General Discussion

every year or two, and can be thrown out if they are seen as too much one thing or another. The problem is that most people are unwilling to take on the burdens and responsibilities of board membership themselves, preferring to stay home and watch TV and bitch about the people —usually those who need the ego strokes — who do put themselves forward to stand for the board. All just ordinary human behavior.

And — Homeowners Associations rarely come about through someone moving into a community of individual home owners and organizing them like a union. Homeowner Associations are created by the builder and developer. People may hate and resent their Homeowners Associations, but they hate and resent them less than they hate and resent their neighbors who prop cars up on cement blocks and let weeds and bicycles and wheelbarrows grow in their front yards. If that were not the case developers would not bother setting up homeowners associations, and would just let the prospective buyers deal with the results on their own.