'My neighbor had been called in front of a board meeting [and] fined about $1000': Neighbor snitches on parents who let kids play on water slide bouncy house at all hours and flood other people's yards

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 26, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

This situation sounds like every kid's dream and every neighbor's worst nightmare. 

If you spent ages begging your parents for a pool or a trampoline as a kid, you're not alone. It's a common experience for kids who want to get their energy out and spend countless hours swimming or bouncing with their friends. 

Of course, as a kid you probably aren't aware of what the neighbors think about you bouncing on a trampoline for hours every day, or splashing around loudly in a pool doing cannonballs with your friends. This person didn't want to be a bother, but their neighbor's kids were getting really out of hand with the noise. They tried to be "patient and accommodating" of the kids' playtime. But when the children start playing on their water slide bouncy castle at 5 in the morning, the castle blocks a beautiful mountain view, and the water is pouring out of the neighbor's yard, what's a person to do?

Well, for u/imthekarn, calling in the HOA was the perfect solution. They aren't always the most helpful bunch, but in a situation like this, sometimes it's the best way to get an impolite neighbor to knock it off with the bad behavior. 

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    AITA for calling the HOA on the neighbors for installing a 25 foot tall bouncy castle/water slide in their back yard?
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    I never thought I would be in this position but I am the one who sought out the 75 year old members of the HOA board for assistance. Having said that, I feel like I was very patient and accommodating but just got pushed too far. But still anytime you "call the HOA" you might be the a hole.
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    My neighbors started out in February/March with a bouncy castle in their yard. I could not see it but I could certianly hear it when the kids would start bouncing at 4:30/5 am. It honestly seemed that the kids would wake up really early and the parents would send them outside so they could sleep. But it was incredibly loud. I had a polite conversation with the parents and they assured me the bouncy castle was temporary. I put up with it for probably 3
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    weeks, nearly every day until I explained that I work nights and I was being woken up right as I was getting to sleep. To their credit they stopped jumping early in the morning and everything was fine until 3 weeks ago when a huge bouncy castle suddenly appeared in their back yard. It was at least 25 feet tall..it completely blocked my view of the mountains I could see the kids were able to look right into my bedroom window from the
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    top. Unfortunately this coincided with a shift change for me and now the kids were up until 11-12, even 1am on some nights and now I had to wake up at 4:30. I didn't even realize it was also a waterslide until i realized that probably hundreds of gallons of water had run under our shared fence and actually pushed all my dog's up against by back door.
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    I went over and talked to them and the dad essentially said "we were polite enough to change our schedule for you the first time and this is our backyard--f you" I decided something had to be done because potentially my house could be damaged, let alone the sleep issue. So I called the HOA and however the machine works, my neighbor had been called in front of a board meeting, fined about $1000
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    dollars for covenant violations as well as been ordered to pay for damages to our joint fence. I thought everything was good except for some dirty looks from the neighbor but literally EVERY one of my family and friends are saying I'm the a h le for going to the HOA. While opinions vary, the general gist is I'm now the crabby neighbor ruining kids fun. That I should have got some noise cancelling headphones and ignored it and they would have
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    popped the slide at some point anyways and it would have taken care of itself. The idea I guess is that I tattled and got my way by unleashing a bunch of busy bodies with too much time and too much undeserved power. AITA?
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    FortuneTelling Bo... NTA. I don't typically side with snitches but this is pretty clear. The early hour noise and the damage to property are big no-nos.
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    Qalyar NTA. Siccing the HOA on the neighbors is rarely the right choice, but that doesn't mean it's never the right choice. If it was just the sleep schedule issue -- and the gigantic size of that thing -- that'd be one thing, especially if it was actually a short-term installation like most people do.
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    But the massive water runoff from an improperly managed waterslide? For weeks? Nope, their disrespect for your property and neighborhood decorum makes them the here.
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    Cri... NTA - Honestly, going to the HOA is the bare minimum here. This is actually proper use of the HOA; these neighbors were putting your quality of life and possibly quality of your property into jeopardy. I'm honestly really worried for the kids...these are very irregular and ungodly early/late hours for them to be outside
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    seemingly unattended. The parents honestly sound negligent and decided to make them the neighborhood's "problem" rather than actually parent their kids...Makes me wonder is CPS should be next on your list of calls.
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    rkcraig88 NTA. Former HOA resident here. This is exactly the right situation to call the HOA. Also, your friends and family would be singing a different tune if they lived next to neighbors that were in a giant bouncy castle at odd hours that flooded their yard.
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