I just cannot understand why anyone would willingly agree to limit their personal property rights just so they can live in a neighborhood with an HOA.
I don’t think HOAs should be outlawed, it’s your right to organize and join one. However, signing a contract that says I cannot put up a flagpole in my front yard, or that I must mow my lawn every 6 and a half days, or that if I have a fence, it must be a certain style and color, and I can’t work on my car in the driveway...it’s ridiculous.
As a fiercely-independent conservative, I've never felt coerced in the three places I've lived governed by association boards. And the homeowners, when they sell and move, cry all the way to the bank.
There are tens and tens of thousands of associations in the fifty states. The few that are run by commie-fascist boards of directors are few and far between and these are the ones that make the news in the sensation-starved media.
When arrogance and travesties happen due to a rogue board the homeowners have the right every one or two years to vote the principle retards out of office.
Leni