[Morrigoon]

Our HOA is pretty okay, they get out a regular newsletter, etc. I think meeting minutes, or at least a summary, are posted at the mailboxes.

My mom's HOA however is bad bad bad. They make residents pay for exterior repairs resulting from damage caused by the HOAs own neglectful maintenance, there is a conflict of interest between a contractor the hoa uses and a board member (relative), all sorts of crap.

Basically, they're only as good as the people running them, and it's a pretty thankless job where you have fiduciary responsibilities but no compensation. So the people running them are usually only the kind of people who have the time to, and/or the ones who enjoy the power (such as it is). Not really who you WANT running things, but unless other ppl run there's not much choice.