Comment on HOAs suck
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 months agoSewer main leaks. Need to replace a 6 foot section of 8 inch line right in the middle of the road. Also need to replace the connection to the city main because the mess of baby wipes clogging it damaged it and the city says it’s unusable now. Effluent also damaged a gas line and the gas company says that needs to be replaced but they can work within the water company’s schedule. Gonna cost like 800 grand. Tell me about the community? Because that’s probably the insurance that the HOA procured who will cover the costs.
A functional community would not let infrastructure degrade to that point because it’s not in the interest of the community. This event you’re describing comes from greedy powerful people pushing off needed maintenance to buy a new Mercedes. The community would have systems in place to manage the infrastructure, infrastructure that could not be managed would not be built.
You’re basically asking “how would anarcho-communists deal with this huge mess made by authoritarian capitalists?”
Who’s paying for the maintenance? What happens in the event of an “act of God”? What is “the community” you speak of? I don’t know what this has to do with greed. Things cost money. You need to have a structure for how costs are levied amongst homeowners. I don’t get what is so difficult to understand. Would you prefer there just be a bunch of lawsuits when any little thing goes wrong?
If you’re in a city, these things should be taken care of by the city and state. There is no need for an additional micro-state. My parents live in a community without an HOA, been there since 1990, somehow it’s possible. Without an HOA, or even a city (unincorporated area) the place has been able to take care of it’s needs for 35 years, it’s a nice, peaceful place.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Sewer pipes and water mains are usually owned by the city around here. Gas mains owned by the utility. I don’t understand why an HOA would come into play. Maybe if you’re talking about a triple-decker style condo and the section of pipe between the street and the property, but no way in hell is that costing 800 grand.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m talking about subdivisions of single-family homes that requested greater density and as a giveback to the municipality remain private rights-of-way and utilities in exchange for greater density. You want to build 100 homes on 1-acre lots but the municipality has 2-acre zoning. It’s a farm so there are no utilities and you’re building it all from scratch. Municipalities will say sure you can do greater density, but you’ll create an HOA for the maintenance of utilities and for the stormwater management BMPs you have on the property, and you’ll create an operations and maintenance manual for those BMPs, and you’ll bond with the municipality in the event you fail to maintain them. That’s what HOAs are literally for, not for deciding on housing color and if you can fly a flag.