re: HOA Attorney Suggestions

consider ,,,,who in your best case will provide a resolution??????? It's the neighbor. yer wasting effort working through the HOA

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Hard to believe that an HOA that requires detailed drawings to be submitted and approved before any additions to your home isn't responsible for what they approved.

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Even if they are responsible, that would most likely be between your neighbor and the HOA. Your issue is with your neighbor and his contractor. The contractor is required to know he cannot design a project that would cause an adverse problem to an immediate neighboring property.

If you want to minimize problems with your neighbor, make him put in a french drain on your property that would collect the runoff and run it to out. HOA should approve this quickly once they realize this is a solution to a problem they already approved.

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The are right, they aren't engineers. Just because they approved a project doesn't mean that a neighbor had a right to cause damage to your property.

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This. I highly doubt he had permits from ALL of the proper authorities. The HOA is just one that is required since you live in an HOA. They don’t supersede other governing bodies.

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Correct, but designs were submitted to the HOA and were approved by the HOA board members. You would think a board would take into account not only drainage, and also its directly over the drainage servitude.

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Having been the president of an HOA, and dealing with those old fogies that take that shite seriously, they were just happy that someone asked what they thought.

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Short Version

HOA Approved a neighbor's cement parking extension to the property line, but didn't take into account drainage issues. Not only does this cement slope towards my property, but they have also created a dam stopping his backyard from draining. This has caused a TON of issue since the only drainage is now through my backyard towards the front yard. I reached out to the HOA, and they denied all responsibility even stating, "we aren't drainage engineers."

I understand I can take my neighbor to civil court, but he only did what was approved and while this isn't my forever home, I'd rather not create enemies 22 feet from me.

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Was this work permitted by the appropriate agency?

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Hard to believe that an HOA that requires detailed drawings to be submitted and approved before any additions to your home isn't responsible for what they approved.

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It is really not hard at all, it does get harder when you want them to be responsible.

Consider something similar: One normally has to submit a full set of plans before building a home in an HOA governed community. The architectural review committee will review the plans to determine if the house meets their requirements but those plans could have multiple electrical, plumbing and mechanical code violations. Finding those and rejecting the plans is not their responsibility they are concerned with things like the style of the home, ceiling height, heated square footage, exterior finishes, etc not whether you have a non-GFCI protected outlet next to a sink or undersized trusses over your garage.

I don’t believe, by code, you are allowed to drain your property onto your neighbors. That’s a code violation.

As far as stopping drainage, if there was a shared swale and he messed that up, there is probably little you can do unless it’s in some kind of HOA covenant.

I love when people ask for recommendations but don’t tell us where on the planet they’re located

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I reached out to the HOA, and they denied all responsibility even stating, "we aren't drainage engineers."

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Then maybe they shouldn't be in charge of approving/rejecting home improvements/modifications?

South Louisiana.