New House with NO HOA?

[scarmig]

Your real estate agent should easily be able to locate communities without an HOA. If they won't, you need a new agent. That was also my requirement when building a new home, and my agent's only warning is that property values may not hold as well over time.

But I bought without an HOA. Instead we have an all voluntary community association that sets up garage sales and events for the neighborhood and the citizens on patrol unit. And if a house gets really, really ugly, there's community pressure that can be brought to bear, failing that, local ordinance. So, all the benefits of an HOA, without the petty wanna-be politicians.

[fratermus]

HOAs are evil, as in "froo-its of the deh-ville". Playgrounds for busybodies, control freaks, and xenophobes. IMO, of course.

When housebuying we specifically looked for:
1. well-maintained neighborhoods
2. with no HOA

Our neighborhood is wonderful; no coercion required.

[LQQKOUT]

Originally Posted by fratermus

HOAs are evil, as in "froo-its of the deh-ville". Playgrounds for busybodies, control freaks, and xenophobes. IMO, of course.

When housebuying we specifically looked for:
1. well-maintained neighborhoods
2. with no HOA

Our neighborhood is wonderful; no coercion required.

I agree a hundred million percent, HOA are control freaky people
That have nothing better to do then police your home. My home holds it's value just fine without a HOA. The differance between the HOA and my neighborhood is that the HOA have more bank owned properties then my establish neighborhood. And there is NO, I mean NO homes forsale in my neighborhood.

So I don't see how HOA have better home values.

[mcl8991]

There are a lot of great established communities without HOA hassles... I would recommend finding the community that you like and finding a vacant lot or even buying a house to tear down, then you can build new... great neighborhood, old growth trees, no HOA! and you can usually tell if the neighborhood is heading up or down! What is your budget?

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by concertmate

The term planned community always reminds me of the movie "the Stepford Wives."

Frisco always reminds me of that movie.

[ChristieP]

Originally Posted by fratermus

HOAs are evil, as in "froo-its of the deh-ville". Playgrounds for busybodies, control freaks, and xenophobes. IMO, of course.

When housebuying we specifically looked for:
1. well-maintained neighborhoods
2. with no HOA

Our neighborhood is wonderful; no coercion required.

I totally agree!!! We also looked for a house in a nice neighborhood with no HOA, and we're very happy with our decision. Our neighborhood is really nice, the neighbors are friendly and everyone does a great job of keeping up their homes. We don't need an HOA telling everyone what to do!

I read in the Grapevine Courier today that there were only *7* foreclosures in Grapevine so far this year. And the average selling price in Grapevine was just over $250k.