HOAs have lots of rules.

Sometimes those rules are helpful, like to prevent your neighbors from painting their house a horrible color; however, other times the rules are just plain annoying.

In today’s story, an HOA wants all the neighbors to repaint their front doors.

One homeowner is completely on board with that idea until she looks at the fine print on the letter from the HOA.

Let’s see what the homeowner decides to do to get revenge on the HOA…

Homeowners Association is at it again

I hate our HOA with a passion.

When we moved in here, it was to be with friends and I didn’t think the HOA would do anything- it’s just for show really.

We have a small playground and a few flowers at our neighbourhood sign.

So we’ve kind of always wondered where our fees go, you know?

The HOA had specific instructions about what paint to get.

So in July we got a letter about how the community was renovating and we all needed to go buy paint and repaint our garage and front doors.

Which, actually I had been thinking about doing that anyway because our back door has scratches on it because dog.

But this letter you guys…

Is like ‘step one go to the counter, because we already talked to the store and did price comparison for you and here’s the colours we approved.’

Which is cool, you know, gotta have everyone similar, can’t have somebody with a pink door or something.

She finally looked at the detailed instructions from the HOA.

So we go yesterday to get the paint, take the letter with us.

That’s when my husband reads it properly- there’s only ONE person we can talk to.

Only SHE can approve this massive 10% discount for us.

Then I get a look at this colour.

She hates the door color she’s supposed to buy.

I like my door colour.

It’s red.

Not bright noxious red, a stately dark red.

I love it.

Turns out we can’t have red anymore.

My ‘approved’ colour is purple. Not burgundy, this is purple.

I hate it. I’m mad.

They didn’t need to talk to a specific person to get their discount.

Hubs and I put two and two together- only one person can approve this discount, eh?

You guys did all the work for us and got us this discount, eh?

My petty revenge?

We’re military, we get 10% anyway.

So you won’t be getting any kickbacks for us…

Mwahahahahahahahaaha

But did they still end up buying the purple paint?

I would’ve been tempted to buy red.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…

This reader can’t help but think of the show “The Office”…

The HOA documents might prove that the doors have to be painted a different color.

It might be time to move.

This might be an idea worth trying…

I definitely wouldn’t want to be told to paint my door a color I hate.

Why can’t there be a list of choices?

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