Preserve homeowner property rights

My wife and I purchased a townhome in a HOA community adjacent to our primary residence community. We intended to use the property as a long term rental and manage it ourselves, as it’s within walking distance from our home. We have 8 other rentals across 3 states and have had investment property for over 10 years. We reviewed the HOA covenants in detail and confirmed that short term rentals were not allowed but long term rentals were acceptable. This was confirmed with the HOA manager.

Within 6 months of our purchase, as we attended board meetings and HOA meetings, we learned many of the other owners and board members were hostile toward renters/ investors. This was not shared by the HOA manager when discussing our plans for the property. The board had drawn up revised declarations that included banning all rentals in the complex. The revised documents DO NOT unequivically grandfather in prior investors who bought under the previous rules .

We believe this action infringes on our property rights and should not be allowed. We have no issue banning future rentals but retroactively taking away our right to use the property as we had intended is unfair and discriminatory. It also forces a financial burden to sell the property

We would like to see this addressed in revised regulations and limit the ability of 2/3rds of HOA owners to take away property rights under these circumstances. This has a material impact on an owner that FORCEs a sale that revising parking, signage, noise ordinances, etc do not and should not be allowed,

Thank you