I live in one. Got 3 letters in the first 6 months I lived there. Now I'm on the HOA board with other like minded people. It's great. LOL Welcome back!
We have lived in our house for 37 years. The new HOA president came to tell us our boat and our camper was in violation of the by laws. It was with extreme pleasure, that I told him, that we were not part of the neighborhood. The neighborhood stands on land that my great grandparents sold to a developer. We are an entity all by ourselves. But we are the first house you see as you pull into the subdivision. I told him if I had anymore visits from him, I would make sure my home looked like the Beverly Hillbillies were having a garage sale! It's been a year, haven't heard a peep!🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@FlyinRaptorJesus Should have. But around the 70's the government started making it hard on farmers. Better to sell it than have it forclosed or forfeited for taxes. We still have a beautiful 35 acre lot.
I bought my home in 2021 and my number 1 rule was NO HOA, I wouldn't even consider it. The homes I walked away from were dreams come true, but they were in HOA controlled developments, then the best house we came across had no HOA, the cost was about 119K above our budget, but it was worth it, so we put our offer in and bought the house. No regrets!
We had a Home Guild with voluntary dues, to pay for snowplowing, maintenance for the Front Entrance Sign with flowers and plants, follow nearby city rules on grass length, condition and such and a Bullitan Board annoucing anything you want like a yard sale, or Fun Fair Day, or Holiday. We had 80% + pay their dues, and did a Sub Sale to make up the rest. No one is getting fined except by the city rules.
Not all HOA's are over reaching. A few subdivisions in my county only use them for snow plowing and maintenance of common areas. It's when they get personal that's not good.
@@KM-nj3cm anytime someone can come into your house and tell you how to live or come onto your property and tell you what you are allowed to do. You are not the owner you are merely renting, and if you were renting you are a slave. Slaves don't own anything. Everyone in this nation is a slave not a single person in this country owns their property.
@@KM-nj3cm There are some people who like living as slaves. Take for instance the people in West Virginia. They like living his slaves so much that they don't even own their cars. Anything you buy for your personal use and you pay a yearly tax on it you don't own it this includes your house your car and any other property that you buy. You see you don't have to continuously pay for something that you own, or it will be confiscated by the government. The only thing that the government is supposed to be continuously taxing us for are businesses, work, business rental properties, and sales. I say this because if the government is doing its job then you will be working or running a business or having an area that is safe enough to rent property. The method in which state taxes now it could be a failed state and still get money. If I were president of the United States that would be the very first thing I would work on. I would stop all the states from taking advantage of the people. So if that's what you would like to have if you want to be free, get your friends together and vote for me. 😱🤯🫨🤑 A vote for me is a vote for freedom 🎇🎆🇺🇸 but I know that the American people don't want to be free so I can remain an obscure person in the background.
We haven't had any problems with our hoa. But the yearly fees are ridiculous. Thankfully they aren't all up on our a$$ enforcing stupid rules. The good thing though - maybe its not so bad that they have a standard to maintain the decor and presentation of the neighborhood. It keeps the property value high when trying to sell (however the high property taxes are awful, so there's that 😢)
@@VeenaMichelle just because they're not all up on you that doesn't make you any less than enslaved do the HMO. We're all enslaved with the government because no matter how much you pay for your land you can never own it. In truth they should only be a one-time tax at purchase and after that only on services and goods, but that I mean labor and rentals. There should not be yearly registrations for your car unless your car is being sold rented or used for business. In the state of Virginia you have to pay a value tax on your car every year. This means you don't own the car you just bought just like you don't own a house that you bought. You're only renting land from the state for taxes. We have turned into a nation of slaves and we have no idea, because every day we trade our freedom for safety and because of that one day we won't have either. By the way, you do know that the homeowners association started to keep black people, the poor and anyone that didn't fit in some one's idea of an American out of neighborhoods. The federal government funded these places because they also wanted to keep the people separated, by joining an HMO you're perpetuating the good old boys, old ideas. If you didn't want to own your house you should have just rented an apartment or a house, that way you could check with your landlord
I've never lived nor will i live in an HOA. But i did work security at multiple HOA properties before. I've never dealt with such whiny, entitled cry babies in my life.
Idk why anyone would live in an HOA. One of the major purposes of buying a house is freedom from landlords controlling you, but with an HOA you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to own your own home and you still have ppl controlling you.
They will literally spend their entire day trespassing your privacy/property in search of anything they can charge you for. They’re worse than the road pirates! They just want control & Your $$$. Just move to a clean neighborhood with self respect & pride, not HOA Natzi’s, and you will be far better off!
A HOA fined someone for giving piano lessons in her home. Another for changing his own oil. And because his son drove a pickup truck and dressed like a construction worker. They said his pickup truck was a construction vehicle because he used it to move his tools to job sites. I have a hunch that HOA are really just enforcing the appearance of social class.
"I have a hunch that HOA are really just enforcing the appearance of social class." Yeah, that's mostly it. Many HOA rules are interpreted by the people who have a certain idea of how they want their neighborhood to "look", and they'll use those rules to force the neighborhood to look that way. This is the thing with HOAs.... if you want your neighborhood to look that way, then great; if not, then don't buy a house in an HOA.
Even local code prohibits running a business out of a residential neighborhood due to addional traffic and parking, so the piano lessons at home violation was warranted IMO. That's why zoning exists.
@@allaboutroofing2 True. The rules have to apply to everyone, and anyone buying in an HOA agrees to the rules. Someone offering piano lessons at their house might not be disturbing the neighbors, but then the guy that wants to operate a car repair business out of his garage (and on his driveway) will want the same consideration for his business. HOA rules are designed to keep the neighbors in check. If you're one of those neighbors that doesn't want to be kept in check, then don't buy in an HOA. Simple as that.
You do that when you live anywhere. Rent an apartment. It's no different. The only difference with an HOA is you own an asset. You just don't have certain rights to control it.
The worst was the one where the H O A said an elderly lady needing a wheelchair couldn't have a ramp to access her home. Thus placing the H O A in direct and incontrovertible conflict with state and federal law. also being totally amoral a******s. Never heard how that one came out. Hopefully she sued the pants off them.
The lawsuit, if there was one, would never go to court. It would be dismissed with the court simply telling the HOA that yes, she's allowed to have access to her house so she can build her ramp.
This case did go to court because the HOA said she didn't have A handicap placard in her vehicle indicating that she had a handicap, and that there were no plans or permits submitted for approval to build the ramp! If I remember right someone who sal the news broadcast about this situation. Who installed ramps for people with limited mobility. Often also had the task of removing them when someone died and it was of no further use to the home. Donated A ramp that met all safety and government regulations and standards for free, and the HOA was not happy that they couldn't complain about it. But as soon as that lady passed and left her daughter who lived with her the house. They were right back to playing their dirty tricks. Only now it was about the ramp not needing to be there any longer even though it also came equipped with steps! The daughter sold and moved
I guess that the idea is that the neighborhood will be forced to be clean to keep up property values. The risk of getting a bad HOA is too much for me, though! Also the payment for life is rough.
@@gregundahood202Not every HOA is the same. Different HOAs have different bylaws and then each community has a "president" and "board members". Some are way worse than others. HOAs do have benefits. It just all depends on the community and amenities. I picked a HOA because gated community, Comcast internet and cable included in the HOA, sick gym and pool. Has its own elementary school incase I have kids at a later point in life. Fire station within 2 miles of the house. Irrigation system works off the lakes that were built, not city/county water supply.
@@camarodreams7689 probably just because I live in rural Vermont anyways I don’t like having neighbors so close to me. and definitely wouldn’t want them thinking they can tell me what to do.. hoa would frown on me shooting guns in my backyard witch I do regularly lol
My brother was fined for having "the wrong mailbox." My brother and his wife bought the "model home" in his neighborhood. It had a street-side mailbox, when he moved in. All the other new homes also had street-side mailboxes, but they were slightly different. Instead of paying the fine, one night my brother went to a hardware store, bought the same house number labels, pulled up his mailbox, grabbed a shovel, went to a new house, on another street that had just been built, but had not sold, pulled up that mailbox, planted his old mailbox, changed the house number on the box to the new house number, came home, planted the new mailbox, renumbered the box to his number, and went about his business. When the second and third bill came, he threw those away too. The HOA animated-dildo, aka "president" came by to "talk to my brother about the unpaid fine." My brother told him that his mailbox looked like everyone else's on the street." The guy turned around, looked surprised, and told him, 'Well...don't let it happen again." My brother told the guy, "Go away and stay off my grass. Next time, I won't be nice."
@@miket7184 That's still theft. Try taking your old car to a dealership and "exchanging" it for a new one. It won't work out well. Not that any of us believe a word of the original story. It smells suspiciously of "I have a girlfriend, like, but she's, like, form another school, like, so you wouldn't know her. We met at, uh, Band Camp, yeah, that's it, Band Camp."
I'd never either- I prefer no neighbors. However, not all HOA's are over reaching. A few subdivisions in my county only use them for snow plowing and maintenance of common areas. It's when they get personal that's not good.
We did from 1990 until about 1996. It was like living in *"The Stepford Wives"* or *"Don't Worry Darling."* Crazy, nosy neighbors reporting nit-picky little b.s. things on each other. NEVER AGAIN.
My neighbor had sn HOA before and they never told him before after he bought the house then they tryed to give him fines and try to sell his house because he wasn't paying. They ended up in court, they been convict of extortion, fraud and harassment. They didn't know he was the owners of 3 major companies in the city and had plenty of money to drown them in legal fees.
Even if you “were getting paid”, that might be attractive in the beginning, like a new job. After a month, you’d tell them to take their pay and shove it. HOA’s and even people stuck in leased Apts with Tenant’s Councils get tired of the malarkey after a week or a month of it. Gossipers and mean clip-haired karens, usually retired or unemployable.
Very dangerous indeed. The HOA shoulda been reported to the Tenants Council who shoulda reported it to the Slum Lord who shoulda reported it to Somebody. Anybody. 😂.
I would never live in a HOA. Not a chance. If I own a property, I'm closing my garage door, the garbage can is sitting by the street, parking my hooptee in the yard when I was it and painting it purple if I want to. It makes zero sense to allow someone to tell you what to do on your property
I lived in a condo development in Cherry Hill, NJ, where we, the residents, were told that quite a few residents were not paying their HOA fees ($246/mth); so at some point we, the paying residents, were going to be charged their fees -- they were going to be added on to our monthly fees!!! I had purchased a $250,000 condo there and that was my 1st HOA meeting. Sold the condo before my 2nd year anniversary. The HOA was a joke... they were quick to increase and collect HOA fees, but would not respond to text messages, emails, letters or phone calls!!! Yeah... I was done!!!
They had soooo many Unemployed HOA Karen’s at my last home, that they had to divide the area into friggen Zones! So that each water buffalo had an area to patrol! While looking for a new home, the first thing I asked was if it had an HOA 😢
They are pirates!!! Looking for a bonus! They will literally measure your grass while praying it is a hair too long just to fine you so they can afford their upcoming pool party!
I cannot imagine having to leave your garage door open all day long basically. That is totally nuts. It looks tacky anyway. Looks much better with the garage door closed.
I can't believe how powerful HOA's can be; even moving beyond the state law. I had just gotten my left knee replaced and went out in the morning to go to a doctor's appointment. My car was towed because I forgot to display the handicap placard, I parked there all the time since the surgery and everybody knew my situation. Before you get bent out of shape. The law states you are ticketed, not towed. And you can go to court and pay the fine or just show your placard and they will excuse you. But noooo we have people that go around looking for infractions, and instead of letting you off with a warning they TOW. One neighbor was towed 3 times just because.
Exactly!! Maybe the pervert who took the photo blew it up into a poster for their bedroom. OR maybe a kid designed it to be naughty OR maybe it was REALLY the imprint the car and the absence of snow made! What a silly waste of HOA energy when they COULD be busy measuring your lawn, buttocks held high in the air as they focus with tape measure and magnifying glass! 😂
My boss is is in a HOA. He tried to install solar panels in his backyard and was, basically, called on the carpet by the HOA absolutely no freedom for homeowners
I have a new one for ya. I live in an HOA. The HOA itself is fairly reasonable. But the corporation that owns my house (I rent) charges $45 PER notification of any violation. Even though the HOA and Progress Residential state that we have 10 days to correct the issue. They literally charge me $45 just to send me an e-mail. So any tiny violation can get me this charge.
But how do you know if you’re violating someone’s rules? A lot of these regs are made up as they go along. One day you get a Notice of some new dangled rule. Who watches? What about little raggedy dogs lifting their raggedy legs on every nice bush or garden? Why is THAT allowed? Nothing burns lawn worse than that, then you’ve got a violation for a spot of yellow burned grass and have to pay $45 for something out of your control? I get upset where I am because you get chewed out for feeding birds way across an unrelated Field, yet karens walk their dogs and all the work done on landscaping is not respected!
My biggest fears are: 1.) Some board member across the street will lock us out of our house while we're gone with the grinder making keys in their garage. 2.) Some lawyer bought the house two doors down intercepts letters of complaints about my yard because I've never gotten one single letter. And 3.) The mailman forwards my mail any my Deed gets stolen because I have no money. I am on a fixed income, and planned retirement here. My blood boils over this "management" problem but I feel it is way over the heads of the HOA, board, and committees. My thought is that it is controlled through State Representatives that have vested interests in tax revenues. I feel sorry for people living in these times.
I remember a case, it is on RUclips somewhere, where a man was told he couldn't park his COMMERCIAL vehicle in his driveway. It was really a POLICE CAR, issued by the police authority who employed the homeowner. I have no idea why the HOA thought they could pretend his car belonged to a private company.
The best one I heard was, a fire chief lived in a hoa neighbourhood and when he was on call he went home with a car had that had lights and siren, some of the board members complained about it being commercial or something and can't park it at home but it was government issue, county/state laws said that emergency vehicles must have lights and siren on at all times when moving, so he made sure he passed those board members houses when he was on a shout🤣🤣.
HOA not popular in my neck of the woods, But It sure is a eye opener should I decide to move. I'm just not that mild mannered to have someone tell me what I can and not do with my home. What the purpose of owing a home if you cant do what is reasonable. Seems to me the HOA is targeting people and they need to be disbanded and outlawed.
My parents neighborhood just formed an HoA... i am waiting for them to harass them. He didnt join, but got the feeling they will still make demands at one point.
I live in Las Vegas. There are HOA’s everywhere and every single time I go into work at one I hear the horror stories of how disgusting they are. I have owned five homes in Las Vegas only down to one now every single one of them was not in an HOA and I never will buy in an HOA ever.
When I was a kid we lived in a neighborhood that required everyone to have black mailboxes. One day when I was 12, I painted ours florescent green, and the flag orange. The HOA contacted my parents but my mother refused to repaint it. I'm not sure what the outcome was
I just love the story of the guy who had to fence in his boat because it an eyesore. After putting up the fence, he hired an artist to paint a mural of..... his boat! Best fu ever!!!
Lady in fla wasn't allowed to walk her dog on the sidewalk, only by the lake behind her home. They all knew full well there was a gator in there and he killed her. Now the HOA is trying to not accept responsibility
I searched and couldn't find a story of a HOA saying a women in florida couldn't walk her dog on a sidewalk and she was killed by a gator. Do you have more information?
I made the mistake of buying a condo with an HOA. I ran for the board several times but was always told i lost by one vote. As i got to know people, i realized the ladies counting the votes were the wives of the four guys that always won. Plus, if you sent in a proxy vote, it was counted by a guy on the board. This is just a start. It would take hours to list all the issues since. I'd move, but i am disabled and can't afford to move
Why anyone would want to buy a home where an association or others have almost total control over your own property you bought with your own money is beyond my wildest imagination. And then pay them $$$$ every month to do it too is totally nuts!
I dunno. I saw a *FIRE HYDRANT* where that Honda was parked... probably because I'm NOT a pervert. HOAs are fine IF you want to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood, streets lined with the *same architectural exterior features, same exterior paint colors, same plants in every yard, and VERY nosy, vindictive neighbors.* YES, it's that bad.
The FBI estimates there are 5-6 serial killers in every major metropolitan area in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some serial killers who have lived in bad HOA communities and have been harassed. They probably calculated the risks of disappearing Karens is too high given they are officially connected to the area and every resident would be under suspicion. So unfortunately, it won't happen except by a mentally deranged and suicidal individual who wants revenge on HOA karens. In the future, you could probably use AI to convince many people online the karens are still alive for several weeks while making yourself disappear from the authorities LOL.
I bought my first home as a divorced mom of two little girls in Charlotte NC. I had never heard of HOAs and their "rules". I had abdominal surgery 3 weeks after moving in.. many moving boxes, still unopened were on my screened in back porch. Got a letter from the HOA that my boxes on my porch were an eyesore for my neighbors 👀...give me a break. I purchased a cobalt blue tarp and hung it on my porch to hide the eyesore from my nosy neighbors. I got a letter from the HOA.. your blue tarp is an eyesore... HOA rules say I can't have a clothes line in my yard except between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, not on holidays and it must not be a permanent clothes line..has to come down end of day. I immediately strung a line across my backyard and hung bras, thongs, men's boxers with white polka dots I created using bleach... put it up everyday with same items for close to two weeks. Didn't hear a word, I felt silent revenge satisfaction.
I moved into a neighborhood with a HOA. Never experienced HOAs before. The backyard of the home was unfinished, and I had 2 tons of decorative rock delivered to my driveway. Within 10 minutes of delivery, the HOA president came along and said all of the rocks had to be moved within 24 hours or I would be fined. It took me 2 days to move all of the rocks to the backyard. I was charged $150 for having the rocks in the front of the house for a day past the limit. I fought it with the state ombudsman and won. But the big kicker was, the HOA president himself had some decorative rocks delivered to his house, and they sat out front under a tarp for 3 months!
Sounds like that movie: “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford. One of his punishments was hauling heavy boulders from one spot to another in the hot sun. Then, the warden made him move them all back again. HOAs probably get a lot of their ideas from sadistic movies! 😮
Hoa's started out good, but somehow, someone, picked up on the fact that there can be big bucks made from fines and fees. Now they look for violations under every rock
Wow. It seems like HOAs are designed to bankrupt home owners. If the objective it to ensure that every home looks like a million bucks then property taxes are at their peak. If my area had an HOA, I'd be somewhere else. Rural life looks better and better every day.
My friend lives in an HOA (and is now on the board because that’s the best way to have an HOA) and all condos have a second story planter under the kitchen window. They are required to have them planted. Someone asked her how her plants stayed looking so nice. She explained she went to a professional silk flower shop and uses those. It was then determined that was against the HOA and she had to remove them. So then she planted real plants. Let them sue out one by one. Replaced them with her silk plants again. And rotaries silk plants through every few month. No one knew they were silk.
I'd bet many of the people who complain about being harassed by their HOA's reported their neighbors for equally petty "infractions." Bunch of bullies who think the rules apply to everyone but themselves. Not only would I never live in an HOA, I wouldn't want the type of person who would live in an HOA living next door to me.
I've seen video of HOA members climbing a fence into someone's backyard, looking for infractions. Basically, trespassing on their property to find shit that you couldn't see unless you went on their property.
I'm playing with the neighbor's kids next door pushing them on the tire swing in the front yard. Up the street they have a fire pit and an above ground pool that's in plain site front the street because they have a double wide property. The guy with the junky looking cars on his property fixed my lawn mower for a 6 pack. We all grow our trees and hedges the way we want. Everyone is happy without living in an HOA.
Might have to go back and watch them vids of you with the Z06 from back in the day… You were one of the ones that got me through highschool dude ! Good to see you
I had an HOA send two lawyers to my door demanding that I repaint my home in one of their approved colors, demolish two unapproved outbuildings on my property, remove of my vehicles and other demands. I wasn't part of their dammed HOA. My home and outbuildings existed on my land for over 30 years before their stupid neighbor was even permitted. I was so mad I went and got all the permits and licenses necessary to legally open and operate a auo salvage yard on that land. The salvage yard has changed hands a few time but is still in business right in the middle of that HOA. 😊
You should have first let them sue you, you should dusplayed price list for coming unattended to your door with immediate payment and penalties like 1k for everyday of delay. Not showing your cards. Let them pay.
Great video! That last one was something else. Can't help but feel bad for all the HOA "victims". How prude are these killjoy prigs? It's unreal!😂 They would have a total meltdown in my city 🤣
I inherited a condo four years back and decided to live in it until I got a scheduled transfer out of state. Two months before I moved in the husband of my next door neighbor passed away. She was an old school housewife and was lost without him. The condo board was more of a wine and gossip club and when the weather was fair they'd meet "informally" by the pool which was in easy earshot of my lanai. I'd overhear them talking down this or that owner, but my ears pricked up when I heard my neighbor's name mentioned. The conversation revolved around a few times when the lady's (who sure baked awesome cookies!) husband had evidently bucked their system and won. The president of the board/club pointed out that they could go after her now that "that old b*****d was dead! I ran next door and we both went outside to listen to the rest of the conversation. She called her lawyer the next day. We still keep in touch, and she maintains that she doesn't know exactly what the lawyer did or said but she hasn't been bothered even once. BTW that lawyer was her late husband's best friend and best man at their wedding 40 years before.
I remember seeing the most shocking HOA story on RUclips where an HOA board member broke into someone's completely enclosed back porch (like a Florida room) that was locked, and rummaged through their storage bins that were in the room. The HOA declared that his totally enclosed back porch was a common area, and that the board had legal right to access it with or without the owner's consent. Show me the papers that gives you permission to do that, and I'll show you my 2nd amendment right.
A similar story was told from a friend who was living with her dying mother. A HOA member declared a trashcan was an eyesore showing a photograph. That trashcan was placed well into the patio and it was never visible from the street. My friend discovered this particular HOA member was proudly adamant of getting inside houses uninvited while their owners were out at work. That POS of a human being terrorized that old woman, too. Once my friend caught this guy red handed and kicked his sorry ass, called the police on him and sued that nosy HOA and this nasty guy. Happy ending. Now he's battling to disband that psycho board of karens.
@@christinesotelo7655 The rulers of the HOA DO SEEM to have a lot of time on their hands................... if they do work it must be for govt - meaning LIGHT DUTY with plenty of free time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always cracks me up that HOAs are so concerned with aesthetics and want to appear upper class but NEVER would any two wealthy homes allow themselves to look even remotely similar. Individuality rules the day in truly upper class neighborhoods as everyone strives to out do each other. 🤣😂🤣😂
Two HOA stories: I was on an HOA board for many years, and president for 3 of them. There were more than 200 dwellings in the subdivision. Our biggest issues were unkempt yards (there were city ordinances covering this as well), non-operating vehicles and the clubhouse/pool/tennis court upkeep. The By-laws had been written up by the developers, so the Board had little leeway or discretion, but we did our damndest to use common sense and not be tyrannical. Second story relates to a place we rent for vacation and the HOA president decided she was judge, jury and executioner for any dispute and basically ignored the other board members. At one point she told the on-site manager (who did a fabulous job) to have the propane tank that was used to heat the pool and hot tub from its current site next to the pool to the parking lot "because the tank was ugly". The manager informed her that would be in violation of safety laws, so it got dropped. She was finally voted out as prez.
Yes. An HOA or Tenants Council can’t get over on a Manager. But they DO try to sit in his or her Managerial Office all day and gossip and gripe and even try to listen in on snippets of info about some homeowner or tenant. Then the Karen goes back to the other karens and stirs up trouble.
There is nothing more horrible than already being controlled by the government then you buy a house THAT YOU NOW OWN, just to be told even more rules of what you can and cannot do! Smh
We bought a house in a community with no HOA but they do have very a nice community pool we all pay an annual fee to maintain. No government involved, no HOA, no junk cars or bad looking lawns. Just people who use common sense and get along just fine.
I once lived in a neighborhood where homeowners were allowed 4 horses per 20 acres - one owners horse had a foal and they all sued him because he didn't want to give up one of his horses. Not a brain among them, they could have changed the too-strict rule that some idiot pulled out of the sky, but no. It was all for nothing because they couldn't even get a lawyer to move forward with the rediculous lawsuit. Somehow they DID rack up a bill for filings, which they billed everyone in the neighborhood for. I'd NEVER live in a situation like that again, too many NUTS and FOOLS!
I grew up in the home that I live in. My parents owned it and I inherited 50% and purchased the balance from their estate after they passed. It was fairly rural when I was growing up, but quickly turned suburban when a bypass interstate was built nearby. The farmers who lived around the area sold out to developers, but my parents chose not to sell. A housing development went in all around us and the homes fell under a HOA. They asked if I wanted to join the HOA and I declined. They explored forcing me to join through legal means but could not because the house was built prior to the formation of the HOA. But this does not stop the HOA from sending me notices about their policies and threats of fines because I am not following their rules. It gets especially had shortly after an election of new HOA officers. My lawyer handles contacting the HOA and setting them straight about my property not being part of their little kingdom, and he handles these situations pro-bono because he is opposed to HOAs and loves sticking it to them. But he does charge me for any other legal services.
How many people would dare to live in an HOA?
I live in one. It isn't bad.
I live in one. Got 3 letters in the first 6 months I lived there. Now I'm on the HOA board with other like minded people. It's great. LOL Welcome back!
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They protect home values.
I do and i hate it, time for home to go up for sale, let someone else enjoy unnecessary rules
If HOA members made a rule where I had to leave my garage open during a certain set of time, I would wonder which one of them is a thief.
How could that be legal? Wouldn’t that be an invasion of privacy?
@@chickensdone1they agreed when they bought there house.
I would feel physically unsafe.
@tbjtbj4786 Homeowners acting surprised they will be demanded to grab their ankles and spread their cheeks for the HOA. 😅
Easy question: All of them.
We have lived in our house for 37 years. The new HOA president came to tell us our boat and our camper was in violation of the by laws. It was with extreme pleasure, that I told him, that we were not part of the neighborhood. The neighborhood stands on land that my great grandparents sold to a developer. We are an entity all by ourselves. But we are the first house you see as you pull into the subdivision. I told him if I had anymore visits from him, I would make sure my home looked like the Beverly Hillbillies were having a garage sale! It's been a year, haven't heard a peep!🤣😂🤣😂🤣
How fun!
Awesome 🎉
For the land of the free, there’s an awful lot of control freaks trying to impose their rules on others.
Your great grandparents should have kept the land
@@FlyinRaptorJesus Should have. But around the 70's the government started making it hard on farmers. Better to sell it than have it forclosed or forfeited for taxes. We still have a beautiful 35 acre lot.
I bought my home in 2021 and my number 1 rule was NO HOA, I wouldn't even consider it. The homes I walked away from were dreams come true, but they were in HOA controlled developments, then the best house we came across had no HOA, the cost was about 119K above our budget, but it was worth it, so we put our offer in and bought the house. No regrets!
No HOA! 😮
That part! No one has the right to tell you what you can or can't do on your property that you bought and paid for with your hard earned money.
Or pee on a tree in the backyard...😮
We had a Home Guild with voluntary dues, to pay for snowplowing, maintenance for the Front Entrance Sign with flowers and plants, follow nearby city rules on grass length, condition and such and a Bullitan Board annoucing anything you want like a yard sale, or Fun Fair Day, or Holiday. We had 80% + pay their dues, and did a Sub Sale to make up the rest. No one is getting fined except by the city rules.
Some people are so unhappy with their own lives they have to try to control other peoples lives to feel better, pathetic.
And those who.let them are more pathetic
Trying to feel important when they are NOT !!! 😮
That's my English next door neighbors. Miserable Control freaks with nothing to do but be haters
I wonder which is worse: an HOA or a Tenant’s Council? Both have bizarre gossiping scandalizers and power-hungry “officers”.
If you buy a house with an HOA you are completely out of your mind. 😵💫
Not all HOA's are over reaching. A few subdivisions in my county only use them for snow plowing and maintenance of common areas. It's when they get personal that's not good.
@@KM-nj3cm anytime someone can come into your house and tell you how to live or come onto your property and tell you what you are allowed to do. You are not the owner you are merely renting, and if you were renting you are a slave. Slaves don't own anything. Everyone in this nation is a slave not a single person in this country owns their property.
@@KM-nj3cm There are some people who like living as slaves. Take for instance the people in West Virginia. They like living his slaves so much that they don't even own their cars. Anything you buy for your personal use and you pay a yearly tax on it you don't own it this includes your house your car and any other property that you buy. You see you don't have to continuously pay for something that you own, or it will be confiscated by the government. The only thing that the government is supposed to be continuously taxing us for are businesses, work, business rental properties, and sales. I say this because if the government is doing its job then you will be working or running a business or having an area that is safe enough to rent property. The method in which state taxes now it could be a failed state and still get money. If I were president of the United States that would be the very first thing I would work on. I would stop all the states from taking advantage of the people. So if that's what you would like to have if you want to be free, get your friends together and vote for me. 😱🤯🫨🤑 A vote for me is a vote for freedom 🎇🎆🇺🇸 but I know that the American people don't want to be free so I can remain an obscure person in the background.
We haven't had any problems with our hoa. But the yearly fees are ridiculous. Thankfully they aren't all up on our a$$ enforcing stupid rules.
The good thing though - maybe its not so bad that they have a standard to maintain the decor and presentation of the neighborhood. It keeps the property value high when trying to sell (however the high property taxes are awful, so there's that 😢)
@@VeenaMichelle just because they're not all up on you that doesn't make you any less than enslaved do the HMO. We're all enslaved with the government because no matter how much you pay for your land you can never own it. In truth they should only be a one-time tax at purchase and after that only on services and goods, but that I mean labor and rentals. There should not be yearly registrations for your car unless your car is being sold rented or used for business. In the state of Virginia you have to pay a value tax on your car every year. This means you don't own the car you just bought just like you don't own a house that you bought. You're only renting land from the state for taxes. We have turned into a nation of slaves and we have no idea, because every day we trade our freedom for safety and because of that one day we won't have either. By the way, you do know that the homeowners association started to keep black people, the poor and anyone that didn't fit in some one's idea of an American out of neighborhoods. The federal government funded these places because they also wanted to keep the people separated, by joining an HMO you're perpetuating the good old boys, old ideas. If you didn't want to own your house you should have just rented an apartment or a house, that way you could check with your landlord
Kudos to the towing company owner to waive the fees and help the widow. There is a man with some heart and compassion for a fellow human.
That HOA woman is a sociopath. Horrible and despicable.
Such a rare find in the towing world. That company deserves everybody's business.
I've never lived nor will i live in an HOA. But i did work security at multiple HOA properties before. I've never dealt with such whiny, entitled cry babies in my life.
They are worse than the rules lol
Idk why anyone would live in an HOA. One of the major purposes of buying a house is freedom from landlords controlling you, but with an HOA you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to own your own home and you still have ppl controlling you.
I got a written warning on my door for a quarter-sized oil drip from my Trans Am! I am not kidding. You know what I did? I MOVED!
I guess that's easy when you live in your car.
Im right behind u, gotta get out of my home and horrid hoa
I would've changed the oil in that thing and let it drain all over the driveway the night before I left😅
They will literally spend their entire day trespassing your privacy/property in search of anything they can charge you for. They’re worse than the road pirates! They just want control & Your $$$. Just move to a clean neighborhood with self respect & pride, not HOA Natzi’s, and you will be far better off!
Good!😮
A HOA fined someone for giving piano lessons in her home. Another for changing his own oil. And because his son drove a pickup truck and dressed like a construction worker. They said his pickup truck was a construction vehicle because he used it to move his tools to job sites. I have a hunch that HOA are really just enforcing the appearance of social class.
"I have a hunch that HOA are really just enforcing the appearance of social class."
Yeah, that's mostly it. Many HOA rules are interpreted by the people who have a certain idea of how they want their neighborhood to "look", and they'll use those rules to force the neighborhood to look that way. This is the thing with HOAs.... if you want your neighborhood to look that way, then great; if not, then don't buy a house in an HOA.
Even local code prohibits running a business out of a residential neighborhood due to addional traffic and parking, so the piano lessons at home violation was warranted IMO. That's why zoning exists.
@@allaboutroofing2 True. The rules have to apply to everyone, and anyone buying in an HOA agrees to the rules. Someone offering piano lessons at their house might not be disturbing the neighbors, but then the guy that wants to operate a car repair business out of his garage (and on his driveway) will want the same consideration for his business.
HOA rules are designed to keep the neighbors in check. If you're one of those neighbors that doesn't want to be kept in check, then don't buy in an HOA. Simple as that.
@@allaboutroofing2 time to change the hoa then
@@buisnessclass9520 are you illiterate? I ask genuinely.
You’re buying a personal Karen when you buy in an HOA neighborhood.
You do that when you live anywhere. Rent an apartment. It's no different. The only difference with an HOA is you own an asset. You just don't have certain rights to control it.
That truck is a historic artifact. The HOA is nuts
I will never move into an HOA, I don't need anyone telling what I can and cannot do with my property.
The worst was the one where the H O A said an elderly lady needing a wheelchair couldn't have a ramp to access her home. Thus placing the H O A in direct and incontrovertible conflict with state and federal law. also being totally amoral a******s. Never heard how that one came out. Hopefully she sued the pants off them.
That's an easy lawsuit
@@richellediallo3628 it would easily be a federal case as well because it would clearly be in violation of the Americans with disability act.
The lawsuit, if there was one, would never go to court. It would be dismissed with the court simply telling the HOA that yes, she's allowed to have access to her house so she can build her ramp.
This case did go to court because the HOA said she didn't have A handicap placard in her vehicle indicating that she had a handicap, and that there were no plans or permits submitted for approval to build the ramp! If I remember right someone who sal the news broadcast about this situation. Who installed ramps for people with limited mobility. Often also had the task of removing them when someone died and it was of no further use to the home. Donated A ramp that met all safety and government regulations and standards for free, and the HOA was not happy that they couldn't complain about it. But as soon as that lady passed and left her daughter who lived with her the house. They were right back to playing their dirty tricks. Only now it was about the ramp not needing to be there any longer even though it also came equipped with steps! The daughter sold and moved
@@faithnevaehmartinez4509 Great. Thanks for sharing. I guess I should be mad now. Maybe I'll wait until tomorrow though.
That looks like a fire hydrant to me. If your member looks like that I recommend running to the doctor.
FIRE HYDRANT! Dog Bone! Oh geez, what great imaginations we have here among us!
Why would anyone live in a HOA makes no sense to me..
I guess that the idea is that the neighborhood will be forced to be clean to keep up property values. The risk of getting a bad HOA is too much for me, though! Also the payment for life is rough.
@@BigKleib34 yeah hard pass.. You get all the financial burden and headache of being a home owner but yet same rules as a renter.. absolutely not
@@gregundahood202Not every HOA is the same. Different HOAs have different bylaws and then each community has a "president" and "board members". Some are way worse than others. HOAs do have benefits. It just all depends on the community and amenities.
I picked a HOA because gated community, Comcast internet and cable included in the HOA, sick gym and pool. Has its own elementary school incase I have kids at a later point in life. Fire station within 2 miles of the house. Irrigation system works off the lakes that were built, not city/county water supply.
@@camarodreams7689 probably just because I live in rural Vermont anyways I don’t like having neighbors so close to me. and definitely wouldn’t want them thinking they can tell me what to do.. hoa would frown on me shooting guns in my backyard witch I do regularly lol
Why and How can we not legally avoid them is what I wanna know.
My brother was fined for having "the wrong mailbox." My brother and his wife bought the "model home" in his neighborhood. It had a street-side mailbox, when he moved in. All the other new homes also had street-side mailboxes, but they were slightly different. Instead of paying the fine, one night my brother went to a hardware store, bought the same house number labels, pulled up his mailbox, grabbed a shovel, went to a new house, on another street that had just been built, but had not sold, pulled up that mailbox, planted his old mailbox, changed the house number on the box to the new house number, came home, planted the new mailbox, renumbered the box to his number, and went about his business. When the second and third bill came, he threw those away too. The HOA animated-dildo, aka "president" came by to "talk to my brother about the unpaid fine." My brother told him that his mailbox looked like everyone else's on the street." The guy turned around, looked surprised, and told him, 'Well...don't let it happen again." My brother told the guy, "Go away and stay off my grass. Next time, I won't be nice."
So your bother stole a mailbox and you publicly outed him on RUclips?
@@allaboutroofing2 Read it again. He 'exchanged' it.
@@miket7184 That's still theft. Try taking your old car to a dealership and "exchanging" it for a new one. It won't work out well.
Not that any of us believe a word of the original story. It smells suspiciously of "I have a girlfriend, like, but she's, like, form another school, like, so you wouldn't know her. We met at, uh, Band Camp, yeah, that's it, Band Camp."
@@davidbennett9691 Looks like we found the HOA Karen.
“Animated dildo”...Love that! 😂
i would never live in a HOA controled area
Notice: You are hereby fined $100 for misspelling "controlled"! 😅😮😂
Notice: You are also fined $100 for not placing a period at the end of a sentence! 😂
I'd never either- I prefer no neighbors. However, not all HOA's are over reaching. A few subdivisions in my county only use them for snow plowing and maintenance of common areas. It's when they get personal that's not good.
Well, aren’t you special
We did from 1990 until about 1996. It was like living in *"The Stepford Wives"* or *"Don't Worry Darling."* Crazy, nosy neighbors reporting nit-picky little b.s. things on each other. NEVER AGAIN.
My neighbor had sn HOA before and they never told him before after he bought the house then they tryed to give him fines and try to sell his house because he wasn't paying. They ended up in court, they been convict of extortion, fraud and harassment. They didn't know he was the owners of 3 major companies in the city and had plenty of money to drown them in legal fees.
You couldn't pay me enough money to live in a homeowners association I would not live there
You wouldn't even live there if you were getting paid? Suuuure...
Even if you “were getting paid”, that might be attractive in the beginning, like a new job. After a month, you’d tell them to take their pay and shove it. HOA’s and even people stuck in leased Apts with Tenant’s Councils get tired of the malarkey after a week or a month of it. Gossipers and mean clip-haired karens, usually retired or unemployable.
Keeping your garage door open is an enormous security risk, especially because most people work. Garages are the #1 breaking points for burglars
Very dangerous indeed. The HOA shoulda been reported to the Tenants Council who shoulda reported it to the Slum Lord who shoulda reported it to Somebody. Anybody. 😂.
Imagine paying people to tell you what you can and cant do on your on property. Never!
I would never live in a HOA. Not a chance. If I own a property, I'm closing my garage door, the garbage can is sitting by the street, parking my hooptee in the yard when I was it and painting it purple if I want to. It makes zero sense to allow someone to tell you what to do on your property
I lived in a condo development in Cherry Hill, NJ, where we, the residents, were told that quite a few residents were not paying their HOA fees ($246/mth); so at some point we, the paying residents, were going to be charged their fees -- they were going to be added on to our monthly fees!!! I had purchased a $250,000 condo there and that was my 1st HOA meeting. Sold the condo before my 2nd year anniversary. The HOA was a joke... they were quick to increase and collect HOA fees, but would not respond to text messages, emails, letters or phone calls!!! Yeah... I was done!!!
Sounds like a scam to me... can they even legally force you to pay other people's fees?????
Exactly. My kids went through all of that too. They lasted two years then bought out of State, no HOA ever again.
When I bought my house the first thing I asked and double checked was no HOA. If there was one it was off the list.
Me too
Off!
We were recently in the housing market. You were correct. Any house that had an a HOA was automatically dropped from consideration.
I live in Las Vegas. There are HOA’s everywhere and every single time I go into work at one I hear the horror stories of how disgusting they are.
I can't imagine caring even somewhat about what my neighbors are doing provided they're not directly affecting me.
They had soooo many Unemployed HOA Karen’s at my last home, that they had to divide the area into friggen Zones! So that each water buffalo had an area to patrol! While looking for a new home, the first thing I asked was if it had an HOA 😢
You should be a writer, that's hilarious!😂
"Water buffalo" 😂😂😂
They are pirates!!! Looking for a bonus! They will literally measure your grass while praying it is a hair too long just to fine you so they can afford their upcoming pool party!
What a rip off! 😮
Absolutely a rip off, then they’ll invite you AND charge you to come to their pool party!!! 😝
Right! Right! I was just commenting on another reply about the grass measuring! 😂😢😮
Well said, Pirates. Beg, borrow, steal.
I cannot imagine having to leave your garage door open all day long basically. That is totally nuts. It looks tacky anyway. Looks much better with the garage door closed.
Oh heck no. Someone could get in your house. What's the point of having a door.
I can't believe how powerful HOA's can be; even moving beyond the state law. I had just gotten my left knee replaced and went out in the morning to go to a doctor's appointment. My car was towed because I forgot to display the handicap placard, I parked there all the time since the surgery and everybody knew my situation. Before you get bent out of shape. The law states you are ticketed, not towed. And you can go to court and pay the fine or just show your placard and they will excuse you. But noooo we have people that go around looking for infractions, and instead of letting you off with a warning they TOW. One neighbor was towed 3 times just because.
HOA sounds like a Corporate Church where they go around just looking for sins and paying no attention to Life and Love. Awful.
That first one is crazy a closed garage door looks better than an open one!
So if the person from #1 was afraid for the purity of children, why didn't that person kick snow over it to conceal it?
Exactly!! Maybe the pervert who took the photo blew it up into a poster for their bedroom. OR maybe a kid designed it to be naughty OR maybe it was REALLY the imprint the car and the absence of snow made! What a silly waste of HOA energy when they COULD be busy measuring your lawn, buttocks held high in the air as they focus with tape measure and magnifying glass! 😂
The Karen who took the photo preferred scandal and soap-opera excitement to being kind and just walking on or messing it over.
My boss is is in a HOA.
He tried to install solar panels in his backyard and was, basically, called on the carpet by the HOA
absolutely no freedom for homeowners
I have a new one for ya. I live in an HOA. The HOA itself is fairly reasonable. But the corporation that owns my house (I rent) charges $45 PER notification of any violation. Even though the HOA and Progress Residential state that we have 10 days to correct the issue. They literally charge me $45 just to send me an e-mail. So any tiny violation can get me this charge.
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Will the courts enforce those fees?
@@MondoBeno. Unfortunately, it's in the fine print of the lease. So yes. As stupid as I think it is, I did sign it. It's a really nice neighborhood.
But how do you know if you’re violating someone’s rules? A lot of these regs are made up as they go along. One day you get a Notice of some new dangled rule. Who watches? What about little raggedy dogs lifting their raggedy legs on every nice bush or garden? Why is THAT allowed? Nothing burns lawn worse than that, then you’ve got a violation for a spot of yellow burned grass and have to pay $45 for something out of your control? I get upset where I am because you get chewed out for feeding birds way across an unrelated Field, yet karens walk their dogs and all the work done on landscaping is not respected!
My biggest fears are: 1.) Some board member across the street will lock us out of our house while we're gone with the grinder making keys in their garage. 2.) Some lawyer bought the house two doors down intercepts letters of complaints about my yard because I've never gotten one single letter. And 3.) The mailman forwards my mail any my Deed gets stolen because I have no money.
I am on a fixed income, and planned retirement here. My blood boils over this "management" problem but I feel it is way over the heads of the HOA, board, and committees. My thought is that it is controlled through State Representatives that have vested interests in tax revenues. I feel sorry for people living in these times.
I remember a case, it is on RUclips somewhere, where a man was told he couldn't park his COMMERCIAL vehicle in his driveway. It was really a POLICE CAR, issued by the police authority who employed the homeowner. I have no idea why the HOA thought they could pretend his car belonged to a private company.
If my vehicle fits , it sits. . Constitutionally ruled
The best one I heard was, a fire chief lived in a hoa neighbourhood and when he was on call he went home with a car had that had lights and siren, some of the board members complained about it being commercial or something and can't park it at home but it was government issue, county/state laws said that emergency vehicles must have lights and siren on at all times when moving, so he made sure he passed those board members houses when he was on a shout🤣🤣.
HOA not popular in my neck of the woods, But It sure is a eye opener should I decide to move. I'm just not that mild mannered to have someone tell me what I can and not do with my home. What the purpose of owing a home if you cant do what is reasonable. Seems to me the HOA is targeting people and they need to be disbanded and outlawed.
My parents neighborhood just formed an HoA... i am waiting for them to harass them. He didnt join, but got the feeling they will still make demands at one point.
I live in Las Vegas. There are HOA’s everywhere and every single time I go into work at one I hear the horror stories of how disgusting they are. I have owned five homes in Las Vegas only down to one now every single one of them was not in an HOA and I never will buy in an HOA ever.
When I was a kid we lived in a neighborhood that required everyone to have black mailboxes. One day when I was 12, I painted ours florescent green, and the flag orange. The HOA contacted my parents but my mother refused to repaint it. I'm not sure what the outcome was
GOOD FOR YOU! 😂
I just love the story of the guy who had to fence in his boat because it an eyesore. After putting up the fence, he hired an artist to paint a mural of..... his boat! Best fu ever!!!
I refuse to live in an HOA
Same here 😎.
Lady in fla wasn't allowed to walk her dog on the sidewalk, only by the lake behind her home. They all knew full well there was a gator in there and he killed her. Now the HOA is trying to not accept responsibility
This is terrifying and terrible!
No, sue !!! 😮😮😮
Did this really happen? Can you share a link to a news article pertaining to this situation? Please and thank you
I searched and couldn't find a story of a HOA saying a women in florida couldn't walk her dog on a sidewalk and she was killed by a gator. Do you have more information?
@@lifehackertips ruclips.net/video/ovywgkU27-0/видео.htmlsi=9leRxYPmBfR7DC5B
I learned my lesson over 35 years ago. Never again.
I would NEVER buy property in an HOA.
I made the mistake of buying a condo with an HOA. I ran for the board several times but was always told i lost by one vote. As i got to know people, i realized the ladies counting the votes were the wives of the four guys that always won. Plus, if you sent in a proxy vote, it was counted by a guy on the board. This is just a start. It would take hours to list all the issues since. I'd move, but i am disabled and can't afford to move
If you purchase a home regulated by an HOA, you deserve what you get.
Why anyone would want to buy a home where an association or others have almost total control over your own property you bought with your own money is beyond my wildest imagination. And then pay them $$$$ every month to do it too is totally nuts!
I dunno. I saw a *FIRE HYDRANT* where that Honda was parked... probably because I'm NOT a pervert.
HOAs are fine IF you want to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood, streets lined with the *same architectural exterior features, same exterior paint colors, same plants in every yard, and VERY nosy, vindictive neighbors.* YES, it's that bad.
That f250 is a classic truck and an antique. It improves the character of any neighborhood
Better yet, avoid any real estate purchase that puts you under HOA control.
No way would I buy a house and then put up with such mess. I'm surprised more of these HOA folks don't get disappeared, lol.
The FBI estimates there are 5-6 serial killers in every major metropolitan area in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some serial killers who have lived in bad HOA communities and have been harassed. They probably calculated the risks of disappearing Karens is too high given they are officially connected to the area and every resident would be under suspicion. So unfortunately, it won't happen except by a mentally deranged and suicidal individual who wants revenge on HOA karens. In the future, you could probably use AI to convince many people online the karens are still alive for several weeks while making yourself disappear from the authorities LOL.
I bought my first home as a divorced mom of two little girls in Charlotte NC.
I had never heard of HOAs and their "rules".
I had abdominal surgery 3 weeks after moving in.. many moving boxes, still unopened were on my screened in back porch. Got a letter from the HOA that my boxes on my porch were an eyesore for my neighbors 👀...give me a break.
I purchased a cobalt blue tarp and hung it on my porch to hide the eyesore from my nosy neighbors.
I got a letter from the HOA.. your blue tarp is an eyesore...
HOA rules say I can't have a clothes line in my yard except between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, not on holidays and it must not be a permanent clothes line..has to come down end of day.
I immediately strung a line across my backyard and hung bras, thongs, men's boxers with white polka dots I created using bleach... put it up everyday with same items for close to two weeks.
Didn't hear a word, I felt silent revenge satisfaction.
The best revenge is to live well ! Ha! Good for you!
The word “Plantation” at the entrance is a big tip off!😮
I'd live in a van down by the river before I ever buy into an HOA!
You truly are better off in the camper by the river. Believe me.
Yea see I would absolutely stay away from any houses that has an HOA attached. It’s just an additional headache.
I moved into a neighborhood with a HOA. Never experienced HOAs before. The backyard of the home was unfinished, and I had 2 tons of decorative rock delivered to my driveway. Within 10 minutes of delivery, the HOA president came along and said all of the rocks had to be moved within 24 hours or I would be fined. It took me 2 days to move all of the rocks to the backyard. I was charged $150 for having the rocks in the front of the house for a day past the limit. I fought it with the state ombudsman and won. But the big kicker was, the HOA president himself had some decorative rocks delivered to his house, and they sat out front under a tarp for 3 months!
Sounds like that movie: “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford. One of his punishments was hauling heavy boulders from one spot to another in the hot sun. Then, the warden made him move them all back again. HOAs probably get a lot of their ideas from sadistic movies! 😮
Totally corrupt. Couldn't you send a fake fine to him and all the residents so they know of the issue? He would probably retaliate.
Hoa's started out good, but somehow, someone, picked up on the fact that there can be big bucks made from fines and fees. Now they look for violations under every rock
The old adage “given the choice of good or evil most will choose evil” is on point here.
Wow. It seems like HOAs are designed to bankrupt home owners. If the objective it to ensure that every home looks like a million bucks then property taxes are at their peak. If my area had an HOA, I'd be somewhere else. Rural life looks better and better every day.
My friend lives in an HOA (and is now on the board because that’s the best way to have an HOA) and all condos have a second story planter under the kitchen window. They are required to have them planted. Someone asked her how her plants stayed looking so nice. She explained she went to a professional silk flower shop and uses those. It was then determined that was against the HOA and she had to remove them. So then she planted real plants. Let them sue out one by one. Replaced them with her silk plants again. And rotaries silk plants through every few month. No one knew they were silk.
Great story!
HOA's are lowering home values, NOT raising them. The very idea to buy a home that your neighbors control is stupid.
The truck with the "Patina" had NO body damage and therefor should not be breaking the HOA rules. Does the HOA tell you what color your car must be?
Lived HOA once, wasn’t the worst, but definitely bullshit and be ready to deal with bunch of gossiping Karen’s.
I'd bet many of the people who complain about being harassed by their HOA's reported their neighbors for equally petty "infractions." Bunch of bullies who think the rules apply to everyone but themselves. Not only would I never live in an HOA, I wouldn't want the type of person who would live in an HOA living next door to me.
insane rules by hoa on personal property
never buy with hoa on site.
If you read the rules in detail, you'd walk away. Leave the Karens to feed on other Karens.
I've seen video of HOA members climbing a fence into someone's backyard, looking for infractions. Basically, trespassing on their property to find shit that you couldn't see unless you went on their property.
Also, I had to park my 1/2 ton pickup at the clubhouse which gave me a 1/4 mile walk to and from just so I could drive it to work each day!
We told our agent that we don’t want to even look at HOA properties. Our neighborhood is in very high demand.
I'm playing with the neighbor's kids next door pushing them on the tire swing in the front yard. Up the street they have a fire pit and an above ground pool that's in plain site front the street because they have a double wide property. The guy with the junky looking cars on his property fixed my lawn mower for a 6 pack. We all grow our trees and hedges the way we want. Everyone is happy without living in an HOA.
They almost always find out overly litigious HOAs have board members picketing fees.
HOA have to generate income. Guess how they do it.
By being petty?
Yes
Hmm... seems like HOAs are just another way to say landlord.
Might have to go back and watch them vids of you with the Z06 from back in the day…
You were one of the ones that got me through highschool dude ! Good to see you
I had an HOA send two lawyers to my door demanding that I repaint my home in one of their approved colors, demolish two unapproved outbuildings on my property, remove of my vehicles and other demands.
I wasn't part of their dammed HOA. My home and outbuildings existed on my land for over 30 years before their stupid neighbor was even permitted. I was so mad I went and got all the permits and licenses necessary to legally open and operate a auo salvage yard on that land. The salvage yard has changed hands a few time but is still in business right in the middle of that HOA. 😊
You should have first let them sue you, you should dusplayed price list for coming unattended to your door with immediate payment and penalties like 1k for everyday of delay. Not showing your cards. Let them pay.
Great video! That last one was something else. Can't help but feel bad for all the HOA "victims". How prude are these killjoy prigs? It's unreal!😂 They would have a total meltdown in my city 🤣
HOAs, Tenant’s Councils, Church Ladies Guilds...no way. Hell on earth.
I inherited a condo four years back and decided to live in it until I got a scheduled transfer out of state. Two months before I moved in the husband of my next door neighbor passed away. She was an old school housewife and was lost without him.
The condo board was more of a wine and gossip club and when the weather was fair they'd meet "informally" by the pool which was in easy earshot of my lanai. I'd overhear them talking down this or that owner, but my ears pricked up when I heard my neighbor's name mentioned. The conversation revolved around a few times when the lady's (who sure baked awesome cookies!) husband had evidently bucked their system and won. The president of the board/club pointed out that they could go after her now that "that old b*****d was dead! I ran next door and we both went outside to listen to the rest of the conversation.
She called her lawyer the next day. We still keep in touch, and she maintains that she doesn't know exactly what the lawyer did or said but she hasn't been bothered even once. BTW that lawyer was her late husband's best friend and best man at their wedding 40 years before.
I will never buy a home with an HOA
Good
Never! 😮
I remember seeing the most shocking HOA story on RUclips where an HOA board member broke into someone's completely enclosed back porch (like a Florida room) that was locked, and rummaged through their storage bins that were in the room. The HOA declared that his totally enclosed back porch was a common area, and that the board had legal right to access it with or without the owner's consent. Show me the papers that gives you permission to do that, and I'll show you my 2nd amendment right.
A similar story was told from a friend who was living with her dying mother. A HOA member declared a trashcan was an eyesore showing a photograph. That trashcan was placed well into the patio and it was never visible from the street. My friend discovered this particular HOA member was proudly adamant of getting inside houses uninvited while their owners were out at work. That POS of a human being terrorized that old woman, too. Once my friend caught this guy red handed and kicked his sorry ass, called the police on him and sued that nosy HOA and this nasty guy. Happy ending. Now he's battling to disband that psycho board of karens.
I wonder if stuff like this stems from people having horrible bosses at work.
At a guess the people running the HOA ARE probably also the HORRIBLE bosses at work...........
Do HOA people work? I thought most were retired with too much time on their hands. Maybe.
@@christinesotelo7655 The rulers of the HOA DO SEEM to have a lot of time on their hands...................
if they do work it must be for govt - meaning LIGHT DUTY with plenty of free time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@christinesotelo7655Probably mostly retired with the free time to harass their neighbors.
Always cracks me up that HOAs are so concerned with aesthetics and want to appear upper class but NEVER would any two wealthy homes allow themselves to look even remotely similar. Individuality rules the day in truly upper class neighborhoods as everyone strives to out do each other. 🤣😂🤣😂
Tract 'cookie cutter' homes where you're allowed just 3 shades of the same color as approved by the HOA!
So many nasty HOA stories seem to emanate from Florida.
IDK why anyone would want to live in a HOA, it's like your house isn't yours. Too many insane rules.
It’s hard to avoid them there everywhere now all that extra money every month to be harassed
Two HOA stories: I was on an HOA board for many years, and president for 3 of them. There were more than 200 dwellings in the subdivision. Our biggest issues were unkempt yards (there were city ordinances covering this as well), non-operating vehicles and the clubhouse/pool/tennis court upkeep. The By-laws had been written up by the developers, so the Board had little leeway or discretion, but we did our damndest to use common sense and not be tyrannical. Second story relates to a place we rent for vacation and the HOA president decided she was judge, jury and executioner for any dispute and basically ignored the other board members. At one point she told the on-site manager (who did a fabulous job) to have the propane tank that was used to heat the pool and hot tub from its current site next to the pool to the parking lot "because the tank was ugly". The manager informed her that would be in violation of safety laws, so it got dropped. She was finally voted out as prez.
Yes. An HOA or Tenants Council can’t get over on a Manager. But they DO try to sit in his or her Managerial Office all day and gossip and gripe and even try to listen in on snippets of info about some homeowner or tenant. Then the Karen goes back to the other karens and stirs up trouble.
It's crazy but they don't have my sympathy. (it's in the dictionary between suicide and syphilis) They wanted an HOA so LIVE with it! 😂
There is nothing more horrible than already being controlled by the government then you buy a house THAT YOU NOW OWN, just to be told even more rules of what you can and cannot do! Smh
I would never live in a HOA!
This is a power trip AKA bullying.
Land of liberty 😂😅
We bought a house in a community with no HOA but they do have very a nice community pool we all pay an annual fee to maintain. No government involved, no HOA, no junk cars or bad looking lawns. Just people who use common sense and get along just fine.
I once lived in a neighborhood where homeowners were allowed 4 horses per 20 acres - one owners horse had a foal and they all sued him because he didn't want to give up one of his horses. Not a brain among them, they could have changed the too-strict rule that some idiot pulled out of the sky, but no. It was all for nothing because they couldn't even get a lawyer to move forward with the rediculous lawsuit. Somehow they DID rack up a bill for filings, which they billed everyone in the neighborhood for. I'd NEVER live in a situation like that again, too many NUTS and FOOLS!
I found a note on my car after visiting a friend who lives in a HOA, indicating if I park on the street again my tires would be slashed.
You should probably take that to the police. That's a threat for property destruction
@VeenaMichelle We don't know who left the note, therefore can't report it.
No car camera? Fingerprints?
When i think of HOAs, I think of the horror movie Stepford Wives. The whole concept is unnatural and unhealthy.
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Same here... same here lol
I grew up in the home that I live in. My parents owned it and I inherited 50% and purchased the balance from their estate after they passed. It was fairly rural when I was growing up, but quickly turned suburban when a bypass interstate was built nearby. The farmers who lived around the area sold out to developers, but my parents chose not to sell. A housing development went in all around us and the homes fell under a HOA. They asked if I wanted to join the HOA and I declined. They explored forcing me to join through legal means but could not because the house was built prior to the formation of the HOA. But this does not stop the HOA from sending me notices about their policies and threats of fines because I am not following their rules. It gets especially had shortly after an election of new HOA officers. My lawyer handles contacting the HOA and setting them straight about my property not being part of their little kingdom, and he handles these situations pro-bono because he is opposed to HOAs and loves sticking it to them. But he does charge me for any other legal services.
Remember, people CHOOSE to join HOAs. Keep that in mind when doling out sympathy.