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

[Great-Kazoo]

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.

[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.

[tmckay2]

I'm not huge hoa supporter but live ext to enough jackasses without an hoa and you start to appreciate them a bit. MOST have reasonable rules that really just tries to block complete laziness and stupidity. They make sure your neighbor can't trash the hell out of his place which actually lowers the perceived value of your place. Also, my hoa has paid for a lot of stuff it would have sucked for me to pay myself such as when the roots of a big ass tree obstructed my plumbing. 9k in cost and I didn't pay anything. I also don't have to remove snow, cut my grass, fix my deck, weed whack, maintain the pools, tennis courts or roads in the community. Not too bad really. The only rule they have I dont like is no fog can be off leash. This sucks for people like me with well behaved dogs but I get why it's a necessary rule.

[tmckay2]

Also all the hoas Ive been in warn you before fines