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Gonna start calling my HOA the "Romulan Senate" because the similarities are striking.
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HOAs are a problem the way governments are a problem.
Anarchy isn't the solution. Getting involved and working to fix bad rules and regulations is the solution.
If the color palate is too small, don't ask for your specific color to be approved, offer an expanded palate to be adopted. Put it in terms they understand. "Conformity is valuable, yes. But uniformity is a liability. People like to be able to customize their homes. When the HOA hinders that too much, the neighborhood becomes less attractive to buyers. Property values are kept down."
What I still don't understand is why American house prices depend so much on what their neighbors' houses look like.
Where I live, even a fully abandoned broken down house with one meter high wild grass is not bad enough to devalue its neighbor.
Because the value of the community plays a role in the price and there is a significant variability in neighborhood "value" within cities. A lot of it is tied to crime rates, but there may also be class signifiers which affect valuation.
It's not about colour. It's about signalling this neighborhood has "the right kind" of people.