hoa drama

‘Now [$12,000] looks like chump change’: 20+ NYC renters share their most frustrating experiences in the real estate market

Elna McHilderson

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Beloved old couple moves out and loud obnoxious gearhead moves in, neighbor gives him a dose of his own bad-neighbor medicine: ‘I took a gamble… It was the right call!'

Elna McHilderson

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‘This wasn’t their property’: Entitled neighbors use garbage bins to block mom and son from sledding on HOA public property, resulting in a trash violation

Lana DeGaetano

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Shady arborist causes over $300k in damages to neighbor's yard, neighbor purchases his and his parent's online identity: ‘MY website is the #1 result on Google if you search for [him]’

Elna McHilderson

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'Keep your word’: Carpenter tenant gets evicted after making a gentleman's agreement and spending $10k of his own money on renovations, rips everything out as he goes and gets the last laugh

Elna McHilderson

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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

Lana DeGaetano

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'The pool is closed... what you may not know is the reason': HOA board makes startling decision without informing homeowners

Remy Millisky

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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

Lana DeGaetano

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

Lana DeGaetano

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‘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

Lana DeGaetano

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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

Elna McHilderson

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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

Elna McHilderson

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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

Elna McHilderson

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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’

Lana DeGaetano

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

Elna McHilderson

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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

Elna McHilderson

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