...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...
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.
Living in a place like that too, and I love the episodes of Frasier where he gets into it with the HOA. There are at least three episodes. One where he can’t change his door knocker. One where he is in a feud with the guy upstairs, Cam something, and Cam hangs a giant American flag over frasiers entire condo blocking his view, and the whole HOA is convinced to believe Frasier is unpatriotic.
And the funniest one is when his elderly dad is in trouble with the HOA and frasier thinks it’s because he’s always with is dog in the public areas, but it’s really because dad has been using the jacuzzi naked. Frasier’s speech in defense of his dad, not knowing the true “crime,” is LOL funny.
Stuff like “who can blame the man in his golden years taking out his little friend wherever he goes?” “We’re talking about a man’s best companion here people” “is it really so horrible when a man wants his little Eddie to play with?” Etc.