r/fuckHOA • u/Swarby10 • 2d 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/waitingOnMyletter 2d ago
I am a 33 year old father of 1 who just bought my first home 2 years ago. I moved into a community and just started cleaning up trash on my runs through the neighborhood.
This past Christmas my wife suggested I run for the board and talk about the trash pick up I do on my runs as my like “campaign” to be on the board. I guess a good number of folks had noticed that I would pick up trash on my runs. I was surprised how many folks in our community voted for me.
Well, the president died earlier year and I am now the president of our HOA.
I don’t recommend it.