Why You Should Avoid Buying in HOA Neighborhoods
31st May 2021
In order to carry out the business of increasing property values, the HOA enacts and enforces a series of rules designed to ensure that neighborhood standards of conformity are met. You?ve probably noticed that HOA neighborhoods tend to have dozens or hundreds of substantially identical homes. This is by design. Conformity is easier to enforce in similar homes. Customization of any kind becomes easier to spot.
The HOA will limit what color you can paint your house, how many people can live in it, how many – and what type of – vehicles you can park in the driveway, how often you need to paint the exterior, where you place your garbage dumpsters, and the condition of your landscaping. They can also prevent you from adding on to the house, or maintaining out-buildings, like tool sheds or a tree house for your kids. And that?s just the general stuff.
Once you?ve been prohibited from doing something with your property, or made to do something you don?t want to, you begin to get a clearer picture of what?s really going on.
To add insult to injury, should you be found to be in violation the HOA has the legal right to impose legally enforceable fines on you, that are automatically attached to your property.
They give you a very good look at America under Communism, with Karens in charge. You don’t want that.
May 31st, 2021 at 18:45
Living in an HOA neighborhood is voluntary. And those of us who choose to live in an HOA neighborhood are relieved of living next to eyesores that lower our property values. It has nothing to do with communism, which would force me to live in inferior housing.
May 31st, 2021 at 19:49
Nor has Communism anything to do with communism, except as an excuse and rationalization. If you were to volunteer to live in a concentration camp, it would also ‘relieve you of living next to eyesores’, but would scarcely represent an improved quality of life. Putting property value ahead of quality of life is the morality of a miser.