The HOA's Strike Again! | r/ProRevenge | #273

hey everybody brought from karma comment chameleon coming at you today with a couple of stories from the pro revenge archives first one become the worst neighbor an HOA board member ever lose your job and HOA let's jump right in check out my new channel Canadian Rob's workshop linked in the description down below let me start by saying never purchase a house in an HOA it is a complete mess that should be regulated and illegal if I knew about HOAs when I bought my first home I would have never purchased my first home in one me and my wife purchased our first home when we were 24 and 25 we spent months looking at houses and areas and tried to find a forever home in a good district for potential future kids etc we finally found a perfect one at a decent price at first everything was great super nice neighborhood and decent neighbors well a few months after buying the house we rented an RV to go on a trip and parked it in the driveway for the three days leading up to the trip to pack it and for me to learn how half the things in it worked well this is when we learned that HOAs are absolutely crazy and our neighbor was on the board of our local HOA within an hour of it being parked he got home and stormed over demanding we remove it from his neighborhood or he would have a towed and find us for every hour it was there myself being the average and normal person told him kindly to [ __ ] off and get out of my driveway and told him if he returns I'll call the cops because he was screaming like a madman inches from my face about three hours later a big rig tow truck shows up and he walked up like he was a god and handed me a plain envelope with a letter inside that pretty much said by order of the HOA this RV is to be towed and a fine of $1500 for violating their rules while mr. crazy board member might not listen to reason the tow truck guy they found wasn't so fond of entering my driveway and towing a vehicle when I told him if he comes on the property I'll call the cops once the tow truck driver decided he's done being involved in this mess and left the neighbor goes even more crazy and storms off I called my friend to get his dad's number because he's an attorney to ask him about this insane letter and fine I just received and to ask him some legal advice after speaking to his father he told me to come down write him a $500 check and bring along all the papers I received when purchasing the home and the current letter I just received the next day he had a very friendly letter sent to my neighbor and the HOA board basically telling my neighbor to himself in legal terms and to leave us and our property alone I then continued to receive fines of $1500 a day in plain envelopes not postmarked stuffed into my mailbox that I then turned over to my friend's father and each time he sent another set of letters and contacted USPS to report the incidents turns out putting mail into people's mailbox is a crime who knew well we decided to go on our week-long trip across the state and mildly forget about it all kind of upset I had to spend $500 to have an attorney send letters but that's what they do fast-forward to us returning from the trip and the RV back in our driveway for two days so we can unload and clean then return it again each day more envelopes stuffed into our mailbox and more visits to our attorney and more letters sent and more incidents reported to us PS well here's where the fun really begins turns out mr. crazy finally gives me a summons to appear before the board my attorney said this is crazy illegal because what they've done is use what looks like an actual legal document improperly to summon me to the board another $500 to the attorney and we wait for the date they made a 2 day at 10:00 a.m. they attempt to keep my attorney out of the room on some board privacy rule but quickly shut the hell up when he begins going over their own rules that they are violating to them deep in this HOA book are some very nicely worded rules and stuff outlining about what makes board members ineligible and how they cannot serve if they commit certain infractions well guess what mr. crazy neighbor has done committed several of them all documented also the cherry on top is that if 51% of the HOA members vote to dissolve the HOA it all goes away well it happens my wife worked part-time from home during this mess and had all the free time in the world to begin a disband the HOA campaign over the course of the next two months she went around and really began to get to know our neighborhood really well turns out a lot of people disliked the HOA and the power-hungry seniors who act like dictators that run it the HOA attempted to stall everything by holding no meetings another HOA violation and began their own campaign trying to change HOA rules to keep from being ousted and a fairly racist flier and letter to everyone explaining the dangers of not having an HOA and all the bad people that will move in and take over and sell drugs etc that our houses would become much less valuable and everything else they could try turns out it's extremely fun to use someone's own rules against them the neighborhood even started a fund that paid us back what it cost us to get the attorney started and the continued costs he had a few weeks after their failed fear campaign and being forced to hold a meeting a vote was called by using their own rules the HOA was no more and all remaining funds were to be dispersed back to the homeowners and members equally this never happened turns out somehow the HOA used all their funds in the course of the last two months about half the former board members sold their homes and moved including mr. crazy neighbor I've spent three hours trying to find old news articles because it was reported on mostly due to the racist letters by the HOA but it was too long ago to find anything moral of the whole mess don't buy a home in an HOA and if you do plan to hire an attorney we've learned through a few HOA stories on the channel already that they seem to be absolutely terrible and I for one will never buy a house in an area that has an HOA on to our next story threaten my pregnant wife over parking enjoy your misdemeanor HOA bully this was last year I just sold my home in my HOA about five years ago I bought a 1500 square foot townhome condo in an up-and-coming town right in the downtown area this is a valuable property with home prices having increased 35% since I purchased this was a wonderful area in walking distance of everything I loved as a single bachelor when I moved in all my neighbors were wonderful we all got along great except for one person she belonged to the HOA board but was moving on because you can only serve eight years we'll call her gimpy J gimpy J is a 65 plus year old widow whose husband died unexpectedly from a heart attack she doesn't have much to do she met a man online and moved on and I was happy for her talking to my passive neighbors I hear bits and pieces of why things are at the HOA because of gimpy J and another woman who had to move because of age on the board the two of them bully residents they changed the landscaping from mulch to pine needles they stopped upkeep on the pool deck because they hate kids they reported one house for anything and everything because their kids were too loud she bullied a woman with MS because gimpy J was feeding feral cats and attracting raccoons and opossums near our homes and Animal Control was called residents did not like her I got married and wife has been living with me for two years now at this point we are very happy during this time Jim PJ began spending more and more time with her new boyfriend he lives about an hour away from our house in the country she would initially spend the weekend than a week there until she began living there all the time with very little time spent here maybe fifteen minutes two hours a month would be at our complex now at our complex there is only one rule on parking each resident is entitled to two spots close to their building but not necessarily in front of your unit and there is no limit to parking spots you may occupy close to it is the key word we have new folks on the board who are all under 40 years of age and the place is starting to get spruced up we have some friends over regularly and they park in front of our unit Jim PJ had two hip replacements done and we had not seen her in about seven months in our little area of the complex consists of eight townhomes that face each other four on one side four on the other there are eight spots for three homes and a handicapped spot for one of our neighbors Jim PJ started coming back around in January for longer periods a day on the weekend to go out downtown or to visit friends she started complaining that we were in her spots again there are no assigned spots we were willing to move our friends vehicles for her to another empty spot that is until she started occupying two spots at a time with her vehicle this behavior continued as she would come in taking two spots anytime she was here the rules in the master deed says no vehicle can take more than one spot without written permission from the board of directors or property management group and cannot continue for more than two days with permission this was to account for residents moving in and out suddenly that spring my wife had a medical issue and was hospitalized for four days and on disability for eight weeks my mom was the only family member on both sides that had the capability of coming down to where we live to help us out she drove down and we needed to occupy three spots I promptly let our property management company know and the Board of Directors know what was happening providing them with my mom's make model and plate number and that she would be here six to eight weeks just in case anyone had an issue Jim PJ's first time home in six weeks we had a car in front of her house but she had room for her vehicle she marched over and banged and I mean it was loud on the door demanding we moved the car and tried to open my front door and walk in my home yes she tried to enter my home it shook my dog who peed herself it was that loud who in turn growled and chased her out I promptly told her there was no assigned parking and the rule is one car one spot we would move a car out of respect one last time and saw she occupied two spots with it per usual the next time it happened two weeks later we refused to move our vehicle we also began taking pictures for our records and communicating with our HOA of dim PJ's erratic behavior she continued to arrive bang on our door scream at us for having a car parked in her spot one time banging on the door she dented the frame with her keys a few additional times when we were not home she would come in and park occupying two spots I would take more pictures for my records in case something happened because of her erratic behavior finally it happened about this time last year I was at the gym and I get a call from my mom and my wife frantic that someone is going to tow my wife's car I Drive home as fast as I can and it's Jim PJ's boyfriend's son and his girlfriend whom we have never met this jackass who doesn't live here and has no business here is screaming at us and insulting my pregnant wife and mother my mother-in-law pays many dollars a month for these spots you [ __ ] are breaking the rules I'm a tow that their SUV oh well drinking beer now we know he can't do anything except scream and try to intimidate us outside he calls his mother-in-law who is not married to his father about the situation Jim PJ drives an hour-to-hour complex when she gets here she parks her car behind all three of ours and gets out blocking us in and I had enough I quickly snap some pictures I called the police I will not feel unsafe or be harassed in my neighborhood by people who do not live there or are barely there gimpy J realizes I called the police and moves her car I print out all my documentation pictures and communications from the HOA I shower quickly because I'm disgusting from the gym and throw on a nice polo shirt and shorts pregnant wife sits in her rocking chair and my mother sits calmly at the kitchen table the police arrive and we can see them hollering waving arms widely and screaming the police come to the door and we kindly open up Jim PJ tries to walk in before I block her and ask her to leave my property and invite the police officers inside we apologize that we even have to call them over something so petty but our neighbor is acting crazy and her behavior has been escalating we explain what is happening show them communication from the HOA show them pictures the officer quickly had enough of these white trash pieces of he imposes a no trespass order on my porch and will not let her near my property if she steps foot on our walkway she is in violation of the order and she will be arrested we watch him go back out and explain calmly to her and she starts screaming along with her boyfriends kid and his girlfriend this goes on for a while and the officer calls for backup and a second car arrives promptly Jim PJ promptly declares it's her property - she pays her fees and that he can't do that because everything is community property outside of a home she goes and marches up to my stoop and he arrests her charges her with disorderly contact and harassment the police then tell [ __ ] EJ's boyfriend son to go home he gets in his truck and with his white-trash girlfriend and they drive off as soon as he hits the road outside of our complex the second police officer pulls him over for DUI that's right the drunk guy screaming at my wife and mother had been drinking the entire time and was loaded police couldn't do anything in the complex but could when he hit the main road both of them were hauled off to jail and we stopped hearing from them about parking two days later Gympie Jay and her boyfriend show up to the complex and they park her boyfriend's car in our lot and leave it parked in one spot to ensure it's hers well they drive off and we don't hear from them in a week and no one is home since gimpy Jay's boyfriend does not live here and his car is abandoned I called the HOA to report it they came and towed his SUV give BJ put her house on the market eight weeks later HOAs this one doesn't really seem like an issue with the HOA it just seems like an issue with a really grumpy neighbor I sincerely hope the neighborhood was nice and quiet for Opie after gimpy Jay's house was sold I want to thank both Opie's for posting their stories to the pro revenge subreddit you can visit them both at the links in the description below please go there and give them an upload once again this is Rob from karma common chameleon saying thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video please hit that subscribe button drop a like and share it with your friends and we'll see you in the next 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Published: Sat Nov 23 2019