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An HOA or Homeowner's Association can either be a minor inconvenience or it can be costly dictatorship, depending on who's on the board. People have to deal with nightmare HOAs where they get fined for having visible garbage bins.Some people defeated the Queen Karen of their own HOA. And others just looked forloopholes in the HOA's monthly fees. The bureaucracy never ends.

We love us some good old-fashioned design fails here. It's fun to take that moment and try to determine what kinds of misled thinking went into these. Maybe they're just very ahead of their time, or something. Check out some more dumb design failures that somehow got through, over here. 

The process of trying to secure a home with your partner can be an exciting, fulfilling, and nerve-wracking experience. With that being said, the last thing that you want to find yourself dealing with is an irrationally picky partner who seems like they're able to find something wrong with every option that comes across the table. It's all about meeting in the middle, and it sounds like this husband was ready to do nothing of the sort. And then when he gets called out for his antics, he complains that he's not in the wrong at all. 

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. 

There's a type of business that makes itself deliberately hard to navigate just so they can charge weird fees. Some companies will even hide or delay just how much interest they've charged just to bully customers into paying for late fees they didn't even know existed. Navigating the corporate landscape as one person can be an absolute nightmare, but after dealing with the absurd process of paying their own mortgage, this person realized they didn't have to put up with the nonsense. For another tale of financial absurdity, here's a guy who got hounded for a trivial debt and ended up mailing them a dime.

Maybe this couple's story about their unfortunate discovery will hit close to home for some folks. The reality is that there are a whole lot of apartments and homes out there that were built by folks that couldn't be bothered to do their one job correctly. So it goes, sometimes. Ignorance is really bliss though. The last thing you want to do is hang that shelf or picture on the wall and come to learn that your whole humble abode is just a little bit off kilter. 

Times change, but some houses don't really. It's unclear who would want to live in this excessively carpeted homage to non-90 degree angles, but it has its own kind of charm. Would it be comfortable to live in? Probably not, but it's a spectacle and that's what counts. It's kind of like this unique house with multiple themed rooms.

In a whirlwind of family drama, this mom has had to deal with her son trying to sell her house and move to his college city so he can live rent free. Isn't there some kind of financial aid for this kind of thing? You know, instead of sabotaging your mom's life? Family drama can get pretty out there, like this woman who trained her cousin's horrible kids like dogs or this son who rented out his stepmom's house for giving away his PS4.

This person gets someone to housesit and feed their pets for a week, then they turn around and make up a bunch of charges for the person? Sounds like the cartoonish demands of an entitled person. And even if paying the utilities was part of the deal, which it wasn't, that number is still way too high. It's impossible to understand what's going on in the heads of entitled folks with audacious demands.

Most homeowner's associations aren't meant to be a big hassle, but sometimes an overzealous member can make their neighbors' lives a living hell of absurd rules about fences and garbage cans. For example, here's an HOA Karen who complained about guide dog training. There's also this bold HOA fighting strategy involving a radio tower.

Almost everyone understands that you should be respectful in someone else's home, or at least that you shouldn't drink all their good beer and clog all of their toilets. There are however an uninvited few houseguests who do rude and annoying things. People have a hard time forgetting slights like this, which lead to some petty injustices that people stay salty about.

A virtual tour of this house reveals some weird and amazing stuff. And for $159,000 could this even be real? It looks like they have a main area that's some kind of Gothic, space inspired medieval man cave, with extra rooms becoming a space theme, island theme, and what is that, a lab facility? It's nothing at all like this listing for the gaudiest house you've ever seen.

After a series of incidents, it's pretty clear that this neighbor sucks. Nothing says you've won the war with your bad neighbor quite like telling them that you're their new landlord. For another story of a bad neighbor revenge, here's one where and entitled neighbor cut down a tree that ended up costing them 700K.