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'We emailed back and forth trying to understand why we were being fined': HOA spends 4+ years suing tenant who insist they're "misappropriating our funds"

Up next, these scorned exes got some very petty revenge on their former partners , like one person who admitted they “took all of the knobs and handles off of everything—TV, dresser, stereo...”
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'He needs to own a nice car': HOA volunteer repeatedly tries to get neighbor's boss to stop bringing old car into the neighborhood

This HOA member has never learned to mind her own business! It's free and it keeps you out of trouble, not to mention the peace of mind you gain from not having to worry about other people's problems in life. But some people really enjoy getting into other' people's business: they like to be a bit bossy and try to get everyone to conform to their exact wishes. This woman, an HOA member that u/Emancipatedtreesnake keeps running into, has a completely petty gripe. She doesn't think this person's…
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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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'We're going to court? OK!': Developer and their HOA gets "throat punched repeatedly" by fines after threatening landowners for refusing to sell

With progress comes expansion, and with expansion comes development… the bounds of society creeping beyond where they once were, bringing with them change. We'd like to think that this change is always good, but the reality is that it's not always for the better. Opportunists will be right there waiting to strike when the shifting sands of time and change bring them the chance to take advantage. When this couple bought their dream piece of land out in the middle of nowhere, they completed the p…
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Rural homeowner flies off the handle when she sees a drone hovering over her property, wonders if she's wrong: 'People don't like it when strange men fly drones over their fenced backyards'

There's nothing better than being in your own home and experiencing what it feels like to be utterly and completely alone, with no one around to perceive you, judge you, or otherwise consider your existence and what you might happen to be doing. Hanging out enjoying a peaceful afternoon doing some home maintenance outside, and suddenly your ears are bombarded by an infernal whirring outside as if 10,000 angry bees have suddenly descended upon the peace you were enjoying, and looking up, you see…
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'I've submitted countless HOA complaints and yet this still keeps happening': Entitled neighbors throw loud parties 3-4 nights a week, frustrated neighbor mows his lawn at 6am every Saturday for 4 years

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one frustrated homeowner had finally reached his breaking point. Despite submitting countless complaints to the HOA about his entitled neighbors throwing loud parties 3-4 nights a week, the noise just wouldn’t stop. He called the cops, filed multiple violations, and even endured a kids' party with a loud MC that went on well into the early morning hours. Finally, after years of sleepless nights and growing frustration, his efforts finally paid off and the pa…
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'Get a hobby': HOA freaks out when a neighbor parks 3 black SUVs near their house and when an embarrassingly paranoid email gets leaked online, the HOA is forced to make a public apology

'It quite frankly startled and unsettled several of your neighbors'
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IT Guy hijacks loud neighbor's wifi, using his unfettered access to get even: 'He never changed the default router password'

For some reason, it almost always seems like your Wi-Fi signal at home is the strongest in the least convenient places, and it leaves you wondering if wireless technology is really so great anyway. Like why does the corner of my kitchen, which should be one of the furthest points from my router, have some of the strongest connections? It might also occur that you happen to visit your neighbor's house next door only to notice that your phone is still connected to your wifi and receiving a better…
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'So we got petty': Homeowners get repeatedly reported when their grass is longer than 6", then they decide to fight back against their nitpicky neighbors with 20 pink lawn flamingos on the property line

How's this for lawn care?!
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'I reported him for HOA violations I don't actually care about': Guy gets back at petty neighbor by overwhelming him with HOA fines until he moves

'I reported him for HOA violations I don't actually care about': Guy gets back at petty neighbor by overwhelming him with HOA fines until he moves

It turns out that the best way to get back at one's nuisance of a neighbor is to get the HOA involved. Of course, homeowner's associations are typically the enemies when we cover them here at FAIL Blog, but every so often, we come across a story where people manage to use HOAs for good. In this case , the righteousness here was getting rid of a frustrating neighbor who refused to leave this Redditor alone. It got so bad that the Redditor decided to document every HOA violation he witnessed. Nat…
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Hobbyist mechanic taunts his duplex neighbor, turning the landlord against a car-vandal Karen by following their rules to a tee: ‘The vehicle runs… there was nothing they could do’

Winning on a technicality never felt so good
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‘Hope you like the fine you get’: Entitled neighbors demand resident put their trash back in yard after he clears it out as a favor, resident complies, then reports them to the HOA

‘Hope you like the fine you get’: Entitled neighbors demand resident put their trash back in yard after he clears it out as a favor, resident complies, then reports them to the HOA

The people who refuse to deal with their own problems, and resort to calling the authorities whenever something mildly inconvenient happens to them, are the people you should stay as far away from as you possibly can. But, if you cannot stay away from these people, for example, if they are your neighbors, then you might want to consider giving them a taste of their own medicine. Say your neighbors decided to call the cops on you because you wanted to help them out by clearing some trash out of…
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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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'Am I hammering louder than needed? Absolutely': Bird-loving homeowner builds an even-bigger aviary on their property after their Karen neighbor reports them to a non-existent 'HOA'

Nobody likes an HOA–except, of course, the overinflated, pompous, self-elected members. So when independent homeowners finally claw themselves out of an HOA dictatorship of a neighborhood, the quasiHOA vibes of an unruly neighborhood Karen can certainly rub them the wrong way.
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'They want a $10 fee for overnight guests': 20+ HOA rules that were completely arbitrary

Home is supposed to be a sanctuary. We all want to have a place where we can kick off our shoes after a long day of work, put our feet up, eat dinner with our families, throw parties, play in the yard with the kids, and spend time with the ones we love. It's supposed to be the one place you can relax and be yourself… but not if these strict HOAs have anything to do with it. Homeowner's Associations are like the hall monitors of the adult world. Their whole job is to keep the neighborhoods looki…
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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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