you are correct....
....I think I would rather die than either live in a marxist society....or sign one of those draconian, POS, home owners regulations....If I want to graze goats on my front lawn, I will....and effff the neighbors....
And efff the neighbors and their free-love homosexual drug clinic next door too. ;-)
yeah but when the neighbor paints his house bright neon pink, puts up Gay Pride signs all over the yard or turns the place into a junk yard you might think again. They effectively lock you into your home because no one will buy it with that eyesore. HOAs are designed to keep things a certain way for a common benefit.
On the other hand, if you have enough land to live on your own then rock on....
This pretty much brings into conflict our patriotism and freedom of expression with the precedence of contracts or even zoning laws and codes too
but this is a bad case to uphold homowner association regs on