u/Illustrious-Bed-6065

I know the rep that HOA's have. I'm aware how evil and uptight they are. My HOA, however, refuses to act when I bring them an issue I'm experiencing.

I've written about my neighbors in neighborsfromhell subreddit. Crazy college parties, big semitruck, etc.

I have these other neighbors who play loud music for several hours every day. They basically live in their garage and the rest of the house is just for sleeping (probably). The music is objectively too loud. If I can hear it inside my house with the windows closed, I consider that disturbing my peace. If it happened ocassionally, I would tolerate it, but it's every single day now. There are other issues I have with these neighbors. A woman from this house came to our house and knocked so hard it felt like she was gonna knock down the door. That's another story I don't wanna get into, but the point is that these people can't be reasoned with. I've asked them to lower the music before, but after the incident with the lady, I afraid of even stepping out of my house.

I made the HOA aware of that situation with the lady and I also told them about the noise, but their response was "let's see what happens and we'll go from there."

But I'm the one that has to live through this every day. What can I do so the HOA acts? Send a letter, give them a phone call, fine them or something!

The community manual says that conduct like the one displayed by neighbor goes against the code of conduct. Any helpful advice?

This is gonna be long, so I'm making a new post. I previously posted the backstory of the situation I have with my neighbors.

Little context, last weekend a group of about 10 kids set up a soccer net (8×5ft) right off of my driveway and were playing on the road. The roads in this neighborhood are supper narrow. Only 2 cars barely fit side by side. Cars aren't allowed to park on the curbs because they're considered fire lanes. I asked the kids to take the net down and play at the neighborhood park, which is right around the corner maybe 2 minutes away. They rudely refused and continued playing. I recorded 2 minutes of video to have as evidence if I decided to bring up to the HOA. I have no issue with kids playing. Those kids always play around here, but that goal net is obstructing me from leaving my house and other cars from passing through and it can be dangerous for their own safety.

Today, the mom of the kid who set up the net came to my door very angrily asking me why I was recording children from my window and called me a pervert. She said that the other parents were told by their kids that a perv was recording them while they were playing soccer.

I asked her if we could speak civilly so I could explain myself. I told her that I've had many issues with neighbors around here so I take clips of what happens and bring it up to the HOA so they can talk directly with the neighbors. (Read Part 1 for all the details.)

We talked for a while and at the end I think she was more understanding of the situation and acknowledged that her son should've not set up the soccer net. But she ended saying that there will be other parents coming to my house asking for an explanation and that they wanted to file a police report against me.

I'm so done. I just sent an email to the HOA letting them know what just happened. I was not going to bring up the soccer net because I try to be as tolerant as I'm able to for my own peace. But if someone is gonna come knocking down my door accusing me of being a pervert, that's beyond fucked up.

I don't know if anyone else is gonna show up at my door looking for a confrontation, or if the police will show up thinking that I'm a pervert and I'll have to be the one to clear my name and reputation.

These neighbors have never been held accountable for the things that they do in the neighborhood, and now I'm being put in this situation because other people don't know how how to be decent neighbors. I'm exhausted!

Quite a long story, but I legit need a little bit of validation and advice.

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I live in a newer development. It has only existed for 5 years and I've lived in my home since it was built. Week 1 was perfect as many houses were still empty awaiting for its tenants to move in. I did not expect what happened in week 2.

Across from my house, a couple brought their entire things in a semi-truck. Not a U-haul. A commercial semi-truck. The street are very narrow in this neighborhood. No one is allowed to park next to the curb as they're all considered fire lanes. The semi truck pretty much is the width of the road, so there's no way for cars to pass through. In my case, I couldn't exit my driveway.

I figured they wanted to just get over with the moving process and bring their things in one trip using the semi-truck. That was not the case.

It turns out the couple are truckers and they own the semi-truck. For a whole year, the semi truck lived here in the neighborhood. The man, we'll call him Happy since that is legit his real name (or at least what he said it is), would park half of the semi truck on top of the sidewalk and leave the rest of it covering the road.

This neighborhood has an HOA. It's my first time living in a neighborhood with HOA. I know the rep they have for being very strict on minute things. I complained many times, but they would tell me it's a city traffic division issue. So whenever Happy left his semi truck idling with the engine running and blocking the road and my driveway, I would call the city, but they would never come see the issue or do anything about it.

I felt so helpless, so one day as I returned from the pharmacy and saw the semi truck blocking me from entering my home, I got off the car and confronted the man. He's much bigger than me, above 6ft and 250+ lbs. I told him it was wrong for him to leave his semi truck there for all the reasons I've already explained. He then proceeded to curse me out along with his wife. They only moved the semi truck enough for me to enter my garage, but then backed up again and left it in the same spot.

I kept insisting the HOA, but all they said was that even if they charged them with a violation, they would continue bringing in their semi truck.

After 5 years, they no longer leave the semi truck here, but they do bring it to load and unload. Sometimes at 10am, sometimes 4pm, sometimes even 2am.

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Let's go back to week 2. To my left, a group of university students moved in to a big house with about 6 rooms. So there were like 10 students living there at once. The first week they moved in, they played music 3 nights from like 11pm all the way to 4am.

The parties got bigger and bigger. Kind of like parties in the movies where there are like 200 people in and outside the house.

I will remind you that there is no space for parking on the curbs. Well, their dozens of guests would invade the street with their cars. Many would leave their cars blocking driveways, parking on top of the sidewalks and even on top of the green areas next to the sidewalks.

I would call the police almost every weekend for the first 2 years of living here. They got busted several times, but would also get away with it many times.

On one ocassion, about 8 police cars showed up and were here for 2 hours trying to get everyone to leave.

After 2 years those students left and now that house is an AirBnb. Sometimes we do get noisy people, but it's not an issue anymore.

Now I will talk about another group of neighbors. This is a family of 8? 9? 10? Idk. There's so many people I see come in and out of that house. They live next door to Happy.

The dad became buddies with Happy very early on. Whenever Happy and his wife leave for work, they let this family, we'll call them the Parkers (they have a license plate that says Parker7), they let them use Happy's driveway to park 3 of their 7 cars. The driveways only fit 2 cars, but they will parallel park another one on the ramp. My issue with these neighbors is how invasive they are. Whenever they don't have access to Happy's driveway, they leave their 5 extra cars on the street, just like Happy and his semi truck. They don't use their garage because it's full of crap. I feel like they might be hoarders. They leave their garage open all day and semi open through the night. I find that strange. Another issue I have is that the children, which ages range from 10 to like 19, bring all the other kids from the neighborhood and congregate right outside my house on their bikes, with balls, etc.

I'm actually writing this post because I'm so fed up. Today I came out of the shower and walked into my room just to see through the window a big soccer goal net set up outside on the road blocking my driveway and several bikes tossed on the ramp.

Through the window I told them to take their goal to the neighborhood park. It's a 5 minute walk and it has a lot of flat green area for them to play.

They were very rude towards me and just moved it off a bit to not block my driveway.

I might sounds like an asshole or a party pooper, and if you think that of me, that's okay, you're entitled to your own opinion.

But I think I'm surrounded by very inconsiderate neighbors who don't have a sense of spacial awareness or consideration of others in general. I brought my parents and sisters to live in this neighborhood because supposedly it was better, prettier, and cleaner than the small apartment where we lived before I graduated college.

I'm at the point where the only solution seems to move. However, I'm afraid that if I move I'll only find more people like these or worst.

Thoughts?

Esto es algo que probablemente solo yo pienso, pero quiero saber si alguien más me entiende. Desde que los narradores Omar Tapia y Diego Balado se fueron a Telemundo, el narrador principal en el canal de TUDN en USA ha sido Felip Sebastian Muñoz para la mayoría de los partidos de Champions y competencias de Europa. No sé cómo ni cuándo llegó a TUDN, pero es que me irrita mucho su voz y cómo narra. Lo peor es cuando tiene que gritar GOL! Sé omite la letra G y eso me desquicia. Grita "uuuoooool". O sea, qué pretende?

Bueno, solo quería desahogarme porque no puedo disfrutar ver los partidos cuando el narra. A veces pongo la tele en mudo.