I’m fine with my HOA. They mostly help to keep our hamlet looking tidy by not letting people park their “stuff” in the front of the house, aka RV’s, boats, trailers. If your fence is broken down they make you fix it. You can’t paint your house pink. You can’t rebuild your engine or leave your “project” car up on blocks in your driveway. You can’t park a car in the street regularly as this might interfere with EM vehicles and the snow plow (almost every house has at least parking enough for 4 cars though many people use their garage for something other than parking a car, but that’s their problem, not mine). They stop folks from “open space creep” with their fence lines and their backyard playgrounds and fire pits. And you can’t leave your garbage cans in the front of the house.
All for $25/mo.
I guess my point is I like a nice looking neighborhood - it keeps the value up.
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And you have the have an HOA approved enclosure for your garbage cans,
(built of proper materials and painted the correct color) whether empty
or full, to hide them from view on the side or back of the house, etc., etc…
And don’t even ask what the canoe registration sticker costs per year.
And hey, you might be able to hide your unlicensed canoe under the big bushes
for a year or two, but they will eventually find it and issue you a fine.
If people want to live with such trivial absurdities that’s their problem…