Saturday, November 7, 2020

People Who Had to Deal with a Nightmare HOA


Most homeowner's associations aren't meant to be a big hassle, but sometimes an overzealous member can make their neighbors' lives a living hell of absurd rules about fences and garbage cans. For example, here's an HOA Karen who complained about guide dog training. There's also this bold HOA fighting strategy involving a radio tower.

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Text - Back2Bach 2.5k points · 17 hours ago There were 366 units spread out on over 200+ acres of land. One of the residents got fined $1,250 for putting outdoor Christmas lights on 2 trees in front of their unit (outdoor decorations being prohibited beyond residents' front door entryway).

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Text - jay_mee_d 24.9k points · 17 hours ago 2 S I'm being charged $400 because of a violation for a bush overhanging my walkway. I don't have a walkway. Or a bush. The picture isn't even my house. They won't back down.

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Text - slohara 23.3k points · 19 hours ago I got a HOA violation for my neighbor's vines growing into my yard.

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Text - Dispatcher12 10.5k points · 13 hours ago We got a letter because one Saturday my mom had a wheelbarrow full of mulch on the driveway. While she was planting flowers. We also got the police called the weekend we moved in because there were "too many cars in front of the house". Mostly because we were still unloading the moving truck.

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Text - Uncle_Lazlo 16.3k points · 13 hours ago E 4 O 2 S & 4 More My old house's backyard bordered an HOA community. Our house was built 30 years before the community was built so we weren't part of it. We used to get notices about violations and fines if we didn't correct them. Never did correct them . They finally sent legal papers to repossess our house. Went to court with a tax map that showed our property NOT part of the HOA community. Judge dismissed their suit against us and found them gu

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Text - TPhoard 14.5k points · 17 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago My daughter was a lifeguard at the pool in our community and they weren't allowed to give out certain equipment (it was for swimming lessons). One day the HOA president asks for equipment and my daughter says no as she was instructed. The HOA president actually says "Do you know who I am?" Then he proceeded to call her boss.

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Text - cantuseasingleone 12.3k points · 16 hours ago 3 When I was a kid my parents had a house in a nice cul-de-sac, but it was a working class neighborhood. The transmission in my truck took a doo doo so I replaced it in our driveway. A few days later we got a letter citing a clause stating all improvements done on property must be done by a licensed contractor. It was a far reach but they stood by it as there was nothing in the CC&Rs against working on personal vehicles. My dad made me pay him

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Text - sneakypandas 11.5k points · 16 hours ago HOA "lost" paperwork for change of ownership when we bought our house. They sent us letters saying there would be a lien placed on our home if we didn't pay the overdue amounts plus over $200 of late fees. I had to call them 3 times to even get someone on the phone who knew how to help me. Then I contacted escrow who said they had already not only sent all the paperwork, but turns out we had already paid the fees. Called HOA again and they were ins

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Text - littleblue0111 10.2k points · 16 hours ago Moved to Florida where every neighborhood is an HOA. Upon moving in I felt like I had joined a sorority or fraternity and I had to endure the hazing from the HOA. The final straw was when they sent me a letter that my white mailbox was dirty. So I decided to walk down one street and took pics of mailboxes with no doors and mailboxes that were covered in mildew and I emailed them all to the HOA. I told them to not send me any more notices until th

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Text - valuesandnorms 3.9k points · 17 hours ago Obligatory "not me but", a Texas HOA foreclosed on and sold the house of a soldier while he was serving in Iraq. Because he and his wife were behind $800 dollars in dues.

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Text - DeadliftsNRiffs 9.0k points · 16 hours ago No huge issues, just up-to-the-minute griping about every little thing. We were in the middle of moving in and got a nastygram about some boxes on the side of the house, waiting to go out with recycle. Got another one about our lawn right after it was scalped and winter grass planted. They apparently didn't approve of nature's time frame on growing grass. Moved back to the old neighborhood; no HOA, and city code takes care of 90% of the BS (weeds

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Text - WombatWithFedora 6.6k points · 18 hours ago I was just learning to drive and parked my car too far away from the curb. Parents and neighbors didn't get along so neighbors measured the distance from the wheels to the curb and parents got fined. Now I live in the country with pretty much no rules. We have goats and emus in our front yard.

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Text - BlondieeAggiee 6.4k points · 15 hours ago We had a cookie-cutter house built. One of the color palettes we could choose from included an accent color for the door/shutters that was a dark purple. The hubs and I are a little kooky so we selected it. At our final walkthrough, our door and shutters are brown. I tell the general that it's wrong and show him my contract. We were the only homeowners in the subdivision that selected that color, so the HOA decided to not offer it anymore. We said

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Text - SanchoMandoval 6.4k points· 18 hours ago I was putting on new siding... very obviously too, had ladders up and everything. But there was just plywood up one morning on part of my house, facing the street. I got a knock on the door at 7:30 AM, a code enforcement officer (in uniform, looking vaguely like a cop) was visibly upset and acting like I'd taken a dump on the front sidewalk or something. Told me if I didn't have the siding up by the end of the day I'd start getting fined every day.

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Text - CaptainPeachfuzz 5.1k points · 17 hours ago My grandparents lived in a old folks community with a zealous hoa. My grandmother had to go to the hospital, cause of her many health problems. My grand father would go with her. This happened once when I was visiting. There was a knock on the door at about 10am. Two elderly women with clipboards immediately jump into a speech about how the trash cans hadn't be brought in. I explained the situation. One of them said she was in the hospital the p

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Text - Inconspicuousness 4.8k points · 16 hours ago I live in a neighborhood that has a $1 / month HOA because we have a shared drive with an area drain. That money goes to emptying the area drain every couple of years. The CC&Rs are very laid back / there are no rules so I [wrongfully] assumed that would be the experience living here. The HOA president (the guy who schedules the area drains being emptied) is a Boomer on a power trip. He is in my business about everything. I got a new furnace an

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Text - Linux4ever_Leo 4.6k points · 18 hours ago This didn't happen to me but several years ago a co- worker told me about how she and her husband put in a small in-ground pool in their backyard. They got all of the required permits and everything and nobody said boo during the weeks of construction. After the pool was installed and they were getting ready to open it, the HOA sent them a letter informing them that it was in violation of the HOA rules and it had to be removed. (I guess their comm

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Neighbor Tries To Steal Family's Cat, Family Gets Cat Back By Singing


What kind of evil neighbor tries to steal a family's cat? Yikes. Well, this family had the perfect petty revenge in mind. They proceeded to sing outside that neighbor's place until the cat started tearing up the neighbor's furniture. The neighbor should've just been a good human being from the start. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/Frogfins • 12h Join Steal our cat?? Get ready for the can-can This happened a few years back but a recent post about the OP trying to justify stealing their neighbours cat reminded me of it. A little background on the cat, Romeo was born in our house and lived with his mother and siblings. He also had a heart murmur which was manageable but required daily medication.

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Text - So a few years ago one of my family's cats hadn't came home for dinner which was unusual. When it got to the second day (36 hours no show) we were very worried so went out looking. We all came home one by one with no luck until my little sister ran inside and told us he was sat in our neighbors window!! We knocked to explain he was our cat and take him home but the neighbor refused to hand him over claiming he was a stray who she "saved" and was a girl cat. It got pretty heated and we end

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Text - The thing is that our cats all have odd habits because of our own. We're one of those families who sing everything and dance about a lot so we have certain songs which the cats know mean 'its time for treats', 'its time to vacuum' etc and one of those songs is the can- can. The can-can means it's time for canned food and all our cats know this, they get pretty rowdy when you sing it because they love their wet food. If you sing the can-can and don't deliver on the promise of food they get

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Text - We stood outside the neighbors house (on the pavement, public pathway) and did the can-can for an hour straight. We sang at the top of our lungs, we looked like we'd lost our God damn minds but it was working. Romeo was our most vocal cat and he was shouting; it's canned food time, where was his canned food?!! We went to the window and saw him clawing up the furniture with vengeance and encouraged him, good boy mess their sofa up reeaaal nice, yeah get those curtains!! The neighbors told

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Ultima Online Player Takes Epic Revenge


Never take for granted how far an Ultima Online player will go to enact their revenge. If anything, this tale should be a cautionary example to anyone that thinks about crossing someone on Ultimate Online. 

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Text - officialgarrusvakarian E greyyourwarden shock if fallout 76 really is a world where "every character is a real person" & there's no NPCS im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i've established enough of a rapport i'm going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character

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Text - teamOplayero someone help where's the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

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Text - yes-sica God I spent countless hours as a teen playing on a heavily modded and roleplay enforced ultima online server. I played Cedric Sartone, simple farmer turned tavern owner who eventually turned it into THE BEST PLACE IN TOWN. It was poppin every night, I was buddies with every adventurer, soldier, mage, druid, and ranger that played the game. After they went out and grinded their skills and did their quests, I was waiting for them with a warm fire and plenty of ale. I'd buy their in

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Text - Little did they know I had a side hobby, I was brewing massive amounts of the most gamebreakingly toxic poison possible. For over a year I roleplayed with these people as a simple barman, pretended to be their friend and confidant, and then during a harvest festival where every player on our server was in attendance and I was payed to provide the food and drink... I poisoned every last morsel of food, every drop of drink and after the reagent delivered his speech and all of these fools ra

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Text - Now this was a permanent death server (hardcore rpers mind you) and some had been playing those characters for 8 years and there they all were, collapsed and dying. Soon they were all unconscious, as you could only die if you went unconscious three times in one day or if a certain psychotic bartender came and cut off your head... which I did to every player in our group of 38. They were all there, and unfortunately so was I. Revenge against what, you ask?

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Text - So the server had a pretty strict policy regarding pvp and pk, essentially the GMs had to determine if there was in character justification for any instance of disputed player killing, obviously my situation prompted a call for an investigation. I understood those rules from the start though, and I kept a written log in the game where I detailed my character's building hatred of every single other player character in the world. He would keep track of every little thing from petty slights,

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Text - So Elias was always whistling, well I recorded how infuriating Cedric found it in his journal, and soon he had multiple journals packed full of a thousand reasons an unstable maniac could use to justifiably (re: server rules) murder anyone. The reagent who was also the server admin had some ornate cloak with a custom texture, so I wrote like three pages about how pompous it was, and extrapolated what kind of insufferable prick he must have been for wearing it.

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Text - I would just write one or two things down every day for over a year, so I had many books full for the GMS to locate in the tavern basement and read through. The result was that they found my massacre to be in good form and in-character, so the server was not rolled back and instead they decided to reset and implement a new landmass they had been working on. Some people were really pissed off, mostly a handful of the veteran players who had been top dog for several years in their little gl

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Text - I only did any of it because my first character was murdered by some overzealous asshole who just used his character to project his inferiority complex. He killed me on my second day on the server because I wandered into the funeral of his friend (it was taking place in the middle of town and there was a crowd, of course I was curious) and because I was not invited and he was a known prick it was found justifiable for his character to kill mine because of the emotional turmoil blah blah.

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Strangest Life Moments People Still Can't Explain


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the weirdest moments in people's lives that they still can't explain. It could be something so strange it seems like a literal glitch in the matrix. Or, maybe it's some sort of near death experience that truly defied the odds. This life is brimming with mysteries, and sometimes the universe humbles us, reminding us that we really don't know a whole lot about this whole existence thing. 

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Text - vikkifar • 12h 3 6 Awards I was t-boned in an intersection. Not a very serious accident, mostly just shaken up. I was out of state at college at the time. Minutes after the accident, my cell phone rang and it was my dad. He said all the sudden he was consumed with an overwhelming urge to call me, and was everything ok? I told him I was in an accident. He has passed away since but he and I always had a very strong connection. I wish he would call me now, but then I guess it would be the st

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Text - BatmanThicc • 12h 2 Awards This one time when I was little my dad woke me up at like 2am and he said "get ready, we're going to McDonalds". ...I was soooo fucking confused and kept asking why, but he wouldn't answer anything besides, "because" or "to have fun", the rest of my family (2 brothers, sister, and mom) didn't come with and IIRC they were still asleep when we left. The play place was closed, and we just kinda sat there for an hour or so eating, then went back home. To this day, I

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Text - BECAUSE it's my only proof of this weird fucking night that my dad (almost scarily) hurried me to McDonalds at 2am. I have 2 thoughts, my sister shit the bed and they were worried l'd make fun of her??? Maybe they somehow noticed like rats or something in my room??? But were worried I wouldn't be able to sleep if I knew that there were rats and they needed an hour or so to get it out??? Either way, very strange night that my dad refuses to tell me the truth about, which only makes me thin

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Text - Crowbar_Freeman • 13h I spent a night a bit drunk with some friends sketching and sharing new ideas for an art project we were working on. We talked a lot about using a fire extinguisher filled with paint for a background effect on huge canvas or a full room, but were wondering where we could get one for cheap and if it would work as we expected. Around 5 am I leave my friends apartment to take the first subway home and I shit you not, two streets further on my way and in the middle of th

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Text - stephen1547 • 13h 1 Award I saw my doppelgänger while driving in a parking lot. We passed each other going super-slow, and made eye contact. We both started laughing, and then continued on. My wife was sitting in the passenger seat, and saw him as well. It was super weird, and really fun for whatever reason. We still talk about it 10 years later. I regret not stopping and finding the guy to take a photo together. Reply 2.8k 3 •..

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Text - Nowforscd • 12h 1 Award When I was 7 or 8, I used to spend Friday nights at my grandmas house. And she spoiled the crap out of me, so I loved it. One night, though, I suddenly had a strange urge to call my mom. I dialed my phone number - I mean I knew my own number right? A woman answered, and I suddenly blurted out "mom come and get me". I have no idea why, to this day, that came out of my mouth. Like I said I loved it there, and up until that moment had no thoughts of being picked up. A

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Text - peepersceeper77 • 14h I had a dream once and within the next month, everything from that dream happened in real life. For example, in the dream my wife re-aranged our room wich is weird because she hates rearranging stuff and then the next week she arranged it exactly like dream. In the dream i also got promoted and then less than a week later i did in real life. Reply 1 1.7k ...

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Text - DOOFISMISTER • 14h 2 Awards i was walking home one day and when i passed this one old dudes house and his dog was outside and when i walked passed i could have sworn the dog told me to get the fuck off the property in perfect English. Reply 1.8k ...

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Text - magikjaz • 14h I told work I had to go out of town for a week for a family member's (my grandmother's cousin in Texas) funeral. Completely fictitious. ... in reality I just wanted time off to hang out at the luxury home my friend was house sitting, hot tub, full bar, etc. The day my "vacation" started, I got a call that my grandmother's cousin passed away and they were going out of town for the funeral and expected me to go with them. Reply 1 1.2k ...

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Text - MyCatsNameisMEA • 13h I was driving back to high school after leaving something in my locker. I had a day dream that another classmate asked me for a ride home. In the lobby i ran into him, and he did just that. Then I drove him home. Felt super weird then, we never spoke even really before or after. Still feels weird now. Q Reply 4 445 ...

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Text - bbalin54 • 13h S 1 Award Staying at grandparents for the weekend theyre eating dinner in dining room im in living room (open concept house everyone sees eachother) Power is lost lighys are out dark as could be! Power comes back on in what seems like 1 second. Grandmother is asleep in her bedroom and my Grandfather was out in the Garage. It has fucked with me my whole life 31 now i was about 5 or 6 at the time. Sadly both have passed by now. Only Matrix situation that messed up in my life

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Text - sicurn11 • 13h When I was in high school, my family lived in a house that sat about 300 feet from the road. Every morning I had a long walk down the driveway to meet the bus, and since we lived in the country, the bus came pretty early. One morning while I was walking, something that looked like a spotlight crossed the yard in front of me. Sort of the opposite of a shadow. It wasn't completely dark outside, so I could see there wasn't anything flying above me, and other than the normal so

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Text - Barracudalmpossible4 • 13h I was at work several years ago, and a coworker (S) had a massive seizure. (He later told us he had never had one before.) Everyone started freaking out, and a man came over and gently held S down because he was in danger of slamming into a desk. When the seizure passed, the man stood up and said "Ambulance should be here soon, so my work is done" and left. The weird thing? Nobody had ANY idea who that guy was. We were all so concerned about S that we didn't rea

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Text - [deleted] • 16h Why does my pen suddenly disappear when it falls on the ground. Reply 459 ...

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Text - WasintMeBabe • 16h When i was young i saw burglars tip toeing around my kitchen about 3-4 of them i didn't say anything or move i just watched them and went back to sleep. But when i woke up in the morning nothing was missing Q Reply 4 442 ...

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Entitled Customer Demands Free Stuff, Gets Extra


The world is brimming with unbelievably entitled individuals, and all we can do is try to make the best of them. This particular choosing beggar defies the odds. 

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Text - Sorry not the best pics but if you have an idea of what you might want I can give you a price quote! My dog died and l'd like a paw print I'm sorry to hear that :/ Do you have a design in mind? No I was hoping you could make something. Sure, are you thinking of putting this on a car? I have white vinyl. I usually charge to make a design but I can do that part for free. You'll just have to pay for the vinyl and shipping cost. Yes. On the back of our Range Rover. It is white so white would

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Text - Ok. I'm thinking 6" x 4"? It would come to $16 w/ shipping. I have a few designs in mind. Would you like to approve them first or be suprised? A surprise is fine. I like your work ll Thanks! My Venmo is send it tomorrow. I actually am mailing two, feel free to pick. I couldn't decide on a design.

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Text - If you are doing that I will put the other sticker on our Jeep. But can you send one more for my husbands car? I actually am nearly out of this vinyl and have already sealed up the mailer, I'm sorry. I hope you love the two I sent! I can do more if you want but l'd have to quote you as a different order. Once you receive these you can let me know which design you'd prefer and I can make another.

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Text - So you'll send two but not three? Unfortunately I'm pretty pressed for time right now, I cut two because I wanted to make sure you got a design you liked. I'm happy to make another for the same price Our cars are going to look silly with two having but not the third I would like a refund

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Text - I'm sorry, I only charged you for the vinyl, so it's non refundable. If the cuts get to you and you're not happy with them, I can cut a new one but you'll have to provide the design I'm not happy with the ones you send

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Green - I put them in the mail 20 minutes ago... I want a new one Aight you know what, I was able to get it from the mailbox. I've gone ahead and taken out the extra decal. That way your cars won't look silly. Enjoy.

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