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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?
Currently live in an HOA that won't even let people put up actual privacy fences around their back yards so every fucking dog for 8 houses in either direction can see each other when they go outside and bark non-stop. So yea, fuck HOAs.
Poor dog owner community
Let me get this straight. You bought a house owning a dog knowing you couldn't have a fence OR you bought a dog owning a house knowing you couldn't have a fence. And not only that, you're entire neighborhood did the same thing, and you are mad at the HOA?
It doesn't make sense. Yeah, the rule is stupid. But, like, you did it to yourself. Do what you need to do to have the bylaws changed.
I didn't buy anything. I'm renting a room from the owners. They bought the house. I have no say in anything and this is the only place I could find that meets my needs of price and room to store my shit so I have to deal with it or move.
I just think it's a stupid rule. Get off my back.
Ok that makes more sense. I apologize. I lived with my parents until I was 24 and they helped me buy a house. Granted it was only $51k in 2013.