HOAs are determined to keep their neighborhoods looking pristine, no matter what. If you happen to live a neighborhood rules by a home owner's association, you don't always have a lot of choice about how to keep your home. For example, you might want to paint your home a nice warm yellow color, but lots of HOAs have a strict color palette you need to choose from. So the HOA could easily reject your request, and insist you paint your place a boring gray color instead.
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These people below were asked about their worst experiences with HOAs. I was expecting to read stories about HOAs taking things way too far, but for a lot of people, the issue was the constant surveillance. It wasn't about one big issue, but a lot of little issues that garnered fine after fine after fine. One person wrote that their HOA fined them for having three small pebbles… on their driveway made of rocks. Come on now! That's the silliest thing ever. That level of surveillance would make anyone exhausted.
Check out these really insightful and interesting anecdotes below. Then, when these people were acting on autopilot, they did some pretty silly things, like putting their Bluetooth headphones in the freezer to charge.
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