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Here’s an interesting article from the N&O published in January 2006. A group of homeowners, unhappy with the performance of their Board, collected signatures and removed all the Board members at their annual meeting.

Cary homeowners rebel, oust board

More recently,  a Raleigh HOA made the newspaper with a very public dispute within the Association.

Board tempest roils Raleigh suburb

Joseph Coletti of the John Locke Foundation recently wrote the following opinion piece for The Cary News.

My View: Big neighbor is watching you

Forget about Big Brother. For a growing number of people, the greatest threat to personal liberty now comes from Big Neighbor — their homeowners association, or HOA. These private, nonprofit groups have many similarities to municipal government in much of the Triangle, though with more invasive powers.