Nope for me... if a "governing body" of "neighbors" are going to tell me what to do with my land. I'm out, "knocks dust off hands in clapping motion"...
I'm in the hunt right now for my first house at 35. There is enough bs from the town and the county, that a HOA is a nonstarter.....
Yes, I get why HOA's exist. Nice idea...
But I've experienced how people in the neighborhood come in after the fact of that neighborhoods beginning, then want to set/change up said HOA on their "obvious" ideas/ideals....
They try to change everything that is and was that neighborhood..... for um, the better? (To suit their ideals, most likely) while disregarding those who have lived there for decades...
My family has a bunch of rentals. One lady coerced them into the "rental version" of an hoa..... they eventually had to pay lawyers to make her follow her legally bound renters contract..... she turned into a politician... She was doing what she "thought was best" for "her" neighborhood, while claiming she didnt have to abide by her contract.
Hell I dont even talk to my family but I know that was garbage
My ex father in law initially touted the virtues of his "golf course hoa" in Charlotte.
He was well off. Put mucho, money, time, effort and "pull" into the committee/neighborhood.
Even gave me a touch of a hard time about my old ass little pickup truck when we lived in his house for a couple months. Because it "cheapened" the place.... (The hoa there was on his ass as it turns out)
I'm not a panderer (I stuck at lying) so he was annoyed with me as I called bs to his neighbors who I met, that I needed to get a ride from the shop home so my shatty looking relia-mobile Ford Ranger wasn't parked in the driveway of his $750k house
Yet right around that time. He switched to using a work truck to drive home in..
It obviously had a business placard, (for his business) on his truck. The magnetic placard with name, location and phone number... Driver and passenger door. When it was in front of the garage, there was NO chance of seeing it from the street unless you were on property
also it was a brand new, not abused Chevy 2500.
Yet when the HOA met monthly, guess who got an ill will letter. Of the cease and desist nature of driving his company truck home with company info on the doors
Again, unless you saw it pull in or came on property. It wasn't visible, even outside the garage...
They gave him such hell, he came around to how I felt about it. Then started parking it out front as a big middle finger lol