Well, the way I'm going I'm lucky to have a roof, but I can't imagine owning a house and then having some asshole with a fat and psychopathic wife tell me what I could do with it.

In Soulard here, the local HOA are brick Nazis. One guy, Old Charlie, has been living there forever, that is, decades before it became a hangout for fashionable types. He painted his brick house white just to piss them off. It's still white, the only white brick house in the area. Very pretty.