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Seems as if everyone just complains about how horrid and awful the HOA is, and the people that run it. Do you think the HOA should be completely abolished? And if it was, what do you think would be the consequences?
Seems as if everyone just complains about how horrid and awful the HOA is, and the people that run it. Do you think the HOA should be completely abolished? And if it was, what do you think would be the consequences?
Abolish yours. Many people want HOAs, and it would be unfair to abolish theirs.
If you own your own home you should be allowed to do whatever you want with it, no one should be able to say what you do with it.
There are probably 15 multi-page threads on this very topic. Why are you starting another one?? There isn't going to be "new" information or ideas.
People either have your viewpoint (which is valid) or people see the value in HOAs (which is also valid). The important thing is that no one has to buy a house with a HOA attached if they don't want to. It is all a matter of choice. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
If you own your own home you should be allowed to do whatever you want with it, no one should be able to say what you do with it.
i would disagree .... that is just why many do like hoa's ... you can have say and recourse when it comes to those around you who do things not in everyone's best interest
They need oversight of a strong nature. While the idea has merit, when a rogue group gets in charge such that a residents only recourse is to sue, the entire concept represents a power grab. Sounds impossible but some are like that, particularly older ones where voting is hidden, and there are quiet agendas to determine who can happily live there.
i think most people in hoa's tend to find the hoa transparent to their lives ..
people say the same thing about co-op boards ... sure there are some that can be awful but i have to say i have owned more than a dozen co-ops in my life both as my residence and as an investor and pretty much found them to be transparent to our lives ..we found the same thing when we had a 2nd home in an hoa in the poconos ...
usually the ones with issues are the ones trying to do something they shouldn't because of the effect on others .
we were recently down in florida and looked in to a huge hoa ... 130,000 residents , 40 square miles of development and they still are selling 2400 homes a year ... so you likely have a lot of people who like an hoa structure .
If you own your own home you should be allowed to do whatever you want with it, no one should be able to say what you do with it.
Have you heard of zoning, environmental regulations, eminent domain, appearance standards, health department standards, construction permitting, etc?
There are tons of restrictions on what one can do with their home in most jurisdictions.
At least owning in an HOA community is a voluntary choice.
Don't want yours? Go to work and have it abolished, instead of suggesting an across the board termination of mutual agreements between multiple willing parties.
HOAs are meritless, IMHO, and I don’t see the appeal of paying additional money for the “privilege” of letting someone dictate even more about what you can/can’t do with your house.
Would I want them abolished? Nope. All I have to do is say that a house in an HOA is a non-starter for me, and I’ll never have to deal with it.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that HOA's are established by builders before a community is built along with the rules and covenants, they don't just show up after the fact. They are highly regulated by the states that they exist in, but those regulations vary state to state and sometimes county by county or city by city. When one buys into an HOA or COA it would be known that it exists before closing.
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