I can barely understand why you'd have an HOA (especially after living in Macondishu) but, some of the things I've read about them and their pettiness makes me think it'd go badly for me to move into a home in an HOA.
My friend up in NC lives in an an HOA and they are, for the most part, not bad folks. HOWEVER, there are some idiots that have wasted a ton of money on crap that was NOT necessary and in one instance set up a multi-year, multi-hundred thousand dollar lawsuit, which the HOA lost (as they WERE ADVISED they'd do by counsel).
The pettiness comes in when they demand you cover/shield any exterior heat pump or AC unit from view from the street (as if pretending you do not need A/C on the coast). This was a NEW requirement implemented during the past couple of years. Further, they became a real PITA when they decided folks hadn't fenced or shielded them satisfactorily when the HOA NEVER PUBLISHED any requirements/specs. That's the kind of **** that would make me go HAAM on a 68 year old retired college professor who decided he's going to be the neighborhood STASI.
My friend up in NC lives in an an HOA and they are, for the most part, not bad folks. HOWEVER, there are some idiots that have wasted a ton of money on crap that was NOT necessary and in one instance set up a multi-year, multi-hundred thousand dollar lawsuit, which the HOA lost (as they WERE ADVISED they'd do by counsel).
The pettiness comes in when they demand you cover/shield any exterior heat pump or AC unit from view from the street (as if pretending you do not need A/C on the coast). This was a NEW requirement implemented during the past couple of years. Further, they became a real PITA when they decided folks hadn't fenced or shielded them satisfactorily when the HOA NEVER PUBLISHED any requirements/specs. That's the kind of **** that would make me go HAAM on a 68 year old retired college professor who decided he's going to be the neighborhood STASI.