How about flags and signs? I and neighbors are repeatedly harassed for political signs and flags.
Depends on the state; each state is different.
In Texas, political signs are allowed 90 days before an election and 10 days after.
American, Texas, and branches of the military flags are allowed. Can’t be on common area, can’t be tattered or stained, and must meet certain size restrictions.
That is state statute; doesn’t matter what your governing documents say.
My HOA doesn’t say anything about democrat signs, just non-democrat signs. That’s because a fascist-dem pseudo lawyer threatened to sue if the HOA made him take down his Bribem sign.
The test of any HOA is the commitment of the board members to uphold the rules. Our current board is too lazy to do anything. Most of them live on one street where most of the homes are worth over $1M, but it’s also the street with the most dead yards. No skin off my nose if they are willing to chop $250K off their home’s value just to avoid offending some lazy A-hole that let’s his house go to pot.
Most of the houses in my end of the HOA are worth between $600K and $900K, but all our yards are kept up. We have some scofflaws, but generally most follow the rules. Like the one that says cars up on blocks in the front yard must be less than 50% rust and held up by white cinder blocks.
Anyone moving into a HOA deserves every horrible thing they get and double. People of today are blind and cannot see.
Ours only allow American flag and POW Flags. We have 2800 single family homes. It works. We also have to ask for any changes. But it actually is to our benefit when you move because they have a file they can show potential buyers that shows all the maintenance done. It can add to the overall value of the home.
In my former neighborhood, only Democrat signs were allowed. If you put a Republican one, you got notified. If you pointed out all the Democrat signs, you got ignored.