HOA is controlled by members elected by owners, they work fo
for the interests of themselves and yours, without pay. They set the rules, of course can change the rules to make the properties attractive and valuable. They do make mistakes, sometime stupid, but aren't we all?
One of my HOA tried to restrict the number of rental units
recently. But they did not get enough votes. I remember in old days, those who set up as rental units before they try to change the rule get the exemption, so called grandfather rule. However, now they try to set up 15% of rental all time no matter when you bought it. You have to report to HOA each time you change tenants and subject to 15% rental rule anytime. One of our fellow chinese having 5 units in the community wrote letters to all the homeowners in the community to list all the pros and cons. He also tried to vote as board member of the HOA. On the election day, they were verbally attacked by a number of homeowners and those homeowners tried to take away investor's voting right to become a board member because they claimed they were not living there. This is a typical middle class AA community. I will be very cautious to buy a house with HOA in the future.
买房子。HOA 有不确定性，不知道未来会不会限租。
1. SFH, HOA 一年100美元。这么低的费用，是不是说明HOA没有什么权利？
2. Condo , HOA 220. 这个费用虽然高，但是可以承受，就怕将来限租。
没有HOA的房子，很多很老，没时间打理
某个邻居看你房子不顺眼去天天报告，和费用高低没关系。
for the interests of themselves and yours, without pay. They set the rules, of course can change the rules to make the properties attractive and valuable. They do make mistakes, sometime stupid, but aren't we all?
recently. But they did not get enough votes. I remember in old days, those who set up as rental units before they try to change the rule get the exemption, so called grandfather rule. However, now they try to set up 15% of rental all time no matter when you bought it. You have to report to HOA each time you change tenants and subject to 15% rental rule anytime. One of our fellow chinese having 5 units in the community wrote letters to all the homeowners in the community to list all the pros and cons. He also tried to vote as board member of the HOA. On the election day, they were verbally attacked by a number of homeowners and those homeowners tried to take away investor's voting right to become a board member because they claimed they were not living there. This is a typical middle class AA community. I will be very cautious to buy a house with HOA in the future.
government will have some legislation to limit the power of the HOA to restrict the number of rentals given the tight rental market.
of homeowners don't know the situation.
居民反对完全可以理解