I don’t understand why so many people buy in HOA communities, having not read the rules. In Arizona, we’ve lost money on our house, after one slum house led to many more. Next, we’re going to try to move into an HOA, in the hopes of things being tidier and more orderly. Already, we’re meeting new homeowners there who neither know nor care about the HOA rules. Did they not all have to read what was attached to their deeds, and in many states, have to initial each rule?
In Oklahoma we make buyers sign a disclosure stating that you are aware of and have read the HOA covenant of restrictions. I understand persons not wanting to be subject to HOA restrictions. I get it and it is a free country and there is plenty of property not subject to those type of restrictions. But yeah, I don’t get people who buy real property subject to those type of restrictions and then get torqued about them.