An Annoying Neighbor Forced His Way Inside Claiming HOA Authority—So the Husband Picked Him Up and Tossed Him Out
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Imagine living in a neighborhood that doesn’t have an HOA. If a new neighbor tried to convince you that the neighborhood should form an HOA, would you think that’s a good idea, or would you refuse?
In this story, one couple is in this situation, and they do not want to be part of an HOA. Neither do their neighbors.
But the new neighbor who wants to form an HOA sure is persistent!
Keep reading to see all the ways he tries to convince the neighbors to form an HOA and how that works out for him.
Tried to force an HOA creation
This happened to me and my now ex wife while we lived in Virginia.
After we got married we bought in a nice townhouse community.
It was a great place to live and had genuinely nice neighbors.
These new neighbors were determined.
After about a year of us living there some new people moved in and started floating the idea of forming an HOA.
First they tried to hold a “community meeting” maybe 10 people showed up.
Then we got a letter with a form to return gauging our interest in an HOA with no way to say we didn’t want one, about 60% of the responses wrote that we didn’t want one.
Then they went door to door over a 3 day weekend.
They really didn’t need an HOA.
HOA can negotiate a better price for:
Trash – we paid $120/quarter through the city
Snow removal – if necessary, handled by the city, paid through taxes
Lawn care – we all had lawns you could do with a weedwacker in 5 min and our biggest open areas were city parks so the city maintained them.
When will they give it up!
Needless to say they met a good bit of resistance.
But that didn’t stop them.
Anyone, like my wife and I, who weren’t home during the 3 day weekend got a personal visit from one of the organizers.
Here’s how that went for us.
They clearly weren’t in the mood to talk about HOA nonsense.
Wife is home sick. She’s laid out downstairs.on the couch because it’s closer to a bathroom.
I’m upstairs in bed because I had just finished a 12 hour day that started at 4am.
At 6pm there’s pounding on the front door, not a knock, pounding.
Wife gets up, answers the door and the HOA stooge is standing there.
Meet the cast for the rest of the story…
Current players;
Wife – 5’4″, 120 lbs, same color as the old Mr Green stickers (look it up)
Dog – Rottweiler 90 lbs, very overprotective
HOA Stooge – 5’10 or 11″, about 180 lbs
Me – 6’4″, 250 lbs (I was fit once)
Talk about barging your way in!
Stooge asks, then demands to come into our house. He’s “on the HOA board” (one that didn’t exist) and has “rights”. Tries to push past sick wife.
Enter the dog from seemingly nowhere. Barking starts, wife is straining to hold him back.
I come barreling down the stairs in just a pair of shorts, bloodshot eyes and attitude. I put wife and dog on the couch, she’s now bear hugging him.
Stooge takes that moment to step in my house.
OP took charge.
I turn and tell him to leave.
He tells me he has the “board member rights” to be there.
Grabbing him by the chest I carry him outside the house to the street where the entire neighborhood gets to hear me yell at him for forcing his way into my home.
I bet this was quite a sight!
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I let go and he runs home.
Shocked neighbors are outside staring.
I apologize to everyone and go back inside.
Here’s how it all worked out.
The aftermath
Wife gets chicken and stars soup, her favorite sick comfort food. Dog gets lots of love and a hot dog, he earned it. I get a hot dog and collapse on the couch too.
HOA Stooge moves 6 months later, all efforts to form an HOA fail.
I will never understand why someone would move into a neighborhood that doesn’t have an HOA and try to convince the homeowners that they need an HOA. They probably moved there specifically to avoid HOAs!
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
I’m sure this is the case.
It was a missed opportunity.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a person who is thinking of alerting the city to their neighbor’s campers being lived-in while parked on the street.
This person thinks HOAs are like a cult.
This person loves how OP handled the situation.
If someone wants to live in an HOA, they should move to an HOA not try to start one where the homeowners are happily living their lives without having annoying neighbors dictate what color they can paint their house.
He handled that well!
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