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>People form or join HOAs because they want to Not from my experience. Try finding a non-HOA house near any major city. From all the friends I know who are hom

>People form or join HOAs because they want to Not from my experience. Try finding a non-HOA house near any major city. From all the friends I know who are homeowners, not a single one got into HOA willingly. One managed to find a home about 20 miles from Seattle that wasn't HOA-managed. The others had to settle for an HOA house, because there were none available within a reasonable driving distance from the city that weren't HOA. Sure, this is just my anecdata. But you should check how many people explicitly are looking for HOA vs. how many just settle for it. I hate HOAs with passion, but when I decide to buy a house, I am already mentally getting ready to settle for an HOA one, simply because of the location.

Mountain_Skies 5y ago
Done it many times, no problem. People who say "there are no HOA neighborhoods" typically mean there are not any neighborhoods that don't have HOAs but look like those that do have HOAs.
wearywanderer 5y ago
Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. The existence of HOAs is disclosed before the sale and every single person who chooses to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood has weighed the pros and cons and decided the pros outweighted the cons. I have never lived in an HOA neighborhood and, for as long as my preferences remain the same, I never will. I have never and will never be forced to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood against my will. Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; they want to live in that nice pretty HOA neighborhood but don't want the HOA that made it a nice neighborhood. Such people are immature. You may as well choose to live in the woods, then complain about trees.
- filoleg 5y ago
  > Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. At no point I claimed it was concealed ahead of purchase. It wasn't, it was known. >Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Yeah, it was their decision. They did it, despite hating the idea of joining an HOA. Simply because there were no houses for acceptable prices within a driving distance from the city. That's the complaint. No one is saying "they got tricked into it" or something.

Mountain_Skies 5y ago

Done it many times, no problem. People who say "there are no HOA neighborhoods" typically mean there are not any neighborhoods that don't have HOAs but look like those that do have HOAs.

wearywanderer 5y ago

Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. The existence of HOAs is disclosed before the sale and every single person who chooses to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood has weighed the pros and cons and decided the pros outweighted the cons. I have never lived in an HOA neighborhood and, for as long as my preferences remain the same, I never will. I have never and will never be forced to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood against my will. Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; they want to live in that nice pretty HOA neighborhood but don't want the HOA that made it a nice neighborhood. Such people are immature. You may as well choose to live in the woods, then complain about trees.

filoleg 5y ago
> Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. At no point I claimed it was concealed ahead of purchase. It wasn't, it was known. >Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Yeah, it was their decision. They did it, despite hating the idea of joining an HOA. Simply because there were no houses for acceptable prices within a driving distance from the city. That's the complaint. No one is saying "they got tricked into it" or something.