Homeowner Gets Fed Up With HOA Complaints, Malicious Compliance Ensues

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Aug 8, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

This isn't the first time that we've read about a homeowners' association driving an otherwise completely peaceful homeowner just a little bit crazy. Unfortunately, these HOAs seem to attract all kinds of Karens, ridiculously entitled residents, and petty tyrants who get caught up in wielding whatever meager amount of "power" they award themselves. Redditor u/useless_skin posted just the latest example of an HOA going wild on r/MaliciousCompliance, detailing how the association made their simple act of trying to install a gazebo in their yard a nightmare or just complaining about vegetation in their yard. They decided to start filing requests with the HOA for everything they wanted to change and went well out of their way to keep on asking for more information just to waste someone at the association's time. 

We wonder just how much of that time that they'll be able to successfully end up wasting. For another tale of malicious compliance, check out the time that a customer asked a restaurant to cut a burrito in half, and then how the restaurant maliciously complied.

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  • 01
    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/useless_skin • 7h 2 1 e 2 3 1 1 HOA Compliance M I hate my HOA. The only reason I live here is because the house was dirt cheap at the end of 2010. For the most part I haven't had a lot of complaints, but during the lockdown, I decided I wanted to give my yard some much needed TLC.
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  • 02
    Font - It started with putting a gazebo in my back yard. I secured all the permissions I was told I needed and completed the work. Not 2 weeks after completion I received a letter stating it was out of compliance. After weeks of arguing I had to literally pick up my 3,000 pound redwood gazebo and move it 3 more feet from the wall. Now I get letters complaining about the vegetation in my front yard. I get it, its been neglected for a while. I'm doing my best to comply but the trash guy only comes
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  • 03
    Font - Now they're sending me generic copy-paste replies saying I can change the yard. None of them specify what design change was approved. I just keep replying to all of them asking for clarification. The last one I got said "it" was for the tree removal and planting of a new tree... but it didn't include the original letter or even a reference number. So I just replied back that I would like the specific letter included in the email so I can have an approval paper trail. They burned me bad wi
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    Font - Edit: Since many of you are saying I should run for the board, here's why I won't. I have a full time job that requires at least 2 weeks of travel each month. I have a teenage daughter that I want to spend as much time with as possible before she moves out. We go to a BJJ gym 4-5 nights a week. I also have a foreign exchange student living with me that wants to see America. My wife is a principal. AND I absolutely hate the HOA, so joining that team and dealing with other's hatred for it i
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    Font - sometrendyname · 4h I like getting a letter about something out of compliance, then deciding to change/replace said item so I have to submit an Architectural Committee request. There is usually a 15 day window to become compliant or be fined, so I submit that request pretty close to the limit. This request stops any fines or further action until after the Arc Committee approves my request. Once the approval is received I have 6 weeks to do the work, so I wait until the last weekend to act
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  • 06
    Font - jedimastermomma · 3h We have a HOA but they don't do anything but handle the community pool. Which is fine, except solicitors are knocking on our door every single day despite all the signage at our neighborhood entrance that say "no solicitation." We would like the HOA we pay for to stop it, but it kinda feels like kicking a crusted over ant hill. We don't want to be responsible for potentially activating a dormant HOA Karen or something. 6 Reply 1 Vote ... +
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