Rich HOA president insists schoolteacher neighbor paint home, neighbor chooses unusual color scheme: 'The president's home didn’t sell for two years'

Author image for Remy Millisky
Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 7, 2025 11:00 AM EST

This HOA president thought he had the perfect plan to get what he wanted, but his neighbor spoiled it with just a single color of paint. 

When you're wealthy, you can get used to getting your way 100% of the time. Money can buy you ease — you're used to demanding things, holding out a fistful of cash, and watching people fall into line. If you get in trouble, you pay your way out of it. If you're wealthy enough, you might face adversity very rarely. Instead, you get used to people groveling and admiring you, and it makes you think you can do literally anything you want to — consequence-free. 

All the money in the world can't buy you respect, as the HOA president of this town learned the hard way. He basically tried to strong-arm a neighborhood into cooperating with his project, which residents did not care for. He especially didn't plan for a schoolteacher neighbor who easily outsmarted him! Read the full story below and see who you side with — the HOA president, or the smart-aleck neighbor who got the pettiest revenge possible. 

Advertisement
  • 01

    'HOA, a mansion and the view'

    Man in green sweater puts closed fist to mouth and looks worried, in background is bright pink house with bright blue window panes
    via Ahmet Kurt For Unsplash+

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • 02
    I lived in this town surrounded by magnificent vistas. There was a small development on the outskirts for upscale homes and mansions. Below the
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 03
    development were a few older homes. Many celebrities and business owners had vacation properties in the area, multi-million dollar houses they
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 04
    used maybe one month out of the year. Real estate had always been at a premium. There was one older home amongst all these giant view lots.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 05
    A new buyer was a guy who owned a slew of RV dealerships and had obscene amounts of money so he bought the most prominent lot on the top of the hill as you entered
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 06
    the development of maybe 20 lots. His project was a massive stucco structure with a multi-car garage and a much bigger RV storage space
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 07
    with a huge roll up garage door. Think of the biggest RVs you've seen and he had a garage built for it with an automatic door.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 08
    The house was a nondescript sand color with a red tiled roof and the entire lot was tastefully landscaped with different kinds of rocks, small mounds here and there and a
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 09
    few shrubs to be low maintenance. The back of the property was fenced in with an 8-foot(?) or higher block wall. The fence itself probably cost $100k.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 10
    His neighbor was a schoolteacher who had lived there before the development started and had a modest house. He decided to take advantage of the skyrocketing
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 11
    land prices in the neighborhood and sell, except no one wanted his shitty house when there were much larger empty lots available.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 12
    He decided the real issue was that the new behemoth blocked his view and that's why no one wanted to buy his three-bedroom ranch house at mansion prices. It
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 13
    was really that his home didn't appeal to the market. So he became the president of the HOA which included the older homes and the new
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 14
    development. And then the harassment started. The HOA had formed after the RV mansion construction had begun, but the home
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 15
    was so big, it took almost a year to finish. The HOA had passed a "design theme" rule that all houses must be painted in a specific
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 16
    color palette, with the predominant color being a taupe that was darker than this man's standard beige stucco color house. The palette included the taupe and a selection of
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 17
    Bright pink home with 3 stories and bright blue window panes
    via JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash+

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • 18
    trim colors in pink, teal, or tan. It was intended to give the community a Santa Fe look and feel which just happened to be the colors of the president's shitty house.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 19
    The RV owner took the HOA to court and the trial dragged on for a year. The guy never used the property claiming it was still under construction during this time. He
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 20
    lost in court and had to repaint his property "using only the design theme approved colors." So the guy brought out his contractor and had him repaint
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 21
    the entire property the Pepto Bismol pink trim color. Everything was painted this color the house, the - fence, the trim, and the rocks in the yard. Then he had
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 22
    the massive driveway to the garage done in the same pink stamped concrete. Even the garage doors were pink.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 23
    He locked up the house and never stayed there. The HOA was in an uproar because this house could be seen at the top of the hill for miles.
    via u/flavius_lacivious
  • 24
    None of the other lot owners broke ground. The president's home didn't sell for two years.
    via u/flavius_lacivious

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

hoa housing neighbors house neighborhood home owners association driveway neighborhood-drama neighborhood-stories president terrible neighbors home parking
Scroll Down For The Next Article