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‘I can't believe the audacity’: Man gets his truck and trailer illegally towed out of his driveway per request of HOA board member, is seeking board member removal as a result

Sometimes the only way to beat an HOA is to become a board member

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Posted by Lana DeGaetano
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  • HOAs are oftentimes not on your side. They just want some kind of grandeur image of the perfect life in a quaint little cul-de-sac without actually letting the homeowners thrive in the environment they pay for. When it comes to your rights on your property and HOA rules and agreements, sometimes it's necessary to reiterate that you are not a game piece in this HOA game when it comes to them trying to walk all over you.

    The man in this story does exactly that. Pending a community-building activity in this man's neighborhood, a board member asks him if he can move his truck and trailer out of his driveway so it can be used as parking for the event. He said that he would prefer not to move his truck because he has work early in the morning and would like to be close to his vehicle (and the HOA truly does not have any right to use his personal property as parking). The board member insists that he does so because Texas heat is scorching in the summer and his fellow neighbors won't want to walk (as if it's his problem). The man puts his foot down and says he won't move his vehicle until the next morning before the event. A few hours after this conversation, a tow truck comes and moves his vehicles out of his driveway, not taking no for an answer, and in front of the entire neighborhood. Angered and frustrated, he chews out the board member who advised the towing and additionally mentions he will be running for the board in the future. Scroll to get the whole story and some advice from others who simply hate HOAs.

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    "Community building" results in towing my truck and trailer out of my driveway in front of the whole neighborhood.
    Via Col_Clucks
  • 2
    First off HOAs they are the worst and that's all you really need to know. Our neighborhood is new, only a few years old now and the HOA board decided that they were going to do a community building event. Our house is in one of the culdesacs and the HOA picked it as the location for this community building event.
    Via Col_Clucks
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    Our house has a two entrance driveway that I will sometimes park my pickup and trailer on when I have early jobs to get to that are closer to my house than my barn. Tomorrow is one of those such days so my truck and trailer with my drone and all of my mixing equipment in it was sitting in my driveway. (I operate an ag drone).
    Via Col_Clucks
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  • 4
    This morning I got a knock from one of the board members and they asked me if I would mind moving my trailer so that my driveway could be used as parking for this event. I countered with why is anyone driving here our neighborhood isn't that big and I don't want to drag my trailer an hour out to my barn just to go
    Via Col_Clucks
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    back out an hour out tomorrow to get it when my first job of tomorrow is 10 minutes down the road. They continued to push me on it staying oh it's Texas in the summer some people may not want to walk in the heat and you should be neighborly and move your truck and trailer because it's
    Via Col_Clucks
  • 6
    ugly and not the image we want for our first neighborhood event. At that point I lost my patience and told them to leave and I would not be moving my truck from my property until tomorrow morning.
    Via Col_Clucks
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  • 7
    Well 3 hours ago a tow truck backs up into my driveway and starts hooking up to my pickup that is completely on my property, not on the street, to tow it. I went out and told the truck driver that I was the owner of the house, the driveway, and the truck and under no
    Via Col_Clucks
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    circumstances was he to tow it. He just blew me off and said he got the call to do it and was going to do it anyways. So in front of the whole neighborhood our HOA board very visibly towed my truck out of my driveway with my entire business in it. Once that happened I very angrily chewed
    Via Col_Clucks
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    out the board member that asked me to move my truck about how nothing in the bylaws says anything about having a truck and trailer parked in your own driveway is against the rules and the HOA is going to be eating the cost of the tow.
    Via Col_Clucks
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  • 10
    After that the crowd that was attending the event started leaving and the board members started scrambling to do damage control. I've already had every other board member come to my house to try and smooth things over and I've already told them
    Via Col_Clucks
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    that I want my truck and all of my equipment back in my driveway without so much as a rock chip in anything before midnight and I want whoever called for the tow removed from the board and barred from running anything again.
    Via Col_Clucks
  • 12
    Seriously HOAs. I can't believe the audacity to tow someone's car from their driveway because they decided to schedule an event in front of their house and it didn't match the aesthetic they were going for. Mind you there were 4 food
    Via Col_Clucks
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  • 13
    trailers parked on the street all of which were the same white cargo trailer as mine. Seriously considering running for the board now so I can nip I like this in the bud before the Karen's get too strong of a hold on it. Now I'm off to go find my truck so I can actually go to work tomorrow.
    Via Col_Clucks
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    To everyone saying why didn't you call police. They were called and I was told "this is a civil matter not a criminal one" the classic cop out from good ole law enforcement.
    Via Col_Clucks
  • 15
    To the keyboard warriors here saying "why didn't you bring out your go it's Texas" You are the type of person who shouldn't own a firearm. If I'd done that I 100% would have been arrested and instead of fighting from the sympathetic position of they illegally towed my vehicle, I'd be the lunatic who came out waving a g around. Texas isn't the shoot first ask questions later state y'all think it is.
    Via Col_Clucks
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    Chaos75321 . 17h ago Make sure to talk to the tow company about that driver. He 1 up.
    Via Chaos75321
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    • Lylibean 17h ago Oh, my private property is to be used for public parking? Okie dokie. There's a $50/half hour parking fee, three hour minimum.
    Via Lylibean
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    TR6lover 16h ago • Having your personal vehicle towed off of your personal property so that some random neighbor can park there if they decide they want to? Who in the world would think that is an acceptable action? Bring out the big gas, OP.
    Via TR6lover
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    unidentifiedb b.17h ago I don't know why you allowed them to even hook it up. I would of laid in front of the tow truck while calling the cops. They have no right to do that and the board should be sued.
    Via unidentifiedb**b
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    HarryPython • 17h ago Go get a lawyer. Don't talk to any of these people. Just go get a lawyer. If you can figure where your truck got impounded pay the lot fee and sue the board for the cost
    Via HarryPython
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    savvyblackbird 15h ago You should definitely run for the board because you've embarrassed the Karens, so they'll be looking for revenge.
    Via savvyblackbird
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  • 22
    JamesT3R9 16h ago . Sounds like its time to send certified no trespassing letters to the morons who planned the event and the ones that called for the tow. And then posting it publicly on facebook
    Via JamesT3R9
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    Ok-Bad-9683 15h ago Also why not just get the same tow truck driver to come and tow every single board members cars from their driveways?
    Via Ok-Bad-9683
  • 24
    Supa Dupa1280 • 16h ago This is your HOA Boardmember Origin Story. "How did he end up on the board?" I've been down that road, bring the change!
    Via SupaDupa1280

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