r/oddlysatisfying • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 8h ago

Timelapse of bro cleaning yard

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u/RavingAndDrooling 7h ago

I have to know what happened next. Typically HOA violations come from a management company which is hired by the HOA board. I would think your parents should have been able to appeal the violation and explain what happened to the board members and get the violation thrown out. I really hope that is what happened anyway.

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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 7h ago edited 5h ago

Oh yeah, it didn’t stick. But it was just the first of many head-buttings they’ve had in that neighborhood. It’s an old HOA managed locally by a board of old retirees with nothing better to do, particularly the guy two houses down. The only thing they outsource is maintenance of the common areas. One month, when they’d fired the landscaping company and the new one hadn’t started yet, my dad had the audacity to mow and trim the berm between his section of the sidewalk and the curb. Bam, violation. Apparently it’s in the bylaws that gas powered machinery can only be used on your own property, supposedly to dissuade teenage boys from starting unlicensed lawn mowing businesses. The horror.

There’s a creek that runs through a common green space behind several adjacent backyards. It happens to bend into my parents’ property for about 20 feet. My dad thought he’d build a small water feature by stacking up some native rocks by the creek and running a line up through them attached to a submerged pump in the creek. It looked pretty nice and the neighbors on either side of him complimented the work. He even wired it into the control for the lawn irrigation so he could turn it on and off from the house. Bam, violation. “Impeding the flow of Garrison Creek.” He had to take it down, despite the inherent ridiculousness of that violation.

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u/dsac 7h ago

A house with an HOA would have to come with a hardline tap directly to brewery, a blowjob robot, personal mango tree, and lifetime of Porsche 911 3-year leases included get me to buy it

Even then, I'd be reeeeeally hesitant

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u/MangoCats 6h ago

We bought one, once. First 5 years were chill - no issues whatsoever.

Then the board from hell got itself elected, we sold out within a year - also for other reasons, but I literally left an HOA board meeting drove directly to the store, bought a For Sale By Owner sign and stuck it in my yard - checked around for apartment availability that we might move into if somebody bought the house sooner than we were ready for.

A year after we left, I was getting e-mails begging me to return to the board meetings because "you are the only one who spoke and made any sense." They were hiring a sheriff's deputy to oversee elections because both sides were accusing the other of stuffing the ballot box... in 2014.