Even in the heat of summer, rules about private amenities are expected to be respected.

So when two kids and their mother (who didn’t seem to live there) started enjoying the pool, one resident felt compelled to intervene.

Read on for the full story!

AITA for kicking a family out of our condominium pool just because they don’t live here?

I was enjoying my coffee poolside at our condominium on a Sunday morning.

But then they got an unexpected interruption.

A mother and her two kids arrived who were clearly not residents because they drove up with all of their pool stuff in their car and changed into their bathing suits in the bathroom.

A resident would just walk here (the association isn’t that big) and would have changed in their unit.

They can see why the family wanted to use the pool.

It’s been almost 100 degrees for a week.

The kids jumped in the pool and started splashing around, having a great time.

Yeah, they were noisy, but they were just being kids.

But still, they didn’t feel this was right.

I started thinking about what if all the kids from the surrounding apartment buildings (that don’t have pools) started using our pool.

AITA for pointing out the sign that said “RESIDENTS ONLY” and making them leave?

Sure, every kid deserves some summer fun, but boundaries are important too.

What did Reddit think?

Sometimes it’s okay to let management be the bad guys.

A fellow HOA member weighs in.

Apparently many people are dealing with this exact same problem.

Private property is private property.

Letting them stay might have felt kind in the moment, but it could have opened the door to even bigger problems.

This resident didn’t enjoy being the bad guy, but rules are rules for a reason.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.