An Outside Point of View

This editorial was submitted by FortBendNow.com reader Nancy Hentschel.

Home Owner Association (HOA) and Property Owner Association (POA) living is advertised to promote sales and to manage the homeowner population, but these “corporations” are specifically designed to disenfranchise most if not all the homeowners in the subdivision.

The HOA corporation is frequently controlled by the developers, builders, or even the vendors of the HOA corporation, such as the HOA management company and HOA attorneys. These entities seek legislation to give the HOA board (and therefore its agents) ever more control over the property belonging to the homeowners.

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