There may be more people living in HOAs who don't have issues with their HOA than you anticipate. Such a person might well view the statement "HOAs are just pure evil" as incorrect, even if they are aware that HOAs can be a problem.
By way of example, I watched an HOA, as a community, successfully resolve a complex and potentially expensive legal matter involving multiple residents in a way that was beneficial to all parties. Part of this resolution involved the community as a whole, under the bylaws, amending the bylaws to address a situation the original drafters should have anticipated but did not. One side effect of the amendment was to reduce the demands the HOA itself could make of homeowners, lowering what were already quite reasonable limits.
"HOAs can be evil" and "HOAs can have over-reaching clauses" are different statements than "HOAs are just pure evil".
The concept of HOA is pure evil, not every single instance of it. Even if yours is fine right now, this can change next year when other people move in and take the whole thing over in order to make your life miserable.
This logic essentially extends into any form of government structure though. Sure, your city council is fine right now, this can change next year when there's another election. Sure, your state is fine right now, this can change next election. Sure, your country is fine right now, this can change...
It does to some degree. There are limits on what cities can dictate you do with your own property though. HOAs seem to have fewer limits on what restrictions they can impose on you.
Probably because it is quite an overstatement. There are situations where it is clearly useful be in an HOA.
For example last time I was looking for a house I looked at one where the water supply for that house and three others came from a private well. It was the best house I'd seen so far, but I couldn't find any binding agreement on how well maintenance would be paid for so I passed.
An HOA for those four houses specifically to cover operation and maintenance of the well would have been a very good thing to have.
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There may be more people living in HOAs who don't have issues with their HOA than you anticipate. Such a person might well view the statement "HOAs are just pure evil" as incorrect, even if they are aware that HOAs can be a problem.
By way of example, I watched an HOA, as a community, successfully resolve a complex and potentially expensive legal matter involving multiple residents in a way that was beneficial to all parties. Part of this resolution involved the community as a whole, under the bylaws, amending the bylaws to address a situation the original drafters should have anticipated but did not. One side effect of the amendment was to reduce the demands the HOA itself could make of homeowners, lowering what were already quite reasonable limits.
"HOAs can be evil" and "HOAs can have over-reaching clauses" are different statements than "HOAs are just pure evil".
The concept of HOA is pure evil, not every single instance of it. Even if yours is fine right now, this can change next year when other people move in and take the whole thing over in order to make your life miserable.
This logic essentially extends into any form of government structure though. Sure, your city council is fine right now, this can change next year when there's another election. Sure, your state is fine right now, this can change next election. Sure, your country is fine right now, this can change...
It does to some degree. There are limits on what cities can dictate you do with your own property though. HOAs seem to have fewer limits on what restrictions they can impose on you.
Probably because it is quite an overstatement. There are situations where it is clearly useful be in an HOA.
For example last time I was looking for a house I looked at one where the water supply for that house and three others came from a private well. It was the best house I'd seen so far, but I couldn't find any binding agreement on how well maintenance would be paid for so I passed.
An HOA for those four houses specifically to cover operation and maintenance of the well would have been a very good thing to have.