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Should HOAs be banned?
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Banned is maybe too far, but why should we as a country allow people to have petty power over meaningless things their neighbors do? Could we ban HOAs from being included in house sales, and every time it's sold the new owners have to opt in?
For the most part, I'm wondering about this in the context of single family homes since for homes like condos, you could make the case that HOAs are useful for shared things like roofs and whatnot. Maybe limit mandatory HOA involvement to things like what's truly necessary and shared and not how tall your grass is?
And also, I feel like there should be a governmental body that HOAs are responsible to that can handle mediation and give you a higher authority to appeal to.
I've heard horror stories of HLA presidents coming into people's houses to make sure that they've emptied their trash appropriately and other weird stuff like that should have a method of redress that does not necessarily involve a protracted legal battle.
Some sort of HOA governance that is nationwide with state and county chapters would massively lower my resistance to HOA's and give them a little bit more legitimacy in my opinion.
They should have to clearly establish their bylaws and submit them to the governance body and have them approved, and then they should only be allowed to exercise the bylaws that have been agreed upon by the community.
No more weird old people sitting out in your front yard, measuring your grass with a ruler and stuff like that.