It’s a bad law.
Before you flame me, know that I have a mezuzah hammered into the doorpost of the home I OWN.
The association owns the property and therefore should be able to tell you what level of damage they are willing to tolerate.
If it were me, and having a mezuzah was that important to me, I’d find out the policy before I moved in.
It’s a reasonable accomodation for two little nail holes in a wooden doorframe. They have to repaint by law after a tenant leaves, regardless.
As an aside, the lawsuit from whence this stemmed noted that Christmas wreaths and seasonal decorations were permitted.
Most of them use a couple of tiny nails, such as might be used for attaching a picture hook. Nothing that a dab of spackle and a stroke of paint could not fix.
Earlier one theory has it the Assyrians took Israel captive and sent the 10 tribes to some other place ~ Afghanistan is one proposed location.
So, we had a dozen or so Afghan families on this street and they all put up a Mezuzah on their front door.
Otherwise they were just ordinary (look like Americans) Afghans who prayed at one of the neighborhood mosques.
Like many Buddhists they all placed a stone circle in the yard somewhere and planted a tree.
I have no doubt they wouldn't have fit in all that well in a community with tight architectural control standards and enforcement.