Edit just to clear up: I don’t have a positive or negative opinion on HOAs. I know next to nothing about them. They’ve just been mentioned to me a few times by family members recently and I asked about aspect I didn’t understand
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A common theme in all the anti HOA threads is that when you are house hunting and you find a place that (due to HOA) looks cared for, no yard cars, things kept in general repair, no crowing roosters etc, and you think “this is nice, I’d like to live here”. And then you move in and immediately want to do those things that aren’t allowed (that keeps the aesthetic that drew you in in the first place) and complain about the HOA. If I have to live in suburbia I don’t want the crazy neighbor that brings the neighborhood value down and my HOA dues sort of filter those owners out. There are a lot of non HOA areas where I live however, so the choice is up to the buyer. The only way I’d live in a non HOA hood is if I was going to buy a few acres so I could have a buffer.
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