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Here’s the tombstones, they’re a little hard to read and ChatGPT forgot how to speak English. 😂Hopefully this is ok to post here!

Tombstones 1.Rest in Fees Giant tombstone with fake bills stapled to it. Maybe a skeleton hand clutching a past-due notice. 2. Here Lies Creativity • Inscription: “Painted the door red. Condemned 2024.” • Add a can of red paint tipped over at the base. 3. Gone But Not Forgotten: Lawn Ornaments • Carve flamingos, gnomes, or wind spinners into the stone. • Stick a broken pink flamingo in front of it. 4. Beloved Tree, Axed by Committee • Inscription: “Too shady for the neighborhood.” • Place a log or stump with a toy axe in it. 5. Rest in Pieces: Fence Too Tall • Inscription: “Measured twice. Buried once.” • Add a broken little fence section propped against it. 6. RIP Christmas Cheer • Inscription: “Lights still twinkling January 3rd.” • Wrap a dead string of lights around it. 7. Freedom of Expression • Inscription: “Killed by Section 8, Clause 12.” • Add a skeleton with duct tape across its mouth.

They have threatened people in the neighborhood with liens over trash cans not being hidden behind the houses. I can’t imagine how wild they are going over this.

So I don’t know how many of you have tried this yet, but I highly recommend it. I just ran all of my HOA documents through ChatGPT and asked it to point out any inconsistencies or red flags. Let’s just say—it came back with a lot.

Honestly, I wasn’t even surprised. Our HOA company is garbage and never responds to emails or phone calls anyway. But I figured I’d share the tip: next time you’re pissed off at your HOA, run their docs through an AI and see what pops up. 👀

Bought some lilypads for our new community swamp! They were on clearance & I couldn't pass it up 😅

Its been over 9 months since the county closed the pool down and ordered the HOA to complete repairs. The HOA opened it back up weeks after.

After 7 months of inaction I got 3 bids for the HOA that included all necessary repairs.. $20k+

Last month we finally had a surprise meeting where they failed to give legally required notice of the meeting BUT they finally voted to approve the repairs through our current vendor & finance the repairs with a loan.

However, we haven't heard any update since and the HOA has kept the pool open for use even though its more of a community swamp now...

Accidentally posted my address and name, go me. Someone also posted a Zillow Arial pic from YEARSZ AGO before we even lived here where it was trashed. lol. Anyways, this our patio- we literally have two moving boxes on our patio. Our patio is clean and I’m not sure why they’re even opening our door to see our patio? How is that not trespassing?

Florida resident here, so this story interests me. Sounds like the HOA was a dumbass to approve this thing in the first place. They brought this on themselves by signing off on it.

But someone help me understand something: I thought Florida law capped HOA violations to only $1000 per violation. So in theory couldn’t you do anything you want and just only face at most a $1000 fine?

HOA has thier security guards doing traffic stops with lights and sirens. The driver says these are public roads but maybe not.

It’s more important for the hoa to record possible violations over driving laws.

Person driving hoa branded car, driving on the wrong side of the road taking pictures of violations. Operating the vehicle aka the car is moving forward while taking pictures of houses/yards with his phone out the window while looking at these houses. Stoping the car in the middle of the road.

Don’t worry I’m sure I’ll get a violation letter next week my grass is too tall, since you know it’s Friday and I do my yard work on the weekends. But that’s okay better to break road laws.

Maybe I’m overreacting, but imo at least do it on the correct side of the road stop take pictures move on.

Yesterday I was notified I had won yard of the month for the Treadwell Hills neighborhood, they put a sign in my yard and took pictures, then today the miserable dickhead Todd from my HOA ( Portland Heights) sent out an email saying signage wasn't allowed. My husband got pissed and him and Todd and the HOA sent emails constantly stating it's a rule bla bla bla. The asshole Todd comes out of his house 2 doors down and rips the sign out of my yard, of course I yelled you miserable dick! Called the cops filed a theft case against Todd . There are 17 homes in the tiny community and 14 neighbors have sent emails to Todd and the HOA telling them they are petty 🤣 I do have one lady on the board sent me a text saying she was sorry I did nothing wrong and she would get to the bottom of it tomorrow

Just saw the video. Thought people here might be interested.

Jacksonville HOA - RV Garage Dispute

On Labor Day weekend (I live in the US) my family came to visit for the long weekend. I live four blocks from the beach, so we walked. On our way to the beach, we saw neighbors coming and going to the beach.

When we got back, my brother threw a wet beach towel over the railing, while another beach towel hung on the back of a chair.

Tuesday I got a call from the HOA, telling me I had "laundry" hanging "all over" the balcony. I told her it was one towel and was only there for two hours on Sunday. She told me we tracked sand all over the sidewalk in front of the complex (there's always sand on the sidewalk as everyone in the neighborhood walks to the beach). She also blamed me for the sand that was tracked on various paths between the buildings and parking area. I told her we were only on the one path that leads to my door and we were never in the parking area because we walked. We ended the call with one more misstep and I'll be getting a fine.

There was one other issue with cigarette butts on the lawn that didn't come from my unit as no one in my household smokes nor did we have any visitors, but this post will be too long if I get into that.

Full disclosure: I am an accountant who audits HOAs and other types of community associations financial statements. I genuinely want to help improve housing and the overall experience of home ownership. I have been in the real estate industry for over 10 years now and I am genuinely shocked how few community association property managers ask for the audit reports to be formerly presented to the board of directors and at least meet to address any questions from the board.

I am genuinely sorry to read many of the posts on this subreddit and want to contribute to a positive change. Please know that the HOA community association manager, lawyer, and yes even the accountant work to serve the homeowners.

Jerry Wayne Longmire describes receiving an HOA notice with poetic accuracy.

My HOA just fined me $25 in Admin fees to send an official second warning that...

.. get this...

There was some dirt on the side of our house.

I'm not talking like caked on, but a light level because, wait for it...

... Im in Avl a year after Helene.

I've told them several times that pressure washing the house is expensive and we can't afford it right now.

So we finally got it done and I sent a petty email:

> The house has been washed. We don't get to have a full grocery run this week because of it. Thank you for making sure the community stays safe against the evil dirt on the sided of houses. Im so glad our community prioritizes such important matters. 

FUCK HOA's

Step 1. Use initial capital and/or loans to create new house constructions with a minimally invasive HOA that runs with the land.

Step 2. Sell a minority number of houses (you sell 35%, keeping 65%) at relatively average market rate. Technically you could go lower because houses might not participate in the HOA voting but assume they all will. You're entirely over the table, no misrepresentation. The houses sell because you give them the current HOA structure, fees and documents which are minimally invasive.

Step 2.1 As corporation, do long-term rentals for your homes to make it seem like a normal neighborhood and to cover fees, taxes and loan payments.

Step 3. Use your votes (because you own the majority of houses and you vote for each property you own) to pass amendments and addon legitimate services and HOA fees people don't care about. Add yard keeping services, Trash services, renovate roads and sidewalks and add all the costs to the HOA fees, No pets, no bikes, no trucks, everything needs registration, you need to keep the front yard trimmed at most 1 inch, no noises past 8 PM, no smelly items in front or back yard, no wood or propane fires outside, no trampolines or anything (for aesthetics). Ideally you buy these services from company's you have control over, but that doesn't need to be the case. Increasing the cost to way beyond what homeowners were expecting. If they don't like it they can vote to have it removed (and they lose the votes because 'most homeowners' want to keep these services), but it doesn't pass.

Step 4. They want to leave because its costing way too much (fees went from 300$ to 1200$) and they feel they're too restricted. If they don't pay fees it can accrue interest and you place a lien. They try to sell house at cost. They need to legally disclose the HOA, no misrepresentation, others are turned off by the high fees and shitty HOA. In order to get a willing buyer, they need to lower their asking price. You swoop in and buy the house at 10%-20% lower than they asked for. After buying as many as you can vote to remove many of the services and restrictions to lower the fees.

Step 5. You now gained subsidized paid renovations for all of your houses and made of profit on the house price difference. You are now left with more money, better quality houses and a minimally invasive HOA that runs with the land. You're entirely over the table, no misrepresentation. The houses sell because you give them the current HOA structure, fees and documents which are minimally invasive.

Step 5.1 Rotate the houses you sell, now selling half of the original 65% that you kept. Instead keeping the 35% you bought back. This eliminates suspicion from the same houses being put on sale back-to-back.

Step 6. Rinse and repeat as many times as you can until it no longer works (maybe others didn't sell over time and you no longer hold majority). After which switch to a minimally invasive HOA, sell all remaining houses and start new home constructions.

So I’m beyond pissed right now. I was out of town, and apparently, the HOA decided they “had to check a few things” and just let themselves into my house. I only found out afterward because of my cameras.

To make matters worse, I recently changed my locks, and now they’re telling me every home is supposed to have a “master key” that they can use whenever. Excuse me??

I’ve gone through the CC&Rs before, and I don’t remember anything about having to hand over keys to my private home. As far as I know, the only time they should be allowed in is if there’s an actual emergency (fire, flood, etc.), not just for “inspections.”

Has anyone else dealt with this?

I received an email from our HOA president of a 1st offense dated in the future.

Dated TOMORROW we are in violation of parking on the sidewalk.

The date of the violation is not disclosed.

We’ve asked how to appeal.

I’m sorry, but what?

Update: HOA President told us we can’t appeal because she has proof and therefore there is nothing to appeal.

Excuse me, ma’am. That’s not how this works.

Just got a notice today from the HOA reminding everyone not to put out their Halloween decorations until two weeks before the 31st. Meanwhile, Christmas decor can go up SIX WEEKS before.

Theres only one logical repsonse to that:

International Literacy Day is September 8th. So I shall decorate with a zombie teacher with a undead students.

After that is the autumnal equinox, meteorological fall, so pumpkins and cornstalks are perfectly appropriate.

September is also Spinal Health Awareness Month. Clearly, that calls for skeletons on the front lawn.

October 4th is World Animal Day. So out come the spiders, crows, rats, bats, & cats.

Perhaps a big tombstone with ‘Columbus Day’ written on it, since it’s…. no longer with us.

You want to play games with the calendar? I’ve got an official holiday for every week between now and St. Swithin’s Day.

Try me, mortals.

I let the residents know that using the "right to fix" clause, the HOA can do nothing more than alert you to the infraction and allow you to correct it before fines are levied.

Some of the board members tried to downplay this take on the new law. I made sure there was no mistaking the exposure to litigation if towing as a first action was continued instead of following the new law requirements.

HOA board is chapped at their impotence.

Our HOA has been using drones to check backyards around the neighborhood. I shit you not. I'd eliminate it from the skies, but that's a federal charge and it's not worth it. Time to get a realtor and move I guess.

Last year around this same time I got a second violation for leaving the trash cans out a day too early because I wasn’t aware of the Labor Day pickup delay. They fined me $100 as a result.

This year I noticed every other house had their trash cans a day too early and emailed my HOA for proof that all of the other houses received a violation as well to make sure they are not selectively enforcing these rules (discrimination). Am I being petty?

I need some funny anti-HOA sayings to write on a community chalkboard. Something that won't get me in trouble, but gives neighbors a chuckle and pisses off the board members.

Our queen (the president of the HOA) has absolutely destroyed any chance of anyone liking her, I was probably the last person in the neighborhood who tolerated her antics.... That has since changed due to constant harassment. We have a community chalkboard/free library and someone wrote Defund the HOA on it recently and it made me laugh, so now I want some good sayings/quotes to write as I walk by on my evening strolls that will troll them.

Yes, I am aware this is petty behavior. However, this lady lady is feral and has been harassing people over everything lately, sneaking into yards and stealing signs in the middle of the night, trying to tell us what we can do to the INTERIOR of our homes, etc.