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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnney View Post
    your shitting right? bitching about how bright to make the lights and what color to paint? i think im going to stay in the ghetto where the only thing we bitch about is when the city is going to replace the lights that got shot out.
    Hey, no ever said politics was pretty. Nor even particularly rational. All I'm saying is that an HOA is, in effect, democracy in its purest form.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OrnotBitwise View Post
    Hey, no ever said politics was pretty. Nor even particularly rational. All I'm saying is that an HOA is, in effect, democracy in its purest form.
    Ours is run by the people on the board and pretty much nobody else. In the past 5 years I have yet to see a Quorum at the Annual meeting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Ours is run by the people on the board and pretty much nobody else. In the past 5 years I have yet to see a Quorum at the Annual meeting.
    And this differs from American democracy how, exactly?

    Seriously, that's one of the problems with democratic government in general. No one wants to participate. Why? Because the issues are boring and the decisions are often difficult. That doesn't change the fact that the HOA is a very democratic institution.

    My own HOA does a bit better, but perhaps that's because we're very small: only 113 units. Also, I suppose the fact that I live in an outpost of Berkeley doesn't hurt either.
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    I would not live in a HOA area. If I buy property I will do with it as I please and as long as it hurts no one and is kept up no one has a right to tell me what I can or can't do.

    We rent a place in the country and the landlord allows us to do anything we want with the place. Its his property so he has a right to say what goes on. But no one should have the right to tell him what should be done with it.

    Buy a house and let people tell you what youcna do with it? I don't think so.
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