Stupid things you saw on Nextdoor

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

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Why. The hell. Does anyone live with an HOA.

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HOAs became popular as people started realizing they could no longer afford flight to keep themselves in a good neighborhood. So they created an artificial system (more gov) and it's been modestly successful--but it is voluntary which is key. Our house is now 20 years old and the neighborhood is very desirable. Compare to Aurora where I grew up and in 20 years ('77-95ish) it went completely downhill.

HOAs have certainly gone full potato in some places! WC is full of closeted and not-so-closeted Lib statists who love this kind of stuff.

HR isn't that bad as long as you don't intentionally test the rules. There are many violations, some on my own block, that have gone unnoticed. Other odd things do get noticed but are minor (leaving the trash cans out too long).

If you compare some HOAs to some city's ordinances, the HOAs are sometimes better, and you have more legal protection.

But it's not for everyone. If I had all the toys/time I wanted I probably wouldn't live here. Since I am money/time limited, all I need for now is a house in a safe neighborhood for the family, and decent resell value.

Our neighborhood has a voluntary HOA; not many people in the neighborhood belong to it. We've got very few covenants- stuff like easements for cable, etc no mining or oil operations shall be conducted on the property and so on.

No HOA was one of our criteria in purchasing our home. I personally bristle at the very idea of anyone telling us what to do with property we have paid for.

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Originally Posted by Gman

It's a bitch that Mercedes-Benz and BMW don't make pickup trucks.

Our neighborhood is a mix of blue collar and white collar households, and I like it that way.

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Park this in front of your house!
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mer...hicles/trucks/

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Or this
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mer...-cars/x-class/

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Originally Posted by Irving

Yeah. I remember a story from a few years ago where people were upset that the owners of Lincoln Blackwoods weren't getting into trouble, but people with F-150's were.

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In the book "The Millionaire Next Door", the authors found that the most common vehicle of millionaires is an older Ford F-150

https://www.fool.com/personal-financ...ext-doorq.aspx

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Originally Posted by Skip

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

Why. The hell. Does anyone live with an HOA.

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That argument is on par with "Repeal the Second Amendment to stop mass shootings!"

:p

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Originally Posted by Skip

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You really think thats what your neighborhood would look like without an HOA?

No HOA here, and doesn't look like a shithole. And property values are climbing crazy here too... 3 houses on my block have sold for over list price the day they went onto the market.

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Originally Posted by DenverGP

You really think thats what your neighborhood would look like without an HOA?

No HOA here, and doesn't look like a shithole. And property values are climbing crazy here too... 3 houses on my block have sold for over list price the day they went onto the market.

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The current outlook is within 18-24 months a steep correction is predicted.

The girl is a commercial landscape architect and she is already seeing big general contractors preparing for it as well as commercial lenders the list of metro area forclosures is also growing.

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Originally Posted by DFBrews

The current outlook is within 18-24 months a steep correction is predicted.

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I have no doubt a correction is coming, but having an HOA or not isn't going to be the deciding factor in the correction. I also don't think the correction here in the denver area is going to be very extreme. There will still be enough demand that it'll reduce the impact of the correction.

Correction definitely coming. Denver may not be affected very hard, IF the rest of the country can hold itself together for a while. In 10 months, we'll break the record for time between recessions in the US.

No HOA here, and most properties look pretty good. Nosey neighbors can call code enforcement just as easily as they can call an HOA. Almost every single rural property I've ever seen looks like the picture above though, including my own.

I submit that most city properties are just not large enough to look terrible. I bet if a study was done, there'd be a pretty strong correlation showing that as acreage goes up, the capacity to be filled with garbage goes up.

I survived Aurora and lived in Parker for two years. Nice middle class houses. Neighbor next to me sold to a sporty every other weekend DV couple. Parker PD out often. Multiple cars on blocks in the side yard next to my property. He moved into an RV parked in front of the house—not making this up.

Got transferred after 9/11 and had to sell to move in two months. Next to that.

I can see both sides.

My dream house doesn’t have an HOA. Or neighbors I can see or hear. And our HOA is no good for neighbor conflict issues. They only enforce the regs for their benefit. Like I said and Irving touched on, the law has more bit in that space than HOAs.