Not me FRiend.
My point is what happens when the choice is removed and you have no alternative?
That's where this is heading, might take 30 years or so but that's where it's going.
Sadly, whenever you enter into a partnership, there needs to be some form of control associated with the partnership.
No, we have laws against wronging another, not the same as control.
The best way to avoid the tyranny of an HOA is to not move into an HOA neighborhood. You will be happier, and the people who like having shared property and some measure of control over the community will also be happier.
See my first point.
The second best way, if you move into an HOA community, is to run for office. Then you can be the benevolent representative you think people will want.
No thanks, I don't want to be corrupted, I would never get elected anyway because I am a "right wing extremest"
You think the HOA elections are about anything more than “hey, who is willing to put up with the crap for the next 3 years”?
In all my years in an HOA community, I don’t remember a single time when anybody running for the board was asked anything about their beliefs.
When the board was getting too uppity, I just got a few people each year to sign up to be members, and that put and end to that.
BTW, the world does not revolve around “you” :-) Sometimes, “you” is just a generic term; especially when it is qualified to indicate people who take a certain action — the part you didn’t quote.
On the other hand, when you enter a partnership, there most certainly is a form of control. If you got married, you would know that. Marriage is a form of partnership, and once married, you don’t get to do “whatever you want”. Heck, if you enter the partnership of “having sex with a woman”, and you got her pregnant, you’d know that such a partnership comes with control over your earnings, when you had to pay child support.
And if you and your neighbor decided it would be cool to buy a boat together, and you weren’t smart enough to sign a contract, you’d be pretty pissed off I imagine if he decided it would be cool to make it into a land sculpture, such that you couldn’t use it for it’s intended purpose.
Seriously, I don’t believe you really didn’t understand the issues involving common, shared property. A 6-year-old understands that sharing involves rules.
If a community has a pool, or a playground, or a sign at the entrance, you are going to need a way to determine how to keep up the sign/playground/pool, what rules will be enforced, how to collect money, and the like. It has nothing to do with “wronging”. You need to pay the lifeguard, and put the chemicals in the pool, and keep that stupid renter from 100 of his clan members to an all-day beerfest.