Reddit is an echo chamber like any other social media site. Most of the people here have probably never been in an actual HOA and a handful of people take their negative experiences and they get repeated until it seems like there’s only terrible HOA’s.
It’d be like someone that’s never been in a car only seeing them on the news and assuming it’s just ultra dangerous and a death sentence to ride in one because clearly everyone is just dying on the road.
My HOA hasn’t met in years. There are vague and unobtrusive rules that are really just common sense for our quiet middle class small private dead end road like no chain link fences, only typical domesticated pets(no chickens, etc), and a handful of rules about not landscaping or clearing within a distance of the stream that runs alongside some of our properties. Basically, just preserve our nice quiet road. It’s also a private road, so we need some sort of entity to collect dues that pay for road maintenance.
I was skeptical at first given the rep of HOA’s but it only improves our neighborhood.
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