Thu Apr 07, 2005, 09:23am
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So as long as we're totoally off topic, what ARE HOA's?
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Juulie - HOA stands for Home Owners Association. What you don't want is to have Crack HOA's in your neighborhood.
Or - maybe you do. 
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The HOA is the association that charges you a monthly fee to tell you that anything you propose to do to your property cannot be done. I live in a gated "active adult community" (one spouse has to be 55 or older), and we call our HOA the "Power Mongers". It is sometimes truly amazing what a little bit of power will do to some people. While the HOA does do some good things, they seem to have their head up their *** a lot of the time.
[Edited by dblref on Apr 7th, 2005 at 06:55 AM]
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HOA board members think they are the Mayor of the subdivision. They like to stick their nose where it doesn't belong. I guess they do some good things to like send people notices to move their broke down cars. They make sure somebody doesn't paint their house a funky color and most importantly, they get to review the bids and decide who gets to landscape the common ground areas. These folks have some serious power.
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So my rundown house in a poor neighborhood where I'm lucky if the garbage man does his job once a week isn't so bad, after all?
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