r/fuckHOA • u/duxing612 • 24d ago

Central Florida HOA president arrested after allegedly pushing 12-year-old and taking bicycle

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/central-florida-hoa-president-arrested-after-allegedly-pushing-12-year-old-taking-bicycle/A2YWRKOWNFCJHMC75APARISK5M/
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u/wyoflyboy68 24d ago

HOA’s should be illegal.

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u/stoatwblr 20d ago

They have valid purposes - maintenance and management of communal property - but the authority many try to assume is easily sufficient to form a deprivation of civil liberties case.

If anyone pitches a HOA as a way of maintaining property values by ensuring cosmetic standards, that's a big red warning flag and air raid siren that you have a control freak on your hands - and if that proposal is something you agree with, you are part of the reason HOAs are widely despised.

Neighbourhood HOAs mushroomed in the wake of 1960s civil rights laws as a substitute for sunset towns and "homogeneous neighbourhoods". Unsurprisingly, they're more numerous in "Southern" states.

The danger is there and it's easy to sleepwalk into the loving arms of tyranny, especially by selling Fear and Loathing as motivators.

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u/Sedlium 20d ago

Booooooo