If you have wonderful neighbors, HOAs are unnecessary.
replyIf you have horrible neighbors you will wish you had one.
Unless those horrible neighbors are part of the HOA's board.
replyOr 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!
replyI have horrible neighbors and no HOA. I do not wish I was apart of an HOA.
replyAnd 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.
replyAnd 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?
replyI 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.
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