Texas, the new Florida

Sailorsaint said

I would think that, at some point, HOA's would begin to negatively affect property values in their subdivisions. I know I would never purchase a home in a subdivision with an HOA. Selling a house in one of those neighborhoods seems like it would be a nightmare.

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You may not like it and never want to be in one of those neighborhoods, but they absolutely do preserve and even enhance property values.

some people want to live in an area where you can park trucks and boats and RVs and old trailers in your hard. I don't. I may not like having to deal with them, but it's better in my mind than having someone move in who wants to part their service vehicles in the front yard.

Different strokes perhaps, but a person in my neighborhood who leaves a rusty landscape trailer in their front yard is going to more negatively affect property values than having to go to a meeting to get approval for a new seawall.