I believe some TIC agreements are structured as HOAs, which is perfectly reasonable

but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're referring to here.

Absolutely.

I don't want to live in a neighborhood where you can leave a car to rot on the front lawn, where you can have cows shitting all over, or you can build a 20 foot tall Jesus statue in your front yard.

If your HOA sucks, then get involved and make it better. Mine is fine.

No they shouldn't be banned. You don't want to line in one? Fine don't live there. No one is forcing you to buy there. Let those who want to live there, well... Leave them alone if that's what they want. What does it matter to anyone else?

Please note I'm not trying to attack the op. My comments are meant for anyone trying to ban them.

For those that live in an hoa and have a bad board, go run for office and get the idiots voted out. Either that or move. Probably cheaper to run for office and then fix the problems.

Waiting for the inevitable showdown over having hens in your backyard. Instant solution to the egg problem.

for regular ass house on a regular ass street, yes. exceptions are made for condominiums, apartment complexes and gated communities.

I mean I highly dislike them but also feel like many people like them for the exact reasons I dislike them.

Yes.

Banned? The freedom cities will be the best HOAs ever.

Yes

An HOA can have a very positive effect on a neighborhood when handled properly, but inevitably a troublemaker gets on the board and starts making life miserable for everyone.

There was a recent local case where an elderly lady in her 80s accidentally underpaid her HOA dues by 30 cents. They started fining her, and before she figured out there was an issue, the fines were thousands of dollars, and she couldn't afford it. She tried to work it out with the HOA board, but they were immovable. Then they started foreclosure proceedings, and that's when she went to the local news.

This lady's house was paid off, and they had every intention of taking it away from her in her old age, over THIRTY CENTS!

The news tried to reason with the HOA, but they wouldn't be reasonable, and the last I heard, she was going to have to pay a lawyer to fight it in court.

No HOA should be able to take anyone's house away for any reason. Same with back property taxes, especially if a propery is fully paid off. It invites predatory behavior, and there are always people who will gleefully exploit such situations.