What's Your Homeowners Association Nightmare Story? (Reddit HOA r/AskReddit)

what's your homeowners association horror story find multiple times and threatened with a lien by the hewa because we would not water our grass during a major major drought season it was cheaper and easier to fight the helis since the city and state passed regulations banning constant watering and green grass the city had google-like vans with cameras that'd be driving neighborhoods to catch violators and find them super illegal how I can't make any regulations requiring homeowners to break city state federal laws or regulations oh wee my good friend had a story her and the husband moved into this gated community she loves having a birdbath in her backyard and she Gardens a lot so the decoration makes sense turns out our figured out that she had said bird bats in her backyard a parental hour bird bath is a lawn ornament which was forbidden she told them she would remove it a week later she gets another message saying that it hasn't been removed it wasn't obviously her and the husband put it together that the [ __ ] is snooping in her backyard for a week she spends her time outside sunbathing in the nude setting her trap sure enough at Hellenic opens the gate to their backyard and sees her in the nude instant called to the police for privacy violations the [ __ ] gave up and let her have a birdbath she is now on the board of the holler and they leave her alone I had just moved into my house a few months prior when I got a letter threatening to be fined $200 stating that my mailbox wasn't black I thought surely they had the wrong house because my mailbox was in fact black so I contacted them and they gave a run around arguing that it wasn't I told them to come look and of course they said it was on me to prove to them it was black so I snapped a photo and emailed it to them I hear nothing back for well over a month then get another letter giving me a courtesy week extension before I'm fined I'm living at this point so contact the whole again asking for an explanation as to what exactly the problem is I'm finally told that neighbors felt my mailbox was rather worn and needed to be painted or replaced so basically it wasn't black enough for them so I fricking painted it now the part that sent me over the edge after a few months or so I learned that the freaking her will replace a mailbox as it's covered under our terms so I called them asking about why they threatened to find me when they were the ones that should replace it if not to standard they stated it was because they had no open work orders for my mailbox and that it was my responsibility to notify them if it needed maintenance not theirs if you fancy being really petty every week send a request saying that your mailbox is in needle repair who ordered us to clean our recently power-washed black shingle roof because all the shingles were so dirty they'd turned black my parents live in a neighborhood with a several of the local physicians one has like six kids and the youngest has profound autism and is nonverbal well he's about five or six and he loves riding his little tricycle in their driveway which is pretty large he would do it for hours his mom stayed home with him for the most part and she and her husband became concerned that in a moment he'd Drive into the road if they happen to look away so they got some orange construction netting that they would just put across the end of the driveway while he was out there and would take it down when they went back inside I always thought that it was a good idea to keep him safe anyway several of the families in the neighborhood were not pleased with this and said it was an eyesore so a meeting was called it turned into a tax on how they were taking care of their son and how it made the neighborhood look ignorant to have that netting up needless to say no one offered any other options and this family was so I read that they packed up and moved within a month this was about three four years ago and that house still hasn't sold they live out in the country somewhere and last time I talked to the dad the son is doing very well in his new home and he still rides his bike for hours on end freakin heartless when we first moved in I asked the neighbor across the street how serious the hole was here he said bad and then told me a story where he got a notice with a photo of his recycle bin being left on the street for too long the photo was of him walking the recycling bin back to his garage lol had the hell're come out to approve offense I was going to install the lady at the home office was very nice and said my plans were within the Covenant bylaws etc we just need to have the inspector check it out himself to sign off when he gets to my house he says he doesn't understand what I wanted to do I explained the type of fence I wanted to install and he said that wasn't from his knowledge allowed I walk him out to the street and point two houses down and say that house right there has the fence I want to install he scoffs at this walks down to look and sure enough it was exactly as I described it he tells me well we don't like to have a bunch of different types of fences in the neighborhood I reply I don't care what you prefer the Covenant says I can have that fence and that's what I'm going to install because it's within the specifications of the Covenant old fella didn't have much to say after that I got a letter the next week with approved for fence install my xbf s father was part of the homeowners board for their townhouse community his wife would walk their dog around the entire neighborhood every day and carry a notebook to write infractions to report back to her husband ridiculous stuff neighbors have a window AC unit reported in find have a garden that's a square foot too big reported in find some people have absolutely no lives my hell horror stories all revolve around dealing with them as a dispatcher the fact that a who doesn't want cars parked on their street has nothing to do with whether or not it's legal to do so and there really is no argument the police can't legally tow a car that isn't parked in violation of any law regardless of what you like or don't like but they will argue and want to talk to the chief on police not my story but my dad's he moved into a new townhouse in summer of 2013 it was a foreclosure property as the previous tenants were kicked out from not paying their mortgage and from not paying their hairdos they gave everyone in the whole new patios and decks the summer prior it was required and you had to get a new deck patio the one kilowatt the tenants had to pay for em in monthly installments in the next three years along with their Howard use as I said the previous tenants all closed on their home however there was one rule place when they got the decks which was that you couldn't move out without paying off your deck first he was told by her that he would not have to pay off the deck because it was foreclosed and he was not responsible at all for paying it off sweet free - he signed off on that he moved him but then he started getting assessments from the [ __ ] for the deck but wait he wasn't supposed to be paying for the deck he fought it with the board even with the signs thing saying we didn't have to pay for the deck the board went against him he ended up having to pay off the remaining balance on the deck to this day he refuses to speak about this topic it's a trigger for him bring me to court B I have this signed document saying I'm not responsible for that cost my father-in-law's condo cork has a shared pool the old folks don't like to share so they have all kinds of silly rules like no more than one guests per resident residents only times alternating every R etc my father-in-law can't even take his own two grandkids for a swim because he'd exceed the number of allowed guests so many rules the dang pool is usually empty because the residents were still breaking the rules they passed a new rule that if any resident was caught breaking the pool rules they would close the pool to everyone for a week and post the offender's name and reason for the closure on the community bulletin board freaking children I would just constantly break a rule every week only plant oak trees even after multiple arborists and botanists informed the board that doing so would give all of them various diseases and all would need to be cut down tenure as later all have been cut down because they have diseases and mites I'm an arborist and seeing oak trees planted between the sidewalk and Road four five feet off space drives me nuts the whole neighborhood I grew up in had two Oaks in front of every house 20 years later the roads and sidewalks are cracked or bulging not a horror story yet but it could be when we moved in someone stopped by to say hi but more like to tell us our boat can't be parked on our lot my wife told her well we read all of the rules and it doesn't say that she replied while I wrote the rules why should know my wife told her to go read them don't hear anything for months when we get our annual dues packet there is a newsletter saying our lot is in violation and that we stated plans to modify our garage to fit the boat in the spring we never said that they suggested setting a deadline for us and setting a vote to add boats to the list they already had campers fifth whales motorhomes and travel trailers bought the house intending to build a detached garage but in order to comply with the design rules it would cost me ninety dollars k USD so I'm waiting until I get an official anything in the mail then I'll get a storage unit bTW my neighbor has been here six months longer than us and they have a boat in their driveway to tell them to provide proof of the garage remodel you promised sounds like some [ __ ] they sent us a series of nasty notices to remove the dead tree in our front yard the tree had lost all of its leaves and it was unsightly apparently the catch is that they sent us this notice in November you know like fall when perfectly healthy trees lose their leaves we pretended we didn't understand which tree they were talking about until spring when the tree magically came back to life we're also going to find you for leaving all that strange white stuff in your yard in the winter when my sister was hit by a drunk driver the insurance took a few days to decide what to do with her car since it was a weekend neighbor called the police and said it was abandoned and had been there for months luckily the police took our side they pulled up an accident report showing that car across town two days ago then told her to freak off when I was a kid I lived in one of the two front rooms of the house which were the hottest in the summer and the coldest in the winter my dad didn't like to use the a/c so we all just had fans one summer it got so unbearably hot in my room that fans just when cutting it and I was miserable my dad then put an AC unit in my window and it was awesome but it was short-lived because the howa told us to take it down because it was an eyesore my parents told them it was for their child but they didn't cur so my parents had to take it down the kicker is that just down this a guy who had the exact same model house as us had an a/c unit installed in the same exact window as the one we had it in and the hall never said a word to him this is one of the most infuriating reddit threads I've ever read that scummy is Frank my mother died in September of 2016 my disabled father went into the hospital and then long-term rehab until the present the house was in my mom's name and their neighbor across the street is the treasurer of the howa he knew my mom died of cancer within a year of her diagnosis and that my dad was in the hospital he billed my dead mother for a year and when the bills were unpaid he took it to court to begin foreclosure proceedings at this point I received a certified letter and contacted a lawyer to help it was originally $1700 but increased to $4,200 with late fees and attorney fees our lawyer is confident we can settle for far less than $4,200 that scumbag Danson out didn't happen to me personally but I guess I can tell you about my parents experience with their horror dad retired and decided that he really wanted to buy a camper and travel mum was all about it both of them very excited so dad runs off and trades his earth 150 truck for f250 with the biggest diesel v8 buys a gooseneck camper and waits for spring camper in the backyard truck in the garage no big deal not long after he gets a visit from a lady she's got a list of rules from the howa that was established long after my parents had built their house something like 15 years later when the subdivision really took off saying that dad couldn't have the camper on his property because it was an eyesore mind you this camper is in the backyard behind a six feet privacy fence you could still see it sure but it's not like it was old and in disrepair either so here's my retired parents living in a subdivision that as in how a that was established long after they built their home and the who is expecting them to abide by rules they didn't agree to he never moved the camper was watching a friend's house cat while she was away left my car at her house in her deeded spot with a visitor tag on it to drop her off at the airport then went home to my house slept went to work returned after work the next day to feed cat check mail and get my own car back no car call her on vacation she finds property-management phone I call they tell me it was towed as it had a flat tire two hundred and ninety dollars later photo overnight storage and a flat fix I had my car back freak those butt holes the car wasn't even there 24 hours and it wasn't flat when I parked it you've been visited by the masonry dog you'll never deal with an earthquake or sinkhole if you comment lay the foundation Papa if you are new to the channel you 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Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2019