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Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:02 pm to UFFan
HOAs are good until they are not. Lots of horror stories online. I have been lucky so far that the residents in my neighborhood are all respectful to each other and any infractions that would violate a HOA code in another area are quickly resolved by the homeowner without someone from a HOA banging on their door. Crossing my fingers that this never changes while we are here.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:24 pm to Spankum
quote:
Mine keep the neighborhood looking nice
Kinda wish mine would... years ago they voted to not give the HOA any real enforcment powers...which i could see given some horror stories I hear, but Jesus some people need some enforcment.
One street backs up to a strip mall w a few restaurants which I think made prices low cause lord its like a trailer park back there.... one house that always has a million toys, a literal trash littering the front yard, another w broken down car w a shattered back windshield parked out front and the worst is a house that has a 20 ft skeleton up year round that they just change the outfits for based on the season... was kinda amusing t hat first halloween/christmas but its been 5 fricking years... the thing is sunbleached and missing appendages
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:27 pm to UFFan
I don’t have one but my house backs up to the common ground of one, where they had their meetings. I watched them fist fight over some shite they were mad about while drinking beer. My daughter walks over and asks what I’m watching and I explained never live in a neighborhood with an HOA.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:27 pm to UFFan
They suck.
I inherited a home in an HOA I rent.
They suck!
I inherited a home in an HOA I rent.
They suck!
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:28 pm to UFFan
When you live nextdoor to a hoarder in a neighborhood without an HOA you begin to see their value.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:31 pm to UFFan
My dad got on a HOA board in the early 2000’s. It was a shite show, @60% of residents were months behind or didn’t pay. They were having assessments because the HOA didn’t have enough to cover costs. HOA paid water and insurance. First thing he did was if you are 2 months behind, they cut your water off. There was an additional reconnection fee to turn back on. Within 6 months 99% were paid up. You can live without electricity, but no water quickly breaks your will.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:39 pm to SallysHuman
quote:Not uncommon for condo or townhouse. They may also have made special assessments for major repairs or something if they have a lot of people in arrears like that.
Are you saying her fees are a grand a month?
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:40 pm to Gravitiger
quote:
Not uncommon for condo or townhouse.
Yikes!
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:50 pm to UFFan
I was an HOA and condo lawyer for several years. Got some good stories of young pro athletes moving into nice developments and not understanding or caring about the rules. Lot of dangerous animal stories, too. Short-term rentals were just starting to become an issue when I quit. Dealt with plenty of slumlords who didn't keep up their rental properties, to the point of it being a true human rights issue. Corrupt/incompetent/petty boards were rampant. People recording videos of their neighbors to send to us.
Lot of folks coming out of the 2008 financial crisis bought their first homes during the bubble and didn't understand the HOA thing. Never paid dues after closing, and the neighborhoods were new and built by shitty fly-by-night developers who turned over the HOA to the owners too soon, so there was basically no governance, collections, or enforcement for years.
Lot of horrible financial situations for the individual homeowners and the HOAs. I spent a lot of time in bankruptcy court.
Lot of folks coming out of the 2008 financial crisis bought their first homes during the bubble and didn't understand the HOA thing. Never paid dues after closing, and the neighborhoods were new and built by shitty fly-by-night developers who turned over the HOA to the owners too soon, so there was basically no governance, collections, or enforcement for years.
Lot of horrible financial situations for the individual homeowners and the HOAs. I spent a lot of time in bankruptcy court.
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:02 pm to UFFan
I live here in Kingwood just outside of Houston and during Covid everyone in our neighborhood, and maybe many more residents in Kingwood, got a pretty stern letter saying that if we had some sort of curb stencil painting with our address on it with a sports logo, it either had to be pristine or we had to power spray ot off if it looked like it was fading and they couldn’t read the address.
Although this is annoying as shite, these are the typical things that the HOA douchebags send out from time to time.
But in the second half of the letter said that we are only authorized to use one company to paint a new stencil on.
It had the name and phone number of a guy who had a very long and hard to pronounce Greek last name.
As you might suspect the Internet sleuths went to work and it didn’t take long for them to uncover what a royal cunning bitch the president was.
Yes, the name and phone number of the curb stencil company belonged to the HOA president’s son. It didn’t take but a few hours for this to be all over Facebook, she got exposed, and I don’t know how we got so lucky but she resigned that same week and penned a sappy resignation letter, but obviously nobody believed a word of it.
Their last name was so unique, I don’t know why she thought for even a fricking split second that somebody wasn’t going to catch onto things
Although this is annoying as shite, these are the typical things that the HOA douchebags send out from time to time.
But in the second half of the letter said that we are only authorized to use one company to paint a new stencil on.
It had the name and phone number of a guy who had a very long and hard to pronounce Greek last name.
As you might suspect the Internet sleuths went to work and it didn’t take long for them to uncover what a royal cunning bitch the president was.
Yes, the name and phone number of the curb stencil company belonged to the HOA president’s son. It didn’t take but a few hours for this to be all over Facebook, she got exposed, and I don’t know how we got so lucky but she resigned that same week and penned a sappy resignation letter, but obviously nobody believed a word of it.
Their last name was so unique, I don’t know why she thought for even a fricking split second that somebody wasn’t going to catch onto things
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 9:07 am
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:06 pm to UFFan
Our HOA President came to our house and took down the stork figure we had in our front yard. I asked her why did she do it. She told me because my baby was ugly.
What should I do?
What should I do?
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:07 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
quote:This must be a Houston thing. My ex-girlfriend's parents had the same issue in their neighborhood in another suburb. But they could only have like 5 "approved" teams--Aggies, Longhorns, Texans, Rockets, and Astros (and maybe Coogs, I can't remember). Any other team you had to petition the architectural control committee for special approval.
I live here in Kingwood just outside of Houston and during Covid everyone in our neighborhood, and maybe many more residents in Kingwood, got a pretty stern letter saying that if we had some sort of curb stencil painting with our address on it with a sports logo, it either had to be pristine or we had to power spray ot off if it looked like it was fading and they couldn’t read the address.
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:09 pm to UFFan
Being elected HOA president of tchefuncta is single proudest moment of my life
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:09 pm to UFFan
They only try to enforce the rules on the people they know will follow.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:10 pm to UFFan
There are some people who are born to be on HOAs. The ones who live for watching their home cameras to see if little widowed ole lady’s 3-legged, blind in one eye, loss of bowel control chihuahua dropped a poo pebble while hobbling by…to catch her not picking it up.
That dude is royal d-bag. He is on every HOA. Its his life’s arena. Finally an outlet for his internal d-bag dystopia. Fun times for that guy.
That dude is royal d-bag. He is on every HOA. Its his life’s arena. Finally an outlet for his internal d-bag dystopia. Fun times for that guy.
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:15 pm to UFFan
They elected me president
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:35 pm to UFFan
frick HOAs. So glad I live on my own little mountain.
Last straw was- zoysia was on back order. Had turned lawn over and prepped. Got fined for not putting mulch down on my dirt. Told them to frick off. Kept fining me and penalties over the years. They hired firm that got bonuses for giving out fines. They took me to court. Over a fine. Has I not shown up, they could have foreclosed and sold my house for the cost of the fine and fees.
Last straw was- zoysia was on back order. Had turned lawn over and prepped. Got fined for not putting mulch down on my dirt. Told them to frick off. Kept fining me and penalties over the years. They hired firm that got bonuses for giving out fines. They took me to court. Over a fine. Has I not shown up, they could have foreclosed and sold my house for the cost of the fine and fees.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:40 pm to UFFan
The HOA Board I'm on prides itself on telling neighborhood Karens to frick off.
"Well I think we should do this"
No.
"Well, we should probably do this"
No.
"Shouldn't there be a rule that says"
No.
"Well I think we should do this"
No.
"Well, we should probably do this"
No.
"Shouldn't there be a rule that says"
No.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:03 pm to UFFan
mine is good.
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