r/fuckHOA

This was posted in the community fb page:

“Just a quick heads up its not up for debate please make sure if you used fireworks clean up behind yourself. The A.l. car will use logic and based on where the trash is it will assign violations based on what it thinks. These violations are $500 per home neither I or the board control the car or its A.l. features so please tell your neighbors to clean up the streets in front of their home if they used any. By the way im not and did not go out”

I’m pretty sure using AI bot to assign $500 fines for trash in front of a house odd. I mean unless it’s obvious but AI messes up all the time. My family didn’t shoot any fireworks yesterday since a lot of us worked or went out for the 4th so it really doesn’t apply to us. I agree with the post overall that you definitely shouldn’t be leaving trash around but that’s a hefty fine to let AI do the job for you. Maybe I’m crazy or misunderstanding.

Sir... That is not how plants work. Maybe if you spent your retirement learning new things instead of creepily driving around the neighborhood writing tickets every Sunday, you'd know that not all plants bloom in the summer.

We just had a leadership change in our HOA, and since then, living in this neighborhood has been an absolute circus. Every other week, there’s some warning, notice, or fine taped to our doors

At first, it was annoying but somewhat understandable like no ugly sheds visible from the street, keep front yards clean. Fine. I get wanting the neighborhood to look nice

Then they decided some of the older trees were ruining the aesthetic and had them removed. Now the whole street feels like a frying pan half the year because there’s barely any shade left

Then it all went downhill from there. Now we have new regulations such as no outdoor wandering for cats and no barking for dogs. It is even worse than that since children cannot play in their front yards. The neighbors have received warning letters because of drawing with chalk on sidewalks

The rule that finally broke me? If your guests park in front of your house and even on the street for more than an hour, there’s a $20 fee. An actual fee. For having visitors.

At this point, it feels less like a neighborhood and more like a suburban dictatorship run by people with too much free time.

I’m done. We listed the property for sale, but the second buyers hear strict HOA, they mentally check out. It doesn’t help that the HOA staff is always outside making scenes with residents over random violations

so i got tired of reading about power-tripping HOA presidents and decided to build a text-based game called CAT Tribunal (it's a parody of the real condo dispute tribunal in canada).

basically, you type in whatever stupid fine or dispute you have with your HOA, and three different AI characters—a negotiator, a mediator, and a very cold adjudicator—deliberate and issue a final binding decree.

it runs directly on reddit. if you guys want to test your worst HOA stories and see if the AI actually rules in your favor, it's live here: r/CATtribunalGame

let me know what final order you get or if the adjudicator sides with your board (the adjudicator is pretty brutal tbh).

HOAs—we can do without them. My older son’s fiancé’s family lives in Winchester, fairly new community. They are renting. Their neighbor, an elderly couple, constantly complain about them, even though they are not violating any rules. I believe that the people complaining are harassing them. They’re on a power trip. And yes, they’re on the HOA board. There are people like that in every HOA community. They just can’t mind their own business. Elderly couples should just move to senior communities, then they’ll have the perfect place to live.

To make a long story short, I found out the Masters Association my association is in is likely run by a bunch of crooks who took over the master association HOA and did a complete overhaul of the covenants giving themselves a tremendous amount of protection and making only them members of the association (only the heads of each of the 5 villages is a member).

The head of my village hoa has appointed himself for the last 25 years to be the member of the Master's Association who sits on the board. As soon as he got on the Master's Association almost 20 years ago, he: 1) led the rewriting of all the covenants so we would have no idea of what the Master's Association board because only were members and they voted behind closed doors, signed a loan that the resident's dues were a security for, and opened up an LLC that I am guessing he is paying himself with. Additionally another woman on the board opened up 2-3 HOA inc with names very similar to ours, again with the registered agent who was behind all of this. I found out this woman has a federal summary against her for opening up fake companies for (I think) money laundering.

I moved here only 4 years ago. When we moved, we were told we had to be part of the HOA by a lawyer (it was FL and COVID, there were no choices). We signed papers saying we would be part of the association. I recently realized my village association never did a revitalization in time and it does not look like they filed a preservation. I'm guessing that I only signed paperwork for the village because I couldn't technically be a member of the Master Association.

Does anyone know if I can say the contract I signed is null and void because the covenants had expired? Could I permanently get away from the Master Association HOA which I am afraid may have cost the Master's Association to be in deep debt? Our village is the only one (out of 5) that looks like never had a proper revitalization.

If you know of a really competent FL HOA attorney, please let me know.

Venting because house buying is a mess anyway but now I’m getting priced out of trailer parks, or should I say “manufactured neighborhoods”, as the HOA fees in most are three times what the mortgage is. None of them have pools, community centers, street lighting, sidewalks, communal mailboxes, and more than half don’t even have gravel or paved roads. It’s already nuts they’re selling a 1992 single wide with half the roof missing for $100k on less than 1/4acre but then to have a $1000 a month HOA fees for “community maintenance”???? It’s a dirt road with a sign up front and ten single wides or trailers falling into the clay soil. One of them had a really nice sign that advertised “newly painted community entrance” with the first house behind it literally collapsed in still from Helene. Not that a grand is ever worth it but come on, it’s a trailer park not a luxury neighborhood. Does the fee come with built in security for when Debra’s meth lab blows up next door?
Also I’m not talking about the lot lease, that’s a separate charge. My friend said they’re trying to keep them vacant so they’ll be allowed to tear them all down and sell the land but idk if that’s gonna happen. People just seem to buy them with twelve other people. Idk thanks for letting me rant because what the hell.

For context, I live in a well established 750 single family home HOA.

A couple months ago I submitted an ARC mod request, which was ultimately denied. I just received a $25 invoice from First Service, our management company. I don’t recall seeing anything about this change come through, but that’s not unusual for my HOA. We have a lot of changes that never see the light of day until they do.

It’s absolutely bonkers to me that they’re hitting us with fees for performing a core function of the HOA. Additionally, the ARC mod committee is a small group of volunteers in the community so I’m unsure what justification they even have for assessing a fee (outside of the already paid dues for, you know, management).

Has active else dealt with this dead ass stupid absurdity? There’s a board meeting next week and I’m going to be my usual charming self.