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This has some very good information on what you should look for in a Homeowners Association before you buy. It is important to know how the reserves will affect you. Once you have purchased the home you will be responsible for all future costs and assessments even though you may not have lived in the assocation when these items were used and it will be too late to make a different decision.

Before you buy, consider your personality. If you balk at the idea of anyone telling you what to do with your property, specifically avoid buying a home in a neighborhood governed by an association. Before you make an offer on a house, spend time researching its homeowners association. Read through the covenants, conditions, and restriction (CC&Rs); make sure the association has adequate reserves in it budget; find out if there is a history of conflict.Before you buy find out about the management of the association, who they are and how much experience they have.

With everyone wanting the best reception for television there are a number of choices. The choice that this article discusses is your decision to purchase a satellite dish for this service to be placed on the exterior of your home. Each association has their specific rules relating to the placement of these dishes.

BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) Three years after moving into a new 4,700-square-foot home in Brook Hills, a gated community near San Diego, Sonni and James Bass are caught up in an expensive legal battle with their homeowners association. The board tried to resolve things peacefully, he argued, by giving the couple extra time to do their landscaping and sending a letter asking the Basses to "please remove" the light. As for the light on the tennis court, she said, "the board president threatened to remove it with a jackhammer."