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Texas homeowner wins a $154,000 lawsuit against her HOA after it enforces unwritten shed rules: ‘I guess appealing was, in retrospect, a bad decision for the HOA’

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Woman gets 2 HOA violations for the same thing at a house she moved out of, goes DIY and sparks a ‘Defund the HOA’ discussion: ‘I can promise you it’s going to look worse than before!'

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Most dares were never meant to be followed through. I guess that’s what you get when you dare someone to do something serious, secretly expecting that they won’t. Sometimes, I think, these people are so entitled they forget to question their actions, and they seriously think they’ve got nothing to hide or be ashamed of.

Woman asks her landlord to fix a minor issue, and the landlord dares her to report her to the city: ‘Now I'm going to enjoy living in a unit that is entirely 100% up to code and maybe save some money in the process. Sounds good to me!’

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HOA tries to fine homeowner $50 for their bright red-painted front door, except the homeowner’s property isn’t part of the HOA, and busybody neighbor issuing the “fine” isn’t a member of the HOA board: 'This is not the first time'

A 28-year-old woman who is being forced out of her home by her HOA. The home is in a senior living community, which requires occupied homes to meet its age restrictions. The HOA board and some motivated residents have been aiming to force the woman out of the home in accordance with those age-restriction rules.

Are Senior living communities still fair or relevant?—Jacksonville Florida HOA votes to remove defiant 28-year-old woman from her home she inherited in a 55+ seniors community—costs residents $155k in legal fees: 'I have a right to stay in my home'

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This Redditor posted this on a subreddit that’s all about despising HOAs and all the drama that puts us through; like, life wasn’t already hard enough to have to worry about people doing crazy financial stuff in a random association on top of it. I thought the problems stopped when you owned a house, but it seems that they follow every group of people

‘I asked for invoices for the cash and he sent me one fake invoice dated a month before any of the cash withdrawals were even made’: HOA member withdraws $10.000 in cash without asking for permission, leaving them wondering what to do

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Neighbor repeatedly raids woman’s front yard vegetable garden without asking, pushing her to put up signs and a fence despite her being happy to share if asked first: 'My front garden is not a community garden!!!!'

HOA and their shady tactics There is a pretty universal truth behind all this: goodwill and reasonableness often get you nowhere with institutions like the HOA. Apparently, a specific, cited, enforceable threat is the only thing that does.

‘I just served them with an $8,800 Small Claims lawsuit’: HOA tries to blame main sewer line root invasion on an ‘improper cleanout’ to avoid reimbursing the $1200 plumbing bill they owe

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After a neighbor falsely claims ownership of a shared entrance and bolts a gate to his property, so he pays her back by ”accidentally” severing her TV cable on move-out day: ‘I “cut” ties with an awful neighbor'

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24-year-old woman discovers her 60-year-old neighbor has been running an extension cord to her outlet to power her own air conditioning units amid the latest heatwave: 'She runs 2 ACs in her trailer, a large industrial fan, all her lights are always on'

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Neighbors' Strange Request, Turned Demand, Leaves Apartment-Dwelling Tenant Puzzled and Wondering if She Should Have Acquiesced—Even 2 Weeks Later, the Neighbors Continue to Press the Issue

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Elderly 70s Neighbors Refuse To Stop Parking in Homeowner’s Driveway and Tell Him He’s Being “Too Rigid”—Began Parking There First for a Few Hours Then Began “Straight up Occupying” It

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Washington homeowner receives an $18,500 HOA bill for a supposedly "recent" water system issue, discovers the board has known about it for 18 years: 'I feel like a lawsuit is coming to a head'

Unforeseen costs when purchasing a new home left this Washington State island property owner with just 2 months to pay an $18,500 invoice from their HOA

HOA in Washington State Sends Island-Bound Homeowners an $18,500 Invoice With Just 2 Months to Pay, Leaving Homeowners With Little Options—They Claim It Has Been a Known Issue for 18 Years, but the Homeowner Was Unaware When Buying

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Homeowner decides to sell after HOA leadership restricts kids from playing in front yards and starts fining residents $20 for having guests over: ‘An actual fee. For having visitors.’

This story could be the plot for a Jordan Peele kind of thriller, about the stuff you gradually start letting slide coming from your neighbours, until you end up becoming absolutely trapped by the situation.

Entitled next-door neighbour constantly pushes neighbours' generosity by using his lawn and properties, when confronted about it: ‘He laughed it off, said "we're neighbours, what's mine is yours" smiled and kept sitting there’'