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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky 75-year-old's house seized, sold over $288 unpaid HOA dues [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Previously I lived in an area without an HOA. My neighbor inherited the home next to me and was a drunk who let the property go to shit. Code enforcement was a joke. He mowed his lawn only once or twice in two years on the rare occasions when I could get code enforcement to compel him to do so. He parked one vehicle on the sidewalk just about every day because he had a junk car in the driveway on cinder blocks. He came home drunk one night and ran into his mailbox and never repaired it. The paint was peeling off his siding and his gutters fell down and stayed that way. Fortunately my company bought my home as part of my relocation package, but I still took a $40,000 loss. The relocation company spent over a year trying to sell the home and I'm sure they lost money on top of what I lost.
I've had one run-in with my HOA and have no love for them, but I would never move into a single family residential neighborhood without one again.