Entitled HOA board member fines new resident over planting flowers, resident goes above her head and gets the fine removed: 'This board member clearly thinks her personal taste = law'

Why do so many bored homeowners with too much time on their hands decide to join HOAs rather than develop real hobbies? You know, the harmless kinds that fulfill lots of other people, like pickleball or guitar. Instead, these entitled individuals have to go ahead and ruin the lived experiences of everyone else in the neighborhood simply because they need to fill their days with some false sense of authority.

There is a reason why people tell you to avoid HOA neighborhoods at all costs, and this is one of them. Of course, sometimes, living in an HOA is inevitable, but if that's the case, finding an ally who's on the board is always a good strategy. That way, if someone else on the board tries to give you grief over something minor, you can phone your friend and try to get them on your side. If there's one easy takeaway from this story of HOA drama that you can apply to your own experience, it's how helpful it was for this author to have previously charmed the HOA president. It meant that she was able to easily call him up and get him to intervene in their defense.

It turns out that all the author wanted to do was plant some nice flowers in her small garden. She was careful enough to be fully in compliance with the HOA guidelines, so when her next-door neighbor took issue with it and tried to get the author fined, she knew she was in the right and the neighbor was severely mistaken. Keep scrolling below to read about the full saga and to see what happened when the author got the HOA president involved.

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For those of you who are tempted to join your local HOA, do weigh the pros and cons before you proceed. Sure, you get a little bit of power and can voice your opinions during board meetings. However, you're also likely to become the enemy of everyone else in the neighborhood. You have to face the fact that it's nearly impossible to please both crowds. If it were me, I would just try to pick up guitar lessons or join the pickleball league instead. After all, wouldn't you rather be fulfilled and liked rather than fulfilled and detested?
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