it a personnal choice you sign on you have to live with in and I can't image that they can just change the rules without some type of meeting first. ..

oh but they can, and they can change the rules without notice. Like Barney Fife with a gun, a dangeroous combination. They need to be reined in.

To me HOAs are the answer to a problem that doesn't exist.

HOAs' suck. I live in rural Johnston county and we just elected a new adminstration. Our HOA incoporated illegally in 2008 and they were been doing business as usual up until November of last year. We waited four years to get the bun holes out and replaced them with someone who can read and understand what was written into the convenants. We were handed our HOA paperwork after we closed on the house and never before. I found out later out HOA officers had prior experience with other HOSa that they were apart of before moving from the cold tundra northern states. Remember lawyers made these laws and they are the main developers of these properties.

I regret buying in an HOA neighborhood even though ours is run fairly well. I will be downsizing when our high schooler graduates and don't ever foresee myself living under another HOA...

To simple: I never will buy an house where someone else can tell me what to do, it a personnal choice you sign on you have to live with in and I can't image that they can just change the rules without some type of meeting first.

Unless you have served on an HOA board you have no idea of how unpaid fees affect the operating budget of the association. If you don't like the board, vote 'em out. If you don't like the structure of the HOA, move. Without strict regulations, you would soon find your property value in danger. When you moved into an association condo/townhouse/neighborhood, you knew the existence of the board. Generally, the board has the best interest of the group as a whole, not one or two individuals. I was president of my association for eight long years. I finally got sick of all the complaining and I resigned in July. To date no one has stepped up to be president and we have had no meeting since July. Is that how you want your HOA to operate. Someone has to be the point person or you become like the government, a big fat mess. lanecc

DITTO. I serve on my HOA Board because I wanted to make sure our home values stay as high as possible. I do not and will not cater to the individual who wants to v

HOA's should not be able to change the rules after you've bought your property.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely NO WAY an HOA should be able to foreclose on your home simply because you haven't paid your dues. That is absolutely ridiculous!!! Thank God I live in the country and my neighborhood has no HOA. Our neighborhood is doing just fine without all those stupid regulations telling me I can't paint my house a certain color, can't fly my American flag, and what kind of mailbox I'm allowed to have! RIDICULOUS!!!

HOAs should be voluntary. If you want access to the pool, the tennis courts and the clubhouse, you pay dues. If not, you pay nothing. Private property is exactly that...private. If I choose not to support the $10k per year fountain at the entrance to my neighborhood, I shouldn't have to pay for it. I didn't put it there. HOAs in this state need to be HEAVILY regulated, and again...completely voluntary.

"I don't like HOAs and live in a remote area. But a lien is only payable when the property is sold. If you have half the owners not paying dues, what good are liens?" - storchheim

On the other side - What good is foreclosure in terms of helping cash flow for an HOA. Normally the foreclosure process takes two years and many times the HOAs land up not being paid after legal fees etc.

At least a lien will be paid when the property is sold and costs very little to put into place.

The big issue with HOAs today is that many overreach their powers as individuals on the boards institute new regulations that target their neighbors in personal vendettas. This leads to inappropriate foreclosures and other absurd situations.

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