HOA’s are socialist in nature. What they are doing is normal behavior for them. That doesn’t make it less grievous for freedom lovers.
We’ve got a lake association but it only has around 30 members and has been pretty hands off. Mostly it just collects money to pay for spraying weeds during the summer.
Yes and no.....My first year in my condo assoc. I was talked into joing the board.
Everyone on the board was cool except for one old fart who was probably a nazi......He would complain about everything. Fortunately that was his last year on the board, nobody voted for him the following year.
All it takes is one busybody who has nothing to do but drive around the complex day in and day out looking for violations and the board has to take appropriate action as defined in the association bylaws.
Personally, I don't have any problems with a homeowners association and believe the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
why anyone would want to live in a HOA /gated community is beyond me.
Why live in a place where the outside of your house is dictated to?
Why live in a place where every mail box is the same.
Down here the new thing for those snow birds coming to FL is to have the two palm trees in the front garden , a smalkl piece of grass that is.
Snotty nosed neighbors who complain because a boat might be in the drive way or even a 200,000 motor home.
There is hardly a drive way and I see no point what so ever that I buy a house but I have to ask permission to put a fence in the front.
If you had a renter in a room in your house, and the rental agreement gave them limited access to your kitchen, and you came home one day and found they had installed a new refrigerator in the middle of the room because there wasn’t enough room in your frig, would you say “well, that’s freedom for you”, or would you enforce the contract that you signed with them?