Oh, and now I am quite scared of HOA. Not just the fee..but the rules too. If I were to buy place, will I be also member of the HOA? Do I have a saying on what should or shouldnt be add as a rule? It shouds like HOA is more strict and scary than apartment leasing office.
Ohhhh yeah. You’ll be a ‘member’ whether you like it or not. And unless you get on the HOA board, you don’t have any say what the rules are (and even then you’d have to convince the others).
This is one of the reasons I bought a SFR in an older community–I couldn’t stand the thought of some micromanaging idiot with more time than sense and a napolean complex sitting on my HOA board and making everyone’s life miserable, especially mine; this is exactly what happened to a friend of mine up in CV–and the guy was his next door neighbor (ugh!).
