I feel your pain.
HOA's = Tyranny. After over a decade of HOA living (including being on the board for a # of years) it took us 9months, looking at 75 or so homes & putting in 1/2 dozen offers on various homes before we were able to get out of the HOA life.
The problem from what I saw was the old the homeowners (who were heavily represented on the board) got more paranoid & less tolerant the older they got. Got so bad they would have to approve anyone parking an RV (or anything else) on their own RV parkings pads that were put in the same time the homes were build over 20 years ago. And every pad is behind gates to the RV pads. This is just tip of the iceberg. The once nice area to live in became an intolerant iron-fist situation ran by a bunch of non-RVers, boaters, off-roaders, or anything else that many active people like to do in the modern world.
We got out & it was like 10 tons of weight were lifted off our shoulders. We built a pool, RV parking area, a separate driveway and all kinds of other stuff at our new non-HOA place & did so without having to deal with any Nazi fellow homeowners whom think because they're filling a voluntary position they know better than you & thus control every aspect of your property rights.
I'd rather live in a van down by the river than EVER live in an HOA again.The narrative "but mah property values" is a false narrative. Home values are determined by price per sq ft via zip code, not whether or not a home is in an HOA. Matter of fact, every single ad for any home in non-HOA areas in my metro area always have a place in the ad where "NO HOA" is listed in all-caps. That is telling in & of itself.
