If you own property your neighbors have no right to tell you what you may do with it. If you give those rights over to an HOA you are giving over much of your own ownership to people that are not you. If I am offended by my neighbor’s yard I have the option of dealing with my neighbor, perhaps offering to pay for changes I deem beneficial. I believe in private property, not in right to some use of a piece of property subject to my neighbors’ approval. If a neighbor can be “offended” by a car up on blocks he can by offended by the tulips in your garden or the statue of Mary on your lawn. You have every right to join an HOA and to tell your neighbors how to act but you are subject to the whims of the HOA also. I would not ever buy property where the deed comes with an HOA nor would I join one.
“If you own property your neighbors have no right to tell you what you may do with it.”
Dude, the neighbors don’t tell you what you may do with your property. It is an agreement among neighbors.
“If you own property your neighbors have no right to tell you what you may do with it.”
I own fee title to my suburban three BR ranch.
By your lights, it’s OK for me to run a crackhouse out of it? Or store junk cars in the front yard? Take target practice in the backyard with my 7.62? Cool!