The grandparents should never have voluntarily gotten involved with a HOA. Those things are pure, unadulterated evil. Now they have to live with their decision.
Not to aim this at you, but all of you who say HOAs suck and no one should ever live under one . . . when was the last time you tried to buy a house in Houston?
Inside the city limits, in five years of home-shopping, my husband and I have not found a single HOA-less home. Not one.
The further out we want to move, the better the deals get. We could have two forested acres for what we pay now for our townhouse . . . IF we want to drive for three hours a day.
Sometimes the “choice” really isn’t one.