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Banned is maybe too far, but why should we as a country allow people to have petty power over meaningless things their neighbors do? Could we ban HOAs from being included in house sales, and every time it's sold the new owners have to opt in?

For the most part, I'm wondering about this in the context of single family homes since for homes like condos, you could make the case that HOAs are useful for shared things like roofs and whatnot. Maybe limit mandatory HOA involvement to things like what's truly necessary and shared and not how tall your grass is?

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[–] Hacksaw 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. We're using the same concept that destroyed unions power, but instead of doing it for evil we're using it to destroy HOAs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My opinion on destroying HOA is this it’s kind of stupid. If a person doesn’t wanna live in one then don’t live there. I’m notso sure I’d wanna live in one, but then I just choose not to live there. I’ll live somewhere else. There are a lot of houses for saleright now not in an HOA. Some were built 30 years ago some were built even before then and some are newer. Take your pic on which one you want. Yeah, there is HOA‘sin the area, but you don’t have to live in one. Live and let live. If they wanna live there, let them ,why feel the need destroy an HOA?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are a lot of houses for saleright now not in an HOA

That's really not the case everywhere (and def not in my area). John Oliver talked about this a while back, before he had to talk about Trump every week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Most new housing developments come with a HOA and have for decades. Unless you want to live in a rural shithole, which is another society destroying problem, then you have to deal with a HOA.

[–] Hacksaw 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but the problem is that HOAs are forever. Just because I've group of people a long time ago agreed to make one EVERYONE who lives there FOREVER are bound to it. That is problematic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

So get the people who do live there to vote to end the hoa. If the majority wants it gone then it's gone. Easy solution.