Homeowners Associations: Happiness and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The following represents a chronology of emails on HOANET (hoanet@yahoogroups.com) in response to an initial post from the editor below, which said, in part:

Happiness in an HOA is based upon, as any other authoritarian government, strict acceptance, obedience and conformity to arbitrary, financially oriented rules, not rules designed to foster individual, personal happiness leading to healthy community relations. In my view, such an underlying premise -- conformance and obedience -- is at the root of the deterioration of healthy, productive communities.

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