r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Ashish_ank What the Fuck • 4d ago
watch this This woman kept on getting fined $45 by the HOA for her brown bushes so she decided to spray paint them green
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u/SquirrelInATux 4d ago
HOAs have actually created a lawn painting industry in some areas.
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u/TheBlacktom 4d ago
It is basically the opposite of anything good, sane and environmentally friendly.
Does only the US have so stupid rules?
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u/GrouseDog 4d ago
Dumb people vote for it by buying into HOA properties.
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u/Open-Preparation-268 4d ago
We were house hunting recently. It was cheaper to buy in an HOA, because the non-HOA properties were more desirable.
We ended up purchasing raw land, and are going to put a small cabin on it.
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u/EonMagister 4d ago
If you're near said HOA, better have those property lines available on the drop of a hat just in case they want to encroach.
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u/locknarr 4d ago
A lot of the time you don't have much of a choice, HOAs are becoming more common across the US, with data from realtor.com showing that nearly 44% of home listings now include HOA fees. According to the National Association of Home Builders, about 65.7% of newly built single-family homes are part of an HOA community.
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u/spartyanon 2d ago
Yeah, near me almost all the newer builds are in HOAs and almost all the older builds are closer to city center and therefore much more expensive. There are some exceptions, but it is really hard to avoid hoas.
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u/OrigamiMarie 4d ago
There are municipalities that have fully decided to quit doing a big chunk of municipal government work. Instead, they make all neighborhoods be HOAs, so that the neighborhoods take care of all the typical things that neighborhoods need.
But this means that instead of properly democratically elected officials and career city workers taking care of problems, power-tripping neighbors get to run things, and that means you get a lot of stupid rules. And those stupid rules get enforced by those power-tripping neighbors having nothing better to do than wander around the neighborhood and issue fines.
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u/MuscularShlong 3d ago
Just closed on my first house the other day. One of the only absolute non negotiables was that it did not have an HOA lol
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u/HighlyInconvenient 4d ago
I have one better.
If an HOA has a lawn care requirement they're super anal about, there's almost always one guy on the board who owns a landscaping company and gets a kickback for enforcement.
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u/pbnjandmilk 3d ago
I have seen this happen. Our HOA had a guy who worked for Spectrum and did everything in his "power' to block Google fiber from coming in because it would "inconvenience" the home owners as they have to make alterations to our streets.
We got him out on the next election cycle, and guess what proposition passed on the meetings for discussion? That guy was a POS, and everyone was glad he moved away too. We found out afterwards that he was some top exec at Spectrum and the reason he was so hard pressed on monopolizing that shit.
At least I am enjoying my 1Gb internet at a low price.
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u/TonightConsistent560 4d ago
In fact, this is a good way to deal with it.
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u/i-love-mexican-c0ke 4d ago
Looks like a lot of work when horse grass cost $12 and last indefinitely.
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u/dfafa 4d ago
how about fuck HoAs? i wouldnt paint it, id leave it there as is.
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u/Aromatic-Quarter-68 4d ago
That’s very tough of you, but you wouldn’t. They would just keep fining you over and over until you fixed it.
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u/HudsonAtHeart 4d ago
Some HOAs require a defined number of bushes in the front yard, Which can only be replaced by a shrub of similar size and maturity
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u/Creative_Inside8293 4d ago
Watering your plants is the way, spray painting dead plants is extinction level stupid
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u/InetRoadkill1 4d ago
Never buy property with an HOA attached to it.
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u/XiMaoJingPing 4d ago
90% of homes in my area and further out have HOAs, legit no choice unless you're filthy rich
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u/Israel_Azkanbe 4d ago
Thats so crazy, cause in my area its completely opposite, 90% of homes here don’t have HOA
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u/gimmepizza420 4d ago
I feel like my wife and I must be the only people in the world who have a chill HOA that brings us only benifits and no drawbacks.
We live in a 14 lot HOA next to a lake. Half of the houses aren't on the water, but because of the HOA we still have deeded dock space on the shared HOA dock. This is a dock specifically dedicated to the 7 houses not on the water. We also have a small shared HOA park space leading up to that dock with an in ground bonfire pit.
ALSO all the houses in our HOA share the same sewage drain field, so our HOA fee (which is only like $60 a month) covers our entire sewage bill, in addition to the dock space.
We all meet just once a year to go over budgets numbers, etc. Nobody ever bothers me about my lawn or my bushes or any other dumb shit like that.
There are good HOAs out there.
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u/Ivegtabdflingbouthis 3d ago
Probably because you have such a small community. If they start getting uppity they get voted off the island quick.
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u/This-Train47 19h ago
For real, mines 300 a year and the major rules are no political signs at all and no air BNB usage
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u/Acrobatic-Echo-3460 3d ago
Not all HOA’s are bad, it’s these ones with primary rich old whites, those are the ones to avoid. For instance my parents bought land a built a house in an HOA when I was kid, the only rules for the HOA was minimum sq ft to build and no mobile homes, no multi family dewelings, no Live stock, no foul bigger than a chicken, and you could only have 5 chickens. It was just implemented to encourage single families to buy and create a small neighborhood.
Coincidentally, across the street, no HOA, 2 acres worth of land, a developer crammed in 32 homes very small homes.
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u/Curious_Koala8 4d ago
They’re about to get so much more brown. Those poor plants!
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u/lostincoloradospace 4d ago
They are already as dead as they will get.
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u/Curious_Koala8 4d ago
I’ve worked as a nursery specialist and you’re definitely wrong on that count. Hope you haven’t killed too many trees/plants/shrubs in prematurely by binning them!
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u/Cocrawfo 4d ago
you know when a plant is dead
and even if it’s not 100 percent dead the resulting shoots are going to look terrible and not be true to type and/or form
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u/GGTheEnd 4d ago
I bet your dad works for Nintendo. I have done landscaping for 15 years that bush is dead as fuck already.
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u/Curious_Koala8 4d ago
My point is that it breaks my heart when people kill or dispose of plants they believe are dead. NOT that the person in the clip should have tried to revive theirs.
Grandfather was a national gladioli comp winner, but it skipped a generation since dad worked at Nintendo. Dad DID inherit and grow his prize winning bulbs though. He was 6”6 (according to the special casket people) and flowers were taller than he was!
I’m a nursery specialist at Bunnings. Not saying I know everything, OR that I would ever tell an everyday customer to try and revive a plant like that. Just saying it is possible. It is painstaking and doesn’t always work so not worth the time, effort and gamble in many cases.
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u/SDTimbox 4d ago
What if you don't pay $45? HOA's make no sense to me.
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u/Far_Composer_5714 4d ago
If you don't pay they put a lien against your house. Then with any luck they get to own your house.
An HOA is a government entity of a form and so it has the backing of the government.
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u/SDTimbox 3d ago
I will never want to live somewhere so badly that id resort to living in an HOA community 🤣🤣🤣
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u/KaijuRemix 3d ago
My neighborhood growing up was an HOA till a lawyer moved in, got on the board and shut it down. We moved in after it was disbanded so I am very unsure of any details, its just what all the neighbors would tell us.
I moved out of that place into a house with a friend and ThenGF and the house was in an HOA. Needless to say my wife and I did not live their long. They told me I couldn't have the breed of dog I had. He was a mix, I should have asked them to prove his breed, but nah, we just gtfo.
When moving your gf into your dads house so that we can have out dog is the better option.
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u/comb-jelly 4d ago
Nothing would make me crash out harder than some HOA cunt telling me how to maintain my already maintained yard. People willingly move into HOA areas, I can’t feel that bad. You chose this ridiculous bs man.
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u/According-Dot2099 3d ago
Why in the world do people still consider HOAs to add value to properties?
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u/AllenKll 1d ago
People don't. Developers do. HOA's are a scam that developers can use to get approval from local governments.
Imagine a developer builds 1,000 houses. The development needs roads, stormwater ponds, streetlights, landscaping, entrance signs, maybe a pool, sidewalks, walls, parks, security gates, drainage systems, etc.
Under a traditional model, the developer might build much of that infrastructure initially, but then dedicate things like the streets and drainage infrastructure to the city or county. From then on, taxpayers maintain them. Local governments say no to the builders, and they are assed out.
The builders come back and say.... We'll set up an HOA to pay for those, then the local government says yes!
HOA's are not for the owners. HOA's do not make anyone's lives better. HOA's are not about protecting home values.
HOA's are a tool that housing developers use to get tax breaks and and permits.
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u/Rage_of_the_moon 4d ago
If you live in a HOA, you deserve it. Scum of the earth who run HOA's just power tripping lowlifes who never had power but always wanted it
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u/CraftsBoy2Craftsman 4d ago
HOAs are dumb. but shit like this is also dumb. the request was obviously because the plants are dead
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u/cwk415 4d ago
If they're that pressed about a bush, don't worry I'm sure they won't care at all about the green spray paint that you just got all over the concrete. 👍
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u/PM_your_Nopales 4d ago
There's none on the concrete at all bro
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u/3inchesOnAGoodDay 4d ago
As someone who uses spray paint often, the overspray definitely got on the concrete. How much is hard to tell.
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u/ConflictMaster3155 3d ago
Saved $20 on plants, and avoided a $45 fine.
Received a $9000 fine for getting paint on concrete.
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u/Xena_Your_God 4d ago
You literally couldn't pay me enough to be bossed around by another grown person that doesn't pay my bills (or does. Don't tell me what to do unless you're my mother)
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u/SaltFee1923 4d ago
I don't understand HOA as I'm not from USA. How do they have the right to fine you?
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u/Odd_Brief_2975 4d ago
I'm sorry, am I missing something here...why not just remove them?
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u/False_Brush_7174 1d ago
HOAS kill the environment. They push evergreens unnatural to the environment that take up space of native plants pollinators need.
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u/Oberndorferin 4d ago
The HOA is basically communism but only the bad part without the redistribution stuff.
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u/Shadohz 4d ago
Wouldn't it be easier to give me your OF link rather than trying to reel me in with ragebait?
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u/Illuminaughty____ 4d ago
I don't understand, why not just pull them out? It's not their fault you moved into a dumb ass hoa neighborhood.
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u/Freddit330 4d ago
HOAs can be formed with you there if enough of the other neighbors agree. They can't force you to enter into it, but they'll still send you bills.
A guy had to sue an HOA because they kept charging him while he wasn't a member.
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u/Burgerboy380 4d ago
Why anyone would willing move to an HOA is beyond me.
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u/boyuber 4d ago
Nearly 50% of homes for sale in the US are party of an HOA.
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u/Highland_Fether_68 4d ago
we from the rest of the world are mildly horrified at your HOA's. Like is the US Fedral and State governments not enough for you? you need to create small scale police states ?
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u/KnightCPA 4d ago
My house is in an HOA with no rules and it exists purely to prevent actually restrictive HOAs from organizing.
I’ve never had a problem with the HOA.
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u/ButtholeSurfur 4d ago
Thankfully, the city will handle that around here. Don't need an HOA.
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u/Different-Context-84 4d ago
Humans love being slaves but despise confronted about it
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u/Temporary-Banana4232 4d ago
I truly don’t even need to hear the backstory. Fuck her HOA.
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u/Pressbig 4d ago
My neighbor has fake grass, bushes and a tree in her yard… it actually looks pretty nice. The tree and bushes come equipped with little string lights.
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u/retrocheats 4d ago
is that paint rain proof?
also bushes constantly grow, that green paint won't last forever.
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u/Charming-Gur-3620 4d ago
Normally I’d say that this is stupid but…. When in an HOA you gotta do what you gotta do to shut the Karen’s up. Spray paint it is.
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u/Nearby_Original8985 4d ago
I love this and HOA’S are small minded people who always wanted power !
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u/Charming-Gur-3620 4d ago
I can’t understand why you would want to buy your own home so you can do whatever you please only to be under stricter guidelines than if you were renting. If you paid for the home, land and all the decor for it inside and out, then you should be able to do what you please! I understand fines for yards that are trash with garbage all over and grass that is torn up or extremely under maintained. But, a $50 fine for putting your trash can out too early or leaving it out too long at the curb. I don’t understand why you can’t pick your fall and Christmas porch decor and when you put it up (I agree that fall should have to wait until September 1st though & Halloween should be appropriate not disgusting / disturbing.) So many have the rule that your Halloween decoration must be down by Nov 1st & that’s just BS. These HOA’S are more of a problem than anything. It’s high school style behavior. I think they shouldn’t be allowed at all.
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u/Chad_AND_Freud 4d ago
I mean, I hate to be that guy but the plant is a living thing that's being neglected. How about you just water your plants bitch? The time it took her to shake up that can she could've turned on the hose.
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u/Interesting-Foot-439 4d ago
I'm laughing so hard at this! We just got an Hoa violation for a portion of our front lawn being brown. Spray painting it green was my first thought! Lolll
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u/Competitive_Lab_4129 4d ago
Yes it is. And my HOA legally would continue fines and you would end up in foreclosure and dealing with Associations atty. And a court of law would be the ones who said its dead when they see pictures of the dead rot down under the bushes... pull them out now and save yourself a lot of wasted time and money. As you would pay for the associations atty too. They are dead bushes. Paint on them or not.
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u/Mountain_rage 4d ago
I have no idea how HOAs took over the USA. I swear americans need to change their motto to abuse me and tread on me.
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u/watermadeline 4d ago
Seems like a great way to increase the flammability of already dead crispy plants. This is dumb. Yeah HOAs are annoying but this is pettiness is not worth the safety risk
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u/Satta-Massagana 4d ago
The only reason spray paint burns is from the aerosols used to aerate the paint for application. Once dried, the paint is not flammable.
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u/BadBacksFuryToad 4d ago
If my neighbours charged me £45 for my plant that was on my property I would simply say no. What.
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u/Crayon_Eating_Grunt 4d ago
Then the HOA would eventually own your house and you'd be evicted (depending on the bylaws).
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u/crybabypete 4d ago
People who willingly live someplace with an HOA, then act like children when they have to follow the HOA rules are so mature and intelligent.
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u/Unopuro2conSal 4d ago
Watching her paint makes me think that she is now going to get fined for painting the concrete walkways green, poor painting preparation
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u/SKEYES1102 4d ago
HOAs are responsible for the landscaping. She should fine them for not replacing them. Spray painting them is so brilliant!
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u/jeon2595 4d ago
Fuck HOA’s but she could have save herself the cost of the can of spray paint by removing the dead shrubs for the cost of 15 minutes of her labor.
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u/FingerGunSetToStun 4d ago
Yeah, we moved out of an HOA once because I deployed and while gone my grass, that was one of the better lawns in the neighborhood turned brown. I was meticulous with it while home and kept our landscaping absolutely perfect. My wife was doing everything she could to run the home with our kids and a full time job. Then the HOA came in and started fining us every day. My wife and I both called to try and explain the situation but they were complet ass holes about it. I got back from deployment and we immediately moved, but we kept the house and now only rent it out to young families who do the absolute bare minimum. Fuck that HOA we will never live in one again.
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u/CaptCaCa 4d ago
HOA kept fining me for weeds in my front yard around one of my trees, it was pencil cactus, I kept sending google links with pics, and they still kept fining me, so I removed them, fuck HOAs
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u/CptExolann 4d ago
HOAs can get fucked but spray painting the ground and nearby plants just to own them is not a flex. Just dig it out
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u/horsegal301 4d ago
This looks like a townhome/apartment set up with how close all these buildings are - isn't it the HOAs responsibility to do landscaping? Isn't that the whole point?
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u/Ancient_Emotion_2484 4d ago
Solving boxwood blight with spray paint to spite the HOA is genius if you ask me.
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u/harmfuldischarge 4d ago
I hate bureauctats and pencil pushers like I hate Nazis. These mfrs would be driving train to camps and at the trial they'd be claiming "I was just doing my job". It's the same people. Completely unremarkable, but willing to use the law to make anyones experience worse.
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u/Status-Pea-5492 4d ago
So, she’s proud of her yard looking like shabby and being too lazy to remove dead plants. She should post another video of her dog crapping on the yard and not cleaning it up. Too cool for school.
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u/Glum_Opening_2218 4d ago
Oh my god your plants are being plants!?!? Fine them!
Fuck all the way off, HOAs should be considered unconstitutional, who the fuck are you to say what I can do on my property? You ain't the government whom I pay taxes to, I'm not paying extra taxes just to have the honor of having extra rules. Fucking horse shit
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u/AirRevolutionary8013 4d ago
That's a common area in an obvious HOA community, and it's the HOAs responsibility not the homeowners.
People will fall for any BS lmfao.
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u/hellllllsssyeah 4d ago
I'm pretty sure this is Vegas, where die to water consumption is an issue and so are unrealistic hoas
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u/rbfeverythingsucks 4d ago
HOA’s suck the fat one, but if you agree to live within one I guess you’re just gonna have to play by their rules. I do sympathize tho for people who have limited options due to HOAs being so prevalent.
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u/Disastrous_Towel3729 4d ago
They sent the Fire Department Chief to my house to tell me they needed him to come and tell me to trim my bush that was by the fire hydrant. He was so embarrassed and apologetic. He said just trim one branch and your good. lol.
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u/BabyRex- 4d ago
Has she update yet or are we just going to keep posting the same video every single day?
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u/West-Wash6081 4d ago
She better hope that tree behind her doesn't die. If it does, she's gonna need a bigger can.
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u/Ok_Inflation4870 4d ago
As a non-american... why do these HOA groups seem to have so much power? If they tried to fine me with such BS ill just tell them to do one.
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u/AnotherPerspective87 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is soo american.
A bunch of people harrassing home-owners so the average home-value doesn't drop. But the mere fact that the house is listed with an HOA decreases the home value in itself. So it attracts the wrong people (who pains shrubs instead of watering/replacing them in time). Who in turn keep these HOA's in business.
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u/Prestigious-Elk2252 4d ago
HOA's are wild.
You pay a monthly HOA bill, and then get some old wrinkly person with no job complaining over the bush in front of your house being brown and charging you 45 more a month for it.
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