Member Of The HOA Board Knocks On The Door To Complain About A Trailer In Front Of A House, But The House Sitter Had The Perfect Comeback
by Jayne Elliott
HOA boards and HOA presidents are notorious for being annoying about the HOA rules, which can be very frustrating for homeowners.
In today’s story, a house sitter has a confrontation with a member of the HOA board, but the HOA board member’s dog gives the house sitter the perfect way to get the HOA board lady to go away.
It’s hilarious!
Find out the story plays out…
Crazy homeowner’s association enforcer gets a taste of her own medicine.
I’m house sitting at the moment for my cousin.
He and his boyfriend live in a pretty swanky neighborhood full of McMansions.
Nothing too fancy, just your common upper-middle class suburban development.
Anyhow… over the past few weeks they’ve been having a new porch installed on the back of the house.
The crew has a trailer parked out front so they can lock up their tools at night.
No big deal right?
A woman knocked on the door.
Apparently it is.
This evening I get a knock on the door.
I’m always wary of solicitors, so I make it a point to look out the window before answering the door.
After hearing the doorbell it takes me a minute to get to the window.
As I look outside I see a woman walking away with two little dogs.
One of the dogs stops and proceeds to poop on my cousin’s lawn.
She opens the door…
I wait until the dog is done and open the door.
By this time the woman is beginning to walk away but she sees me and turns around.
She introduces herself as a board member of the HOA (homeowners association).
She looks VERY annoyed.
The woman is on the HOA board, so obviously she’s there to complain…
Without taking a breath she launches into a lecture about the trailer parked out front, how she’s “lucky to have walked by and caught this egregious violation of the HOA rules” and how the trailer is an “eyesore on the neighborhood”.
She says she won’t report me to the board and suggest a fine if I remove it immediately.
I calmly inform her about the patio construction and how the crew needs to store their tools and materials at night, but she’s absolutely foaming at the mouth about how “tacky” it is to have a trailer in front of the house and (again) it’s against the rules.
I calmly inform her that I am not the homeowner, nor the owner of the trailer and there isn’t much I can do about it (especially at 6:30 PM on a Friday night).
Nevertheless, she’s adamant that I do SOMETHING.
She had a great comeback for the HOA lady.
By this point I’m fed up with this woman, who obviously has nothing better to do with her evening than bother her neighbors.
I look at her and casually ask “just out of curiosity, what’s the fine for not picking up after your dog if it poops in someone’s lawn?”
I tell ya, the look on her face at that point was classic.
The HOA lady finally left.
She stuttered for a minute before telling me she would “have to look into that…”.
I told her I’d be grateful if she did because my cousin has been suspecting a neighbor of letting their dog poop in his lawn, so he set up a video camera in the window to catch the culprit.
Upon hearing that, she got a little flustered and told me to tell the patio crew to hurry up, then she walked away with a huff.
A small victory to be sure, but quite satisfying nevertheless.
That was a perfect comeback!
The HOA lady should know better than to complain if she’s not following the rules either.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…
These HOA members sound horrible.
Imagine living with someone who’s on the HOA board!
This reader has a security camera too.
The revenge in this story was anything but small!
It sounds like this reader is in a dream HOA situation!
The HOA lady got what she deserved!
This is downright delicious.
If you liked that post, check this one about a guy who got revenge on his condo by making his own Christmas light rules.
Categories: STORIES
Tags: · dog poop, hoa, house sitter, petty revenge, picture, reddit, top, trailer
Sign up to get our BEST stories of the week straight to your inbox.