It comes as no surprise that the vast majority of persons living in an HOA approve and love their HOA, finding only minor problems with the board of directors or HOA managers. The annual “satisfaction” surveys produced by the pro-HOA trade group, CAI, reflect this positive attitude. There is no denying that the HOA subdivision appeals to the desires and wants of home buyers and bring many benefits.
However, as this whitepaper addresses, the means to this end are highly suspect and harmful to our democratic system of government.
Find out how HOAs are detrimental to democratic institutions and why there is no genuine justification for permitting private government HOAs to exist as outlaw governments. Except, to support the money interests of the promotors — all addressed in the Nation.
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HOA Constitutional Government 
The problem with HOA is that the board become the absolute power. If you have a bad board, you have serious problems. I know all to well. It is not a democracy. Owners basically give up all their rights, to people who want to be board members. The HOA can be good if there are good people who want to serve but if they are bad it can be a nightmare from hell.
Contributing factors are home price, number of homes, land, age of home, age of homeowners, amenities, and intelligence and culture of board members. That is a lot to consider when figuring out why some are happy and why some are not. One CC and Bylaws do not fit all and that is basically what has been grandfathered down since the beginning of HOA’s
Having the HOA association rate itself is a joke. I found myself looking for war with my hoa and google sent me there several times. Based on what I saw the “satisfaction” is a deception.