[Huntress]

This kind of stuff is why I avoid properties with homeowners’ or condo associations. The leadership positions in these organizations attract a disproportionate number of control freak busybody types who have nothing better to do than tell their neighbors whether they can fly a flag, what kind of flowers they can plant, what color they can paint their front doors, or other such things.

[goldstategop]

To maintain a uniform external appearance, changes are not allowed unless every one agrees to make them. If you like doing your own thing and not answering to others, you're better off living in a traditional single family home.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[MichiganCheese]

This is what hall monitors do when they grow up.

[DemonDeac]

“This kind of stuff is why I avoid properties with homeowners’ or condo associations. The leadership positions in these organizations attract a disproportionate number of control freak busybody types who have nothing better to do than tell their neighbors whether they can fly a flag, what kind of flowers they can plant, what color they can paint their front doors, or other such things.”

My mother is getting on in years and lives in a place like that. They literally had a guy from the board stepping into peoples yards with a digital camera snapping pictures of any kinds of statuary and flower pots. Virtually everything in that neighborhood seems to be illegal.