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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HOAs have positives and negatives.

I live in a neighborhood without one and some people in one of the houses have ten cars in their one house, probably at least three renters who are so-called "family."

Two of their cars are always parked in front of my house. There must be 12 people at least in the house.[/quote]

+1. Our old neighborhood did not have an HOA and we had the same situation. Multiple cars on lawns and people who elected to burn their trash in their front yards rather than use a disposal company. This was not a rural area where no one had to smell it, either. They'd usually do it on the hottest days of the summer, to really add to the ambience.  My parents live in a sought-after part of Arlington that also has no HOA. They could probably sell their house for $1.4M+ with no trouble. They share a block with a guy who uses his front lawn and the street in front of his house to repair motorcycles year round and another guy who has let his house go so badly that there is a largish tree growing through the middle. In most other locations, this would probably be a huge deterrent if they needed to sell.

When we moved, we specifically looked for a neighborhood with an HOA. It's not for everyone, but I vastly prefer it to the alternative.[/quote]

This is all stuff that is typically covered by city ordinances, enforcement is usually based on either getting a complaint or someone in the inspections department having certain people they prefer to pick on. I don't know anywhere in the US where it is legal anymore to burn trash (although I grant some people pretend it's a recreational fire pit), usually vehicle repairs must be completed within a few days, and a tree growing through a house is a dangerous structure. [/quote]

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