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Fuck HOAs. I refused to look at houses within an HOA when I bought mine. I fired a realtor because they kept wasting my time showing me "wonderful houses" that were within an HOA, even though I explicitly told them no.
Ditto.
Hoas are great for master planned neighborhoods, that are gated and have a community pool. The funds go maintaining the landscaping, gate, streets, and pool
They should not be used for any communities that lack of those . The problem is they are built into new housing and it's difficult to get rid of them.
The only people I've ever heard speak positively about HOAs are the ones causing problems for people within them. I'm not sure if that includes you, but it certainly paints my perception of this comment.
Yeah,...gated communities? Private pools? Really kinda showing their hand there.
I made the mistake once. Property values. These are investment communities and not homes.
I lived in an HOA neighborhood for a year with no issues. I didn't like the neighborhood because it was cookie cutter but the HOA never made any complaints to us.
Our driveway got plowed because of the HOA so that was nice.
Neighborhood was not very attractive in the sense that there were barely any trees in any of the yards.