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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
So you very seldom see the nitpicky asswipes you see in a HOA.
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I live in an HOA and I completely fail to understand these comments. This isn't directed at you specifically, but just in general - I hear such comments often. I hear them a lot in town, and also even in our HOA community.
I've been living here thirteen years. To date we've had a few parking issues - parking isn't allowed on the streets at night - and once I was told to trim my tree (because it was hanging over the street) and once I was told I left my garbage can out (it was my green waste bin, and when the HOA gestapo drove by and took a picture I was in middle of doing yard work but had taken a break). It's really not a big deal.
When I go to the HOA meetings there is always a handful of people who complain about everything. The last time was a rule about having to paint your house once every ten years. They were coming up on ten years, and didn't want to pay thousands to have their house painted. What they didn't know is this is one of the thousands of rules most HOAs have in their rules that they don't enforce, but have them on the books in case there is one house that truly does need to be painted. They've ranted and they've raved and.... Still no one has told them they have to paint their house. They are scared of this rule and want to "rally the troops to fight it" but they don't understand it's not even an issue, and since the HOA has been in existence no one has been told to paint their house.
I love my HOA. I pay $118 a month and get free Internet, 100 up and 100 down. Then we have the pool complex.... They are rebuilding the pool complex. Including the large multipurpose room where we have meetings, special events, and even wedding receptions, we have a game room and a lounge. When they are finished this spring we will have a shallow kiddie pool, a huge lap pool, a regular pool, and an indoor pool.... But a massive gym and indoor basketball court. Fuck yea.
My point is.... Some people are just looking for confrontation and when the find one, they don't handle it properly.