Friday, October 30, 2020

Homeowner Stages Revolution Against Corrupt HOA


A bad Homeowner's Association can be a place of corruption, vitriol, and ancient neighbors being impossible about garbage cans. There are loads of people who had to deal with a nightmare HOA, but few of them turned things around like this person and BECAME the HOA.

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Text - O r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/Akummu 1 day ago 4 3 ;2 7 32 Revolution against our HoA oC L My wife & I moved into a 64 townhome community that was 10 years old at the time. The HoA board was comprised of 5 members that were original homeowners when the community started and had been the sole board members since the community started. their sense of entitlement was bat-shit crazy. They thrived on their quarterly walkthrough of the neighborhood as they would write-up every single ho

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Text - panels met), it needed to be repainted, the siding needed to be powerwashed (there was a patch of green moss behind a bush) and the sliding door on the deck was dirty (there was dirt on the bottom of the door from recent rain) and it needed to be washed. We had 30 days to fix the issues or beginning accruing a fee of $25 a day until they are resolved. I asked around and everyone gets these ridiculously petty letters every quarter. No matter what you did to maintain your townhome, you were

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Text - Fast forward a two years and a few of us had enough and decided to band together to replace the board at the next annual meeting. The existing board got wind of this and hit us all with pages worth of issues with our properties since if you have outstanding issues, you are not in good standing with the community thus can not run for a board position or even vote for those running. This petty move brought the community even closer and we all spent the weekend before the meeting helping eac

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Text - Come board night, oddly enough, the lawyer was there to give an update that no progress has been made with the township on dedicated our road. He stuck around as we moved to the elections for the next board. We brought our signed petitions to add our names to the ballot. The board says were not eligible as we all have outstanding issues with our property. We call bullshit with our receipts from the post office that they received our completed lists with documentation. They reply that they

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Text - With the exception of the 5 existing board members voting for themselves/eachother, we are voted in nearly unanimously to replace them. I lead the revolution because I was tired of the petty BS when there were real problems in the neighborhood. Sadly, the rest of the elected board members vote me as President. I have no idea what I'm doing. But we spent the next few sessions removing all the dumb violations from most of the neighbors. We went through the by-laws to really focus on what's

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Text - Ends up that lawyer was a friend of the previous President and was in no hurry to resolve anything as he was enjoying our excessive bill. I notify him if its not resolved in the next 6 months were finding new representation. He was actually good at his job when pressed to do it. He won the case, the town appealed and tried to drag it out. He fast tracked the appeal as it had been going on for ten years and we won the appeal too. The town dedicated our road, then the lawyer pressed that it

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Text - I remained President until we moved a few years ago. Our family began to outgrow the townhome. Now we live in a new larger development... with a new HoA... I was asked to run for a position on it. I replied, "not a fucking chance... but I will lead a coup d'tat if I need to" *edit* as to the original HoA President (50yr old Male), He wasn't actually eligible to be President. He wasn't on the mortgage. the townhome was in his mom's name. No one knew because he held the books. So being the

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