homeowner

Moving into a new home can really end up being a roll of the dice. You very well might find yourself unfortunately closely located to a neighbor who went from being reasonable enough, to a full on catastrophe. We just ran a brief story about a rather nasty neighbor who continually troubled the cops with the pettiest of complaints, and then ended up losing half of his garden in the process. Hopefully these people's stories of their nightmare neighbors make you feel better about any scenarios you had to endure with unfriendly neighbors. 

When solving a problem, it's important to think outside the bun. This homeowner found that if he wanted to build a garage, it would cost extra. So what did he do? He found a more mobile garage. For another intriguing loophole, here's a bold HOA fighting strategy in the form of a radio tower threat.

HOAs are an unfortunate magnet for the Karens of the world. It's a system that seems specifically designed to appoint people to get all up in other people's business. Take this tale of revenge for instance. We have a good old fashioned HOA Karen who pitches a whole fit about guide dog training and grilling. What kind of mean person complains about guide dog training? Fortunately, this dude was able to defeat the nasty HOA Karen by bringing the technicalities into play. 

Well, that backfired for those HOA board members. Sounds like the pro revenge was swift and brutally successful. 

These alarmed and angered and generally distressed homeowners are here to give you all the reasons you never knew you needed, to never join an HOA! Sounds like a jar of nightmares, brimming with psychotic levels of entitlement. And the lack of boundaries is something else. How can you ever feel like you're building your own home, when the HOA pulls stunts like running your bank account dry with questionably legitimate late fees? 

The only person you're hurting when you don't ask ALL the questions during the inspection of your hopeful house, is yourself! That would seem to be the overriding theme here with these homeowners who gained their wisdom through experience, and isn't that very experience just another name for our mistakes. So, let's learn from them with these homeowning life hacks, if we ever scrap together enough money to buy homes of our own.