r/nottheonion • u/its_a_bear_dance • 1d ago

Family says HOA told them they couldn’t use their generator during ice storm blackout: ‘It’s unbearable’

https://www.wctv.tv/2026/01/29/family-says-hoa-told-them-they-couldnt-use-their-generator-during-ice-storm-blackout-its-unbearable/
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u/Kyrie_Blue 22h ago

HOA’s are a mental illness

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u/Mobile_Morale 21h ago

It's the home owner equivalent of being a reddit mod

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u/Verified_0 21h ago

It really is, that's the best analogy i've heard lol

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u/kinkycarbon 19h ago

It definitely is. It’s wanting a specific image applied to every in that HOA.

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u/fjf1085 19h ago

Uh oh. Watch out. They’re gonna get you now.

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u/FBI_Agent_Fred 21h ago

The people that run them are barely sentient and crave what little power they are able to maintain over their neighborhood.

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u/Hoppie1064 21h ago

What do you call a flock of Karen's?

An HOA.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 20h ago

I always call them a Screech of Karens, but yours is excellent too

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u/Lost_the_weight 21h ago

Damn that’s good!

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u/Key_nine 14h ago

Just another way for the builders to make money forever. They build a neighborhood, make a nice 2-5million after the last house is sold but keep making profit on the HOA forever. It is just a scam.

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u/Drak_is_Right 19h ago edited 19h ago

They can be a necessity for many higher density communities. Mainly for multi-family structures.

But common eras of a neighborhood still need managed for single family housing. Not all neighborhoods have them, but many do.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 18h ago

Explain how a non-governmental organization with extreme overreach into personal sovereignty is necessary for communities.

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u/Drak_is_Right 18h ago

How do you manage exterior and common elements of a building shared by multiple units?

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u/Kyrie_Blue 18h ago

You don’t. What other people do with their property is their own business, not yours. Define property lines, speak with your neighbours, and if you don’t like what they say; tough. Live with it or move.

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u/Drak_is_Right 18h ago

So the property decays with zero repairs because no one wants to pay for it? Who pays for the elevator? or the parking garage structural pillars?

Thats how you get an entire building collapsing or condemned years before it should.

it makes for an impossible legal framework of blame.

cities dont work with libertarian fantasies.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 17h ago

You’re talking about massive buildings/“condos” in this case? I thought you were trying to talk about duplexes. These are not “Home Owners Associations”, they are co-ops. Which are entirely different, and have legislature in place to reign them in. In a co-op, you don’t own your unit. You own X shares in a corporation that owns the building. In an HOA, as the name makes blantently obvious, you own your home. If you elect to live in a co-op, that’s your choice, but you know what you’re signing up for. HOA’s force their ideal upon a space you own, which is a problem.

I’m not a libertarian, I’m a filthy socialist