Neighbors want to dissolve HOA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MD has been taken over by YIMBYs and the HOA is probably your only protection from your neighborhood turning into a disaster unless you also have covenants on the property. Do you want 8plexes in your neighborhood people blocking access to your house by parking on the road? If not, then do not dissolve the HOA. If you don't care about this then go ahead.

Our HOA in VA says they can't govern parking on roads. So you can't park commercial vehicles, trailers, etc in driveways, but you can on the road since it is a public road.

The extra parking will come from the 8plex units because there will be non parking minimums and parking will overflow in the road. The parking issue is about the extra density, not the HOA enforcement component directly. HOA protects from aggressive developers destroying your quiet and safe neighborhood.

Ooh! Build an 8-plex condo in the HOA neighborhood!

[Anonymous]

In most of Northern VA, HOAs do not have road maintenance obligations. Maybe one does somewhere, but it is very far from being common.

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty unusual for a home association to be formed for the small a community of houses. I’d ask Wyatt wasn’t initially formed. Is there something unusual or any shared locations and services that prompted their formation? That might help answer the question.

[Anonymous]

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You don't need an HOA to run a neighborhood.

In our Bethesda neighborhood, we have a Citizen's Association. No dues, money comes from our propery taxes (which are sky-high). They help direct funds to maintain our clubhouse, tennis courts, and hold socials several times a year: Halloween parade and party, and various other things.

What we don't miss are the "your fence must be this high and that color!" sort of nightmare. We get all the good things of an HOA without the bad things.

How can your neighborhood use property taxes for neighborhood maintenance?

The pp has to be misunderstanding. I can't imagine any city would provide funding for a private neighborhood's tennis courts and parties that are not open to every city resident.

[Anonymous]

Village taxes pays for this
(Village within a County within a State)

[Anonymous]

Our city government is for 10k people and if I can pick in the future I’ll go bigger. It’s too small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our city government is for 10k people and if I can pick in the future I’ll go bigger. It’s too small.

I live in a small town of 350 homes and a thousand people (in greater DC). It's a nice size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A HOA for 10 houses is crazy. You need people on a board to manage it . If I had to guess no one wants to do that. Someone has to volunteer to manage funds, schedule grass cutting , maintenance etc….. it’s a way for the county to not do what they’re supposed to do for you as taxpayers.
I’d absolve in a heartbeat bit we have 87 houses and you have to get every single homeowner to agree.

Maryland requires HOAs for any development with 10 or more houses

[Anonymous]

I would feel I failed in life if I lived in an area with an HOA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A HOA for 10 houses is crazy. You need people on a board to manage it . If I had to guess no one wants to do that. Someone has to volunteer to manage funds, schedule grass cutting , maintenance etc….. it’s a way for the county to not do what they’re supposed to do for you as taxpayers.
I’d absolve in a heartbeat bit we have 87 houses and you have to get every single homeowner to agree.

Maryland requires HOAs for any development with 10 or more houses

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