> Americans love their freedom and hate being told what to do and how to behave.... And people enter them willingly I think you answered your own statement. A

> Americans love their freedom and hate being told what to do and how to behave.... And people enter them willingly I think you answered your own statement. Americans don't blanket hate being told what to do, they hate being told to do X when they haven't agreed beforehand what they could be nagged to do X. Seems pretty reasonable. For completeness, I'm sure that there is also a segment that on joining an HOA is a "temporarily inconvenienced dictator" that imagines themselves ascending to the HOA board and being able to write the rules, so they won't ever have to be told what to do, they'll do the telling.