Love Them Or Hate Them: The Truth About HOA's

[@BostonEMT]

I've lived in both - and prefer for my own personal liberty to not have an HOA. I've lived next to the guy with 12 cars in his driveway (and a backhoe). He (and his family) was awesome and helped me (and the neighborhood) more than the snobs driving the jags. I don't want to ask for permission to replace my roof, or change my landscape, etc... Not having an HOA is now an AMENITY that can increase the value of the home.

[@941LifestyleGroup]

For sure pros and cons We lived in rural Florida for a decade. No one to look over us

[@robertshelton3796]

My old neighborhood disbanded the HOA. Within a few years, there were dirty mattresses on the lawns, driveways with 8 cars parked in them, unmaintained lawns that became overgrown with weeds then died and became brown patches, the pool became overrun with dope smoking drunks, houses went unmaintained, etc. The county has a million people in it and didn't care. So, we moved, and in my new community I'm actually on the HOA. You can disparage "Karen" if you want but I'd rather live with her than the consequences of disbanding an HOA.

[@941LifestyleGroup]

I hear you it sounds great to live in an area without some rules and regulation until you are in the situation where it is not beneficial to you and then it just sucks

[@tituspullo3946]

That's the point of gentrification. Money alone keeps those problems out. Karen's think they are justified charging $100 / day because a shrub looks natural instead of like a plastic square. When they do that with power of foreclosure granted to them, it's way out of bounds. Private property is either private, or it's not.

[@941LifestyleGroup]

@@tituspullo3946 yep. There are certainly those folks who take their power of being on the HOA board a little too serious.

[@holyhelga]

i will never live in a HOA most end up like dictatorships no ty

[@941LifestyleGroup]

That is certainly a possibility.

[@joeespo177]

Why I'll never live in an HOA community is because of one woman. Karen.

[@941LifestyleGroup]

I hear ya

[@holyhelga]

if your part of a HOA your just a glorified renter

[@941LifestyleGroup]

Yes, unless of course you want to sell your home and your next-door neighbor has an RV and 12 cars in the driveway

[@holyhelga]

@@941LifestyleGroup well if those cars and RV dont block you in any way whats the problem

[@941LifestyleGroup]

@@holyhelga do you think if you are home was for sale it would be more desirable or less desirable or more valuable or less less desirable if you have neighbors who are the ones on the street, not upkeeping their properties. I will just go ahead and answer that question for you. There is a 100% chance that your house would be less desirable and a 100% chance your house would be less valuable.

[@holyhelga]

@@941LifestyleGroup it’s clear you are a hoa Karen dictator so let’s agree to disagree

[@toddpod7581]

@@941LifestyleGroup Most cities have "city code" which handles those the situations that you describe.