Do you live in a HOA (Home Owners Assoc.) Development?

[shintao]

Among some of real estate dealings I have run into the HOA, and lately I am having problems finding developments without these agreements attached. Are you saddled to an HOA development? As for Republicans, they should be against them, but they are not. They talk gated community all the time, and you can bet all the right fat cats live in HOA communities for the protection.

Home Owners Associations

The HOAs are popping up all over on a national basis for sub-divisions, and some of it seems like a good thing, but the HOAs rules don't outweigh the bad they deliver, and should be held unconstitutional.

HOAs are like a community club, and you pay monthly dues if you buy a home in an HOA controlled development. In return (depending on the club & dues) you get gated communities patrolled with private officers, a club house, swimming pools, parks, and in some cases roads & utilities. You get clean sanitized neighborhoods free of trash & litter, no old cars at the curb or jacked up in a driveway, no loose animals, and well maintained front yards ~ often mowed by the HOA. And your dues may run into several hundred a month depending on how far the HOA officers decide to take you.

The HOA decides what colors you paint your house, what improvements you can make to your property, where your solar dish or solar panels, etc. go on the house, if at all. And they can also tell you cannot fly an American flag on your property, or any flag, or hold garage sales, and if you can park in your drive or into the garage.

HOAs are their own government, and hold what appears to be communist control over the home owners who buy there. If you refuse to pay your dues, they have the right to sell your house out from under you. They cannot be forced into a State court room to be sued, which might be an HOA rule to sell your house if they chose.

The more I looked into this, the more terrified I began getting, because as I say, this HOA is National wide and sucking home owners in daily to their communist regimes.

I maybe a Socialist, but these people are way out there, have unconstitutional rules such as not flying Old Glory, and answer to no laws or civil liabilities. Truly, the HOA should be put out of business in America.

 

[California Girl]

Maybe you should learn what is and is not 'politics'. Idiot.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Maybe you should learn what is and is not 'politics'. Idiot.

You seem a tad grumpy my Dear.. perhaps some wine...

 

[California Girl]

Maybe you should learn what is and is not 'politics'. Idiot.

You seem a tad grumpy my Dear.. perhaps some wine...

I am always irritated by incompetence. Seems to me, that it should be reasonably easy to work out under what topic one should post. Although, perhaps a forum for "drivel that no one gives a shit about" would be helpful.

 

[chanel]

We belong to a condo assn. I believe the fees are excessive, but we knew the deal going in. Representatives are voted in. If they are over reaching in their authority, they are voted out. Pretty simple concept.

If you want to paint your house puke green and leave abandoned vehicles in your yard, move to the fucking woods.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Maybe you should learn what is and is not 'politics'. Idiot.

You seem a tad grumpy my Dear.. perhaps some wine...

I am always irritated by incompetence. Seems to me, that it should be reasonably easy to work out under what topic one should post. Although, perhaps a forum for "drivel that no one gives a shit about" would be helpful.

Sooo.. that will be raw meat with that wine, I'm guessing...

 

[blastoff]

Among some of real estate dealings I have run into the HOA, and lately I am having problems finding developments without these agreements attached. Are you saddled to an HOA development? As for Republicans, they should be against them, but they are not. They talk gated community all the time, and you can bet all the right fat cats live in HOA communities for the protection.

Home Owners Associations

The HOAs are popping up all over on a national basis for sub-divisions, and some of it seems like a good thing, but the HOAs rules don't outweigh the bad they deliver, and should be held unconstitutional.

HOAs are like a community club, and you pay monthly dues if you buy a home in an HOA controlled development. In return (depending on the club & dues) you get gated communities patrolled with private officers, a club house, swimming pools, parks, and in some cases roads & utilities. You get clean sanitized neighborhoods free of trash & litter, no old cars at the curb or jacked up in a driveway, no loose animals, and well maintained front yards ~ often mowed by the HOA. And your dues may run into several hundred a month depending on how far the HOA officers decide to take you.

The HOA decides what colors you paint your house, what improvements you can make to your property, where your solar dish or solar panels, etc. go on the house, if at all. And they can also tell you cannot fly an American flag on your property, or any flag, or hold garage sales, and if you can park in your drive or into the garage.

HOAs are their own government, and hold what appears to be communist control over the home owners who buy there. If you refuse to pay your dues, they have the right to sell your house out from under you. They cannot be forced into a State court room to be sued, which might be an HOA rule to sell your house if they chose.

The more I looked into this, the more terrified I began getting, because as I say, this HOA is National wide and sucking home owners in daily to their communist regimes.

I maybe a Socialist, but these people are way out there, have unconstitutional rules such as not flying Old Glory, and answer to no laws or civil liabilities. Truly, the HOA should be put out of business in America.

Man, you are one ignorant s.o.b.

 

[del]

i find HOA developments to not be something i want for some of the reasons that are presumably listed in your post.

that's why i didn't buy property encumbered by one. duh.

life's all about choices, i guess. what a concept.

 

[Vel]

LOL The irony is rich. You think HOA's that people voluntarily join should be ruled unconstitutional, yet feel that the federal government should be able to make your healthcare decisions. What a world.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Then don't buy a house there. Problem solved.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Another " I want the world to accomodate me" thread. Great.

 

[topspin]

I do and I like the restrictions, I call them white trash filters.

 

[kwc57]

We bought in a neighborhood with an HOA and I spent a few years on the board of directors. We bought specifically because there was an HOA. The neighborhhod of my first house was nice when I moved in. It was a starter home neighborhood. As people aged and moved up in their jobs, they moved out to bigger homes. Over the 17 years I was there, the neighborhood began declining. Don't get me wrong, the crime didn't go up or anything like that. It was just that people began moving in who only cared about having a roof over their heads and didn't care much about the appearance of their house like the original owners did. Yards start going unmowed and fill with weeds. Fences start rotting and falling apart. Roofs need replacing. Some yahoo decides to buy a motor home or ski boat that is as long as their driveway and parks it there year round. Then you have the guy who thinks purple trim on the house would be really cool. All of a sudden the nice neighborhood you moved into that was clean and well kept starts looking like a dump. Your investment drops because the guy next to you could care less about his property. Me personally, I have higher standards than that. Like I said, we CHOSE to move into a neighborhood where the HOA was required because it meant we would live in a neighborhood of like minded people who cared about their homes and yards and having a pleasant environment. It protects everyone's investment and it helps keep the riff raff out........and I'm perfectly fine with that.

 

[Skull Pilot]

You couldn't pay me enough to live in some neighborhood full of busybodies.

The very though of some idiot(s) telling me what I can and can't do on my own property pisses me off.

 

[RDD_1210]

You couldn't pay me enough to live in some neighborhood full of busybodies.

The very though of some idiot(s) telling me what I can and can't do on my own property pisses me off.

Do trailer parks usually have HOA's anyway?

 

[RDD_1210]

Maybe you should learn what is and is not 'politics'. Idiot.

You seem a tad grumpy my Dear.. perhaps some wine...

Although, perhaps a forum for "drivel that no one gives a shit about" would be helpful.

That would make it easier to find your posts. Good idea.

 

[syrenn]

People choose to live where they live. You know going in that you are buying into a HOA and what rules and standards are required. If you don't like it then you don't have to buy a home there.

Most people buy into a HOA for just those reasons you list. They want the gates to keep people who do not want to keep up with their properties out.

NYC apartments are doing the same thing and HOA. They are becoming Co-Ops.

Its all about keeping up a desired standard of living.

 

[kwc57]

You couldn't pay me enough to live in some neighborhood full of busybodies.

The very though of some idiot(s) telling me what I can and can't do on my own property pisses me off.

And you couldn't pay me enough to live next door to some asshat, swilling beer, going shirtless, blasting Lynard Skynard at 500 decibels and working on his POS beater out in the middle of his unmowed lawn at midnight. To each his own I guess.

 

[Skull Pilot]

You couldn't pay me enough to live in some neighborhood full of busybodies.

The very though of some idiot(s) telling me what I can and can't do on my own property pisses me off.

And you couldn't pay me enough to live next door to some asshat, swilling beer, going shirtless, blasting Lynard Skynard at 500 decibels and working on his POS beater out in the middle of his unmowed lawn at midnight. To each his own I guess.

I live on 5 idyllic acres where I can barely see my neighbors houses in the fall and not at all in the summer. I can use a clothesline if I want, I can fly the flag if I want. I can paint my door any color I want, I can have a bonfire in my back yard if I want.

So stick your snobby nose in the air and be a good boy and do what your neighbors tell you and make sure you get permission before you do anything on your own.

I'll do what I want when I want on my own property you can live with the Nosy Neighbor Nazis.

 

[Si modo]

I wonder what the OP thinks about historical societies.