'I'm pretty sure she's complained about everyone with a dog': Entitled neighbor insists HOA control neighbor's grass growth

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 6, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

Just how much should you care about your neighbor's yard? It all depends how well you can mind your business, which this woman has yet to do. Instead, she's content to stick her nose into everyone else's business, and she's trying to involve the local HOA, too. 

Most of us have a hundred things on our plate at any given time, between work, school, childcare or caring for parents, hobbies, and having a social life. We're often juggling so many things that it can be completely exhausting. But not everyone lives that life: some folks have very little going on at the moment. For some people, especially those who are retired or have a lot of time on their hands, criticizing people can become a full-time hobby. 

Just ask this woman, who was truly obsessed with the state of her neighbor's grass. I get it, most people don't want to live near a house that's a major eyesore from construction work or overgrown grass or even trash left outside. But just having spotty grass isn't a crime, girlfriend. It probably doesn't matter to 99.9% of people in the neighborhood, including the original person who shared this story, u/StrongAbbreviations5. They write that although their lawn isn't pristine, they keep it mowed and in good condition. That's just not good enough for this neighborhood watchdog, who instead of doing literally anything else with her time has become the grass police. 

Up next, this dad kept demanding his daughter drive him everywhere, so she got back at him by driving him right to the most expensive restaurant in town. 

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    Neighbor complained to the HOA about my yard
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    So, I have a Karen for a neighbor. She's a grumpy old C with a live in son in his 40s and no other family or friends. And when I say she's a Karen we're talking to the point that she came into my property to yell at our landscaper about a boulder he was installing... on our property (something about believing it would fall over... onto more of our property...)
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    A few months after we moved in we receive a letter trying the HOA saying they'd received complaints and asking that we make sure we're mowing watering and maintaining. I chalked it up to moving into a nicer neighborhood and made an effort to mow twice a week instead of my normal once, added a little time to the sprinklers, and figured all was good...
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    Apparently it was not all good as we received another letter stating the complaints had continued and the HOA wanted to talk with us to see what the problem was.
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    I should note, we had just moved in not that long ago, and hadn't landscaped the back yet so were letting our dogs pee on the front at night, which lead to the inevitable patches of bright green grass that grow stupid fast. Now I'll freely admit I don't keep my yard to the level of some of my
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    neighbors, but it was in perfectly good shape outside some green spots in an otherwise average looking yard and I do my best to keep things mowed and looking decent.
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    Turns our grumpy C had taken real offense to this and started complaining to the HOA. The "hearing ended up bring mostly incoherent rambling, but the bottom line was she didn't like how our lawn looked with the green spots...
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    While the HOA agreed this was not her business and definitely not theirs, I decided she was right and we should stop letting our dogs out in the front to pee as I also don't like the green spots. Now, I put them on the leash and let them do their business in her yard (read: tree lawn). And I'm clearly not the
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    only one as her entire yard is now COVERED in pee spots and de d spots on her actual lawn which my dogs don't step for on. I'm pretty sure she's complained about everyone with a dog, and now the entire neighborhood takes their dogs to her yard.
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    The best part, she actually does a job taking care of her lawn, weeds and crab grass everywhere, she just waters it almost non stop. So today I got to report her to the HOA for her yard looking like total If it were any other house (there are much worse) I wouldn't care at all, but this lady wanted lawns without spots so I'm just doing my part to enforce her rules...
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    EDIT: to everyone hating on HOAS - they're hit and miss for sure but in this case THEY didn't do anything but tell me someone complained and then tell her I wasn't violating any rules and they weren't going to be involved... Also, HOAs are often surprisingly easy to take over, you just have to skip the whining about how terrible they are and
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    do the work instead. If the HOA is that bad, talk to some neighbors, tell them you're going to run for the board, and get them to vote for you. Then, help others do the same... and remember what you hated about the previous board. Be forewarned, everyone finds a reason to complain, no one is will to help out...
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    EDIT 2: for everyone about green grass from dog pee... Urea -> ammonium -> nitrogen for plants... If you don't water it stays concentrated in one area, killing the grass. If you do water (or just spray the spot with a hose quickly) it's diluted and gives the grass a big boost of "organic" nitrogen fertilizer
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    FlyingPiranha I could not imagine getting to a point in my life where I gave the slightest about how someone else's grass looked. People like her need a different hobby.
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    SeraphymCrashing This is why I made sure to not buy a house with an HOA.
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    Sweetnessnlight6... These HOA things sound mental. I've heard so many crazy stories about them and am glad we don't have them in the UK. I think I'd end up killing someone for telling me how I have to have my own property that I pay for.
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