You have to agree with everyone else in your building how to maintain the building somehow. And when they don’t do as they’re supposed to, major catastrophes can ensue.
I remember a story from years ago where essentially the entire building hated the idea of increasing costs so they constantly deferred costs because no one wanted to pay them, until a massive crack appeared in the foundation that essentially made the whole building worthless… and could have been prevented by doing the deferred maintenance when they had a chance. Now they weren’t even in a position to sell and move… because it wasn’t in condition for anyone to want to move in.
We gotta remember that HOAs are just made up of the people who live there. If everyone who lives there is a selfish piece of shit, everyone is gonna have a bad time, as in the example above.
That’s why the idea of buying property in a building seems so insane to me (at least in the US). Because in the US you cannot trust that people won’t be fucking idiots who will do everything to defer maintenance until it’s too late and then whine and cry about how it’s not their fault (even though it 100% is).
I wish Plex wasn’t obviously trying to kill off everything good, word is they laid off everyone handling Plex Desktop.