Actually, I was going to making a snarky remark about you and HOAs (because, why not, it is the internet), but changed to that.Believe what you want, no skin off my ass... Don't want an HOA, then don't live in one. I am not fond of them myself... But if you get the right people on them, they can be tolerable. I have seen sub divisions that don't have them and so many of them look like ****... Cars up on blocks, the color blind person that paints their house some awful color... Yards that look like the house is abandoned....
But, think about it. Do you think there is any HOA that doesn't think it's 'reasonable'?