19 Distressed Homeowners Share Their HOA Nightmare Stories

These alarmed and angered and generally distressed homeowners are here to give you all the reasons you never knew you needed, to never join an HOA! Sounds like a jar of nightmares, brimming with psychotic levels of entitlement. And the lack of boundaries is something else. How can you ever feel like you're building your own home, when the HOA pulls stunts like running your bank account dry with questionably legitimate late fees? 

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