My understanding is you can get the HOA to change its rules through assembling a large enough voting block to do so. It's not like the HOA rules are designed to

My understanding is you can get the HOA to change its rules through assembling a large enough voting block to do so. It's not like the HOA rules are designed to benefit anyone other than the homeowners which comprise the association or anything. My sister used to live in a HOA neighborhood and has some stories to tell about power grabs, corruption and lies almost on a Game of Thrones level involving the neighbors vying for control of their own little fiefdom.