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Hi tanis!
Yeah I laughed when I read that one, always fun seeing someone you know from a smaller community "out in the wild" 😝
Crazy that commenter couldn't be bothered to scroll through your post history even a little.
But yeah generally HOAs are pretty bad (although for townhomes/condos they're kinda necessary). I believe Last Week Tonight had a great segment on them. A lot of them have pretty shady part-corporate part-governmental authority in ways that just does not go well for the residents. (Often) They're basically for-profit government bodies.
Yup, I would rather drag Finnmark out here one time and do five buildings of roofs every twenty-five years (I’ve been in this two years), rather than have every single homeowner call their own roofer out here to patch the twenty horizontal feet that is directly over their house, necessitating a new service fee each time, with the quality varying from segment to segment of each block of townhomes.
For people who’re shitting on me for having this role, for some reason, the alternative to an HOA is a capitalist nightmare where everyone is on their own.
Oh yeah, for multiple family housing it's essential to pool resources somehow.
Honestly you've turned me around on this
I still don't think HOAs should exist, but it's obvious now they need to in places that are a capitalist hellscape
But only if they're run by people who aren't petty bourgeoisies, which sadly there's too many that are.
In places that have some amount of social democracy, the job of the HOA is done by the government.
If Jeff down the road ain't fixed his leak in 3 years, then people report it to the gov, and the gov gives Jeff two options; fix it, or we charge you money and fix it ourselves
Well, I’m a disabled trans woman who does fine art photography, and I was mustered into this role. I don’t like the responsibility, but I’m the only one who accepted it, so I’m going to do it right. I’m not being paid, I just sign contracts and oversee work crews and look at a budget report every month, and make sure all my dudes in their houses they own, don’t start dying cause their house is falling apart.
I promise you, I’m really not an asshole. I pay more HOA fees than anyone else out here cause I fucked up the math, and rather than call a meeting to try to get a quorum together to fix it, I just eat the $90 extra a month.
I just want my tiny neighborhood to keep being a neighborhood.
Yeah like, you've shown to me that I've only ever heard of the bad cases, but there are cases where it actually works.
My new opinion is it's a necessary evil like how charities are, in a perfect world they should not need to exist as social policies will meet the needs of the people. But in the imperfect world we actually live in, those needs are not met, and so charities have to pick up the slack.
Same for HOA, USA and some of the less socialist parts of EU need them, cause the gov aren't doing their fucking job, so somebody needs to do it.
Doesn't make sense to stalk people, to me
I’m not really stalkable. My username here is my legal name, and I’m very prominent in some communities on here, and I get recognized a lot online and in public.
I’m okay with saying hi to people, nothing wrong with that. :)
I just mean that I don't tend to ever read people's profiles tbh
But that's neat 😁