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Why read what you agree to, Uncle Sam will make it all right.

Homeowner's Associations walk like a local government and quack like a local government, they just aren't considered a local government. Local governments are bound by the Bill of Rights in regulating your free speech, pseudo-governments are not.

My fear with Homeowner's Associations are that they will, over time, expand to cover nearly all the livable space so that you pretty much will get one wherever you go. They then become a non-government government restricting you outside the Bill of Rights.

Imagine if all the neighborhoods in the nation were under a Homeowner's Association....and all of them restricted firearms to live there. Yes, the governments would have no ability to make you give up your weapon, but in order to live in a house anywhere you would have to sign that right away.

They should be treated as pseudo-governments since they are citizens of an area voting to tell other citizens in the area how to live. They should be bound by the Bill of Rights just like any other.

Mark wrote:
Why read what you agree to, Uncle Sam will make it all right.

What's happened is that in some areas, the ONLY HOMES YOU CAN AFFORD are part of a homeowner's association, which may or may not be dominated by left-leaners, as Jan suggests, but which certainly are dominated by control freaks who have nothing better to do than to play power trips on their neighbors.

It was only by the grace of God what my husband and I managed to avoid being forced to buy in a homeowners ass'n neighborhood, otherwise my husband and likely me, too, would no doubt be in jail for manslaughter or at least aggravated assault!! Here in So. Cal., a huge majority of single family homes (especially ones built within the last 10 years) and virtually all condos require that residents belong to, pay dues for, and adhere to often ridiculous rules of homeowners associations. It's not that people willingly agree to it, it's that for all practical purposes, they don't have a choice. I DESPISE homeowner's associations. They squelch originality and creativity and foster absurdly arrogant levels of intolerance and nosiness.