'I realized the HOA rules they were constantly referring to did not exist… Suddenly the pres resigned' : Neighbor joins HOA board just to discover it's a fraud, exposes them

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Mar 26, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

HOAs are loved or hated—there is no in between. That's because, you either live somewhere with an HOA who doesn't fine you for stupid things like your grass is a tad overgrown or your curtains are the wrong color and they use your HOA dues for things like a neighborhood block party and up-keeping the shared areas. However, many HOA boards, instead, get all entitled Karen boomer on their neighborhood and will literally fine you for something petty like talking too loudly in your own home.

Recently, a neighbor decided to join their HOA board to help contribute a positive part to their community. However, after doing some digging, they discover something upsetting. It turns out that the HOA they had join was a fraud. They were in fact NOT an official HOA and there wasn't even any documentation stating that it was something weird like an unofficial agreed-upon-by-the-neighbors kind of HOA. Instead, they were a board of petty entitled old white men who just liked to harass the community. the whistleblower cannot figure out why they were doing this, because they did not collect much in dues and they did tend to use the money towards the community. They only thing that seemed probably was that these annoying "HOA" board members just lived off of the power they had against the community.

Now, they have resigned and told the rest of the board to lawyer up. They've turned to Reddit to get advice on what their next step should be. Read the entire situation below!