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I personally hate the idea of HOAs, so I agree with you on a gut level. Taking a wider view, HOAs are a form of free association and I can't condemn them entir
by orthecreedence 6y ago
I personally hate the idea of HOAs, so I agree with you on a gut level.
Taking a wider view, HOAs are a form of free association and I can't condemn them entirely. If people want to subject themselves to complete hell, they should be able to. And frankly, the kind of neighborhood that has an HOA is not the place I'd want to live anyway, so it's not like I'm personally missing anything.
That said, the existence of HOAs should not be a driver for climate change, and aesthetics and property values are a really stupid thing to optimize for when we're facing catastrophic climate collapse.
- everdrive 6y ago>HOAs are a form of free association and I can't condemn them entirely. I think an argument against this is that the HOA follows the property, not the consumer. If I could opt out of an HOA when purchasing a home, it wouldn't be so bad. (but then again, the HOA would likely be severely weakened.)
- orthecreedence 6y agoThe same goes for overbearing counties and their permitting. If I could just shirk off the local regulations or they could be opt-in, the world would be a much different place. An HOA is effectively just a contractual micro-state, and conversely, some counties are a scaled HOA. That said, I agree with you. I think HOAs are stupid, at least in the context of telling people what their shrubs should look like or what color to paint their house.