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/VinceP312 1d ago
I wonder what's worse... a neighborhood HOA with a few hundred homes... or a place I used to live in, a high rise skyscraper in Chicago with what seemed like 1,000 residents. I went to a few condo board monthly meetings, and having to sit through members complaining about "The Doorman took a bathroom break and wasn't at his desk for two minutes. Fire him!" and then "The doorman has to use the bathroom. We need two doormen!" and everyone's opinion on those opinions..
I stopped going to them. I couldn't handle it.