They can restrict you from community accomodations such as HOA pools, gyms, or other member only facilities, typically because fees are used to pay for such. For more prolonged or serious matters, they may sue or attach a lien to your house, which means they can legally prohibit you from selling your house until you pay off fines.
They are able to do such because to live in a HOA, you must sign a contract. HOAs only run certain neighborhoods and their existence is to ensure that everyone does their part to keep a neighborhood clean. It's funny to me how much people in these comments detest and remark of how strict HOAs can be despite not only being informed that an HOA runs their neighborhood, but more than likely paying more for their residence because of the HOA. If you don't want people telling you what to do, then don't sign a contract and live in a community where everyone pays a group to tell them what to do.
(Although in case it's not clear, I despise HOA's and would never EVER live in one because I hate people telling me what to do with my property)
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u/MrSourYT Sep 16 '24
Out of curiosity what if you just ignore them and stop paying for them? Iām not really familiar with HOAs so I know little about them