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I thought to myself the same: surely, I paid for the thing, and I own it; can someone else tell me what I'm to do with it? But then I realized that there are c

I thought to myself the same: surely, I paid for the thing, and I own it; can someone else tell me what I'm to do with it? But then I realized that there are covenants that some home buyers have to agree to. In principle, it's similar--you agree to do, or not to do, some things with the very thing you own. But, aguably, covenants are for the benifit of the collective (say, a residential area), not for the seller or their reputation.

Volundr 3y ago
That CC&Rs are legal is crazy to me. The fact that one homeowner (or these days the original developer) can opt into a contract that binds every future owner of the property in perpetuity is too damn much. Yes I understand the mechanism, that the owner is agreeing not to sell to anyone who won't agree, so in theory every owner has "consented", but forever is a long ass time and it makes these things really far reaching. I strongly support more limits here.