[Norm K]

Are you using "HOA" and "HOA managed" interchangeably?

Large HOAs typically have management companies oversee the implementation/enforcement of the HOA/C&C rules and regulations, as spelled out in the corresponding documents. In some states (often with the exception of de minimis HOAs) associations are compelled by law to be managed by a "professional" management company.

I'm wondering who cut these deals with the third-party businesses; the actual HOA or the HOA management company, and is the authority for them to do that granted in the C&Cs?

In any case, you and your neighbors are the HOA and can adjust or change whichever rules or regulations you wish, provided doing so doesn't run afoul of local laws and is done in accordance with the prevailing docs, copies of which every homeowner should have.

Good luck reaching an amicable resolution.

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