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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I am on my HOA board. The single largest expense we have is the landscaping maintenance of the “common areas” of the neighborhood. There’s not even very much of it and the annual fees are not ridiculous, but everyone in the neighborhood benefits from those areas being clean and well maintained. If you don’t want to live in an HOA neighborhood, don’t. But opting out would be unfair to the community.
There are some benefits to living in an HOA neighborhood. Mine hosts two social events each year, neighbors help each other, and there’s a community vibe. You only hear the horror stories; you don’t hear about the regular ones.
To be fair, HOAs began as a form of systemic racism and are definitely antiquated but they aren’t ALL heinous. Mine for example is racially diverse and friendly.
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