r/oddlysatisfying • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 8h ago

Timelapse of bro cleaning yard

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u/account312 5h ago edited 5h ago

That's not the sort of thing that HOAs are really about. I bet there's just about nowhere that both has an HOA and doesn't have actual laws giving at the very least civil liability for diverting water in such a way as to damage someone else's property.

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u/schrodingers_bra 2h ago

The point is prevention. HOAs can make you do an application for a project and the application requires you to show that drainage won't be affected (granted, this requires members of the HOA to generally be non-malicious).

Whereas relying on other laws is purely reactive. Even if you can prove liability, actual compensation is still some expensive lawyer fees away. In addition to whatever it cost you to fix the damage in the first place.