If there’s one thing HOAs love to do, it’s nitpick like it’s their full-time job.

So when one Florida rental owner got hit with a fake weeds notice in her garden, she immediately shut it down with proof.

But when the HOA manager insisted she replant the landscaping, they had no idea they had just set a perfectly petty plan into motion.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one.

WIBTA if I intentionally planted weeds?

My husband and I own a home in an HOA that is rent out.

I’m a distant land lord with the home being in Florida and me being on the west coast, but we pay for a lawn guy to come out and mow the lawn, weed and spray the flower bed as well as trim the hedges.

She takes great care in ensuring her lawn maintenance is up to snuff.

There is another company I pay to fertilize the grass, spray for bugs, and of course treat it for any weed issues in the lawn.

The home is well taken care of.

I receive updates weekly on it to keep in tip top shape for my tenant, and because it is an HOA community.

But still, this wasn’t enough for her HOA.

I received a notice yesterday because the property manager didn’t like the plants that the home builder put in when the home was built 4 years ago, and told me that I needed to remove the weeds.

My lawn guy being out there every Thursday sent me pictures this morning confirming there is no weed issue in the flower beds or the lawn and sent me pictures, pictures I forwarded onto the HOA Property manager.

The HOA backed down, but not without throwing another annoying curveball.

They immediately closed the notice out, but recommended I “replant the plants.”

I asked if I needed approval to do this as I thought I did according to bylaws.

Turns out that I do, so now to replant the flower beds, that they want me to replant, I have to get approval to do so.

I’ve sent in the request for approval with the statement “Request to replant flower bed due to ‘sad plants,’ as requested by HOA property manager”

But she wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

So here is where we might be TA, we haven’t picked out any new plants, but since they are complaining about a weed issue, there are protected plants in Florida that might otherwise be called a weed, and I kinda want to incorporate them into the new flower bed.

So that when they complain I can direct them to the Attorney General due to their protected status.

So reddit, WIBTA?

Nothing brings out petty energy faster than an HOA with too much free time.

What did Reddit think?

This commenter would have lost their patience with this HOA much sooner.

All these weeds really need is some good branding.

This commenter completely supports the pettiness.

These plants need to be protected somehow!

If the HOA wanted a weed problem that badly, then she was prepared to give it to them!

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