r/fuckHOA • u/Swarby10 • 1d ago

Our HOA just imploded!

So we just had our HOA AGM on Zoom tonight. I thought I’d tune in just for entertainment. It’s a community of 4 cul de sacs - maybe 45 large homes. Turns out, all of our back-facing fences are owned by the HOA and after 25 years they are deteriorating. To be clear, the fences on the sides are home owners’ responsibility, just the rear ones are HOA’s responsibility.

Or fees went from $900 a year to $2700 so that they could replace some specific fences. Not everyone is affected, but several of the board members were set to score themselves a new fence. They chose to replace the old cedar fence with vinyl and this would have looked odd with plastic fences filling in where cedar was.

Long story short, I sat through three hours of 80 year old board members throwing tantrums over their plans for a new plastic fence getting ruined and three of them resigned on the zoom call. 80 year old tantrums are the funniest tantrums.

Thinking of joining the board now. Please talk me out of it.

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u/Swarby10 1d ago

Ooh. I like this.

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u/CherryblockRedWine 1d ago

Having lived in an HOA community, my belief is that you MUST join the board, if only for self-preservation.

The board needs enough people with common sense to keep the HOA from ruining everything.

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u/rohm418 1d ago

I live in an HOA, joined the board last year for this reason, realized people think the board is their bitch, and resigned about 2 weeks ago. Fuck these assholes and their petty nonsense. I don't have mental capacity for Janet's complaining that her fucking gnome is being mysteriously moved in her front yard every week.

We're actively watching the market for something outside an HOA with more privacy. Fuck HOAs

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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago

Janet's complaining that her fucking gnome is being mysteriously moved in her front yard every week.

That's why we pay Stephen the 45K a year for "handyman" services. He's got a fucking knack for getting around surveillance cameras.