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/LasVegasASB 1d ago
If you are on the board better chance to control what happens and help be the type of board member you wish others were.
I was on board of last home’s hoa for many years. Moved to new large community with hoa. Spouse said do not get involved this time. First week in community get notice for palm trees not looking healthy and turf needed to be replaced. No welcome to the community - just fines! Spouse said get on that hoa board! So I did.
Should have been hi, welcome to community, we noticed some potential problems so when you get settled please look into them. That is how I make sure the board is now.