[familyop]

Don’t fall for the lies. Buyers have no choice in some vast areas. It’s either buy a house in one of the many developments with developers’ associations (started by the developers of the developments), or be one of their renters that they perceive as being trashy slaves to be spied upon, abused and robbed.

The so-called “contracts” are automatic and only desired by the few who use them to rob others. Those who like their developers’ associations feel that they have the right to control everyone else’s land. If they want to control all that they see, they should buy at least thousands of acres with their own money.

Developers’ associations should be outlawed and abolished. They’re communistic. Neighbors should mind their own business and stop helping the Lawyer Party creeps at robbing others.

[Albion Wilde]

One of the reasons HOAs or community associations have arisen is that we are not on the wild frontier any more, and the entire thrust of the civil rights movement has made it impossible for people to group together by background any more, so community has broken down. When I was a kid in the 50s, all the kids in our neighborhood went to the same school and a handful of churches and synagogues. Everybody knew lots of people in more ways than just living nearby. Now, there is nothing tying people together, especially when developers throw up a new subdivision and people with nothing in common flock in. One of the brand-new communities we moved into had no land whatsoever anywhere for a church to buy -- the nearest churches were fifteen-twenty minutes away by car, if those were among the ones you would want to attend -- there was no community hall of any kind in walking distance.

A community association is a lame substitute for family history and family ties in an area, but it's some kind of organizing principle.