‘This is all your fault’: HOA fines residents $63,000 after fire sprinkler goes off, despite building staff's incompetence

Apartment residents don't always have complete control over what happens in their home, and sometimes nature does its duty, a contractor pulls the wrong wire, or your four year old nephew pulls the fire alarm.

Whatever the case may be, sometimes our supervision and good intentions make no difference. Such was the case for one person whose fire sprinkler went off due to something their contractor did. Of course, OP was not at fault, but the HOA apparently disagreed. Let's start at the beginning. u/API-ok was living in a condo, when their fire sprinkler went off, causing a lot of damage to the common area in the building.

The fire sprinkler was on for a whopping 15 minutes because the building staff did not do their job, even though OP had notified them within 30 seconds. As I said before, not everything is in our control… most of the damages could have been prevented in people just knew how to turn it off, but after all, we are all human, and sometimes even we do not know how things work.

OP immediately offered over $20,000 to repair the damage, but after HOA got a look at a full report of how much fixing it all would cost, they were like, 'Nope, see you in court, unless you send us over 63k right now'. To which OP replied, 'I won't be doing that, as this is not even my fault'.

For more like this, here is a Karen who took up two whole parking spaces with her car. If that is not bad enough, the spots were disabled, preventing from people with disabilities to park in said spots.

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