Reply #14: Bullshit. [View All]

HOAs are local governments according to the courts, and should have limits on what they can do, just the same as any municapal government. The only reason why they don't, is the legions of law firms lobbying state governments to bloodsuck unlimited legal fees funneled to them from the overblown "management companies", and for whom these obscure clauses they write into homeowners' deeds are set up to be an unlimited perpetual cash cow at homeowners' expense.

My HOA could get by with a bookkeeper and a one-person local attorney on call. Instead, we have a full time "management company" which in turn continuously thinks up ways to churn fees to a hand-in-glove law firm with marble elevators. Guess who pays for that? And what do we get from it - zip.

Nobody should automatically have to pay unlimited attorneys fees for actions which were bogus in the first place. It's just more of the parasite industry which is killing us all.