"87. shinypenny
Dec 22, 5:06 pm show options

With municipalities, you vote someone into office, and then the routine

decisions get made without taking it to another vote every single time.

If you don't like the decisions that were made, you can vote the person

out of office.

In a HOA, you can't vote them out of their home and out of the
neighborhood forever. You can, however, make their life so miserable
they decide to sell and move. Which means lots of petty battles,
feuding hostile neighbors, and energies that could be spent elsewhere.
While nothing ever gets decided, and the whole neighborhood goes to pot

anyway. "

This is one mixed up and totally wrong analogy. In a HOA, you most
certainly can vote the board and/or officers out of office. Every HOA
I've seen, the members of the board are elected for a term, exactly
like a municipality. Plus, most have procedures for taking out
officers, board members, etc. In fact, the procedure for removal from
most HOA is a lot easier than trying to remove a municipal official.
These kinds of comments make me wonder how much real experience or
common sense some of you have.