Chill HOA gets hounded by new resident to be stricter, until neighborhood uncovers that she runs an HOA management company and wants them to go through her for $700 to $1,000 a month: ‘[She was] openly lying about infractions…’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 16, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Yes, we know, HOAs truly do not have a good reputation. It feels like ever neighborhood with an HOA is just getting all of their residents to hemorrhage money to fill the pockets of some greedy Karen or Kevin geezers. Do they even fill the potholes? Do they make sure that one entitled neighbor isn't building a pool on someone else's property? Do they clean up graffiti in the neighborhood? Probably not. They just fine people for grass that's too long and then use that money to take a cruise. 

 

But that was not the original idea for HOAs: They were supposed to be support systems for the neighborhood. And every now and then, we find a story about an HOA that is still, surprisingly, good! 

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  • That this Redditor's story, for example. Her neighborhood HOA is chill and just there to keep the peace in the neighborhood. However, one resident moves in and starts demanding they make more infractions. So when she started snooping on other people's properties, the neighborhood finds out she runs her own HOA management company and wants them to be turned over to her so she can charge them up the wazoo! Luckily, this HOA had their residents' back.

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  • "Resident mad because my HOA would not hire her company to run our HOA."

    I was the prez of our HOA for several years. It was laid back, no snooping for violations or crop like that. To keep costs down, we ran the HOA ourselves. That's how it was set up in the late 90's when the community was built. Woman and
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  • hubby move in and she immediately starts the telling everyone how bad the HOA is managing everything. She would come to our monthly meetings and say that our pool was in violation of new code rules and would have to be closed. We
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  • would research it find out she was wrong and alert all the people that were at the meeting that she was wrong. She continued to do this and we continue to find out every time that she was making stuff up.
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  • Turns out she runs an HOA management company and wanted us to turn over all of our HOA responsibilities to her company for somewhere in the range of $700 to $1,000 a month. When going to meetings and openly
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  • lying about infractions that weren't real didn't work, she started taking photos of what she considered to be other people's violations and emailing me or texting me with photos. I informed her that if she's going on other people's property,
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  • then she is technically trespassing and she had no right to be doing this. But I told her that I would take care of every one of the violations that she sent to me. But, I would also be letting those homeowners know that she came on their
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  • property and alerted the HOA to this and I would send them the photos that she took. She called me saying that's not what you wanted to have happen she didn't want to be recognized as the person who had turned them into the hoa. And I
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  • told her that she should have thought about this before she went into other people's lawns and property and started taking photos of things that she thinks are in violation of the HOA
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  • covenant. She never texted me again and never came to any more HOA meetings.
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  • Piemaster128official People like that just love their "petty power." She should never be in charge of anything, let alone an HOA.
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  • OneFortyEighth Scale Exactly the type of person that nobody wants to be involved with their HOA.
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  • Ecstatic_Hawk1011 We had a president hire his own CAM company and his gf was the manager for the neighborhood. He didn't seem to think it was a conflict of interest or that the neighborhood should know those details.
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  • Icy_Marionberry_9131 Have the current HOA board send her a formal notice that her company will never be considered for bids in the future while she reside in the community to preclude conflicts of interest, whether real or apparent. It's not a
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  • matter of her off (but it will because it sounds like she is to stupid understand); rather, this will protect the HOA and the residents and also her own business interests.
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  • Unfair-Language7952 Pass a modification about vendors and conflict of interest. Can't manage, repair or maintain your own property and have HOA pay
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  • InfamousCareer1725 This is why it's important to have good people involved in the HOA Board, to stop petty dictators like this before they can take control.
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  • Street-Substance25... Sounds like you guys have a sane HOA, and took care of that little situation very well! Good for you!
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  • BeerStop i would let everyone in the neighborhood know about her business and write her a strongly worded letter stating it is a conflict of interest to be using her company for managing the HOA which is
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  • currently operating within all state guidelines and HOA rules. and if she continues to insist a call to the professional ethics board or state licensing may be in order.
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