I have a house. I have no HOA. I'm very happy with this situation and don't see any possible value that an HOA could add to this situation.

Funnily enough, there does seem to be a sort of wannabe HOA in my neighborhood that is always dropping things off in our mailbox asking for donations and telling us about events. I never give them any money, and never go to their events though, so either they don't provide any value or the value they provide apparently is not derived from them having any enforcement power.

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StilesCrisis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you have wonderful neighbors, HOAs are unnecessary.

If you have horrible neighbors you will wish you had one.

	▲	pretzellogician 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unless those horrible neighbors are part of the HOA's board.
	▲	saghm 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Or maybe I'd be circumspect to recognize that my neighbors having rights is just the price of me having rights, just like I'm not in favor of a police state even if it means that sometimes people will commit crimes. Who knows!
	▲	rc5150 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have horrible neighbors and no HOA. I do not wish I was apart of an HOA.

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ghaff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And I have a house without a HOA but did go through a bunch of complicated (and expensive) easement agreements and survey definitions that LePage’s to a lot of loose-gooey hand shakes and outright mistakes over the years.

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saghm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

And you think that the solution to having to deal with other people making claims about your property is to just fully cede the jurisdiction of them?

	▲	ghaff 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am by no means a fan of JOAS in general but things like the maintenance of private roads including winter plowing do need to be dealt with and while a couple of neighbors can probably get agreements drawn up for “only” $10K each, that only goes so far if more people are involved.