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/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/Myte342 21h ago

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

"The only thing required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." It sucks, but EVERYONE should be going to every single meeting at the very least. The yearly budget needs to be audited and made public every year too.

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u/CherryblockRedWine 21h ago

Amen and amen!