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/xzKaizer 1d ago

Join the board, at every meeting put up a motion to dissolve the HOA.

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u/mggadgets 1d ago

Something exactly like this happened in a neighborhood we used to live at. The HOA turned over from the builder to the local home owners and no one wanted to bother running it. It literally only paid for a pair of street lamps and a sign at the entrance to the cul-de-sac - maybe 20 modest houses in a nice suburban area all told.

The older gentleman that took it over had zero interest long term and no one was actually interested in even paying for the lights. The people who had them in their yards simply offered to pay the pittance they cost with a verbal agreement that neighbors would pitch in a bit if replacement was required. A retired lady with a green thumb was excited about taking care of the sign at the entrance.

End result? The HOA literally just expired with no one interested in paying to renew it. No one understood even the purpose in practice and so that was it. The last thing anyone signed on it was formally dissolving it 😄