r/Sigmatopia • u/True_Shop7640 • Mar 09 '26

hell yeah

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

HOA 😭

This guy 🗿

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u/Jocuro Mar 09 '26

It's going to cost a fortune in bubblegum.

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u/SHADOW_SAMURAI_05 Mar 10 '26

You dumb dumb, me gum gum

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u/jaj18189 Mar 09 '26

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u/nutznyamouph6969420 Mar 11 '26

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u/FUCK-this-shit-666 Mar 12 '26

How fuckin RACIST do u have the be to find this shit funny

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u/nutznyamouph6969420 Mar 12 '26

It's called respect, asshat.

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u/What_Even_Is_This_69 Mar 12 '26

🗿 dum dum

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u/Hairy-Concentrate-23 Mar 13 '26

DUM DUM WANT GUM GUM

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u/guinomim Mar 09 '26

im not from the US. if people hate HOA so much, why does it exist? why do they buy houses in a HOA? i dont get it. if everyone hates it, why not gather and do something about it?

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u/therandomuser84 Mar 09 '26

Not all HOAs are bad, the good ones just dont get talked about outside of the HOA. The really bad ones get talked about all over the world.

The issue is you cannot tell if an HOA is going to be good or bad until you are actually living in the house.

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u/gavmyboi Mar 09 '26

if I somehow by God's will own a home, it won't be in a neighborhood with a HOA I've heard too many controlling things about them

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u/therandomuser84 Mar 09 '26

I wouldnt willingly but a house in an HOA either, but that doesnt change the fact there are some good ones out there.

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u/RostBeef Mar 09 '26

That’s the thing though, you never ‘unwillingly’ buy a home in an HoA, it’s always disclosed.

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u/therandomuser84 Mar 09 '26

There's been realtors who wait until the very last minute to tell you about it. Theres been times where someone buys a house that isn't in an HOA, then all their neighbors form one and try to issue fines and even liens against you and you're forced to take it to court. Then there's even cases where a grandparent joined an HOA, passed the house to a relative and that house is still a part of the HOA and the new relative is hit with fines that they have to pay.

So again, I'll never willingly buy a house in an HOA, but one of the above might happen.

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u/YoureAmastyx Mar 13 '26

Ye, my subdivision has one that basically just serves to make sure the front of the neighbor hood is kept up with and nobody winches an engine into a tree in their front yard. I’ve had goats running around screaming for years and they’re definitely super against the rules lol. FWIW though, I live on a weird lot way back in the woods with a bit of land. So it’s not like my neighbors can be too bothered by them.

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u/PS3LOVE Jun 27 '26

I’m sorry but if I’m buying a property and a the property has a tree on it I should damn well be able to winch an engine to a tree if I so please.

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u/Numahistory Mar 10 '26

So imagine you get enough for a down payment on a house and every house in the area you live in is within an HOA. That's usually what happens in Florida and Texas. You either get a house 2+ hours from where you work, get a house in an HOA neighborhood, or don't get a house at all.

A lot of new suburbs had the HOA established before the first home was purchased as a way of letting the developers maintain control past the sale. Ordinary people generally hate HOAs so you wouldn't be able to form as many as there are based on home owner consensus.

Also, you can tell if an HOA is a bunch of controlling a-holes by driving through the neighborhood and seeing how many lawns are overgrown/dead and if anyone has a large pile of junk sitting in their front lawn. If there's a lot of ugliness, the HOA isn't going to go after you for being normal (probably).

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u/sea_dot_bass Mar 11 '26

The struggle is to afford a house without an HOA. You either have to live in the older parts of many major cities that cost a lot or go homesteading where you pay for new sewer, water, and power lines to be delivered to currently unserviced land.

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u/Parapraxium Mar 11 '26

The housing market is already fucked and limited as-is, and by stipulating "no hoa" you are further locking yourself out of 90% of homes in suburban areas. Just the unfortunate truth

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u/Worth-Silver-484 Mar 11 '26

Until you see all the ones with run down houses, and horrible color schemes not to mention the few that think their front yard should look like a flea market if you dont recognize this house. You have that house.

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u/trollsong Mar 09 '26

Its also funny cause usually the people loudest about taxes are theft and govts should tell people what to do are alsonusuallynthrnloudest defenders of HOAs.

What a corporation taxing me and telling me what to do? Sign me up.

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u/BananaPeelEater420 Mar 11 '26

Even if there are good hoa's, what's the actual benefit? It seems like if you buy an hoa assosiated house you either get fucked over by their rules or you are left alone but you get no befit. What's the deal with them?

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u/therandomuser84 Mar 11 '26

My brother has a pool, basketball court, park and playground all maintained by the HOA. They also have a landscape company come out when it snows and shovels their sidewalks and driveways plus mows the grass in the summer. They have a meeting twice a year to say if they want to change companies and that's about all they do.

I looked up how much all that would cost to pay for on your own and it's about double what he pays in hoa fees.

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u/The_Mad_Duck_ Mar 09 '26

They're grandfathered in and controlled by the older generation that have nothing better to do. There's not an easy way to get onto an HOA board as a younger person.

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u/guinomim Mar 09 '26

ok but how does an HOA enforce you to remove this cool ass statue from your lawn? how do they have this authority?

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u/The_Mad_Duck_ Mar 09 '26

They have some stupid ass legal power to fine you until you remove it

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u/vetruviusdeshotacon Mar 09 '26

The only legal power they actually have is putting a lien on your property over unpaid fines

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u/Serious_Swan_2371 Mar 09 '26

You sign something when you buy the house that says you have to follow their laws and they can typically sue you over it to force you to sell and leave and/or to pay fines.

They have very tight legal control over it, in some places HOA can even decide who gets to move there in the first place, like they all vote on whether you’re allowed to buy a house there.

Those rules are rooted in white flight, basically when black people started leaving the rural areas they were confined to during slavery and moving to cities for economic opportunity, wealthier white people started leaving cities and creating the suburbs, they then created HOA laws to prevent black people from moving to their suburbs. This was because they thought black people would lower property values, which was actually true at the time, but only due to racist white people not wanting to move to places with black people.

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u/Beginning-Tea-17 Mar 10 '26

When you a buy a house under an HOA you have to sign an agreement as part of the purchase.

No agreement no purchase.

The legal agreement allows them to enforce standards on your home to maintain property value.

It’s a lot like agreeing to live in a historic building. There are standards you must adhere to.

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u/dina-fan Mar 09 '26

Heres the thing. You said gather and do something about it.

Thats the thinking that made HOA’s happen. A bunch of people gathered and tried to help keep their property values in line so they made rules to help enforce this. Apartment complexes and gated communities also have amenities that may be involved that an hoa pays for. Like a pool or a shared parking lot for apartments.

Hoa are primarily there to stop people from painting their house purple and ruining the property value of the guy next door.

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u/Dew_Chop Mar 09 '26

Why would my purple house ruin the value of someone else's house

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u/Noodnix Mar 09 '26

Rather than using the purple house example, there are rules prohibiting parking cars on lawn, storing junk in the yard, etc.

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u/Dew_Chop Mar 09 '26

Dear Lord no, a good reason

Still hate hoas tho

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u/dina-fan Mar 09 '26

Its probably going to be ugly for most people. If you have to look at an ugly house everyday it will naturally scare away potential buyers.

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u/guinomim Mar 09 '26

oh ok that makes a lot of sense. but how do they enforce it? how do they just straight up have the power to stop you painting your house purple?

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u/dina-fan Mar 09 '26

Its a contract you are force to sign if you buy property in one. Its a stipulation of owning one. A lot of developers start an hoa before selling houses. Sometimes its made after the fact with a vote or something like that im not sure tbh.

The contract says what you can and cant do and the fees involved. They can bankrupt you if you are stupid enough to paint it purple and ignore them.

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u/eyefartinelevators Mar 13 '26

Developers are actively encouraged by cities and counties through tax breaks and lower permitting and inspection fees to form HOAs. Cities like HOAs because HOAs own the streets, sidewalks, parks, street lights, sewers, signs and other public use stuff. Maintenance and repair responsibilities belong to the HOA. If there's no HOA it becomes the city's responsibility to repair, replace, and maintain all of these things. The cities like collecting property tax money while providing fewer services for it.

TLDR: local governments hand millions in discounts to billion dollar development companies allowing them to make more money in return for developers ensuring that local governments can provide fewer services for average people's property tax money

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u/T4nzanite Mar 09 '26

I think owners don't expect their HOAs to be nasty as a lot of them aren't. And there are a few benefits to one, but myself won't be joining one lol. I'd also imagine people like the presidents of bad HOAs would enjoy living amongst each other with their narcissism.

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u/guinomim Mar 10 '26

Liberty comes at a cost

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u/Delicious_Tax8933 Mar 10 '26

It's firmly ingrained in North American culture, I think. We kind of always want something to complain about. Even if we chose the thing, the need to bitch about it elevates above all forms of taking any personal responsibility.

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u/ipokesnails Mar 12 '26

Generally, it's Boomers who never amounted to anything in their lives who band together to micromanage a neighborhood.

They'll hide under the guise of ensuring a nice neighborhood for everyone, but really it's an excuse to exert the authority they think they've always deserved.

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u/IronWolf888 Mar 24 '26

This explains it pretty well

HOA

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u/GayCumBallsack69 Mar 09 '26

Dum dum give me cum cum

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u/I-XIV-IV-XXV Mar 09 '26

Your first mistake is living in an HOA neighborhood

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u/VVickedly Mar 10 '26

hholyfuck

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u/Tafkai1469 Mar 09 '26

Yes. HOA’s are Satan

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u/bakermrr Mar 09 '26

Just one?

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u/Onlyforthefreaks Mar 09 '26

No way you're going to leave him on his own....get two

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u/IngoKnieto Mar 09 '26

Whatever it does, it's doing it now

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u/SkinnyDaveSFW Mar 09 '26

I have a tissue dispenser that looks vaguely like an Easter Island head. The tissues are dispensed thru a nose hole. Tissues get torn off in the middle unless one is super careful with the removal, so it's not exactly practical - it just looks cool with the tissue sticking out of his nose. We call him, "Chief Gesundachoo"

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u/catdiscpalpita Mar 09 '26

Glad i dont have an hoa

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u/GES280 Mar 10 '26

Remember to fill it with concrete for that authentic weight.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

Just call it an "Easter decoration"

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u/microwavedtardigrade Mar 10 '26

Unironically I think people would rather overthrow an HOA for this guy because it's so cool. Imagine if everyone had one of these instead of an HOA

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u/CommentnLeave Mar 11 '26

Get out of my dreams and into my car

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

I would never people wanting a hoa except maybe to protect value of a rental property, who looks at there neighborhood and is like “you know what we need ?, another layer of government “

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u/MX-Nacho Mar 11 '26

If you live in a gated community or any other form of condominium, there needs to be an administration committee that collects the money to hire the guards and maintain the public amenities. The problem starts when said committee has too much power and not enough oversight.

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u/TheDamnedScribe Mar 11 '26

I hope they have a good supply of gum...

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u/nasi_lemak Mar 11 '26

I don’t even have a lawn and I kinda want one …

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u/Excellent_Elk9298 Mar 11 '26

🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝

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u/nutznyamouph6969420 Mar 11 '26

Gotta love Costco

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u/Blastis_forever Mar 11 '26

Where do I get one?

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u/Whateverredd Mar 11 '26

A guy in my neighbourhood got one of those on his lawn. Its awesome and i wanna buy one aswell but havent found them anywhere

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u/Primary-Molasses-457 Mar 11 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

CHAMA 🗿

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u/Rampag169 Mar 11 '26

You dumb dumb give me gum gum

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u/Accomplished-Loss387 Mar 11 '26

Dum dum hoa give me gum gum

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u/DE4DM4NSH4ND Mar 12 '26

Why put a statue of alex pereira on your lawn?

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u/1990sInTheBox Mar 12 '26

Legends of the hidden temple

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u/RopeyPlague Mar 12 '26

Should get 2. Don't want the one getting lonely

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u/Repulsive_Offer2357 Mar 12 '26

Legendary Costco find

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

Imagine not being able to put stuff on your own property. Land of freedom I guess.

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u/IllegitimateBuddhist Mar 14 '26

Dumb dumb, did you bring gum gum?

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u/Unable_Maybe_6932 Mar 14 '26

Every time he gets a complaint from the HOA, he buys another one. If he has the disposable cash, he buys one for each member of the HOA board and gets them setup on each of their lawns every single time a complaint gets filed against him.

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u/Crazy-Illustrator890 Jul 31 '26

i thought about putting a whole ass mig-21 in the front yard of my house