New home....no chickens allowed!?

[milleryardchx]

I told my hubby i didn't want the place i said i love the floorplan and the half acre but i want a mini farm not an hoa smugville. we are looking at an acre thats is an estate sale to build on.

 

[smith2]

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Home Owners Associations are created to keep "standards" within a community. You sign into that when you move to that neighborhood; it's contractual and you are bound by the terms of the contract. You are informed ahead of time about what are called "Covenants, Codes and Restrictions."
Most all towns already have them, known as municipal codes. The HOA is just an extension of that.
And yes, they can often tell you how you can paint your house, landscape your yard, or other things having to do with appearance and conformity.
Homogenization is their goal.

You could go the other way and have a community that states you MUST have chickcnes. Its possible; the standars by which the HOA governs can be modified, but in that that case they wouldn't. Just aint gonna happen.
HOA's are for people who want to uphold a certain standard - to 'keep up with the Joneses', as it were. Ever gone through a neighborhood and saw a house that made you go,
"My God... what were they thinking?"
Or "What a dump, they really need to clean that up!"

Thats is what HOA's are trying to prevent. Good for resale value, not so hot for individuality or personal freedom.

O Wow, lets start an HOA where everyone has to have chickens! Couldn't we all have fun with that one.