Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. The existence of HOAs is disclosed before the sale and every single person who chooses to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood has weighed the pros and cons and decided the pros outweighted the cons. I have never lived in an HOA neighborhood and, for as long as my preferences remain the same, I never will. I have never and will never be forced to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood against my will.
Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; they want to live in that nice pretty HOA neighborhood but don't want the HOA that made it a nice neighborhood. Such people are immature. You may as well choose to live in the woods, then complain about trees.
> Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase.
At no point I claimed it was concealed ahead of purchase. It wasn't, it was known.
>Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision.
Yeah, it was their decision. They did it, despite hating the idea of joining an HOA. Simply because there were no houses for acceptable prices within a driving distance from the city. That's the complaint. No one is saying "they got tricked into it" or something.
Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; they want to live in that nice pretty HOA neighborhood but don't want the HOA that made it a nice neighborhood. Such people are immature. You may as well choose to live in the woods, then complain about trees.