Neighbors want to dissolve HOA

[Anonymous]

We live in a Fairfax County in a newly built (2017) community with 10 homes.

One of of our neighbors wants to dissolve the HOA.

Anyone been a neighborhood where this has happened?

We don't want it and high doubt it will happen but it's concerning that a few think this is the right decision.

[Anonymous]

There is an anti HOA trend on social media right now so that’s probably where they got this idea from. I would oppose such a measure because HOAs have value for most houses, why would yours be any different.

[Anonymous]

What is their reason for wanting to dissolve it? Does it have unusually extreme rules that are making things difficult for the neighbors?

[Anonymous]

There goes the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I love living in a non-HOA neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

My former HOA was value subtract. My current neighborhood, which has no HOA, has much better maintained properties than the HOA neighborhood.

What benefit exactly is your HOA providing to you ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love living in a non-HOA neighborhood.

This. We specifically avoided houses with HOAs when we were looking for a home. What benefit is the HOA providing you? If you feel that it’s beneficial, then do not support the dissolution of the HOA. If the HOA provides for some common services, then you need to think of how / who will be responsible for those.

[Anonymous]

Is the HOA actually providing value? Does the neighbor want to dissolve it because of the dues or because you're being picky about things like door color?

[Anonymous]

It's a 10 home community. The HOA may be maintaining a road, but probably nothing more. It's probably just a needless hassle for whatever neighbor ends up having to manage the paperwork

[Anonymous]

What’s the point of the HOA? I’d be in favor of dissolving it unless it provided something like a pool or playground.

[Anonymous]

I'm SO glad we don't have an HOA for our townhouse/rowhouse. No need to pay wasted money to enforce dumb rules, telling me what color I can paint my door or what I can plant in my yard.

Thankfully I have decent neighbors who are decent with it comes to home maintenance.

OP, what exactly does your HOA do? What are you afraid of?

[Anonymous]

If there's any common property or maintenance, even an entry sign with plantings, I would not dissolve it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love living in a non-HOA neighborhood.

This. We specifically avoided houses with HOAs when we were looking for a home. What benefit is the HOA providing you? If you feel that it’s beneficial, then do not support the dissolution of the HOA. If the HOA provides for some common services, then you need to think of how / who will be responsible for those.

+1 us, too.

HOAs can go crazy. Some folks get drunk on the HOA power and try to wield that power on the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a 10 home community. The HOA may be maintaining a road, but probably nothing more. It's probably just a needless hassle for whatever neighbor ends up having to manage the paperwork

get rid of it. They are not providing any great value. Our neighborhood doesn't have an HOA but we have a community organization. Someone leads it and takes care of the flowers in front of the sign into our neighborhood. We chip in money for this person to maintain it.

Other than that, an HOA is useless for us. The city takes care of the roads and sidewalks. Our city has some rules about making sure your sidewalk and property are kept tidy to some degree. So, if there's a problem, someone will call the city on the homeowners. That's happened a few times. They come and give them a citation to fix.

[Anonymous]

The two HOAs I know of mainly existed to maintain docks, prohibit boat parking in driveways, and to ban urban chickens.