You Can’t Escape From HOA (Reddit Compilation)
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I’d live in a tent in the woods before I lived in a neighbourhood which has an HOA.
Same
I used to say I'd never live in a place without a washer and dryer in my unit bc of convenience...life can be worse than needing to go to the laundromat I see
Fact
Same
HOA Busybody: "Your kids are not allowed to act like kids in our neighborhood! You have to pay us a grand if I see them outside playing!"
Family: *moves out*
HOA Busybody: "WhY iS oUr NeIgHbOrHoOd DyInG?!??~?!??"
I live on a farm. The farm that was next door was slowly turned into a small mc mansion neighborhood. The man who bought next to my back pasture called me over one day and informed me my grass in the pasture was getting too tall and to keep up with the new hoa rules about grass height. I told him I wasn't part of hoa but usually kept it shorter I was fixing my mower blades that week. He got an attitude about his view and weeds and stormed away. The grass got four feet tall that year, I didn't cut it until October. I never heard from him again.
From all of these stories, I've figured out why I will never live in a HOA. These people buy a house and then live under a microscope the rest of their time living there. Just having people watch you all the time like that is enough to make me never want to live in one.
I might as well live in a communist country where overzealous 40+ women without much else to do with their time spy on you as volunteers for the secret police (Stasi, Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, etc...)
@DW11111 it's getting harder to find properties that don't have a HOA. Most new developments are built with an already established HOA.
I bought my house DELIBERATELY in a non hoa community only to discover that they have a “beautification committee “ instead. Same premise. Sooooooo when they power trip me, I return the favor. I like to think it is a bonding experience. They, however, disagree.
How do you do it back to them? Any examples?
@@growinwoman2290 none. They have been given so much control that they dominate life. Sell and move into the country side. That’s what I plan to do.
Hang 69 American flags on your house
@@growinwoman2290 0:47 0:54 ❤bio
@@sunkissed1974So why did you say you power trip them back if you aren’t able to?
Shit like this is why I will NEVER be a part of an HOA. You want to tell me what to do with my home? Start by paying my mortgage.
At this point, a house being a part of an HOA should lower its value significantly
A house in an HOA neighborhood that is exempt from the HOA is worth more than the neighboring houses. So while being part of an HOA doesn't exactly lower a house's value, not being part of one can raise it.
I don't live in a HOA but a friend of mine lives across from one. The board members often send my friend letters asking them to conform to the HOA standards: Certain house colors, grass trimmed, no lawn decorations, etc. My friend spends the next two years making their lawn look like a crazy hoarder of lawn gnomes, flamingos, Halloween and Xmas decor including neon pink LED blinking lights run by solar battery. They have been considering adding Clovers and Mardi Gras Masks
This story makes me unreasonably happy - thank-you for sharing 😁🖤.
Actually currently fighting the HOA because the grass in our yard is not the same species as the other houses, we just moved here 7 months ago and this was the grass that was present.
Did you win?
I always hate the stories where HOA tries to force people to water their lawns in a drought. I live in a very dry country and it makes my blood boil when I hear about HOAs trying to convince people to waste water on a symbol of the French Monarchy (true fact)
You from Australia?
@@jacktheclone1343 indeed.
Lawnmowers lobby
And just like the French monarchy, they should be given the guillotine
That's why I always enjoy it when the city/state/county the HOA is in spanks them for punishing people for refusing to break the law.
My cousin bought a house in a HOA full of old retirees who had nothing better to do than to torment people for not following their rules. Over the years, more of the elderly people sold their houses to younger people, so my cousin made friends with some of these new neighbors and they all ran for seats on the HOA. Enough of them got on to amend the HOA bylaws and stop terrorizing people. The old HOA president cursed them out for "ruining the neighborhood" and moved.
Although I live in a neighborhood with an HOA, we haven't had any run-ins with them over the past 20+ years. That being said, I remember reading a story where a mother asked permission of her HOA to have a fence installed around her house to prevent her autistic son from wandering off, and when they didn't reply, she went ahead and had the fence put up. It was only until after the fence was installed that this woman received a fine from her HOA and a letter demanding she have it taken down.
Wow, I would just move out immediately and then pay the fine.
@@Manglethefox238 That seems like an option, though I imagine the mother would have had to take special precautions regarding her son. as she likely would want to move to a place where he could be safe. I actually spoke with my next-door neighbor (who is in med school as well as the Air Force) yesterday, and he said that even though he's licensed to fly drones and does so responsibly. he was harassed by the husband of the HOA president for flying a drone in the vicinity of their house.
My favorite HOA stories are when one person isn't in the association and keeps getting harassed by members
Only if the one being harassed overcomes and wins the case, but at what cost? Why should someone worry about their neighbor working on a car or their grass is a little too tall. I think 🤔 , I would rather live on a main Street, next to a railroad crossing! Than an HOA neighborhood.
I have many of them
@@j.rbry.8990 you’d win by default if you aren’t part of the HOA though…..
you know.....not all HOA members are super karens, but all super karens are HOA members
So I get to pay for my house and pay you to act like power tripping teenage girls? Yeah, no thanks.
When my parents bought their house the realtor made sure to mention there wasn't an HOA. I guess they had dealt with people who either asked a lot or would immediately be turned off from the house of they mentioned an HOA. Hearing these it makes sense now
I refuse to live in a HOA especially living in Military base housing! I worked up to 16 hours during certain operations or during heavy snow storms (heavy duty hydraulic mechanic 2T3551), and my wife worked a full-time job and took care of our kids! the management company got mad and left a citation because I didn't shovel the snow right after the snow storm. Pft my commander just told me to give everyone to him when I got one and never got in trouble for it.
I’ll never live in a place with an HOA. There’s absolutely nothing that can convince me to want to pay a board of Karens to micromanage me and control my life. Can’t understand why they’re so popular. Truly abhorrent
Racism is why they're so popular. They were originally created as an excuse to keep majority white communities as 'pure' as possible.
The next crusade needs to be conquering HOAs for their heresy.
0:00 - What's your Home Owners Association horror story?
13:04 - Current and former residents of an HOA, what's your 'I'll never live in an HOA again' story?
36:56 - What is your worst experience with a Home Owners Association?
The lengths people will go to make sure others conform. Quote Frank Grimes, “If you lived in any other country in the world, you’d have starved to death long ago.”
We escaped an HOA about 3 years ago. Worst human beings I've ever met, and I work with youth in correctional facilities. When we left, our HOA was trying to sue a neighbor who wasn't even part of the HOA because his house overlooked the neighborhood and he had put in some really big, nice solar panels, and the HOA said they were making the town look ugly. You couldn't even see them from the neighborhood, because trees blocked them, unless you were coming in from higher up on the mountain 🙄
My hoa has it out for me because I don't drink and drive like they all do.
Somehow I find this very hard to believe
@@Ambelica somehow I bet you're the drunk driver of your neighborhood
@@Ambelica p
Actually I believe u lolol
@@Ambelica Not me. Upper middle class white neighborhoods in the Midwest. I could see it.
At 11:55 I want to give a PSA. Senior only living is usually like that by law for a reason. The housing was probably built on land that is unsafe (i.e.toxic) for growing children.
Source: sister is a City Planner and my husband works for a building company that builds senior living homes. This is why if you research the land that the senior homes are built, often times they were things that were too costly to do the environmental clean-up. Think Air Force Base, former land fill, battery manufacturer, etc.
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That is hurrying the process up lol
this is why living in the country is awesome. don't get me wrong, there are downsides but everybody usually fucks off about minding anyone else's property and what goes on unless it's a meth lab
Just in case you thought fascism was dead there's H.O.A lol
7:44 - Wait. So I'm not the only person who does this? At the same age? Like, parents tried to kick me out and ban from the playground, failed. Their main problems/worries:
*Since you are so often on the playground, who is destroying the toys?*
Not me, I suspect certain group of indiviuals, they are almost always destroyed overnight. And it's not like they will destroy them in front of me.
*You are swinging too high! You will fall!*
Lady. I have my ways to swing high *and* stay more easily on the swing.
*You will hurt my baby!*
If you are a responsible parent, you should at the very least warn your kid not to run under the swing. Also, you should pay attention to your kid instead of a phone or talking to other parents. That playground isn't that big and you can always see your kid.
*The swing won't make it, you already destroyed two!*
No. The first one wasn't my fault. Nobody took care of the swing for 15 years. You cannot be surprised that it broke under someone. And it didn't even break under me. You just want someone to blame it on. The second one was partially my fault by doing such a thing as swinging on it. It's not my fault that "Pat and Mat" (reference to Czech stop motion series where two neighbours Pat a Mat try to do something and find the worst and most destructive way to do it, ending up doing more harm than good, you can find those on Yt too, there is no dialogue) didn't secure it properly.
While an HOA meeting is going on set the HOA president's house on fire then go to the meeting. Then tell him that his house is on fire and an eyesore he has two days to clean the mess up or has to pay the HOA $250,000 a day until the eyesore is cleaned up. 😂😂😂😂😂 ( This is just a joke)
And yet...
Don't give them any ideas.
annoying hoa solution: craigslist of yester-year, look under "executive services". buy the new baseball bats, lay down the 5k, go have coffee and come back to a peaceful, peaceable hoa neighbourhood.
this is not a joke...
25:02 sounds like the hoa wanted to repossess the house after you guys paid for a pool so they can re sell it for more
We asked our realtor to only see houses that didn't have an HOA, now live in a rural area where everyone mind their own business. I won't ever understand why someone would buy a house and then give so much power to a stranger over it!
HOA should be illegal
Overthrow an entire corrupt government over a tea tax, but voluntarily submit to the rule of bored people with nothing better to do than worry about insignificant issues.
Apparently, we lived in an hoa which was fucking wild to me bc we lived on 4 acres of desert down two miles on a dirt road. The last guy apparently bailed on a payment after selling their house and they tried to make my dad pay it. His response was something along the lines of that’s not my fucking problem. It was indeed, not his fucking problem.
I understand not wanting people parking in front of other people's houses, but sometimes it can be sort of cool to see some of the cars, for example, when I was younger, there was a really cool looking blue Honda Civic (recent at the time, probably between 2011 and 2015) that was usually parked in front of our house and I liked just looking at it sometimes.
And, as the law enforcement person said, it wasn't breaking any actual laws.
I will never need to buy a house any time soon, but when I do, I refuse to live in an HOA neighborhood.
There was once a company that I delivered to whenever I worked for FedEx and they were talking to a new recruit and I overheard them saying that they need DNA test for the dog in case of any messes and I'm just sitting here thinking are they really going to pay to have a dog's poop DNA tested
Lmao that’s insanity!
I live in a neighborhood with HOA. They literally trespass onto our private property to take pictures of flowerbeds that are in our backyard next to our porch. If I catch them the next time, I’m calling the cops for trespassing. This is why I wish my folks would buy cameras to prevent this bull. The HOA targets my family in particular because my dad ran for a local council and the HOA is buddy-buddy with the guy that beat my dad. The guy, despite winning, uses his influence in our HOA to get us harassed. It’s awful. I want to move out.
Did you call the cops?
24:34 ha ha ha. Oh, they were peering into a child’s bedroom and were clearly trespassing at some point on private property.
Hippity hoppity, we respond with lethal force... ity
The Dutch flag thing... Americans dont know Netherlands was the 2nd country to recognize them as independent and even send aid to fight the English?
And whats up with New York using the Dutch flag design as their flag down to the old Prince of Orange orange color?
New York was once New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony, was taken over by the English during one of the succession wars I think. Was renamed to New York when it changed hands.
>I don't know how some organizations can justify these kinds of rules.
I don't know how ANY organisation, or anybody *period* can justify them
Im putting “find a way to disband a HOA” on my bucket list
Simple, get elected and as your only act dissolve the HOA
Shutters should be able to be sued for in small claims court which is designed to allow lay people (non-lawyers) to navigate successfully.
I can honestly say, my HOA has not really done anything... like at all. I must have the Unicorn chill HOA.
The phrase that springs to mind is "petty jack-in-office bureaucracy".
You reap what you sow.
Why would anyone choose this. Like if you can afford a house, one of the reasons to buy one is to not have a landlord, and own the place, and get to do what you want. Why would you pay money to not have any choice and deal with assholes? I find string theory and quantum mechanics less confounding as concepts than an HOA, and I def do not understand those things in the least.
Embarrassing I didn't really know what a HOA was at age 23. I thought it was a neighborhood that agreed to make sure their yards and house looked nice or something. I live in farmland nowhere ok? So in college in an anthropology class when there was an a question about what to do if someone left their HOA house to help the homeless and how would we help the integration or something, the correct answer was sell the house. I spent 25 minutes on that question because I didn't understand the stupidity of the HOA.
I want to live in an HOA neighborhood and defy any ridiculous demand they might make. If you want my hard-earned money because of my choice to display my Decepticon allegiance, you'll have to pry the cash from my cold, offline servos.
If they get pissy, then it's their fault for creating a breeding ground for people who habitually stick their bumpers in other people's business.
The concept of a HOA having this much authority is one of the many reasons the entire world makes fun of the US
I told my wife that I don't care where we live, just no homeowners association.
Did the realtor show you a hoa house?
Fun fact for the guy at 7:40 towing a car with no posted notice (a no parking sign) or no attempt to contact the vehicle owner before hand, is legal theft of the vehicle, even if it is found later. Only reason I know this is because some individuals the next town over from me were charged with grand theft auto for putting their principals car on moving dollies and pushed it to an obscure portion of the parking lot that was rarely used as a senior prank. The charges were eventually dropped but per the letter if the law....
Not an HOA but the story about the woman who got harassed the day of her husband's funeral reminded me of what happen to my aunt (Aunt-A). She had literally just buried my uncle and another aunt (Aunt-B) decided to confront Aunt-A about a pipe that was leaking onto Aunt-B's property and Aunt-A neede to fix it immediately. It's a good thing I didn't know about this when it happened. I'm rather fond of Aunt-A and absolutely despised Aunt-B and would have gone upside her head about this lack of common decency.
When they work there great. But sadly 99% of them once they get a power tripper in charge they turn to shit
Our HOA had serious issues with our flagpole for whatever reason. We put up a flag for our college football team on a big game day. It was there for ONE DAY. We promptly receive a letter informing us that only the American Flag or the Texas Flag (we live in Texas) may be displayed. We were annoyed, but we only displayed our American flag from then on. No issues right? Wrong. Roughly a month later, we were told that we could no longer fly ANY flags from that flagpole at all, because we were not allowed to have a flagpole mounted from a tree. It was mounted from a tree in our front yard, and at night was illuminated by a light that we staked in the ground. It looked quite nice, but according to the HOA, it would have looked better mounted from our house or in the ground.
Omg they should have the home owners vote on the rules of their neighborhood. They’re just making stuff up off their personal opinion. Obsurd
Happy I live in Germany. Though a friend of mine lives in a HOA neighborhood in Texas. You are able to sign out in the state of Texas if you have the permission of two members and settle all fines. He somehow got two people to agree and now has random 30ft pole in his garden you can see from even outside the neighbourhood😂
58:07
Tear down the treehouse, then tell the HOA its painted camo, so it can't be a eyesore.
Then make a deal, you will tear it down if they can find it and point it out.
Laugh as they spend full days combing the forest patch looking for it.
I wouldn't live under an HOA even if I was PAID to live there. A man's home is supposed to be his castle!
43:01
Jeff deserves a round of applause 👏
My HOA has contacted me ONCE in the year I've lived here (that I know of). It was literally to give us our yearly beach pass to put in our car for if we wanted to take our car to the beach with us. We've only ever walked to the beach.
After that the beach maintenance guy asked if he could move my flip flops so he wouldn't run them over with the lawn mower.
Also my trash cans have been by the curb for maybe like 2 months now.
I just learned that wooden thing is called a pergola...
I genuinely want to know the purpose of a HOA if all each one does is get in a tizzy over things that don't actually matter in the first place?
They're supposed to keep property values high by requiring that general maintenance be done on homes and landscaping and issuing fines as a deterrent to leaving it undone. The tizzies happen when the HOA board members get power-drunk and start bullying people. It's the human power element that mucks it up every time. The theory is rooted in exclusivity and elitism so it never takes long for the praxis to turn tyrannical.
These stories are the reason why I live in a mobile home park that is ran by a very nice landlord
Would NEVER, NEVER live in a community with an HOA. These people are so obsessed with power and control it's disgusting. Instead of calling it an HOA it should be called the Gustopo.
I told them to get off my property or I'd make them leave for trespassing. Apparently telling them I was a cannibal wasn't enough to make them fuck off.
I say we pull an Adam on a Hoa , In short get them all into a passenger car and then shove it into the ocean :D
I would go to the HOA with every single rule they have and go over one by one by one by one so that way they they're stuck for hours or days going through over the all the pages maybe they'll consider not messing with you
Y'all got cool stories about HOAs. Mine is pretty nice and tame, the only time they asked for money is when we needed our dirt road fixed of all the holes caused by rain and snow, which was pretty resonable. Because it was the only road leading up to all of our houses and it wouldn't hurt to pay a few 100s between 8 people to have a nice smooth path home
HOA’s need to be banned, who the fuck are you to tell me what to do with my own house
True story: I specifically told our real estate agent, absolutely do not show me any homes in a HOA! Found a house, the other realtor’s paperwork had everything we were looking for, so we asked if it was in an HOA, told it wasn’t, the Realtor paperwork description of the house stated it wasn’t, so we paid for the inspection. Day of the inspection comes, $500 inspection, we find out that it is in a HOA! 🤬🤬🤬
Serious question can you just not pay any fines or is it required by actual law
If I'm spending a few hundred grand buying a house. The only people telling me what I can and can't do with it is the council. How shit is your life that your demanding other home owners what to do with their home.
I love the cop car oh you want to abuse your power? The tow trucks fear me you fool
mc with that lady who complained about her being on the swing she should've screamed don't touch me there! when the lady is harassing her
I think it’s bullshit for any adult to try and have a 13 year old leave a playground, bitch I’m 20 and swingsets still make me happy. As long as you’re not hurting or threatening anyone I think it’s okay to be on a playground, especially if it’s empty most of the time. Live a little happier and enjoy the small things
I told our realtor No HOA when we bought in 2016
Wish we had H.O.A.s in the UK.
2:52
Rule: Not allowed to be a minority.
Nobody should have to ask permission to do things to their own house
The HOA where I am was formed after we bought the house so… I do pay my share of the shared tree maintenance every year but it’s pretty painless.
I've lived in two associations. Both have been pretty good. The first one went to shit after we left but this one is a small tight knit community. It's actually officially filed as a "Village".
My friend got a letter from HOA to remove her Trump Flag while her neighbors get to keep their anarchy flag
High ranking mormon... like what. What ranks are there.
When your car is such a beater it lowers a homes property value, that's probably time for a new car lol
37:50 pisses me off so fing much
39:34 thats the way its done
Please allow all the Karen women and men to live amongst each other in HOA’s and so they can agitate each other and let everyone one else have the regular homes if ur not to meticulous
You folks know you can replace the board for disband the HOA right. But then that would require you actually talking to your neighbor's.
You can also tell the world what a shity HOA you have the social media
Around @7:20 they expect us to sympathize?
If you look up petty in the dictionary there's a picture of a hoa next to it
What actual power do these people have? In my country no such thing really exists, or atleast not to this power.
So the town from *over the hedge* is a HOA?
I never understood this american thing.
Its my land and my home, you don't have any say in that.
If you dislike some trees or shrubs, I might remove them if you ask nicely.
If you don't like something about my house you can lie down and cry on the ground about it.
Screw HOA stuff.
Could somebody explain the point of HOA ? Pls.
As far as I am concerned most of the hoa are all power mad
HOAs should be illegal
That is too funny
The abbreviation for a Homeowners Association is HOA, that is H O A. To try to pronounce HOA as if it is "hoa", rhymes with boa, is an insult to the narrator's intelligence
HOA is no joke!
had to stop reading. Cant believe there are that many petty people who have nothing better to do with their time
If a Karen and Colonel Klink had a baby it would be an HOA president. All I can say is they better be glad I don’t live in one because I would a camouflage cousin Eddie RV on the front lawn and paint my house the color of pink vomit.
The Dutch flag one makes no sense because they are red white and blue!
I heard a HOA story that they stole a families house and rented the fully lived in house kids toys still there all the family's furniture all their family photos and belongings they just change the locks and rented out their house to someone else and let other people live in their house for over some reason some kind of fine total b******* this is why I would lose my mind I would break back into my house at that point I will never be in a HOA for that reason it made the news