State Proposes Law to Put Better Controls On HOAs

This is happening in MN.

[spacespector]

My HOA president fired our lawn service. Then hired her sons lawn service company at 3 times the cost. Nothing was wrong with the first service.

[stevenpike]

HOAs to state, "You can't tell us what to do with our own properties!!!"

🎶Irony!!! 🎶

[TxStang]

No HOA should be allowed to forclose on a home

[rb]

I lived in a house with an HOA once, never again. I now own 30 acres out in the middle of nowhere, no house nazi's here to answer to 🤣

[joshuagibson]

Never HOA. Never Hertz. And never EVER buy an RV. EVER!

[llwellynantel]

I lived in a HOA community. It all starts out good and then the next thing you get a HOA that think that money grows on trees.
Not all people living in a HOA make the same money as the lawyer that becomes the HOA president and he has theses grandiose ideas on how to improve the community and that all cost money. HOA fees go up and up until it is impossible to afford the fees.
Just because one person thinks that money is in abundance for him doesn’t mean that the average person has abundance of money.
That is my pet peeve with HOA.
Never will I live in a home under a HOA.

[terryweekly]

Florida needs this more than any state in the country.

[gordonshumway]

HOAs do have a lobby, it’s Real Estate Developers. St least here in MD, Developers like HOAs for new developments. It simplifies many things for them. Counties like them, because they can shift costs onto homeowners that would otherwise be tax supported services. It’s hard to find new developments without an HOA here.

Also, it’s extremely hard to change the rules incorporated in the Developer’s original community plan. It takes a super majority of all homeowners, not just of those voting. I don’t know if we ever get even a regular majority even participating at our annual meetings where directors are elected.

[r.daillee]

I began to despise HOAs many years ago after I'd watched a TV program about HOA abuses. The particular event that incensed me most, and continues to incense me when I occasionally think about it, was an HOA's refusal to allow an elderly, shot to pieces in defense of his country, highly decorated WWII veteran to fly an American flag on his property. Utterly shameful, to say the least.

[josefmazzeo]

Best to avoid HOAs period, laws or not. They will abuse their power to the extent that any law will allow.

[micahf]

No HOA should EVER be able to take your home…PERIOD

[oldretireddude]

HOAs should only have control over common areas, period.

[jasongarrett]

Most people think an HOA is good because they offer gated communities and keep your neighbors from doing unsightly things like not mowing their lawns or doing car maintenance in their front yard. A lot of times HOAs are better at harassing you over the numbers on your mailbox, the color of your house not matching one of the three beige colors allowed in the neighborhood, and the number of guests you had over in the past 180 days. 😂

[siriusvoyager]

Nothing says freedom like having a quasi government tell you what you can and can’t do with your own private property

[kerrystoltz]

I am in a HOA for the first year it was a pain but we voted out the board and for the last 6 years it's been smooth sailing

[theprof]

An HOA *is* a government and should be held to the same standards

[colnzgprnts]

Many states have "right-to-work' Laws, but the same states do not have "Right-to-live" laws. It is fine that the community has HOA. but having a union in RTW does not mean a worker has to pay union dues - the worker makes his decision based on his determination of whether he gets fair value from the dues. The HOA member not only must pay dues, but even worse, the HOA can assess fines and penalties and create a lien on the person's property. As Steve stated, the HOA is not a government body, but the government give the HOA power and becomes a pseudo-enforcer. When the disgruntled homeowner confronts the HOA, he is afforded no protection of law through due process an the government takes on a roll of standing in the room holding a baseball bat and at the ready to pounce on the home owner!

[calebfielding]

Just make it impossible for the hoa to forclose on your home for any reason. Also make it easy to dissolve an hoa if they are not completly transparent with their money.

[mr-vet]

The problem is that state governments and municipalities let HOIAs do whatever they want because property developers, builders, etc...bribe politicians (AKA: give campaign donations); the result is homeowners have diminished property rights.

[tguest]

Was going to buy into HOA. They had 42 pages of bylaws and 35 pages of rules.

I work in hospital; our bylaws are 48 pages and 18 pages of rules.

Simply INSANE that little country HOA has more pages of Bylaws and Rules than a hospital. Especially when you consider how heavily regulated healthcare is...

Needless to say, i did NOT buy into HOA community.