Interesting .... on the surface an HOA sounds like a good thing. (I'm one the poor masses that will never own a home) but I can see how things go down hill. On the surface though, a standard isn't a bad thing is it? Is it the structure of the HOA or the makeup of the ppl inside them?
If an HOA was filled with non liberals it might be OK to have one?
I do not live in an HOA, however I have a sister that lives in a relaxed HOA and another sister that lives in a strict HOA.
I will say our neighborhood some people do have trash around, broken cars, long weeds, and generally don't take very good care of their yards for the most part. We do have people that take excellent care, however there are always the outliers who have their broken down school bus collection, "art", and scrap metal.
My sister in a relaxed HOA has nice yards and houses, the HOA is basically there for sidewalk repair, common area issues. Not controlling homeowners, unless someone is completely out of hand (like people in my neighborhood). The sister in the strict HOA gets cited for her grass too long, got a paint color approved for her house, then after they painted it, the HOA decided they didn't like it and made them repaint it.
She gets cited for yard decor that they don't like, someone parked in their driveway and overlapped the sidewalk, and she got a strongly worded letter. They are constantly bombarded with letters from the HOA about dog poop, trash etiquette, flags, driving through the neighborhood... it's nuts. When the HOA ladies walk the neighborhood, she sweats. That's not homeownership. I'd rather live in my neighborhood where people do what they want with their yards, even if I don't agree with what they do.
As far as people in the HOA, I think absolute power corrupts absolutely. No matter which side of the aisle you are on.
My wife's coworker lives in an HOA. Her husband has MS I think, and their neighbors know this. They see what she has to go through to get him to the car, in and out of the car, etc., and yet, her next door neighbor is always giving her shit about her yard and whatnot. She's trying to get some things remodeled/repaired in her home, and occasionally, when she gets home from work, she has to park out on the street until the handymen are gone (their lots are small and her driveway is really short), and they give her shit about that. They go out of their way to make her life more difficult than it already is, when they could take a few minutes to stand in her shoes, and ask if there's anything they could do to help her.
There's no fucking way I'd ever live in an HOA. I honestly don't know what's going through people's minds when they think everything will be OK to live under one.
Good men dont seek political power. You wont find good men on the board of a HOA. All you find is petty tyrants seeking to control everyone and everything around them. Sociopaths. Or in the vernacular, Karens.
This is actually one of the bigger parts of the problem we should still be looking to fix.
If there is a place to rule, and we abdicate, [they] will seize it. We should take it and learn to wield power and rule wisely and justly, rather than hold power as a certain bunch of unnamed losers have tended to enjoy doing.
A free man is a king. Part of being a king is knowing your jurisdictions and applicable treaties and being actively involved in your alliances.
How are we going to take on and defeat thousand year old government tyrants with infinite money and a strong grasp on global messaging if we won’t take on inbred midwit HOA tyrants?
— Local Action equals National Impact
— Darkness is not a force of its own, but the absence of light
We can do this. We just have to stand up. Especially myself, included.
Actually, the problem lies in educating the good men. We know that doing things the right way is the best way, yet in our education system the teachers only teach from a leftist viewpoint (politically correct), not a common sense point of view. Most real men know instinctively what is right and what is wrong, but in this reality we call America, those good men have been taught that their viewpoints are not the right ones. They are told to stand down so they won't hurt someone's feelings. They are belittled until they just give up and say F&#$ it and walk away. We need to start pushing back against the left and let their petty emotions come to the forefront for every one to see. We just say "NO!" to all their idiot suggestions and watch them melt down. Then we enact common sense ideas so everyone can enjoy America's dream.
More about taking responsibility to make sure that things are done properly and constructively, rather than Karenonically by scouring ways to smack people with mandatory contractual obligations.
Proper wielding of power doesn’t necessarily come off as “wielding power”, per se.
Interesting .... on the surface an HOA sounds like a good thing. (I'm one the poor masses that will never own a home) but I can see how things go down hill. On the surface though, a standard isn't a bad thing is it? Is it the structure of the HOA or the makeup of the ppl inside them?
If an HOA was filled with non liberals it might be OK to have one?
I do not live in an HOA, however I have a sister that lives in a relaxed HOA and another sister that lives in a strict HOA.
I will say our neighborhood some people do have trash around, broken cars, long weeds, and generally don't take very good care of their yards for the most part. We do have people that take excellent care, however there are always the outliers who have their broken down school bus collection, "art", and scrap metal.
My sister in a relaxed HOA has nice yards and houses, the HOA is basically there for sidewalk repair, common area issues. Not controlling homeowners, unless someone is completely out of hand (like people in my neighborhood). The sister in the strict HOA gets cited for her grass too long, got a paint color approved for her house, then after they painted it, the HOA decided they didn't like it and made them repaint it.
She gets cited for yard decor that they don't like, someone parked in their driveway and overlapped the sidewalk, and she got a strongly worded letter. They are constantly bombarded with letters from the HOA about dog poop, trash etiquette, flags, driving through the neighborhood... it's nuts. When the HOA ladies walk the neighborhood, she sweats. That's not homeownership. I'd rather live in my neighborhood where people do what they want with their yards, even if I don't agree with what they do. As far as people in the HOA, I think absolute power corrupts absolutely. No matter which side of the aisle you are on.
My wife's coworker lives in an HOA. Her husband has MS I think, and their neighbors know this. They see what she has to go through to get him to the car, in and out of the car, etc., and yet, her next door neighbor is always giving her shit about her yard and whatnot. She's trying to get some things remodeled/repaired in her home, and occasionally, when she gets home from work, she has to park out on the street until the handymen are gone (their lots are small and her driveway is really short), and they give her shit about that. They go out of their way to make her life more difficult than it already is, when they could take a few minutes to stand in her shoes, and ask if there's anything they could do to help her.
There's no fucking way I'd ever live in an HOA. I honestly don't know what's going through people's minds when they think everything will be OK to live under one.
Good men dont seek political power. You wont find good men on the board of a HOA. All you find is petty tyrants seeking to control everyone and everything around them. Sociopaths. Or in the vernacular, Karens.
This is actually one of the bigger parts of the problem we should still be looking to fix.
If there is a place to rule, and we abdicate, [they] will seize it. We should take it and learn to wield power and rule wisely and justly, rather than hold power as a certain bunch of unnamed losers have tended to enjoy doing.
A free man is a king. Part of being a king is knowing your jurisdictions and applicable treaties and being actively involved in your alliances.
How are we going to take on and defeat thousand year old government tyrants with infinite money and a strong grasp on global messaging if we won’t take on inbred midwit HOA tyrants?
— Local Action equals National Impact
— Darkness is not a force of its own, but the absence of light
We can do this. We just have to stand up. Especially myself, included.
Actually, the problem lies in educating the good men. We know that doing things the right way is the best way, yet in our education system the teachers only teach from a leftist viewpoint (politically correct), not a common sense point of view. Most real men know instinctively what is right and what is wrong, but in this reality we call America, those good men have been taught that their viewpoints are not the right ones. They are told to stand down so they won't hurt someone's feelings. They are belittled until they just give up and say F&#$ it and walk away. We need to start pushing back against the left and let their petty emotions come to the forefront for every one to see. We just say "NO!" to all their idiot suggestions and watch them melt down. Then we enact common sense ideas so everyone can enjoy America's dream.
Yea I agree that good men need to take control. The difference is that good men are called to power, as Trump was, they do not seek it as an end.
More about taking responsibility to make sure that things are done properly and constructively, rather than Karenonically by scouring ways to smack people with mandatory contractual obligations.
Proper wielding of power doesn’t necessarily come off as “wielding power”, per se.