A lot of people feel like it's protecting their investment. If your parents had no HOA and a particularly egregious neighbor, it might have been hard to sell the house.
The egregiousness depends on how much you can trust your neighbors (and to an extent how many there are).
Obviously if you're not interested then great, you don't sign up. The mess comes when people sign up thinking it's going to be reasonable and then the HOAs do dumb shit. But I usually hear about that in these giant developments and/or condo complexes where they have ridiculous levels of control
A lot of people feel like it's protecting their investment. If your parents had no HOA and a particularly egregious neighbor, it might have been hard to sell the house.
The egregiousness depends on how much you can trust your neighbors (and to an extent how many there are).
Obviously if you're not interested then great, you don't sign up. The mess comes when people sign up thinking it's going to be reasonable and then the HOAs do dumb shit. But I usually hear about that in these giant developments and/or condo complexes where they have ridiculous levels of control
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