That's just it there not necessary, people are just duped into thinking they are. We have rising house prices here in Australia, we don't have purple houses, people keep their houses neat. Our subdivision in Houston the houses looked nearly the same, same colored roofs, almost the same colored walls, drab and dreary, the local councils here in Australia enforces things like parking, and if your grass becomes a fire risk, if you do renovations you need to get a council permit. But nothing like the nonsense that HOA's come up with, they pit resident against resident, a lot are run by unscrupulous people. They have the law so heavily in there favor that lawyers won't take them on, there advice is to beg for mercy. We lived with them for years, nothing but trouble.
