eli5: I don’t understand HOA’s

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I understand what HOA’s do, and was first introduced to the term in a condo building (not mine). I understand in a condo building, or high rise, you’re all sharing one building and need to contribute to that building’s maintenance. But I don’t understand HOA’s in neighborhoods…when you live in your own house. Is it only certain neighborhoods? I know someone who lives on a nice street in a suburb and there’s no HOA. Who decides if there is one, and what do neighborhood HOA’s exist for? Are you allowed to opt out?

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Previously lived in an HOA community. The builder was required to create one to maintain fencing along a railroad and to maintain water retention ponds and to carry a blanket liability policy on common areas. That was it.

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