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

This. And I urge OP to think about the future if this is in fact a volunteer-run HOA. I used to live in a 1980s-built neighborhood with HOA operated by neighbors. Apparently it was fine when it was all original owners who were enthusiastic about their new homes. But then those original owners became older and didn’t want to deal with it anymore. And a lot of newer buyers were transitory and/or a number of homes turned into rentals. People got busy with young kids and dual income families. No one wanted the responsibility or liability* taking this on.

I ended up stepping up to be a board member at one point, but we couldn’t even get a quorum to show up for meetings to vote on things that needed to get done (like maintaining land) so we had to somewhat skirt things and operate outside the documents (which were mostly photocopies of old photocopies). When we went to sell our house we had to wait for the president to get back from vacation and get around to finally sending the buyers the HOA packet.

Just ugh. It’s a thankless job and impossible to for the bylaws to evolve if people don’t show up to vote.

I’m now in a non-HOA neighborhood and the homes are so much more beautiful and interesting. If for some reason I ever considered an HOA neighborhood in the future it would be a big one with professional management. Hell no to a small neighborhood in which your neighbors run the HOA.

*There was an insurance policy for the officers, but who even wants the headache of potentially getting sued because you didn’t follow some bylaw or maintain or renew some thing or other.[/quote]

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