re: It's time to ban HOA and Condo Associations

I have a problem with unjust authority. Like a cop that arrests someone for giving him the middle finger or an HOA that won't let someone park their own work truck in their driveway. Of course the cop is worse because what he did was not only unjust but blatantly unconstitutional.

Conservatives are supposed to be champions of limited government. But most around here are not.

You don't need to ban them. Just don't buy a house in a neighborhood that has one.

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So you want to prohibit landowners from contracting with one another as they see fit?

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Lol you think you really own the land your house sits on?

Your focus has shifted from cops to HOAs.

What’s next?

What do you call a large group of karens sticking their noses in other peoples business?

An HOA.

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You're goddamn right I do. 

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Follow the rules a-hole

I've lived in two neighborhoods in the past 19 years, both suburbs of DFW.

First One No HOA - Freaking shitty arse cars parked all up and down the street, people's yards knee deep in grass or barren with none, loud music and one family that got drunk every Sunday to watch the Cowboys. You could hear the MF'ers, GD's and every other curse word from five houses away.

True Story - My neighbor started buying boats (big ones with inboard motors) and would stay up all night sawing them up small enough for bulk trash to pick up. Freaking all night and 6 am on Saturday Sunday INSANE, saw saw saw saw.

I think the nut was buying them condemned then selling the trailers or something.


2nd House HOA - Clean, Quiet, everyone's yard is nice looking, no idiots making noise all night, peaceful, my blood pressure went down 100 points since moving. .

Elect better officers. Did you read the covenants for your subdivision prior to buying. HOAs can be good or bad. If you have someone that doesn't keep up their yards, home, outside buildings, etc., it effects everyone. I recently had to replace my roof and emailed my HOA president with my plans and he wrote a letter to the city's permit division. Now it's not a large fancy subdivision, but you HOA is only as good as the people you elect. There needs to be a recall provision in your HOA bylaws if they want to start acting like the gestapo.

I really like my HOA. If you get a bad one, odds are it was you failing to do any research before you bought it.

I’ve lived without them, and I’ll take a property with a good one all day long.

Got the hell out of my HOA neighborhood ASAP. Wife (no pics) and I bought 25 acres a hour outside Atlanta.

I had the temerity to stand up in a HOA meeting and tell the management company representative he should be fired for gross incompetence. He and the board decided to mandate a $450 iron mailbox in a neighborhood full of starter homes (think $135K in 2000). The $250-500K homes in the adjoining neighborhoods have simple wooden mailboxes that work just fine.