Are you for or against HOAs?

[Alex_angel]

I read a lot of how some people hate HOAs and others love them. I find myself in the middle on this. Depending on cost per month they can be a good thing. I know someone that pays $300 a month for a single family home and others that pay $60 a month. To me some of the positives is that you can’t have a crazy neighbor paint their house neon green or leave their motorhome parked outside for months on end. They force people to mow the lawn once in a while. I also find it to be very “ghetto” when I drive around areas and everyone has their garage door open all the time. It just makes the area seem cheap. Some things I don’t agree with is that you must park in the garage all the time. I read about an HOA in Rancho Bernardo that sued some family because their daughter wouldn’t park her jacked up pickup truck in the garage.

For those of you that have in lived in an HOA and non-HOA area, did you prefer one over another?

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Here’s my 2 cents. I personally would never live in a community with HOA’s ever again. When I had a condo in Carmel Valley the association towed my car away for no reason (they had to pay me back) and we were admonished for adding a quart of oil, and generally persecuted because those in power did not like our family.

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Here’s my 2 cents. I personally would never live in a community with HOA’s ever again. When I had a condo in Carmel Valley the association towed my car away for no reason (they had to pay me back) and we were admonished for adding a quart of oil, and generally persecuted because those in power did not like our family.

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Here’s my 2 cents. I personally would never live in a community with HOA’s ever again. When I had a condo in Carmel Valley the association towed my car away for no reason (they had to pay me back) and we were admonished for adding a quart of oil, and generally persecuted because those in power did not like our family.

[34f3f3f]

I have had no experience of HOAs, but it sounds similar to something else I experienced in another country, where the sale of my house was essentially high-jacked for very innocuous reasons. It caused no end of problems, and I swore never to enter such an arrangement or area again. Aside from that, the very thought of living in the sort of neighborhoods where HOAs exist sends shivers down my spine.

[34f3f3f]

I have had no experience of HOAs, but it sounds similar to something else I experienced in another country, where the sale of my house was essentially high-jacked for very innocuous reasons. It caused no end of problems, and I swore never to enter such an arrangement or area again. Aside from that, the very thought of living in the sort of neighborhoods where HOAs exist sends shivers down my spine.

[34f3f3f]

I have had no experience of HOAs, but it sounds similar to something else I experienced in another country, where the sale of my house was essentially high-jacked for very innocuous reasons. It caused no end of problems, and I swore never to enter such an arrangement or area again. Aside from that, the very thought of living in the sort of neighborhoods where HOAs exist sends shivers down my spine.

[Alex_angel]

eccen, was that a condo assc. or a neighborhood assoc? That is sad to hear about how the HOA can be a biggot like that.

[Alex_angel]

eccen, was that a condo assc. or a neighborhood assoc? That is sad to hear about how the HOA can be a biggot like that.

[Alex_angel]

eccen, was that a condo assc. or a neighborhood assoc? That is sad to hear about how the HOA can be a biggot like that.

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc
Alex – it was a condo association. And, yes I guess you could say they were bigots. I don’t care to be ruled by anyone. How about you?

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc
Alex – it was a condo association. And, yes I guess you could say they were bigots. I don’t care to be ruled by anyone. How about you?

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc
Alex – it was a condo association. And, yes I guess you could say they were bigots. I don’t care to be ruled by anyone. How about you?

[Alex_angel]

I like the idea of having some sort of consistency in a neighborhood. But I also don’t like someone telling me what to do, especially when I drop a few hundred thousand or more on a home. I just don’t like the idea of an area where you have 5 motorhomes parked along the street. The jackass that leaves their 40 foot racing boat parked in the end of a cul de sac or the home that uses the garage as a storage bin and parks their 5 cars outside. But I don’t like the idea of having someone approve of a specific plant that I want to put outside or tell me how my garden is supposed to look. There needs to be an equilibrium and with HOAs it seems you either get it good or bad.

[Alex_angel]

I like the idea of having some sort of consistency in a neighborhood. But I also don’t like someone telling me what to do, especially when I drop a few hundred thousand or more on a home. I just don’t like the idea of an area where you have 5 motorhomes parked along the street. The jackass that leaves their 40 foot racing boat parked in the end of a cul de sac or the home that uses the garage as a storage bin and parks their 5 cars outside. But I don’t like the idea of having someone approve of a specific plant that I want to put outside or tell me how my garden is supposed to look. There needs to be an equilibrium and with HOAs it seems you either get it good or bad.

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