The difference is that with a flat you buy part of a shared legal thing. You don’t buy a flat but part of a building.
Imagine buying a shared car. A few people pool money together and buy a car, and afterward they split up who owns which part. And then the guy with the steering wheel decides that the steering wheel isn’t necessary, so he rips it out and sells it. Does it make sense to allow him to do that, thus disableing the car for everyone else too?
If you buy a house, you don’t buy a part of a physically inseparable thing. You are buying a stand-alone detached house on its own separate piece of land. There’s no shared common part that’s inseparably attached to the land. Roads belong to the city/state, so they are already covered that way.
And if there’s like a common piece of land for everyone’s use (like a playground or something) that belongs to the HOA, then there’s no reason that this needs to be coupled to the land you bought.
In Europe there are voluntary village associations or stuff like that too, and that means you are only allowed to use these common pieces of land if you are a member of the association. And the association then only cares for these common pieces of land, not for how exactly your lawn is supposed to look.
It’s different because the houses are separate? HOAs start as a way to maintain common amenities/utilities.
The difference is that with a flat you buy part of a shared legal thing. You don’t buy a flat but part of a building.
Imagine buying a shared car. A few people pool money together and buy a car, and afterward they split up who owns which part. And then the guy with the steering wheel decides that the steering wheel isn’t necessary, so he rips it out and sells it. Does it make sense to allow him to do that, thus disableing the car for everyone else too?
If you buy a house, you don’t buy a part of a physically inseparable thing. You are buying a stand-alone detached house on its own separate piece of land. There’s no shared common part that’s inseparably attached to the land. Roads belong to the city/state, so they are already covered that way.
And if there’s like a common piece of land for everyone’s use (like a playground or something) that belongs to the HOA, then there’s no reason that this needs to be coupled to the land you bought.
In Europe there are voluntary village associations or stuff like that too, and that means you are only allowed to use these common pieces of land if you are a member of the association. And the association then only cares for these common pieces of land, not for how exactly your lawn is supposed to look.
No, they don’t. That’s their excuse for existing legally. 🖕🏽