on a lighter note...

375 Ruger Fan · Thursday at 12:24 PM

BeeMaa said:
Home Owners Association (HOA) is a private, legally-incorporated organization that governs a residential community, collects dues, and sets rules for its residents, often to maintain property values and ensure uniformity.

Also known as a bunch of busy bodies who only approve changes for friends in their cliques. It's closer to secondary school gossip and BS than anything else. Thankfully we don't have one where we live.

Newboomer said:
Bunch of frigging nazis raising hell with the residents. Spend most of the time trying to find something to rag on people about.

If a person doesn't like HOAs, don't move into a neighborhood that has one. Pretty simple.

Usually, before someone buys or builds in a neighborhood with a HOA, they are informed about it and given a copy of the protective covenants. Usually, the new guy is required to sign an acknowledgment saying they received a copy of the protective covenants, understand them and agree with them. Nobody is holding a gun to their head. You always hear about the bad HOAs that sue the homeowner because his fence is two inches too tall or too short. Or puts a flag pole up. But some people want to live in a nice neighborhood and don't want to see a camper parked year round in their neighbors driveway, or a old truck on jack stands.

I have lived in a few neighborhoods with HOAs and I have observed both good and bad attributes in all of them. Inconsistency is usually the root cause to problems. Most people think the rules are good, but they don't apply to them. It's sort of like speed limits, if you are driving in a 25mph zone, should you get a ticket for driving 35? Probably, yes. How about 28?