[Alberta's Child]

But the notion of an HOA is neither inherently good or bad with respects to rights. It’s case by case.

In some states I'd say the notion of an HOA is inherently bad. This would include any state where the laws governing HOAs are so flawed that they expose homeowners in these organizations to legal risks that they may have never anticipated when they bought their homes.

[C. Edmund Wright]

But that’s a flaw in the STATE, not in the concept of HOA’s in general.

[Albion Wilde]

In some states I'd say the notion of an HOA is inherently bad. This would include any state where the laws governing HOAs are so flawed that they expose homeowners in these organizations to legal risks that they may have never anticipated when they bought their homes.

And that's why people should have an attorney go over their settlement documents. I am a very middle-class homeowever, but even when I was young and starting out before the days of liberal fascism, I always had a lawyer when I bought a property.