I’m a proud leader of my HOA and I like spending my spare time ensuring everyone else’s houses are up to standard

Glad I can’t afford to live where they are.

i grew up in an hoa neighborhood and now live outside of one. hoa free and the homes are 1000x more beautiful

they rank right up there with stomach viruses, solicitors, body odor, spoiled milk.

Right up there with anal warts and vaginitis

my dad tthinks they are a modern criminal enterprise

I hate HOA's! Thank God I live on my rural farm!

they have good and bad points, it depends entirely on how one is run / what the actual covenants are

seeing a development with an HOA right next to one without an HOA, you can see why an HOA is somewhat desirable, if it is constrained enough ... if you have to live on a suburban detached house lot of less than an acre, the choice comes down to whether, since you don't have the buffer of acreage, you want a neighbor with a rusting wheeless 1985 IROC-Z up on blocks in 3 foot tall grass for 10 years in the front yard next to the sidewak and 8 renters' cars overflowing the driveway onto the street kerb every day (ahhh, libertarian freedom!), or you want something else, ideally with covenants restricted enough that the HOA board doesn't think it is the purpose of an HOA to create and fund social activities for home owners, or funding anything beyond landscape maintenance of limited common grounds for that matter

but in an ideal world we'd all live on 25 acres and be able teleport directly into buzzing Manhattan in the blink of an eye and then back to our rural idyll when we're done, and Earth would only have ONE billion people to make such land distribution more feasible without leading to the shithole environment / climate we have today (more people means EVERYONE'S quality of life degrades proportionally, at least at humanity's current level of tech / energy production, storage, distribution / transport modes)

then HOA's wouldn't be needed, only the EPA would be needed

Adult version of hall monitors. When i think of them, i literally think of people like this. Up in EVERYONE'S business.🙄😒

All for them if they are run right. Ours is, and it prevents neighbors from ruining the neighborhood that dont want to keep their place looking decent. No renting is a plus as well.

I HATED the nimbys in San Francisco.

Some people are all for them. Me, I would not want to live in an HOA community.

A home owner's association is no different than having a Board of Directors who live in a condo building.

The whole concept of a HOA is strictly a personal one, which means you either embrace the concept or you reject it and live somewhere else.

What an HOA does however, is attract 'like minds', which means the typical person who likes HOAs are the very people who buy residential units in places that have HOAs.

Very rarely do non-believers end up in residential communities that have HOAs and if they do, they generally turn out to be the proverbial "neighbors from hell", simply because they pay a monthly management fee which they hate doing, but then feel entitled to function outside the rules that govern a condo corporation which is what a residential community is that has an HOA.

I think they help you avoid living beside neighbors who paint their house neon green, or have 26 cars in their front yard. I appreciate HOAs. Lol

slight less antagonistic toward mine than the dog catcher

They should be banned and they should be used in schools as an example of how totalitarianism can creep into society. They should also be studied for the same reason.

Lite Communism

Totally against them. Both on a economic standpoint as well as a social stand point.

They are totally against Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion.

They are intended to Separate and Exclude on all levels.

Want to know why there is such society unrest. Well HOAs are apart of the reason.

Would rather live in a ghetto, than be apart of HOA. And I had to live once in both such environments.

hate them wouldn't buy property under an HOA

I am against them. I like having our motorhome parked at the house.

Run correctly, they can serve a purpose in maintaing property standards, and resident codes of conduct.
It gets intrusive and limiting if mismanaged; or you're a resident accustomed to a freedom to modify your property at will.

For some people that is what they want and for some it isn't. Self governance isn't easy and putting up shopping carts is a prime example of that.

HOAs are always created with good intentions. Then they become a little microbureaucracy with the biggest Karens in the neighborhood in charge.

I am not a fan.

No one likes it

No experience personally, but they seem potentially invasive, based on observations. 😳

Avoid them, which means avoid living anywhere that has them.

Pointless.

Haven’t met any of their members who isn’t a glorified asshat.

Usually when I hear about them they come off as a bunch of petty dictators dedicated to enforcing THEIR concept of what a person's home and life should be.