[bigfootbob]

I agree with you except one thing, they knowingly moved into a place that had a "Homeowners Association." When I bought my estate 20 years ago, the #1 disqualifier of the property search was homeowner associations or covenants, conditions or restrictions dictated by someone other than me, outside of regional zoning regulations.

Those things have no place in America. They're full of little Napoleon's and snotty busybodies.

[TheKidster]

That is my #1 criteria as well for buying a home, and I feel exactly as you do, it is completely antiAmerican!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Those things have no place in America. They're full of little Napoleon's and snotty busybodies.

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Ah. You would deny a property owner the right to place beneficial restrictions ON HIS OWN PROPERTY!

So who's the Napoleon NOW?

[LetsRok]

Those things have no place in America. They're full of little Napoleon's and snotty busybodies.

I like my HOA. It protects my property value by keeping the neighbors from parking their work vehicles, boats, RVs, and non-registered vehicles out. I don't want someone with personal standards lower than mine putting up a chain link fence or working on cars in the driveway on my street.

[Bonaparte]

"They're full of little Napoleon's and snotty busybodies."

Right you are. My Dad lived in one of these places. The little committee that ruled it with an iron fist was full of insufferable meddlers and petty tyrants. I told him it was like living in the old soviet union but with plumbing that worked.