Their HOA Is Gone — But Former Board Members Are Still Pressuring Residents Like It’s Still Active
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HOA authority has limits. Unfortunately one board forgot property lines exist.
They demanded fees and conformity from a homeowner who never joined.
County records told another story.
Check out how it all went down.
AITA for not following HOA rules after HOA is dissolved
This one is a bit of a weird situation.
My family moved into a neighborhood when I was 7 years old. It was an HOA neighborhood at the time.
In 2010 the neighborhood got together and found out that fully 90% of the owners had no interest in having the HOA.
The HOA didn’t do a whole lot.
They only maintained a small strip of land at the front of the neighborhood, had allowed the “community center” (basically a 300 sq/ft pavilion built in the early 90’s) to fall over and become a hazard.
I’m not completely sure about the process the neighborhood went through, but the HOA was dissolved at the end of 2010 and individual volunteers took over maintenance of the two areas.
They later bought a home in the same neighborhood.
Fast forward to 2018.
I was moving back into the area to take care of my mother and found a house for sale in the neighborhood. The price was good, I bought it, nothing mentioned about covenants or regulations or anything.
One of my hobbies is vehicles. I collect, refurbish, and build/modify classic and imported vehicles.
One of the reasons I bought the house was the 4 cars worth of garage space.
Part of the garage was used for storage.
My surviving grandparent passed away the same year and I ended up with one and a half garages worth of family heirlooms and the like stored at my place.
This meant that 3 cars ended up in the driveway.
Driveway is large, at least 4 cars across and about 8-10 long, with most of that space between my house and detached garage.
I have 7 vehicles in the driveway.
This sounds really annoying.
Within a month I started receiving notices from the county that there were complaints about my property.
Nothing actionable by the county, the vehicles are in good repair, running, and registered. I’m just having to deal with the county inspector coming out every month and looking over the vehicles and whatever else people want to nitpick about my property.
The inspector told me straight up that it’s the former HOA members, and that the old covenant said that there could only be one vehicle in the driveway.
AITA for starting harassment proceedings against everyone complaining?
I think starting harassment proceedings sounds like a good idea. The inspector would probably love to stop coming out for no reason too.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
This person is all for the harassment proceedings.
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Another person thinks going to court is the best option.
Here’s another vote for going to court.
The former HOA members need to realize they’re wrong.
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Everyone thinks they have the right idea.
OP proved through county and developer records that the property sat completely outside the HOA’s authority.
Redditors declared OP NTA and suggested ignoring the demands or sending a formal cease-and-desist.
Nothing says community spirit like billing someone who isn’t in your community.
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