When you're facing up against power and authority, it's easy to feel helpless and like you don't have any options, feeling like the only thing you can do is try to mitigate the fallout they're causing by trying to keep peace with them. The thing is, they're counting on you thinking and feeling that way; a lot of times, petty authority and controlling behavior rely completely and wholly upon silence. It's difficult to do, but if you ask around enough, you're likely to find there are others with…

Sometimes, the only way to teach someone a lesson is by blocking them into the parking spot they stole from you and refusing to let them leave. This isn't an ideal scenario, but neither was having your officially designated parking space taken from you. This Redditor came home from work only to find a car in his one parking spot. That car turned out to belong to his neighbor's friend, who was visiting for the evening. This gave the Redditor plenty of opportunity to keep the friend from leaving…

Imagine having the audacity to throw a temper tantrum at your neighbor for using your electricity after he did it to mow your lawn. For the full context, this dude shared a duplex with his aggressive Karen neighbor and had decided to mow the lawn once the grass was overgrown and overdue. After taking care of his half of the lawn, he thought it would be kind (and aesthetically appealing) to mow the other half of the lawn, which belonged to the Karen. She never enjoyed upkeep, anyway. Well, in or…

Everyone dreams of the day their annoying neighbor moves out, but not that many people get the opportunity to make that moving process a living nightmare. This resident of a two-condo home had a ton of friction with the downstairs neighbors, who tended to shirk their collective responsibilities. This naturally led to a ton of resentment from the resident upstairs, who recently learned they were planning to sell their condominium. The resident knew his neighbors would likely make life more diffi…

When your neighbor complains to your mother about how you need to mow your grass, you might have a situation on your hands.

Never mess with an engineer! Having an engineer for a neighbor can be very useful in the right circumstances, but if you manage to frustrate them, things can backfire in unexpected ways. Here, we have a retired father who confessed to his kid about all the acts of petty revenge he has enacted on his difficult, noisy neighbors next door after they started hosting loud pool parties on weeknights regularly. Some of this pettiness ranges from launching debris over the property line to planting tree…

Imagine having such an atrocious experience with your HOA that you end up feeling the need to quit your job and move far, far away. Here , we have a night shift worker whose property manager needed to come into his place two to three times a week because there was an electric panel he frequently needed access to for work. Unfortunately, the HOA claimed that this was for legitimate emergency purposes despite the fact that there never seemed to be a real emergency and the 24-hour notice period wa…

Sometimes the only way to beat an HOA is to become a board member

This person is really living the dream: they have a lakefront cottage and their own seaplane! That sounds like a cozy life: they inherited their place from a family member, and they're not even required to join their local homeowner's association . Just because you aren't part of this HOA, doesn't mean they won't still try to bug you! The HOA members are certain that they could make this dude move the seaplane. It seems to be a fairly common issue for HOAs to try everything to get more money fr…

“That'll do, donkey. That'll do.” Those immortal words spoken by Shrek captured the memorable bond between those two fictional characters, a bond that this homeowner shared with his own emotional support animal, also a loving and loyal donkey.

It's no secret that HOAs can be nothing more than an invasive nuisance 90% of the time. This Redditor's story serves as yet another example of how a neighborhood HOA made an already stressful process worse. The Original Poster (OP) was in the process of going through a move and had not yet received his proof of registration sticker for his car. For the record, he had already gotten his car officially registered online and was simply waiting for the sticker to be shipped in the mail. Yet somehow…

She's demanding he pays her for the remaining $256, even though it was never her money to begin with: “So let me get this straight: I owe me my money?”

The best part about finally owning your own home is that you can do whatever you want with it—within legal limitations and logical reasoning. Of course, you'll quickly come to realize that this isn't necessarily the case, as you'll also be contending with nosy HOA members poking around looking for a single blade of grass out of line. You'll also be subject to the opinions of your neighbors, who will be more than happy to share them with you as though their judgement is law. This homeowner bough…

Illegally reserving parking spots using heavy cinderblocks is one way to make a neighborhood enemy

HOAs do not get much more invasive that this… Here, we have a resident who had been living in the neighborhood for several years and had been following all the rules and regulations of his HOA to the best of his knowledge. Then, everything changed when a member of the homeowner's associated contacted each resident about the limit they were imposing on the number and type of cars that can be parked outside their homes. Furthermore, they are imposing new required repairs that must be done by 2026…

Parking is one of those things that is always going to cause issues when limited spots are of any concern. People just don't know how to behave rationally when scarcity of resources is at hand, and the monkey part of their brain takes over. Still, when you have your own driveway, even if it's shared, you'd sort of expect that your side of it would remain accessible to you (and you alone) without issue—unfortunately, inconsiderate neighbors mean this is not always the case. In this case, these n…