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My response was to a specific question as to why I thought there were so many HOAs in SoCal within the last 20 years. There are very few custom built neighborhoods in that timeframe. Most developments are builder's tracts, and the HOAs are there from the start and controlled by the tract builder until the entire master development is built out and sold.

We have many neighborhoods like that in the greater Houston area but there a plenty that are not like that. Houston has no zoning like other cities have and we had been berated for it. That is why HOA are so valuable. One of the earliest neighborhoods in Houston is the Heights, platted before 1900. They had deed restrictions that lasted only 25 years, now it is a mix of old homes, new homes and businesses. Some areas of the Heights have gotten together and reinstated deed restrictions and those areas are the most valuable.

I don't want a gas station going in next door or someone raising goats in their back yard. I want people to keep their yards up and not park junk cars in front. HOA's are a good thing.