[No Socialist]

HOA’s are highly regulated in Florida. It’s nearly impossible for a few to have total control and dictatorship unless no one else bothers to get involved or know what’s going on.

HOA’s are not for everyone. People who don’t want to follow the rules to look elsewhere to live.

HOA’s have their advantage if managed properly. No junkers, no messy landscape, security, a path to deal with disruptive, noisy neighbors.

Of course the downside is always that the busy bodies always seem to gain power.

[palmer]

HOA's are also regulated in Virginia. The people who complain are mostly in the suburbs where they micromanage exterior detail so every unit looks exactly the same. But that's what they bought into. Our here in the country the HOA can also be a nuisance but only for flagrant violators. The right way to deal with them in Virginia is to insist on due process. It will cost you to hire an attorney, but it's the right way to keep them in check.

People should not assume they can just ignore them. Most of the problems arise because people just ignored the letters.