HOA resident becomes HOA president and disbands their association: ‘What a time to be alive’

HOAs are, at best, schemes to keep homeowners dishing out their cash to look uniform in a cul-de-sac community. A lot of homeowners prefer to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood with rules and regulations. HOAs provide residents with guidance, help them stay on their toes about general home upkeep, and most of all, allow them to call the shots at community board meetings.

Do these residents actually call the shots? It's challenging to know for sure. The allure of an HOA generally doesn't beat the downside of the association, mainly because you have horror stories left and right about residents not being allowed to have a basketball hoop in the driveway they own, or general power struggles where HOA entitlement ruins everything. You might think you want to live in an HOA, but it's crucial to understand what you're getting yourself into. Not all HOAs are bad, but not all of them are great either.

Success stories about evil HOAs are what keep us going, though. There's a way to combat power-hungry board members and money-hungry developers, and all it takes is a little grit and a whole lot of encouragement from other like-minded residents.

Smaller HOAs are easier to navigate, especially when there are certain checks and balances in place to possibly disband the entire association. That's what's going on in the story below, where a four-home HOA development elects a president who decides to upend everything. Scroll below to read the full story.

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