HOA Hypocrisy

HOA is suppose to create a community where owner-residents enjoy a safer, better life style, run by the residents to protect their property values and safety. But, that is not how it ends up. One would expect HOA board, being also owner residents, to have the best interest of the community at heart, follow the wishes of other owners, and with respect. But they don't. It's all politics, ego, power over others, and in many cases they get personal gain from being on the board. Just as it is in national politics. HOA is a gov within the gov, but with much more repressive dictatorial powers that may not be evident just from their Condo Documents, which they can and do change without notice. When you move to a HOA, you sign away much of your constitutional rights, and are under the rule of a tyrannical board and there is very little you can do against them. Sue, some say. Really? HOA wins the vast majority of the time, and in most cases you don't even have a legal standing because the laws favor them. Have you tried finding a lawyer to represent you? 90% of them are retained by the HOAs. One of the biggest scams, ever, but you don't hear the politicos standing up for your rights and changing the laws. In a democracy, HOA should not even be allowed with their absolute powers to run your life, power to decide what you may do, even what repairs you need, to force enter your residents, have a screening comity as to who may live there, permission required to even list your home for sale, power of taxation (aka: monthly fees, assessments, fines). But, as the saying goes, people get the government they deserve. Just how many don't care enough to stand up and vote them out, in HOA and nationally, how many don't even vote at all, they just take what comes.

Tom, do you understand that buying into a HOA includes full disclosure that you are agreeing to covenants, and these covenants are lawful, contractual terms? Do you want to outlaw people's right to become a party to a contract?

HOA Boards may be voted out and/or recalled. This is a power reserved exclusively to the owners.

It's clear to me what the problem with HOAs is: it's people behaving like people. Our species has spent most of its existence trying to curb the worst of our behaviors so that we can live in groups without murdering each other, and you see how far we've gotten. Frankly, the fact that HOA board meetings in this country seldom result in gun fire is actually encouraging.

Disagree the fact that almost every year board members are murdered is not encouraging.

Lots of realtors probably promote this false hoa idealism

Here is the best advise for you, SELL AND MOVE.

That is not the realtors job. You have expectations of others that just do not exist. The Realtor is not responsible for your education of HOAs. They can help guide you to the right resources but not their job.

I overall think you do not have a grasp what a HOA is or does. Your always going to be disappointed in the results because they will never meet your expectations that do not exist.