I thought only condo HOAs are crazy!

My neighbors are disrespectful of boundaries, I wish we had a HOA.

Anonymous wrote:All they do is gossip and start fake controversies to get the entire development rattled and riled up. Half of them are on the PTA and that spreads the drama to their. I haven't been caught up in it but I've witnessed a neighbor get "bullied" by that group and its disgusting.

Speak up for the neighbor.

This is why I don’t want an hoa.

We lived in a small townhouse community with an HOA. Everyone in the neighborhood was lovely with the exception of one man. He made such trouble for everyone. We replaced rotting wood around windows with siding, chose the color closest to the original, and got the change approved by the Board. This guy got so angry about our nicer looking exterior that he sued us and the Board (which was silly, because he was paying for his own lawyer and the lawyer the Board had to hire using HOA dues). Of course that lawsuit went nowhere. This guy would just cause a ruckus for any reason, plus he was racist and obviously treated neighbors that were not white differently ("those people shouldn't live here"). Many neighbors left the community because of this guy, and my H and I haven't lived in an HOA community since.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh — we also picked a non-HOA neighborhood for some of these reasons, and guess what, gossiping control freaks who think they own the block live here too, unfortunately. People suck.

+1

Yes! And they have guns! No thanks.

I don't think the HOA can regulate guns.