From the Las Vegas Sun

By David McGrath Schwartz

Sunday, March 4, 2012 | 2 a.m.

Nevada is a land of homeowners associations, private entities run by homeowners (ideally) and offering all the benefits and downfalls that amateur governance implies. Statewide, there are almost 3,000, covering 485,000 single-family homes, condos and town houses — more than a third of all housing units in Nevada.

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