Nowadays most of them are created by land developers, which often maintain complete control for many years after the first houses are sold in the community. Nothing grassroots about them when they are founded and run by a private company.
Not necessarily. I know a guy who lives in a rural area and still somehow managed to find a house with an HOA, because he wanted access to shared amenities. Beyond that, HOA rules would ideally be like an agreement that I won’t be a bad neighbor to you if you won’t be a bad neighbor to me. It does seem like HOA boards attract petty people, but only the very worst will get in the news while the normal ones quietly do their thing.
(Also, it appears that the lemonade stand in the article wasn’t actually violating the HOA rules.)
Isn’t that kind of the definition of what an HOA does?
Technically an HOA is grassroots community derived governance to establish and maintain shared interests related to the neighborhood.
Nowadays most of them are created by land developers, which often maintain complete control for many years after the first houses are sold in the community. Nothing grassroots about them when they are founded and run by a private company.
If this is what they actually were, I would be for them.
This is almost never what they actually are.
I am 100% positive there are some shrinking.number of good HOAs out there.
This, also You only hear about bad HOAs
Not necessarily. I know a guy who lives in a rural area and still somehow managed to find a house with an HOA, because he wanted access to shared amenities. Beyond that, HOA rules would ideally be like an agreement that I won’t be a bad neighbor to you if you won’t be a bad neighbor to me. It does seem like HOA boards attract petty people, but only the very worst will get in the news while the normal ones quietly do their thing.
(Also, it appears that the lemonade stand in the article wasn’t actually violating the HOA rules.)