content: HOAs tend to be run by people who have an extreme desire for power and a lot of time on their hands to go around nitpicking everything that you do with the property that you supposedly own. They start making rules about things like exactly how tall your grass needs to be, what color your front door will be, what color curtains you can have, what type of mailbox you can have, what kind of pets you can have, that you cannot park your own car in  your own driveway, you can't have a boat or a motorcycle, what sort of flowers and shrubs you're allowed to have, that you have to have a light post in your front yard and what color bulb and what hours it has to be turned on, whether or not you can have an RV, how often you have to water your lawn... and a lot of other things that are way too numerous to list here. And if you don't do what they want you to? They take your house.