&gt;What you said, up there, is basically that some owner in the distant past could make a contract with an HOA that, despite the property changing hands, grants the HOA some power over that property forever.<p>&gt;What on earth kind of freedom is that? If I want to buy a house that some previous owner inducted into an HOA, and I don&#x27;t want to join the HOA, why should I have to?<p>Do you disagree with the concept of someone owning mineral rights and someone else owning the land for the same piece of property?