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It's tough to find the right home. Sometimes people want the new homes.. and most of them seem to be rules by HOAs. My parents bought a home a while back that was part of an HOA. They had this stupid list of shit that you had to follow. It sounded like a whole bunch of over-conscious policy to try to make absolutely sure that it was a nice place to live. On the contrary though, the neighbors were cold, unfriendly and they held it against you if you breached those rules.
We had 5 people living in the house.. and each one had a car. We had a 2-car garage. This means there was technically only room for 4 cars. Well, factor in logistics (like leaving space for the cars in the garage to get out, without having to move anything.) and we only really had 3 spaces.
The rule from the HOA is.. you are not allowed to park on the street. It wasn't that the streets weren't wide enough... it's just some shitty rule they felt like enforcing. So where did I have to park? Around the block, outside of the fucking neighborhood. I'm sure people with apartments without parking structures can sympathize, but it's not supposed to be that way when you live in fucking suburbia.
Our previous neighborhood had no HOAs. It was safe, quiet and humble. The neighbors were all friends. It was great.
Down with HOAs.
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