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HOA gets owned when they tell a homeowner he cannot construct a garden in his yard and he calls his state office to report unlawful behavior

HOA claims they are a ‘voluntary HOA’ that creates rules as needed and tells homeowner he cannot construct a garden in his yard, so he reports them for unlawful behavior

Sounds like a power-hungry money grab.
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'The pool is closed... what you may not know is the reason': HOA board makes startling decision without informing homeowners

Ew, no one wants to go swimming in a green pool . It happens to every pool owner at some point: you go a few days without adding chlorine, and one morning you awaken to a pool full of bright green algae. The good news is that it's often an easy fix: you just need to shock the pool with some chlorine, or find a pool maintenance person to do it for you. But this person, u/Otherwise_Hunt7296, realized that their green pool problem might take a bit longer to solve than they'd planned. It's all due…
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HOA board member gets karmic justice for micromanaging homeowner's basketball hoop placement: ‘I want it in writing’

HOA board threatens to fine homeowner $20/day for a standing basketball hoop, so he ‘digs around in the HOA covenants’ and uses their written rules against them

"Every once in a while, I move the hoop to the center of my driveway, just before the President of the HOA gets home from work. . ."
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Entitled HOA president gets his after failing to sue smaller HOA because they have individual easements, resulting in getting kicked out of the neighborhood and going bankrupt

‘Lawyer destroys HOA’: New HOA feels entitled to beach property of preexisting HOA, board president gets his after losing two lawsuits and going bankrupt

"This ended up with another lawsuit against the HOA president personally by the original homeowners, who also filed to dissolve the HOA completely."
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15+ stories from HOA homeowners about the most ridiculous and outrageous violations they received because of their board's incompetence

‘I had birds on my roof . . . Wild birds’: Homeowners reflect on some of the most ridiculously outrageous violations their HOAs accused them of and fined them for

Shoutout to the HOA that thinks kids playing with chalk is vandalism
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'I say they can kick rocks': HOA gives homeowner the go head to paint their house black, Karen member tries to get board to to retract approval after project is already finished

'I say they can kick rocks': HOA gives homeowner the go head to paint their house black, Karen member tries to get board to to retract approval after project is already finished

Why are HOAs so fixated on house color? Let people live!
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'They're angry, but hands tied': HOA declines building request over 30 days after it was submitted, homeowner throws their own rules back in their face and gets to build anyway

'They're angry, but hands tied': HOA declines building request over 30 days after it was submitted, homeowner throws their own rules back in their face and gets to build anyway

When you snooze, you lose, HOA.
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'HERE's [to] looking at YOU!': HOA member falsely accuses his 70-year-old neighbor of ‘watching’ him, so senior neighbor roasts HOA with a cardboard cutout of himself in the window

When the HOA goes low, you go lower.
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Karen HOA board member targets homeowner with illegal fines, homeowner turns the tables on the HOA and rallies neighborhood to dissolve the board: 'The look on Karen's face was priceless'

When you're facing up against power and authority, it's easy to feel helpless and like you don't have any options, feeling like the only thing you can do is try to mitigate the fallout they're causing by trying to keep peace with them. The thing is, they're counting on you thinking and feeling that way; a lot of times, petty authority and controlling behavior rely completely and wholly upon silence. It's difficult to do, but if you ask around enough, you're likely to find there are others with…
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man fixes his leak after HOA fails to do so, resulting in a reprimand and empty promises for fixing the damage beyond that

Incompetent HOA fails to repair man's condo's multiple water leaks, man is reprimanded when he hires a restoration company to fix it instead: ‘After this nightmare, never again’

“These people are top tier con artists.”
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'Saved probably... $300 per year?': Homeowners confess their sneakiest ways around their HOA's most useless rules

'Saved probably... $300 per year?': Homeowners confess their sneakiest ways around their HOA's most useless rules

Nothing is worse than living somewhere with arbitrary rules about your own property.
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‘Board needed to flex their might’: HOA only approves of one roof color, homeowner tricks them into thinking her color is the correct one, gets away with it

‘Board needed to flex their might’: HOA only approves of one roof color, homeowner tricks them into thinking her color is the correct one, gets away with it

“Be an utterly unethical thorn in [the HOA's] side which can never be removed or retaliated against. I'm not locked in with them; they're locked in with me.”
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entitled HOA board member illegally tows man's truck and trailer during a community building event, man seeks removal of board member as a result

‘I can't believe the audacity’: Man gets his truck and trailer illegally towed out of his driveway per request of HOA board member, is seeking board member removal as a result

Sometimes the only way to beat an HOA is to become a board member
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'Imagine being that upset over the color of someone else's house': Pro-HOA post finds its way to anti-HOA Reddit and gets hilariously ripped to shreds

'Imagine being that upset over the color of someone else's house': Pro-HOA post finds its way to anti-HOA subreddit and gets hilariously ripped to shreds

It really just comes down to whether you are pro-purple house or not…
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‘Why would she even be mad about FREE LEMONS?’: New homeowner writes unhinged letter accusing neighbor of throwing lemons from his lemon tree into her yard, has a spot-on clap-back

‘Why would she even be mad about FREE LEMONS?’: New homeowner writes unhinged letter accusing neighbor of throwing lemons from his lemon tree into her yard, has a spot-on clap-back

Apparently, this entitled neighbor has never heard of the teachings of Sir Isaac Newton…
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‘She went ballistic’: Karen HOA President thinks SAHM neighbor is her free nanny, gets shamed in the middle of the street

‘She went ballistic’: Karen HOA President thinks SAHM neighbor is her free nanny, gets shamed in the middle of the street

Karens can be moms too…
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