[LearsFool]

Not if it means that you can ban or otherwise prevent someone from moving in the same area who will NOT agree to those terms.

Okay, so let's say I want to move into town, but I will NOT agree to stop my backyard showering. No, they won't ban or otherwise prevent me from moving into their town. They'll just toss me in the hoosegow.

Y'see, Packrat, when people decide they want to live together in a community, they make what ya might call a "social compact". Some liberties (e.g. backyard showering) are ceded to the commonwealth, or community, by the consent of the governed. (Notice the similarity between the words "commonwealth", "community", and "communism". I think maybe that's what's throwing you off.)

No, the village isn't gonna come take your kid to raise, so you can drop that straw man fallacy. But they will restrain you from certain behaviors we all agreed are detrimental to the community. The making and enforcing of such restrictions is commonly known as "self-government". It's for this freedom that the colonists came to America, and why they fought a war to preserve it.

Don't try to take it from us.

[packrat35]

Sorry but forcing your will on others for YOUR OWN GOOD is wrong then, now, and forever. Calling it an HOA or Communism really makes no difference.

[Justa]

“The making and enforcing of such restrictions is commonly known as “self-government”.

Right, however most towns and counties already have ‘quality of life’ by-laws which make extra-judicial HOA rules suspect. Also, the HOA is an opened ended financial liability to “the community” which may not benefit an individual owner. When people stop paying dues or maintenance costs skyrocket the homeowners get fleeced. In FL racketeering via the maintenance contracts is common.

But the owners sign the agreement so caveat emptor.

The arguments on this thread are stupid. Like Mac-vs-Windows or blue or red auto.

HOAs are a bad idea but a good practice imo. In small communities they help. But they have a larger liability than benefit imo. They’re very circumstantial.