HOA Doesn't Allow Wheelchair Ramp, Says "I'm Not Disabled", Board Pays $44,000 In Fines!r/Hoa

welcome back to reading bear today we'll take a look at some new just know hoa stories and if you enjoyed my content please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and post some better emojis in the comments let's go first one is titled hoa messed up big time ada okay so where to begin i have been in a battle with my hoa for months this whole mess started when i suspected a board member of receiving kickbacks on jobs i and a few homeowners set up a sting operation a family friend as a licensed contractor and put in a bid for work the president invited him over and during the conversation the president bluntly said any job approval requires a 10 overbid deposit if you want the work he did record on his phone but because we are in a two-party consent state it couldn't be used we have sent numerous requests for financial records and have been stonewalled for months the owner of the property management company is in on the scam as well i and five other concerned homeowners have been stonewalled time and time again we finally banded together got a lawyer and of course covid hits and the courts are closed so three weeks ago i had a major operation affecting my ability to walk i am wheelchair-bound temporarily i submitted a request for an accommodation of a ramp i would pay for these are individual houses and would have zero encumbered on any other homeowner in the community hoa of course denies the request reason homeowner has not proven they are disabled a note from the surgeon was sent over denied reason hoa called doctor's office doctor does not exist homeowner is making false claims you can't make this crap up right so i say duck it and put the ramp up board member decides to put brick pavers in front of the ramp with caution tape on it and a note saying unapproved lawyer reached out to board one last time before filing and accidentally got a reply meant for the other board members i'm going to ducking get him he's lying and just trying to be a pain in our butt let's just keep denying the requests we're the mother ducking board we set the rules and while we say goes judge grant's injunction and is trespassed from my property i sort of forgot about the whole thing board has been leaving me alone until today when two board members came banging on my door telling me they are going to kill me thanks ring for recording it all yelling how they will make me permanently crippled so turns out the community's insurance company refused to pay the legal bills they were also not indemnified because it was done with malice the two board members are on the hooks for almost nine thousand dollars in legal fees plus thirty five thousand dollars in punitive damages next one is titled hoa vandalizes father's truck gets immediate justice this happened a few years back our hoa has always been known to be sneaky and to flat out give false accusations on homeowners especially in this day with security cameras and we can pretty easily spot out who the investigators are most recently a homeowner was told she was supposed to get approval before she started re-shingling her roof the thing is her roof hasn't been re-shingled in 10 years and she had no plans to do it things like that call it just a mistake call it malicious well a few years ago we had our time to shine it was a simple morning i was still temporarily living with my father at the time well one morning we decided to go out to get groceries when we found that his pickup truck had been smashed into nothing was taken it was just smashed into in fact i still have pictures from that day just before the cops arrived cops arrive they do some investigating and found that a rock inside the truck was from a house down the street unfortunately they couldn't get them to admit to the crime nor could they prove it was even them understandable criminals will grab things that they find but it was suspicious the rock i should say was a special kind of rock that no one else in the neighborhood had some round polish type very unique after this incident i installed a security camera on his house well not two days later we got an hoa violation for a vehicle eyesore that needs to be removed just two days later i'm confused how such a letter could have been written up so fast but i started to suspect foul play one day we were home and had a knock at the door the hoa actually called a code inspection officer the week hadn't even been over yet so the parts to fix the truck weren't delivered yet we weren't paying expedited shipping for damages we didn't cause and the truck was so old insurance would probably just total it the truck is sentimental to him so he wasn't going to get rid of it it still ran great code inspection tells my father that vehicles which do not run need to be removed they both stop talking and take a second and both almost say at the same time don't i know you turns out the code inspection officer went to the same church as my father and knew each other this isn't the malicious compliance yet we are only just beginning the officer tells my father if he can show the truck starts he's going to write it up as being in code my father starts the truck just fine as the engine isn't damaged he tells him to go on with his day and to have a good one at this point we are furious because we are starting to suspect the hoa may have did this as there's no way they could have possibly known so fast unfortunately our turn of the street had no neighbours with security cameras until i installed one on our house so it caught nothing specific to our incident down the street these people supposedly broke into a car as well but the camera on their house was unable to see anything damn here's where the fun begins fast forward a couple months after nothing happened i decided to install a new dash cam in my car i found a good one that uses very little power off the battery and can activate if there's any bumps to the car even if the car is off it just needs to be wired straight to the battery for this it's a thinkware a few days later we got a violation notice for our mailbox being crooked it wasn't crooked much but i do remember it recently having an angle odd i could just fix it but my car was aiming straight at the mailbox i'm thinking no this couldn't be possible it only records if there's a bump i take out the memory card and apparently i either didn't configure it correctly but it was recording the whole time it never went into sleep mode i watched as the investigator walks up to the mailbox and pushes it crooked then writes down on his tablet his findings and takes a picture for records i'm appalled at what i see i have the proof i needed now for the malicious compliance they wanted us to come to the board meeting and present what is going on at our address we haven't told them yet that we had the pictures but to summarize real fast how our hoa works the board hires an outside company to do the grunt work let's call it bentry management we go to the meeting and sit down bentry management has the one in control of our account and i swear to you she looked like a karen so the name fits for her as time goes by in the meeting we get to discuss what is happening at our house we present the timelines and tell them about the truck being smashed and just two days later we get a letter we ask what dates the investigator was out for that time karen refuses to answer it she argues ignorantly that we should keep better care of our stuff as if it was our fault then comes the mailbox incident we tell her that we have reasons to believe that the investigator is the one that is causing damages to our property and is harassing us karen denies this and says that is impossible and that she knows him personally oh is that so i ask she says yes why i then pull out my laptop out of my book bag that i had been hiding open it up to the video file already loaded and show it to the entire board enter exhibit uh i set out loud and played the video karen's face is bright red she says that is not her investigator i then also pulled out the letter about the mailbox which was complete with date it matches the cooked on timestamp on the video she still tries to claim it's not them no it's a coincidence i'm sorry but you have a vandal and it's not us it's not hmm i let the video play knowing she's falling into a pit hard right now as the man walks towards my car you can plain as day see bentry management on his shirt she's no longer red now she's white as a ghost the board looks over at her and asks what she has to say about this karen is silent and has nothing except a few noises which i assume was her brain trying to comprehend what just happened i then proceeded to bring up a previous case which i happened to remember before we left for the meeting where we had a grass violation beside our house now this area they were claiming was actually not visible from the sidewalk due to the house's shape i asked point blank has at any time your investigators walked on our property illegally trespassing knowing as per their rules they aren't allowed to do that karen is visibly shaking now and mutters out no of course not with her head down unable to maintain eye contact with me she probably feels that i have more evidence but unfortunately i didn't so i ask again she asks why our neighbor whom are lawyers literally next door to us where the side of this wall was stands up and says actually that's not true i've witnessed one of your investigators go between our houses and poke around the trash bins bingo i didn't even realize she had this information i couldn't have asked for more better timing karen at this point just starts arguing with our neighbors about no proof the board proceeds to apologize for the incident and they were going to discuss what is going to happen in the future about this at that point the meeting is over a month passes and we get a letter that a new person will be in charge for bentry management and new investigators she was fired that night since she was fired my father tells me we only get the occasional blip of errors but they correct it immediately and don't bother us really anymore next one is titled hoa got every single homeowner's car towed they were doing some useless crap like replacing asphalt with bricks which was loud and took weeks and probably will cost a lot to repair so they told us we could move our cars to the small plaza next to our homes they assured us we had permission every car parked there got towed and they had no choice but to pay roughly 300 for every car towed after that my mom joined the hoa using this against them and they didn't bother us again the stores on the plaza were all right they even gave us parking permits for the week hoa loses a duck ton of money the plaza loses customer parking space for a week or so i lose a day worth of convenience the only winners are the towing company next one is titled all i asked was proof of insurance before allowing work to be done on my property so i am in a long-running dispute with my hoa because they refused to follow the cc and ours and bylaws anyway they decided to take down some trees on hoa property behind the houses on our street and wanted access to the trees by coming across my property and i refused uteel i had proof of insurance from the contractor the hoa said that the contractor gave them a certificate of insurance coi and they provided one from the hoa to me problem is that the tree removal company provided a coi that stated information only in the certificate holder box which means that maybe they have insurance but if something happens on someone's property that they're not liable neat little trick and the hoa idiots fell for it i still refused work until i have a valid coi naming me as the certificate holder from the tree company so the hoa president comes onto my driveway and starts to argue with me and i told him to leave my property he refused stating that he has a right to be on my property anytime he wants to told him to leave again that he is trespassing and he again refuses and says i should call the state police he finally leaves and i call the sp they went to see him and let him know that cc and rs and bylaws do not supersede state in federal protections for private property protection told the sob that if i call them again he will be arrested and taken to jail bastards next one is titled try malicious compliance when my hoa said that i needed a water catch basin under all of my potted plants in front of my townhouse i noticed that the official rules did not say plant saucer technically a water catch basin is an industrial water conduit so i went out and bought a big ugly water conduit and a big pvc pipe to be attached to it i then sat my plants on top of that it is still there it takes a majority of members to change the rules so they have to live with their demand they then said that the flowers in front of my townhouse needed to be dug up because only the landscaper could plant things there the previous owner had planted them and i hadn't any idea where they all were so i bought a shovel and dug up every single plant and expensive bush in front of my place it cost them much more than the 50 fine that they were charging me to fix my compliance in the past year they have stopped trying to find me probably because i am too expensive to go after for their little things anymore there are lots of malicious compliant solutions you can pick if an hoa requires a grass front lawn see if you can get written permission to spray it regularly with color so that it won't turn brown you then go and get fluorescent pink you simply make it so obnoxious and expensive that they stop trying to impose silly little things there are a lot of fun things you can do with following rules exactly or getting permission to do things that have unexpected results brainstorm with friends have fun but make sure it stays exactly within the rules you can train them to look only at meaningful things instead especially with you hoas can actually be a good thing if they are reminded to stick to what is really important more like a utility service than an enforcement authority last one is titled bought a condo was not given the full pet policy before purchase can they make me get rid of my dog okay so i purchased my first home a condo i have a dog she's about 40 pounds as a responsible dog owner i mentioned to the realtor i have a dog mentioned it at the open house the other realtor i have a dog i also asked him if there are let restrictions me knowing the area read the bylaws of the condo hoa to learn about their pet policy there was nothing about breed or size restrictions basically just only one dog per unit she can't be barking all night and i have to clean up her poop cool this place still works about a week later i signed the papers it's mine i talked to someone from the coa yesterday and she informs me that their pet policy was changed a while ago and only dogs under 30 pounds are allowed i informed her i was not told this information if i was i obviously would not have made the purchase and it is not in their bylaws she even admitted they need to make it clear to buyers apparently they emphasize it with renters are they allowed to say my dog is not allowed i am seriously considering not even moving in and reselling leaving my dog is not an option update contacted my realtor who is also family friend she said pay the move-in fee even though that's normally only a thing when an elevator is involved and just go with the new parking policy but just follow what the docs i got sent say they might be out of date but that's a massive oversight on the coa she is willing to go with me to any meeting they force me into for breaking the bylaws especially my dog being over the weight limit that did not exist she looked back over the docks and had her husband look over them also a realtor he's on the selling end of things because she thought the change in policies were weird too especially when i pointed out the last resolutions to the bylaws were put in place in 2009 so i guess we will see what they say about my dog and the changes i'm doing on the interior of my place but i should be allowed to follow those docks and my dog even if she was 100 pounds should be allowed to stay if they question it i have a leg to stand on still puts a salty taste in my mouth do they not expect buyers to read the docs thanks for listening

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Length: 17min 47sec (1067 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021