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By Adelaide Ross and Ilona
Baliūnaitė
Published August 5, 2022
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If
you have never lived in a neighborhood with a Homeowner’s Association, you might
not be aware of their reputation: being notorious for keeping their residents on
a tight leash. From having the length of their grass monitored to needing to
keep their trash cans off the street minutes after the truck has come by,
homeowners in an HOA area are used to regulations. And while many people have
complained online about their HOAs going too far before, somehow these
organizations still manage to think up new ways to frustrate and inconvenience
their residents.
Last month, one
Florida resident named Christian shared on TikTok that they
had received a complaint from their HOA about something even
more ridiculous than they could have ever imagined. Below,
you can hear Christian tell the full story and decide if you
agree that their HOA was getting too power hungry. Then if
you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda piece
featuring insane HOA rules, check out this article next.
This Florida resident recently shared online how they
received a ridiculous complaint from their neighborhood HOA
HOAs are no strangers to online criticism, as many have been
called out before for enforcing strict rules on residents
and meeting dissent with swift penalties and exorbitant
fines. They all set their own fees, but these can vary from
$100 a year in less expensive neighborhoods to nearly $600 a
month in certain parts of New York. If a resident loves
living in their neighborhood so much that they are willing
to fork over hundreds of extra dollars a month, so be it.
But paying someone to control every aspect of your home and
limit how you are allowed to landscape, paint your front
door, where you keep your trash bins, etc. just does not
seem like a fair deal for many people.
Christian also mentions in their video that this is a “brand
new HOA issue”, implying that there have been issues in the
past. They might not have ever wanted to live in an area
with a Homeowner’s Association in the first place, but
sometimes it is inevitable. There are about 310,000 HOA-governed
neighborhoods in the United States, so it can prove a
difficult task if a resident wants to avoid one. |
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But according to Spectrum Association Management, there are certain
neighborhoods where membership is actually optional. And if you are living in an
area that did not have an HOA but they decide to implement one after you have
already bought your home, they cannot require you to join.
Regardless of what Christian’s personal opinions are about HOAs, the people
in charge of their neighborhood cannot hold Christian responsible for a car
being hot when it is obviously outside in the Florida summer heat. Whoever
was with the child that burned their hand should have kept them off of
Christian’s property in the first place, and the HOA should not have
listened when a complaint was made about this. What do you think about this
madness?
Viewers unanimously agree that this complaint, and HOAs in general, are
ridiculous.
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