[HamiltonJay]

This is why you don’t buy property covered by an HOA... At least you don’t if you value your personal liberties more than your property values.... Or more accurately, you value your personal liberties more than your most nebby and pain in the arse neighbor values their “property values”..... or even more accurately, your most nebby and pain in the arse neighbor perceives of anything that may affect their property values, and their desire for conformity.

An HOA is the enforcement of the most insecure individuals viewpoint on your property... and you willingly signed up for the trip.

[cgbg]

I would never want to live in a HOA—but if someone goes there they should at least read the rules they signed up for....

[Yo-Yo]

This is why you don’t buy property covered by an HOA...

That's nigh unto impossible in upscale neighborhoods in Florida.

[DugwayDuke]

HamiltonJay wrote: “An HOA is the enforcement of the most insecure individuals viewpoint on your property... and you willingly signed up for the trip.”

You mean like my neighbor who hasn’t mowed his backyard in over 12 years? Or, who cleaned out the street gutters by shoveling the leaves into the center of the street? He is proud of the fact that he spent the night in jail for failing to mow his front and side yards. This is in a suburban neighborhood of homes worth close to $400k.

[SecondAmendment]

>This is why you don’t buy property covered by an HOA... At least you don’t if you value your personal liberties more than your property values

In principle I agree, but its impractical for most.

[natalie227]

We live in an HOA and before our current house lived in an HOA. Never a single problem. Never heard of a problem.
HOA’s keep out the trash. A sibling does not live in an HOA and his millenial neighbor cuts the grass maybe every 4 weeks, vehicles parked in the front lawn.

[AAABEST]

This is why you don’t buy property covered by an HOA... At least you don’t if you value your personal liberties..

Maybe YOU don't buy in HOAs, but keeping retards and trash out of our neighbothoods is nothing close to losing liberty, it enhances it.

My HOA doesn't have a truck rule save for commercial, but I'm happy to have standards. The subject of your article is some entitled bitch-boy with no legal leg to stand on.

[gitmo]

When I bought my home 32 years ago, I didn’t find out about the HOA until the end of the closing process. I didn’t know what an HOA was, but I finished closing.

If I had known what this HOA thing was, I would have walked away.