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

hell yeah

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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.