Quit being so morally superior. Freepers believe in personal property rights or they wouldn't be on this forum. It's not either or. If you CHOOSE to live in a deed-restricted community, you have to follow the rules you signed to uphold. You may not be able to paint your house day-glo green or have a ratty gravel front lawn, but in return your property values will hold good and there are countless upsides to reasonable community standards.
HOAs deliver responsibilities, some of which you would probably consider onerous, but they also deliver countless advantages....it's up to you to decide which is your cup of tea.
But don't knock those who prefer to live in an HOA community as being non-adherents to personal property rights. That's hogwash and you know it.
Leni
“You may not be able to paint your house day-glo green or have a ratty gravel front lawn, but in return your property values will hold good and there are countless upsides to reasonable community standards.”
So your argument is that a loss in personal property rights is acceptable for a little more financial security. Who thinks (s)he’s morally superior now...?
Sorry, individual property rights are morally superior.
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
~Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.(1759)
I’m sorry you feel that you can dictate what one can do with their personal property. Some contracts are illegal. All should be subject to constitutional scrutiny, and this should have been resolved in civil court. Sorry you think you can decide what is legal or not. You can’t, and I hope this HOA gets the snot sued out of them and the fraud who filed the paperwork. Thanks, but no thanks.
What kind of attitude does it take to live in one? Just curious about what it takes to survive there. ;)