According to USlegal.com- A Home Owners Association (HOA) is an organization of homeowners of a particular subdivision, condominium or planned unit development. The purpose of a home owners association is to provide a common basis for preserving, maintaining and enhancing their homes and property. Most homeowners' associations are non-profit corporations. They are subject to state statutes that govern non-profit corporations and homeowner associations. The associations provide services, regulate activities, levy assessments, and impose fines. Usually, each member of a homeowners association pays assessments. Those assessments or dues are used to pay for expenses that arise from having and maintaining common property.

In order to preserve, maintain and enhance the community Covenants are written and recorded in the County offices where the community exists. These covenants are the guidelines to which the community is governed. It is generally required that anyone who wants to buy a home within the area of a homeowners association must become a member, and therefore must obey the several restrictions that often limit the owner's freedoms. However, limits to certain freedoms are generally a BIG plus for the community in that it brings continuity to the subdivision, condominium or planned unit development and helps retain value to the community and the homes within them. 

When a HOA maintains an “engaged” HOA board, a community typically keeps the higher standards that the covenants lay out. The guidelines in the covenants can also protect your value and maintain a consistency in the look of the community. The ability of the HOA board to be effective also relies on the owners being involved. The owner’s input gives the board and management company direction so they can do a better job managing the HOA. HOA board members are volunteers who spend their time (without pay) for the betterment our community. In order to run it effectively, it needs input from informed homeowners. When you attend the annual meetings you get informed and understand the issues facing the neighborhood

Living in a common interest development that is operated by a homeowners association (HOA) is a form of shared ownership that offers many benefits that appeal to increasing numbers of individuals and families. Although various forms of shared ownership involving common interest developments and HOA’s have existed in the United States for over 50 years, many people who purchase properties that are part of an HOA are not familiar with the complex workings of homeowners associations. 

An Association’s officers are chosen each year by a majority vote of the directors at their first regular meeting that follows the annual meeting of the Association’s members and the officers are subject to the control of the Association’s board of directors. The selected officers then serve until he or she either resigns, becomes disqualified to serve, is removed, or until his or her successor is elected and qualified.  Any officer can be removed with or without cause by the Association’s board of directors acting at a regular or special meeting.  An officer can resign his or her office at any time by providing written notice as specified in the Association’s bylaws (typically by delivering the notice to the board, or the president, or the secretary).  A vacancy in an office that results from any cause must be filled in the manner prescribed in the bylaws for regular appointments to the office that became vacant (typically majority vote of the directors).

An Association’s board is typically empowered by a provision in the bylaws to appoint such other subordinate officers as the Association may require.  The powers and duties of such subordinate officers should be specified in the bylaws and/or determined by the Association’s board of directors.  Except as limited by a provision in the bylaws, it is possible for the same person to hold two or more offices (it is common for an Association’s bylaws to prohibit the same person as serving as either the secretary or chief financial officer when they are also serving as the president)..