You say that until you live next to someone who literally parks multiple vehicles in their front yard, blasts loud music all day (and most of the night), has dogs running loose, and then starts building a second house on the edge of your property.
Many Americans are selfish, stupid people who will do whatever they want until someone stops them. We all know calling the cops is useless and often just escalates the assholery. I’d rather deal with an HOA run by geriatrics than a pissed off trashy person who has endless access to gasoline.
Ordinances and laws don’t matter in many places. Until his pitbull bit a kid walking in the street, the cops AND animal control never came out once despite multiple complaints. Cops don’t care and animal control had other problems (wildlife in the nearby nature preserve). My eife wouldn’t take our dog out because we’d get swarmed.
I don’t know why your first assumption is that this is all somehow my fault.
music would be a problem but I won’t complain about the cars in their front yard if they don’t complain about the giant garden in mine. Besides, maybe they’d let me borrow their jack stand or help me change my rotors.
I appreciate that you want to see the potential positives, but it’s just not realistic. If it’s a cool person, like the kind that would help you out, they’re probably not the same person who acts so obnoxiously and rudely.
And OP I’m responding too isn’t making a sweeping generalization? It’s not a false equivalency to compare an actual experience without an HOA to someone’s made-up generalization about HOAs. The fact that people so blindly repeat this broken line of thinking proves that most people have never actually dealt with an HOA. Sure, there are bad ones, but not every single one.
It’s a circlejerk of uninformed people who just want to hate on something they really know nothing about.
You say that until you live next to someone who literally parks multiple vehicles in their front yard, blasts loud music all day (and most of the night), has dogs running loose, and then starts building a second house on the edge of your property.
Many Americans are selfish, stupid people who will do whatever they want until someone stops them. We all know calling the cops is useless and often just escalates the assholery. I’d rather deal with an HOA run by geriatrics than a pissed off trashy person who has endless access to gasoline.
Most municipalities have ordinances for noise and leash requirements. I doubt you even bothered to call the cops on them
Ordinances and laws don’t matter in many places. Until his pitbull bit a kid walking in the street, the cops AND animal control never came out once despite multiple complaints. Cops don’t care and animal control had other problems (wildlife in the nearby nature preserve). My eife wouldn’t take our dog out because we’d get swarmed.
I don’t know why your first assumption is that this is all somehow my fault.
music would be a problem but I won’t complain about the cars in their front yard if they don’t complain about the giant garden in mine. Besides, maybe they’d let me borrow their jack stand or help me change my rotors.
I appreciate that you want to see the potential positives, but it’s just not realistic. If it’s a cool person, like the kind that would help you out, they’re probably not the same person who acts so obnoxiously and rudely.
Well, that’s a false equivalency if I ever saw one.
And OP I’m responding too isn’t making a sweeping generalization? It’s not a false equivalency to compare an actual experience without an HOA to someone’s made-up generalization about HOAs. The fact that people so blindly repeat this broken line of thinking proves that most people have never actually dealt with an HOA. Sure, there are bad ones, but not every single one.
It’s a circlejerk of uninformed people who just want to hate on something they really know nothing about.