Posted on 04/21/2023 5:01:17 PM PDT by daniel1212
I lived under one for 2 decades. Never again.
They’re endemic where I live now, unless I wanted to move to the boonies, along with all the javelina, rattlers, scorpions, etc. No thank you.
I have said people need to start anti-HOAs.
These look like HOAs but they have no powers, expressly no way to amend their charters to add powers, no fees as well.
The only things the anti-HOA might do could be rules for a quarterly or so pot-luck picnic ... that way it did SOMETHING so if folks the street over started getting uppity you could say: no thanks, we actually have an HOA of our own.
It would be like incorporating a neighborhood so a nearby town couldn’t gobble it up.
Might as well rent an apartment or condo if one is considering an HOA.
The last thing I ever want is neighbors demanding or telling me to do ANYTHING. No way I’d ever buy into that.
We have one but it’s pretty low key...basically exists to keep the street lights going and maintain the landscaping at the entrance. I bought a small farm property about 90 minute drive from that house and spend 70% of my time there. Built a practice shooting range and shop building and no freaking building codes or neighbors that complain...paradise!
If you have a street that naturally isolates itself, like up against a state park of near meadows, I highly suggest it. We did keep a law firm on retainer on any and all matters. The same law firm who had two partners on our private gated street. It does somewhat limit resale base of buyers however. It appeals to folks who think different.
Hopefully as the bottom falls out of the housing market the douchebags in the HOAs will get some comeuppance. Like empty unsold properties bleeding developers dry.
I have never lived in an HOA development and have never lived in a condo, and never will.
These people will be the ones to turn us all in when the time comes.
I’d rather live along with the javelina (good eats, BTW), rattlers, scorpions, etc.
On the other hand you need to pick your neighbors. It becomes a legacy and word of mouth community. I've even had neighbors which shared a mansion with three other families. Several kitchens, 14 bedrooms, formal gardens with fountains, elevator, etc.... Always a babysitter and always a weekend party.
No problems with mine.
Never join an HOA. Never buy a house that already in an HOA. Little Hitlers. Its like high school and cliques and all that BS.
Your tagline...how do you know what a woman is?!? :)
One time about 15-20 years ago I started getting emails from a private email discussion group. It was a bunch of people in south Carolina and they were discussing, plotting and planning how to perform a coup against their HOA.
I wrote an email to the group, telling everyone that I wasn’t a resident of their community or even their state. And they were including me in their email discussion. As it turned out, the reason why I was getting their emails was because I shared the exact same username of one of the co-conspirators. But his email domain was email.com and mine was gmail.com. Somehow one of their administrators changed it. They changed it back and I stopped getting their emails.
I do not know how their anti-HOA coup turned out.
I am mystified why anyone would want to have an HOA. What purpose do they serve other than to control how you live in your own home?
I used to live in empe AZ. There wasn’t an HOA, but the socialists city council acted as if there were.
I had a home in one. After lots of bickering over 7 years, the homeowners voted 90:10 to eliminate the HOA. Been a lot more peaceful since then.
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