35-year-old HOA president ends up getting voted out, so she moves and sells her house for a loss, gets replaced by beloved elderly man: ‘They laughed and she was removed.’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 31, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Everyone in this happy community had high hopes for this newly appointed HOA president. She was only 35 and friendly with everyone. Unfortunately, she quickly proved them all wrong. She immediately went power hungry and decided to ban any Halloween celebrations in the neighborhood. Everyone was so upset about it, a meeting was called. In this meeting she was voted out of her position of power. She went crazy and said that they couldn't do that and she threatened to call the cops. So they told her to do just that. 

 

The cops came and laughed at her because seriously, what? Everything was done by the book and she was the one trying to become an HOA-dictator. Luckily, a new HOA president was voted in and brought back peace. 

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  • A beloved elderly man in the neighborhood replaced the rabid Karen president and he immediately took away that gross amount of power that the president allegedly had. Justice served, for once!

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  • "HOA Karen tries to ban Halloween"

    I live in an HOA community. For 25 years our HOA President was a retired shoe cobbler and Korean War veteran.
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  • Everything was chill. no one ever got a notice or warning. The HOA meeting consisted of him stating "Anyone have any questions? no? ok lets eat" and we all had Cracker Barrel that he paid for.
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  • Halloween everyone went all out. Skeletons and vampires and all sorts of lawn decors. It was a huge event and even the local Special Needs school would bring the kids to go trick or treating.
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  • Well he did and his replacement was a 35 year old woman from out of state. We all thought she was cool but it turns out it was an act.
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  • She was a batshit Christian nut job (I am Christian but this woman was totally a cultist). She decreed the Halloween event was Satanic and was banned.
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  • That did not go over well so at the next HOA meeting a vote took place to remove her. She threatened to have everyone arrested and actually called the cops.
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  • Needless to say they laughed and she was removed. She sold her house for a loss and moved.
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  • The new HOA President, an elderly black man, issued a decree that from now on the HOA President did not have the power to cancel events and it must be voted on by the community.
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  • He also shortened the term to 2 years and outlawed the HOA from imposing monetary fines for minor infractions.
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  • itimedout Some people are just unbelievable. Glad y'all solved the problem pretty quick without too much melodrama. F her and people like her. ArtificialTroller Honestly this is the best HOA story I've come across. Chill for years, then community comes together to oust the non chill in short order, then chill comes back to the land again.
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  • mlorusso4 With some lessons learned to immediately prevent something like that from happening again New President tries to unilaterally ban events? Change the rules so they can't do that anymore envyeyes Gosh, if only the US could learn that lesson.
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  • Low_Local2692 That's how an HOA should be. To bring harmony to the community and make it feel more like a community. Not to give one person power over others properties and decisions.
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  • palpatineforever people like that always have an unwavering belief that they are in the right so people will follow. she probably thought that others would step up and support it once she acted. That her fellow christians were being subjugated by the old commitee and secretly wanted it stopped.
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  • osunightfall Some people want peace, and they give that peace to others. Others only create problems to make themselves feel important.
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  • pg_in_nwohio Sounds like the documents governing your HOA are either lost or comically written by a law school dropout. No actual HOA would have documents that permit what any of the 3 presidents are alleged to have done.
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  • Ok_Strategy5722 That's a rock-solid HOA. It was good, everyone got along, someone new came into power, abused that power, HOA voted her out, new person in power put rules in place to ensure it wouldn't happen again.
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