Nothing brings out entitlement quite like a clipboard and an HOA title.

When a board member tried to flex her authority over a housesitter and a harmless construction trailer, she walked straight into an embarrassing reminder that rules tend to work both ways.

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Crazy homeowner’s association enforcer gets a taste of her own medicine.

I’m housesitting 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?

But soon the housesitter was proved wrong.

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.

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.

Immediately, the woman doesn’t make a good impression.

One of the dogs stops and proceeds to **** on my cousin’s lawn.

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.

This woman’s got a lot on her mind.

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 or suggest a fine if I remove it immediately.

The housesitter reminds her why this isn’t possible, which only makes her more annoyed.

I calmly inform her about the patio construction and how the crew needs to store their tools and materials at night.

She’s absolutely foaming at the mouth about how “tacky” it is to have a trailer in front of the house and, again, how 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.

But the HOA member doesn’t seem to care about these limitations.

Nevertheless, she’s adamant that I do SOMETHING.

By this point, I’m fed up with this woman, who obviously has nothing better to do with her evening than bother her neighbors with this.

Then the housesitter decides to flip the script.

I look at her and casually ask, “Just out of curiosity, what’s the fine for not picking up after your dog if it dumps in someone’s lawn?”

I tell you, the look on her face at that point was classic. She stuttered for a minute before telling me she would “have to look into that.”

Then they reveal the best part, which really got this HOA lady going.

I told her I’d be grateful if she did because my cousin has been suspecting a neighbor of letting their dog dump 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.

Sounds like this woman wasn’t too up to code herself.

What did Reddit think?

HOAs that are too strict end up scaring away potential buyers.

This commenter can’t stand HOAs like this.

Luckily, some HOAs seem to be a bit more lowkey.

This lady needs to be held accountable for her dog’s bad behavior.

One part in particular stuck out to this reader.

Sure, it wasn’t a huge win, but it was perfectly timed and deeply satisfying.

Nothing silences an HOA lecture faster than the perfect crime caught on camera.

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