Reader’s Digest June 2024 issue has an article titled:
True HOA Horror Stories
The HOA fees around about 3 miles from where I live can be over $500 a month! for townhomes!
My aunt & uncle owned a 2.5 acre property where you could not see the home from the street and the neighbors were hardly visible, just a corner of their home.
One day a woman showed up and told my uncle to clean up the property, had to do this or that. He said she went away and he did none of what she wanted and never saw her again.
At my 36 unit courthouse apt building we got a new “manager” who was useless in getting things fixed but did write up a list of rules for the pool.
It basically said you can have no fun.
Same for a new supervisor who came up with this idea or another that was not going to work but it was his idea and it was not going to change.
Summation, give some people a little bit of power and they go overboard and think they are Napoleon.