> If hoa allows that and then someone else decides to do something crazier, then association is liable for selective enforcement. "Oh, no, the Torkelsens put i

> If hoa allows that and then someone else decides to do something crazier, then association is liable for selective enforcement. "Oh, no, the Torkelsens put in a bay window!" > Your neighbors could [...] Oh, come one. We both know that's not realistically possible. I think in most cases HOAs are tolerated as something nearly impossible to avoid, and buyers weigh how likely they are to run afoul of the dumb rules. And as I've said elsewhere, governments appropriately limit the kinds of onerous conditions a contract can inflict upon you. That's something we've elected them to do for us so that people with an unreasonable power advantage can't railroad everyone else into agreeing to their bad ideas.