I don't get it, why buy a house in an hoa?

[Drilldov2.0]

Never had an HOA never will. You chose to live in an area where there is one. This is why we always buy in older neighborhoods.

Well it was the only choice at the time. Never again. Some people are afforded enough time to shop around for months. Some work too much.

[MrPrena]

I pay $56/mo.
It covers Trash, general area snow/grass.
Not really happy with paying HOA.
I moved to this place, because HOA was $25 when we moved here. It went all the way upto high 60s, and went down to 56.

We use to have a crappy property management company, but we recently changed to cheaper management who does better job.

[sniper7]

Well it was the only choice at the time. Never again. Some people are afforded enough time to shop around for months. Some work too much.

we were in kind of the same boat. We could either get a HUD home that had potential problems, never knew what it would end up looking like until the current residents moved out....or a brand new home in an HOA but we got to pick everything and have it built the way we wanted, up to standards, with a warranty and worked in lots of extras.