Oh, for eff sake, don’t EVER buy a condo with an HOA!! Good times or bad, you’re buying into a little tyrannical feifdom which is usually protected and supported by even worse state laws! Plus, if you ever get hit with a “Special Assessment”, it takes years, if ever, to get rid of it. Single family homes with HOAs can obviously be pestersome, but they are usually more reasonable - and far less abusive and communistic.
“Oh, for eff sake, don’t EVER buy a condo with an HOA!! “
It would seem all condos come with an HOA.