>Unfortunately we use "HOA" to describe both of them. That's not an accident anymore than the name of the patriot act was an accident. Historically "HOA" soun

>Unfortunately we use "HOA" to describe both of them. That's not an accident anymore than the name of the patriot act was an accident. Historically "HOA" sounded way less scary and conjured up images of condo/apartment building associations. If you're a developer who had to trade way your customer's freedom to use the product in order to create the product in the first place marketing it that way is just a no brainer. It's only now after decades of HOAs that have way too much (morally speaking, they have just the right amount from a law and compliance perspective) power attracting people who use of that power does the term have any negative connotation.