[mysterio]

No, I'm huge on property rights. That's why I don't think people should be forced to sign them away as a condition of purchase.

If you want to control your neighbors, buy their property or get them to voluntarily sign an agreement. The mandatory HOAs are resulting in little dictatorships that are accountable to no one. That's not freedom. That's collectivist communism.

[cajungirl]

Nobody is forced to buy in a condo with a HOA. If signing is a condition of purchase, one doesn't need to purchase or sign.

Because some like HOA's, I do for one, doesn't mean everyone does. But the HOA can be very useful to maintain prop values and to settle disputes. Neighbors can be pains in the butt, can destroy a streets value and can be dangerous.

[SoothingDave]

No, I'm huge on property rights. That's why I don't think people should be forced to sign them away as a condition of purchase.

Doesn't the seller have rights, too?

SD

[Atlas Sneezed]

That's why I don't think people should be forced to sign them away as a condition of purchase.

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First, they aren't forced to buy anything. "Property rights" means that the OWNER decides the terms of the sale, take it or leave it.

Second, for most people (as evidenced by the premium placed by the market) those rules are not rights to be signed away, but rights to be gained.