livligkinkajouPennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.
Kinda funny how Americans call their country “land of the free” but can’t even do certain things on THEIR OWN PROPERTY because of the HOAs.
That’s not a contradiction. HOAs suck but they’re a contractual relationship that you enter voluntarily.
The D Quuuuuillit’s just that any development built after Clinton requires you to enter that contract or the bank won’t approve your loan
Which is needed in developments since the houses are closer together and it just takes one person turning their front yard into a used car lot to drive down property values and annoy everyone else.
If you don’t want an HOA don’t buy in an HOA.
somehow my point has been again lost so let me state it more clearly this time:
most people subject to HOAs are so because being picky about housing is a privilege it’s rare to have access to
Oh no, not the poor upper middle class homeowners who were forced to buy in a neighborhood that has a strict HOA whose primary purpose is to keep property values high.
and the lower middle class homeowners, and the lower class renters. any development after around '98. you will deal with an HOA.
yes. HOAs primarily exist to serve capital, but they don’t always act as rules enforcement against the homeowner. often who gets the rules enforced against them is someone who picked that neighborhood based on it was what they could afford near enough their work for their whole life to be affordable.