HOA board member has it out for one neighbor and gets her car towed, neighbor debates legal options: 'The car towing is the final straw!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 16, 2025 4:00 PM EST

This resident has had it with the HOA board member next door, who seems determined above all else to ruin her living experience.

One has to wonder what possesses the local curmudgeon in every neighborhood to set such an intention. Don't these people have jobs or families or passions that go beyond sabotaging someone else's entire life? Even if you were to argue that this person was in pursuit of improving the neighborhood as a whole, that claim simply does not stand because it's not like she was keeping her eye out for any and all violations in the suburban residential area. Instead, she was simply watching this one resident like a hawk, waiting for her to mess up and immediately stepping in to make her pay.

A decent individual would try to point out a violation in a more subtle way before outright ensuring she gets fined for a mistake. Clearly, however, this board member wanted this resident out of the neighborhood entirely. The straw that finally broke the camel's back happened when the resident's sister parked her car in a perfectly legal spot outside both the resident and the board member's house. Before anyone knew it, this woman had said car towed. 

Keep scrolling below to find out how the resident responded to this egregious and unnecessarily harsh act of sabotage.

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  • We recommend that this lady seek the advice of another HOA board member. It sounds like the woman next door is universally disliked by all. Surely, an ally would be helpful. After all, there's strength in numbers when it comes to getting even with a vindictive HOA board member.

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    "HOA neighbor crossed a line"

    A little background: one of the members on the board constantly breaks the rules and gets zero repercussions, but will be the first person to jump on any excuse to enforce the rules on others, especially my family
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    neighbor is an old c woman that used to be friends with us, but ever since she joined the HOA she's basically been observing us to the extent that we've been forced to change how we park, have gotten consistent letters for bullshit like weeds and noise, and as of last night TOWED OUR CAR.
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    SO the car towing is the final straw, the first member i mentioned that breaks the rules parks on the street in front of the houses for up to like 8 hours and doesn't get a single warning, and
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    does this almost daily. My sister parked her car at the dead end of the street (Directly in view of our house and the c ladys house) and within 3 hours she got towed, costing us alot of wasted time and out about $220. So with
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    bullshit warning and everything we've had to deal with over the last year our family is easily out like $400-$500.
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    I'm looking for ways to make this b suffer in some very petty and annoying ways
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    A blue car being loaded onto a flatbed truck.
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    Murky-Echidna-... . 13m ago You first need to go thru the HOA rules line by line and document board members adherence. That's fodder for board election time.
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    . Ellionwy 12m ago Take a video of her violations and show it at the meeting.
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    etfreak74 • 8m ago First was she actually illegally parked on a private street or was the street a public street?
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    If illegally parked well, not much you can do about that. If public, can the HOA tow cars legally parked on a public street in your area?
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    If the HOA owns the roads is there rules in the bylaws that state who can park on the street how long, parking passes etc.? If there are any rules and you AND your the member were breaking the rules that is selective enforcement. Find out who
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    authorized the tow from the tow company and what they said at the time. You can gather evidence and sue the HOA in small claims court if they did selective enforcement or lied in some way about the car.
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    If it wasn't the HOA and was just the neighbor lying sue her in small claims court to recover the damages.
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    Use the system that they love to impose upon others to take them down. That is the best way.
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    DilbertHigh • 7m ago Your neighbor willingly joined an hoa they weren't a part of? How stupid are they?
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