Homeowner associations are a tactic used by real estate developers, money-grubbing parasites, and neo-fascists to get around doing any actual work in maintaining their properties and to create a semi-cult-like community. Many of these associations pass themselves off as a religion in order to gain tax exemptions and the right to declare a Holy War on all those who do not meet their standards and expectations. The modern day associations are populated almost solely by Yuppies who will demand your house be painted the correct shade of white (which is eggshell white).