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HOA's create many problems for homeowners. Homeowners need to understand the governing documents of an HOA, how the board works and what they need to do prior to purchasing a home.

This article describes how HOA's got so bad as to the police being called when their rules are violated and the fact that they wouldn't allow someone to build a deck on their house. This would be the point when they go too far with not letting homeowners make any type of changes to their house.

According to the AZ State Senate, this site goes over what an AZ HOA has the right to do and not to do, both on a state and federal level. The HOA's may place leins on homes for unpaid charges owed to the HOA. HOA's in AZ cannot prohibit the display of the American flag.

It is pretty bad in this day and age when you purchase a house but you have a small group of people that tell you what you can and can't do to it. Where is the ownership in that? Since when should you have to ask your mother if you can put pavers down next to your driveway? Apparantely you have to when it comes to an HOA.

This is article discusses the blacklist ban, "dangerous" dogs that Homeowner/ Renters insurance companies do not approve of. If the person has a dog that is on this list, they will not be covered and maybe dropped from their current insurance company.

This site is talking about how certain states are trying to pass a dog discrimination law so that all dogs are treated equal and treated like humans.

This article talks about homeowners is CO who filed a lawsuit after being banned from smoking in their own home. Neighbors were complaining that the smoke was seeping through the walls. The judge upheld the HOA's rule.

This article discusses a homeowner in AZ that was prohibited from flying the Gadsen flag in his front yard. The site explains into detail what the snake symbol represents and what steps he was doing to keep the flag.

During a recent court appearance, Triana who was on the Chateau Versailles HOA board, pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot between the years 2005 and 2009, to place HOA board members in a community where they in turn paid her to come up with construction defect lawsuits against home builders in order to generate money for her co-conspirators.