Why do you have to join an HOA if you buy a home in an HOA neighborhood? Why isn’t there an opt out option?

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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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Because that defeats the purpose of an HOA. The whole point of the HOA is everyone joins into it, pays into it, and shares the benefits of the system.

When you buy a house in an HOA, you are contractually agreeing to the HOA. If you don’t want to be part of an HOA, then you cannot buy a house in an HOA.

The whole point t of an HOA is that the homeowners in an area have agreed to certain standards that everyone in the neighborhood has to meet for the benefit of everyone. If people could just move in and opt of out that, it ruins the whole system.

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