, and nothing goes for people we dislike” rule of approving upgrades...
well yes, I mentioned that other hand.
So the purpose of an HOA is to control what other people do on their own property. Got it.
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