Georgia lawmakers to rein in aggressive HOAs after hearing homeowner horror stories

[@mrsmucha]

HOAs should never be allowed to foreclose a home.

[@sharondalynnewton7562]

I agree! That’s taking it too far!

[@705michaelwilliams]

Good way to get your life foreclosed on.

[@bsgvlog5640]

It’s a last resort but it’s an enforcement measure when everything else has failed. Have you heard the saying you can’t get blood from a stone ? Well you can at least get equity from someone’s house. People don’t get to ignore their financial obligations to the HOA or their responsibility to keep up their property, if they do they get tossed out. They can go do poor people 💩 somewhere else.

[@msomething3579]

@@bsgvlog5640 I tell people it is important to read a contract or have an attorney read a contract before signing. Most people NEVER bother reading that HOA contract.

[@briantii]

There are reasons to allow foreclosures, but they are very rare and more to incentivize doing the right thing. The examples here are insane. The issues are that some boards are not resident focused combined with the fact that most property management companies are awful.

[@EshaanR]

Best law is fully banning HOA

[@mssha1980]

I don’t agree but more regulation needs to be put in place

[@cadenceglass8809]

Honestly yes. Sorry it's officially out of control.

[@JDmix123]

HOAs have there uses but when they get out of control they can be harmful

[@data_abort]

I want to be in one. What right have you, the government, Donzella or Mr Brass to tell me and my neighbors how to organize ourselves?

[@DJRenee]

I disagree. You want anonymity, live in the country and they have rules as well

[@cadenceglass8809]

This has to be illegal. WTF. The fact that this hasn't been outlawed already is insane. This is just theft.

[@sidneybristow815]

It happens in CA a lot. Big surprise. They have more power than government. How’d these laws get passed? With no oversight? That’s BS! Who’d have the heart to do this to families. Living through the Biden administration is bad enough.

[@msomething3579]

When people purchase a home they almost NEVER bother to read that HOA contract, it's just another piece a paper at the closing. Problem is, they don't care at the time and if people would actually READ the HOA contract first, they would never make an offer.

[@BellaandBubbies]

Because in reality this is what America is! they value money above All Else! There is no limit to the evil deeds you can do in the pursuit of money in this country as a business or especially as a large corporation!

[@tenacious1]

​@@msomething3579But I think it works both ways too. I think that they intentionally make contracts long excessively wordy maybe even attentionally confusing. All in attempts to slide one in on you lol smh. But I do agree it is best to read through a contract or if you can't have a lawyer do it.

[@StatiCraft3712]

No it makes sense

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

My sister is a realtor and she's told me that over the last five years the 'no HOA' rule has become quite common among buyers. An HOA is often the deciding factor between two comparable homes. Recently a small subdivision in our county dissolved their HOA because it's very existence was driving down their home prices. The entire point of an HOA is to preserve home prices, so the owners decided there was no point in the organization. People are wising up. This is the only way to end this nonsense.

[@lordraven2264]

That was the number 1 rule we gave our realtor, along with the second rule of see the first! My brother bought his house 6 mo later, in an HOA. I've spend the last 20 yrs listening to him complain, but now he's the HOA President and spends most of his off time dealing with it. And his HOA isn't that bad, some of these are run by people that think their Chairman Mao.

[@smokingjoe9864]

​@@lordraven2264It was a legal way to still maintain covenants on a deed.

[@PI4YOU]

@@lordraven2264 You are 100% correct, People that think for themselves but why? Sadly, the answer is apathy which I'm sure your brother can verify. The people who end up "volunteering" for the job connect with a "property manager" and homeowners become victims. I see it as the same thing with our Countries "deep state". Cheers and good luck with the HOA there is always an option of mounting a movement to secure proxies where Homeowners vote as a block and retake their control. I even had a City Manager attend an annual vote to prevent democrat type activities.

[@darrennew8211]

The entire point of a HOA is not to maintain house prices. It's to own the shared property. If your community has a pool, who pays to repair it when it breaks? The HOA. The builder will often put in rules to maintain the house prices while the builder is still building subsequent phases, but you can vote those out if you want.

[@Tugela60]

@@darrennew8211 That is entirely correct.

[@dodobono452]

A HOA shouldn’t be able to steal your house you paid for.

[@presidentcamacho]

What if they used Manifest Destiny? Like how the Native Americans were treated on their land.

[@donarthiazi2443]

@@presidentcamacho Meh... back then the government only did what the Natives had already been doing to each other for centuries... the government was just far better at doing it than the Natives. Quit whining and get over it.🙄 And try using _"eminent domain"_ instead _"manifest destiny"._ That'll help you move into the 21st century.

[@peachesandpoets]

​@@donarthiazi2443 sounds about MAGA

[@rebeccaspratling2865]

​@@presidentcamachogreat question.

[@robertsmalls3513]

@@peachesandpoetsI’m sorry if you can’t handle truth

[@oldporkchops]

The problem is not excessive HOA policing. The root of the problem is the existence of HOAs themselves.

[@mina_loi]

who needs the mafia when we have HOA

[@KingSteven26]

@@mina_loi I LOOOVE HOAs! As a European its kinda the craziest thing i have ever heared of and all these storys are pretty entertaining... But dont get me wrong: Of corse I would never live in an HOA, it sounds like a neighborhood full of evil Mother in Laws 😁😆

[@Spearca]

An HOA is basically a government: it can be good if it's well designed and staffed by decent people.

[@oldporkchops]

@@Spearca There's no need for any governing of the minute details of a person's personal abode. A home is where a person should feel peaceful and not be a slave to rules regarding the physical residence set by others as far as possible. Governing body or lack thereof, the fact that non HOA houses fetch a higher average selling price is reason enough to do away with HOAs. Even if we assume a HOA is "well run", a person's home will still be subject to the rules and whims of that "governing body". Thanks, but no thanks.

[@Spearca]

@@oldporkchops Have you ever had a complaint about something a neighbor was doing? That's where HOAs mostly come from, the desire of homeowners to protect the comfort and value of their homes. To be clear, I think most of them do a bad job of it, and they do tend to attract or encourage petty tyrants. But they were established by the homeowners, for what seemed like good reasons at the time. In a few cases they are used more creatively and positively. Some "intentional communities" are structured as HOAs.

[@snakeshadows6993]

HOAs should be abolished. They really aren't necessary for a community to thrive.

[@Bare_Essence]

There has to be a middle ground. Having no rules has rarely gone well for everyone. I agree that these law firm back HOAs need to be abolished! They are only milking the system. I imagine the $3.25 home sale went to one of the lawyers.

[@lostin.psychosis7080]

@@Bare_Essence there are state and county laws why do you feel the need to have extra rules

[@soufwesthoustontx]

@Bare_Essence There are neighborhoods with no HOA's. HOA's are not necessary. They only harass people on ridiculous violations that don't make a difference in the community. Like not being allowed to have bins on the side of the house, or having a potted plant in front of the garage etc. There are already local laws in place that can keep communities in check. The city already will ticket overgrown yards etc.

[@Moonchilling]

@@lostin.psychosis7080haven’t you driven in a non HOA neighborhood and see the house that’s falling apart, hasn’t been painted, weeds up the wazoo and 50 cars with no tires parked in the front? That’s why HOA can Be a good thing when it’s not abusive.

[@Bare_Essence]

@@soufwesthoustontx Agreed that good neighborhoods exist without HOA. Good ones exist with HOA. Without known rules, some people can do terrible things to neighborhoods. And local/state/county laws do not cover most common complaints.

[@TaintedMojo]

Not once in my entire life have I ever heard a single good thing about HOAs

[@swampmagiclouisiana1490]

They can’t remove squatters from your home ; but they can do this??!! Some of our laws need rewriting. HOA needs to be removed permanently. Who gets all these people’s money? “ besides attorneys “Who exactly is responsible for the HOA?

[@darkstorminc]

Those voted onto the board or a property management company.

[@lucycan6363]

I can bet the majority of the "fees" go to paying salaries for the HOA board. I'm sure they don't do all that for free. Homeowners need to know what those salaries are!

[@br6480]

@@lucycan6363I’ve been on the HOA and no we don’t get paid for doing it.

[@lucycan6363]

@@br6480 You mean to say you all torture homeowners for free? How generous of you! Smh

[@br6480]

@@lucycan6363 Actually ours is extremely tame compared to the rest of these HOAs that I see on KZbin. No one gets cited for stupid stuff like inappropriate flowers,more than one car, weeds in grass or not appropriate length. It has to be really bad for someone to get cited.

[@oldsman496]

I was forced to recently sell my mom's condo due to her health. In the process I found out the condo assoc. has not been audited since 1981. she was paying $380.00 a mo. on a 90k property. HOA's are an excuse for embezzlement, because its regulations are not enforced

[@quanyin1556]

Never buy a home with a HOA

[@wtfman5313]

Absolutely Correct!

[@Cinderella23Queen]

I agree

[@frankcb11]

Yeah nah

[@mikepalmer1971]

It’s crazy around me all the neighborhoods being built and it so a ton of them are all going to be HOAs. It’s freaking insane. I hate what our nation has become. There was a time when people loved freedom. Now people just love authoritarianism it seems. I don’t get it.

[@josephkostinko739]

Not always possible.

[@raw_oyster]

Why does HOA even exist!???? Sounds like a criminal entity.

[@steelyspielbergo]

Who is going to pay for the amenities owned by the community, or the services provided?

[@kinglyone7172]

They are community organizations not businesses. One is usually formed to conduct business on behalf of the community.

[@steelyspielbergo]

@@shawnstephens1251 good for you

[@darrennew8211]

@@shawnstephens1251 Then don't buy a house in an HOA. That's like saying "Not interested in a garage" and then complaining the house you bought has a garage.

[@skylordjojo8454]

HOA were originally created to keep the market price of the house up and keep certain people out coincidentally, this is after the jim crow laws were thrown out. I'll let you do the math.

[@SirUncleDolan]

Here's a way to stop Hoa foreclosures: "It is no longer legal for a home to be foreclosed on due only to HOA fees or violations." THERE, THAT FIXES IT

[@mskay7817]

Right! Why tf do they need a “study committee”? Sounds like an excuse to allow hoas to keep operating as usual and that they are on the take.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

​@@mskay7817 🎯💯 bingo! I'd bet a large amount of money that either an HOA lobby or a lobby representing the attorneys that represent HOA's is donating a lot to Mr Brass. He'll end up killing any bill they come up with wait & see, this isn't that hard a problem to solve

[@darkshadowsx5949]

or just ban HOA on a national scale. i've heard of HOA's forcing people to replace garage doors because of a tiny dent. and other trespassing on non HOA property trying to enforce HOA rules. they're absolute parasites. its just someone bullying a neighborhood for money like a mafia would do.

[@pat34lee]

The HOAs should not be able to levy and collect fines. If people agree to dues, that should be the only money they can collect.

[@TrigTrig]

Or ban HOAs and stop these assholes from stealing money and homes from people.

[@td6647]

There's not enough middle fingers on this planet to describe how I feel about HOAs!😮

[@HeyCoachBarbara]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@victoriawilliams4266]

Understood!!! Same!!

[@SamSung-ww3rp]

I have never heard a single good thing about an HOA

[@sageallure]

Lawn care was part of my HOA dues, so I never had to cut the grass. Which was one less chore/expense.

[@livedreamsg]

​@@sageallure You were paying for it either way. Most likely at a massively inflated price.

[@Shadow__133]

@@sageallure Lol, who do you think paid for that?

[@sageallure]

@@livedreamsg When you dine at a restaurant, aren't you paying more, compared to eating at home? That price isn't just for the food. It's also for the convenience of having someone else cook and serve your meal. A dish that takes 20 minutes to make in a restaurant could take hours to prepare at home, so you're also saving time. As for my HOA dues, they were $31 a month and included lawn care and trash collection. It was a great deal for having a HOA.

[@sageallure]

@@Shadow__133 Do you think I was oblivious to what my dues were being used for?

[@ro63rto]

So, let me get this right...... In America, if you steal a car its a Felony and you get a year or more in jail BUT if you steal someones home you get NOTHING ???? How the hell is that even possible ?

[@MrKnaives]

It's possible because the homeowner signed a contract to buy a house in an HOA neighborhood. People buy home with HOA because they think it's safer, but then they take advantage of.

[@leslielucci3182]

@@MrKnaivesit’s not really safer you can get locked in just as easily as others get locked out. Nothing to protect you from thieves or slobs that live within the complex.

[@bobbun9630]

@@MrKnaives "People buy home with HOA because they think it's safer" I'm skeptical of that. Where I live (not in Georgia) the city won't approve a new subdivision unless the developer creates an HOA, and the HOAs inevitably have almost impossible hurtles to disband, like getting 3/4 of the members to actually show up to a meeting and vote for disbanding the HOA. Good luck making that happen with any number of absentee owners renting out property in the neighborhood. If you want to live in town and in housing that isn't more than thirty years old, you're pretty much going to have to accept an HOA.

[@John-dv7hu]

My #1 requirement when buying a home was NO HOA. My neighborhood is great and there is no stupid hoa telling me what I can do with my house.

[@Seabreeezy]

Same here! Bought in early 2021, and under no circumstances were we going to buy in an HOA. Too many horror stories of harassment and unreasonable fees. This story is even worse than examples I already knew of. I also live in a quiet and nice little neighborhood.

[@mrs.truthseekertruthseeker5973]

Right! I’m confused why people still move in one

[@ItsMyLifeDaralynn]

@John , I second emotion this . I reside in a lovely neighborhood and it made buying so much more attractive with the fact I TOO AM NOT in a HOA. Yay me !!

[@MyAmplifiedLifeYT]

Wouldn't live in an HOA neighborhood if you paid me.

[@LadyAtheOnly]

💯🎯💯🎯

[@DJRenee]

We don't want you here.

[@SkullKid467]

Well your presence wouldn’t increase anyone’s home value so no one will pay you to live near them. Within the past 3 years my HOA pays my water bill, bi-weekly landscaping, painted my front windows, painted my shutters, painted my front door, replaced my roof, fixed my front sidewalk, replaced my front steps railing, repaired water line breaks, resurfaced the entire cement deck around the pool, regular pool maintenance, new pool furniture, and got me a group discount on replacing my windows. What’s even crazier is that my HOA is in this video and my home is in the thumbnail. Guess the news didn’t do any research before posting this video.

[@joannesmith2484]

@@SkullKid467 Then you probably live in a 55+, condo, or townhouse community, and/or pay a whopping HOA fee. In my area, the only places with HOA's are condo's, townhouses, trailer parks, and 55+ communities. Monthly HOA fees range from affordable to insane. Oddly enough, the vast majority of neighborhoods don't have HOA's and are just fine, as long as you don't mind individuality over the cookie-cutter monotony of overly-controlled communities. Sure, there's the one-in-a-hundred house with junk cars in the yard or weedy flowerbeds, but it's well worth the chance of one bad neighbor over a committee of small town gestapos telling me my lawn isn't mowed to the correct height or my trash cans are two feet too far to the left.

[@SkullKid467]

@@joannesmith2484 this is a townhouse community. It’s not 55+. Our HOA is $350 and that also includes our water utility which is paid by the HOA. I only comment on it because MY HOA is the HOA this news video is talking about. For single family homes with their own yards and no shared amenities there is no need for an HOA. The particular person in this video however owes years worth of HOA dues that are responsible for paying shared amenities and her water utility. All paid for by her neighbors. Unless she bathes is a tub of tears.

[@marlin3043]

The attorneys in those law offices should be in prison for gouging the public out of millions of dollars

[@yonnes42]

Nah more like the people of the HOA and overreach of power and entitlement

[@auaiao9]

Typical attorneys.

[@bostonteaparty3926]

AGreed!

[@Averagetim]

Good ol billable hours. Sounds like the state should go after the lawyers AND the HOA

[@jeremybutler2578]

This is why I will never rent or buy in an HOA area.

[@ianbattles7290]

If somebody else can dictate what you do with your property, *it's not actually your property.*

[@andrewmo49]

Exactly but this is how government works whether at the local or federal level. HOA dues and fines to property taxes and permit fees. Even if you own the property outright, someone with a power complex is going to take it from you a piece at a time.

[@TheVsingh2]

@@andrewmo49 Property taxes and permit fees are for well defined purposes of safety, education and keeping up infrastructure. Fines for weeds in the lawn or grass too high does not qualify in the same category. It is arbitrary, capricious burden on property owner, specially with the threat of foreclosure.

[@bubbleman2002]

@@TheVsingh2 "N-No! I own my house!!! I'm not renting it!!! It's t-tax, not rent!!!" big cope

[@ThePhoenixcompanies]

Do you really want people to be able to do whatever they want with property? If I live next door to you and let my property go, lawn, paint, roof, etc, it affects the value of your property.

[@lgDukeCity5018]

It isn't your property. Try not paying your property tax. We own nothing in America.

[@curiousgeorge1940]

Had (past tense) an uncle who moved into an HOA area in Florida. After about a year, he got a notice from the HOA telling him his car could not be parked in his driveway or on the street (outside of his garage) because it was too old ! The car was a low-mileage vehicle, in excellent condition, but because some snoop from the board discovered it was more than 10 years old, it was "unsuitable for public display in his neighborhood". That week he bought the rustiest & cheapest wreck he could find at the junkyard and parked it, without license plates, in front of the HOA President's house. ~ took a few pictures and made enough copies to plaster all over the area. Sold that place within a month and made sure the local news got the whole story for their Sunday real estate section.

[@kiliipower355]

The man had “balls”, you have to come up with that idea first.😅

[@dianemasterson2132]

I've been tempted to park an old vehicle out front. Someone ran into my garage door with their car, causing it to bow. I had to repair it with braces. A new garage door costs $1,500.

[@jojow5425]

Ban HOAs completely

[@judyowen2360]

They don’t need a study - simple rule - prohibit them from excessive fees and foreclosures - pass a law . This is outrageous !

[@SurferBobbyLew]

not enough they will find loopholes. ERASE their iron grip monopoly by passing law you can opt out at any point and time without fine or penalties from this date forward!

[@tessamoland797]

This is why I will NEVER buy a home that is with an HOA.

[@jennierobinson5655]

Absolutely! An HOA is a dealbreaker for me. I will not even consider the house for a second if there's an HOA.

[@SweetEssie]

It's not always that simple. Where I live, homes with HOAs are vastly cheaper, about $200k cheaper. Nobody wants to buy into an HOA but sometimes it's a way to home ownership you wouldn't otherwise get renting

[@tessamoland797]

@@SweetEssie I'm glad I'm moving back to SC. Out in the country where there are no HOAs and there are plenty of No Trespassing signs that will be ENFORCED

[@ls6097]

THIS is the correct answer. But so many so-called "americans" are mental-children, they'll sign anything and wreck society for everyone else.

[@PanameraTurboSEHybrid]

​@SweetEssie That's the price you pay to not deal with HOA and I don't mind that. No HOA for me. I was devastated when I found this amazing perfect 4/3 house (as I was downsizing from a 7/5) and it was under HOA. Almost pulled the trigger. But eventually found another 4/3.

[@kayakuprising5914]

Who even gave them the power to foreclose? This should have never even been an option for them.

[@Spearca]

All HOA powers come from the property owners. You can never be subject to an HOA rule that you didn't sign onto, one way or another.

[@lazaruslazuli6130]

The original covenants are drawn up by the subdivision developer. Each homebuyer MUST sign the HOA agreement, or they can't buy the house.

[@EavyMuturuh]

Exactly

[@mbalamgabo8515]

Is this America the home of freedom and justice? This doesn't happen in third world shole countries...

[@hellojams]

This is what happens when karens get in power

[@sumame47]

Ban HOA's. I heard about how an HOA chopped down multiple healthy 40 year old trees and are set to cut down 70 more trees. They told homeowners that there was going to be tree "maintenance". Three out of five board members voted to chop down the trees. The homeowners are feeling the negative effects of the trees being gone (no shade, wildlife being gone, etc) and they are working to have the three board members fired.

[@LA2047]

So why not elect different HOA board members?

[@dungeonsanddragonsanddrive2902]

@@LA2047why not just abolish the whole damn thing.

[@LA2047]

@@dungeonsanddragonsanddrive2902 Because for generations we here in the US have been force fed a steady diet of "your OWN wants are the only thing that's important" and as a result too many of us have decided our motto is if it doesn't bother me, it shouldn't bother you. Since people can't seem to consider others in the way they present their property to those who have to look at it all the time, HOAs became necessary in this country.

[@LisaApril]

I will never purchase at home with an HOA. Never.

[@cyyrious]

My HOA tried this with me Westfield Terra Katy TX I fought them and won their lawyer fees came out to 3k over $50. They waited so long to try and come for me and thought I didn’t keep my records. When I proved all the payments… I never heard from the shady attorney again.

[@jlam3927]

@smartaz4u For one, if you sue and HOA, you are suing yourself. In some states if you lose you have to pay the HOAs attorney fees. It's best to settle these problems immediately. if it's $50, PAY it, THEN fight it.

[@donbeam4072]

Someone needs to stop those crooks

[@jamesstpatrick8493]

Don't live in those areas

[@youdidntbuildthat47]

I agree we need to stop the amoral Democrat party.

[@WesNorton-xd1ln]

@@jamesstpatrick8493it’s hard to avoid.

[@definitelyMad]

​@@youdidntbuildthat47 first you gotta stop your party for knocking up lil kids

[@youdidntbuildthat47]

@@definitelyMad 👈😂 my party is pushing drag 👸 story hour, porn in school libraries, and puberty blockers. That’s your party, derp. You swung and missed. Want to try again?

[@barbaranavarro4729]

There needs to be a nationwide class action lawsuit by every homeowner past and current to abolish HOAs out of existence!

[@LA2047]

Yeah! Make living like a pig a freedom issue!

[@kellidinit3725]

I cannot understand buying a home. Making the mortgage payment, then making another hefty payment for the pleasure of having someone tell me what I can and cannot do on the property I’m paying the mortgage for.

[@deescott8312]

Exactly

[@cadenceglass8809]

Seriously what is even the point! It's basically an apartment property manager on steroids. And people just let it happen.

[@kellidinit3725]

@@cadenceglass8809 I will never get it.

[@lucycan6363]

​@@cadenceglass8809 Foolish paranoid people encouraged HOAs in subdivisions. Worried about property values and who their neighbors can be. It has now become a nightmare for some. Paying those fees is yet another mortgage that some can't afford leading g to loss of property.

[@thomasgirty6397]

and then lose it because you used the wrong paint or left your trash cans out.

[@charcushman9507]

Outlaw HOA'S

[@LuxRoyale]

Outright ban is too far; basic, nonintrusive HOAs are useful for maintaining the parks, lakes, entrances of neighborhoods. Definitely needs to more regulated, not able to foreclose homes, and there needs to be inexpensive recourse for homeowner-HOA disputes. My HOA is very nonintrusive and has vastly improved our neighborhood and property values, so they're definitely not all evil but I know way too many are.

[@jenf1387]

HOAs should not be outlawed. If they didn't exist the karens would be unleashed into the regular neighborhoods looking out the window ready to call the city when you're a day late taking in your trash barrels or for any other reason. HOAs keep them all in one neighborhood it's best for everyone.

[@Ciesiam]

@@jenf1387-It’s unamerican.

[@dancheng7059]

@@jenf1387right…. as if Karen’s are worse to deal with then them foreclosing on your home lmao

[@jidowu6019]

no

[@janaejones8709]

This is so wicked! Especially that first woman who paid everything on time. The nerve of the HOA to wait 2-3 months to cash checks. These wicked people knew what they were doing.

[@tomjoad1363]

How does american banking system work ? For our HOA's (or equivalent since I'm in France) I Every 3 month I log into my bank account on my computer, and transfer the amount requested to their account which they provided me the number of, and in a matter of second they have the money onto their bank account. Takes me less than a minute total.

[@Thezors]

@@tomjoad1363Unfortunately, some places still only take check or money order as a form of payment. So antiquated.

[@Weneedaplague]

@@tomjoad1363check and money order to commit fraud. They'll put these in their personal accounts and spend it on expensive dinners and clothes. Don't ask me how I know

[@luvnotvideos]

FINALLY! Someone is taking action against these predatory, ego-driven, megalomaniac managed neighborhood robbers!

[@Boutys_mom]

Sounds like those lawyers were part of the issue. Name names please!

[@bsgvlog5640]

That’s normal, by the time the lawyers have to step in things have gone on for too long. There’s no such thing as cheap lawyers and someone has to absorb those costs. HOA’s don’t have a special pool of money where they can just throw it at lawyers. SOMEONE has to bare those expenses. It’s usually going to be the at fault party.

[@DagNeb_It]

I literally have it in my homeowners contract that my house is NEVER allowed to join an HOA. You need an attorney to get it done, but yeah do it!

[@DJRenee]

Not true

[@strawberrypatch]

GA law would disagree with that

[@EmperorOfMan]

Your lawyer robbed you lol. No one can force you to join an HOA if you didn't buy into it originally.

[@pastorXal]

Homeowners contract with who? The financing bank who holds the title? Or, a HOA?

[@jlam3927]

Not how that works. No one can be forced to "join an HOA". These communities must be planned from the start. Nice try with your weird story though.

[@elliebellie7816]

I lived in an HOA in central Georgia once...for about six months. Then I realized I liked to mow my lawn on my own time schedule, I didn't care if the window curtains facing the street were white or pink. I occasionally I liked to keep the kiddy pool in the driveway overnight or park my boat in front of my house the night before a big fishing trip, and I like to paint the outside of my house whatever color I like. Not what someone else tells me what color it can be. Never ever buy a house with an HOA.

[@smokingjoe9864]

H.O.A.s are designed to keep people like you out. You have to be HighBrow. They expect you to dock your boat in a slip. The only vehicles allowed on the streets are sedans. Uniformity. Good for America. We wouldn't have all of this jive if everyone was uniform.

[@darrennew8211]

Or, alternately, buy a house where you agree with the HOA rules.

[@MrWolfSnack]

It's funny all of that occurred to you AFTER living there and knowing what you were buying.

[@smokingjoe9864]

You are the reason people buy into HOAs. Your yard looks lived in! Kiddie pools out!!! tsk tsk tsk. HOAs are to keep discipline in the neighborhood. Compare a HOA neighborhood to a free for all neighborhood. Yes you are tired. Yet you should have enough discipline to put the pool away. You are teaching blame. When you should be teaching self discipline.

[@smokingjoe9864]

Teach some self discipline instead of blame. Keep your yard in uniform and squared away. Compare non hoa neighborhoods. That is why you bought the house. The neighborhood is clean and in uniform.

[@jimmay1988]

We just moved to a new home with NO HOA! It's like screaming we are debt-free!

[@jaygold4467]

Study??? You don't need a "study". You need ACTION.

[@jilbertb]

The people doing the study need enough time for the HOA bribes to come in...

[@garretmorris6237]

This is true for many things in the US. Lobbying is very similar.

[@consciousobserver629]

This is stalling on the lawmakers part. They aren't going to do ANYTHING, but they want the appearance of working.

[@frotobaggins7169]

The study is to spur the lobby firms to kick money to the politicians or face a "new law".

[@jaygold4467]

@@consciousobserver629 Exactly. Window dressing. Appearances.

[@reh3884]

I never understood why people buy a house in an HOA. I told my realtor to NEVER show me a house in one.

[@brittanyfehlings6838]

In my area it's almost impossible to find a house that ISNT in an HOA, you have to go far out from town, which doesnt work for everyone

[@sageallure]

You must have been looking at older homes because most neighborhoods built after 2000, have HOA's.

[@vetgirl71]

@@sageallurethat’s not true! It depends on what state the house was built in. We have plenty of neighborhoods in Long Island, New York and upstate New York with newly built homes & no HOAs! Buyers do your homework while searching for homes !

[@dawsie]

I moved out of the city years ago because they started to pop up here in Australia, it was just as well my parents needed help as it gave me the best reason to leave the city for good. I lived in one place with HOA and it was a ruddy pain in the butt, I’m disabled there are things I simply cannot do, but they demanded that we swept our driveways everyday every time autumn came around, I love the autumn season I love seeing the leaves as they blanket the world ready for winter. We were not allowed to use leaf blowers to clear the leaves, they stated that they must be swept up and binned and not placed in a composting pile. I was NOT going to waste what Mother Nature gave to me, and what I do in my own yard was non of their dam business. My parents ended up selling the house because like me they hated dealing with them, they ended up selling at a loss just to get rid of the problem HOA had one job make sure the security gates worked at all times, that was a joke. They bought the house to rent out, the realestate kept putting in tenets that damaged the place, so after the last tenet was evicted and they had to fix up over $10,000 AUS in damages I moved in but we dumped the estate agent and I paid directly into the house account every fortnight it was working great until a new board of dictators came into control of the HOA up until then nobody had any issues with them, they kept the gates in working order and that was it. The new dictators took over and everything got very messy very quickly. My Parents were the 5th house to be sold within 6 months of the new HOA dictators, that’s how bad it got. So nope you could not pay me enough to live in any HOA area. I loved living there it use to be so nice and quiet.

[@brandonpeterman9964]

New neighborhoods actually have rules built into the agreement by the builder that literally forbids ever disbanding the HOA

[@LChiuy]

HoA is insane. Penalize for everything. One time the garden hose wasn't wrap correctly and fined us for $200. And another was because a vehicle was parked right outside our home for more than 72 hours for a fine of $500 and guess what's the best part? Wasn't even our car!

[@not_bout_it]

Why did you buy in an HOA neighborhood? I've only ever heard bad things about HOAs. Are there any good things that come with an HOA?

[@von4297]

Most neighborhoods with community amenities like pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc, are managed by HOA. The HOA dues typically go toward maintaining those communal areas. They also have a committee that sets rules on how the houses in that community are to be maintained. Used to be the committee members were residents from the neighborhood. I think the idea is that everyone pitches in to help keep the neighborhood clean, safe, and ensure that property values are protected. So they can be good things if the committee is reasonable. But they can go on power trips and be so entitled that they get out of control. I used to own a home in an HOA subdivision. Nice place to live. But I once got a violation notice that my trash cans were visible from the street. The bylaws also state that the lawns need to be maintained, and the there was an empty lot next to me. So I told them I’ll move my trash cans into the garage if they deal with the empty lot next to me with overgrown grass and weeds encroaching into mine. I had already spent a lot of time and money rehabbing my lawn, but that empty lot made it a battle I could never stop fighting. To their credit, they did. My dad had a less forgiving experience. HOA came in and told him he was in violation of the bylaws because his window shutters were the wrong color. Crazy thing is, he never painted them. They were that color for over 20 years. He argued with them over it, and ultimately won since they were that color before the bylaws were updated. Then later their HOA was dissolved. I think too many folks were having problems with them, and filing complaints. So, under the right management, an HOA can benefit the community. But they clearly have too much power if they can foreclose on your home! That shouldn’t be possible! Sounds like these issues are from HOA’s being managed by outside entities where their bottom line is all that matters. I would think most internally managed HOAs would have more empathy for their neighbors.

[@thomaskn1012]

@@von4297Well stated! HOAs can be unbearable under management by certain personnel. We have an HOA under “Trish” who was picky about the absolute minute detail and it felt like the home we were living in wasn’t ours, like we’re renting it. When Trish moved on, there was a lot of neighborhood cheering and rejoicing, like the end of a HOA fuhrer.

[@saithihazawnyunt]

Welcome to Free America 😂

[@cmariah80]

Omg they tried that with me and I went off . The car wasn’t even our guest . Sick .

[@seanmckeownyoung]

Having lived in an HOA, I will never live in an HOA again. It was horrendous.

[@kylasaundersmiller2286]

My sons have lived in HOA’s. Both sold the homes they loved to escape the tyranny.

[@palmtreeshenanigans]

The HOA was started to help keep the property values up, now they are seen as a problem when purchasing homes, so just having an hoa lowers property values. An HOA can be a good thing, but when you get power hungry people running them , people that will break into your garden or house to find something to charge you with, then it is not fit for purpose.

[@kingshomes8546]

Lawmakers please help - HOA is more than the mafia

[@kerrystoltz3146]

the mafia is more cilvil than these HOA thugs

[@tw8464]

"HOA" is the "trickle down" mafia. Everything that's dead wrong with the country.

[@SkullKid467]

I bet the HOA is definitely worse than the mafia. The HOA will break your legs if you don’t pay on time for sure. They’ll definitely threaten your family too.

[@Shadow__133]

They are much worse. At least the mafia had some scruples and reason to exist.

[@chieutran6855]

@@Shadow__133 Communist HOA,

[@user-mu3xk7ie2t]

Down right criminal hoa and the state for allowing this.

[@presidentcamacho]

Exactly. Ask a Native American how the gov't did them wrong.

[@Keepskatin]

White Greed, deal with it ninjas!🤲🏼💵😲

[@ryelor123]

Politicians of both parties want the the 'racist senior' vote and the only way they can ensure they get it is if they allow the 1 remaining legal form of racial segregation: HOAs.

[@antcantcook960]

$350 a month, an extra $120K of worthless fees over a 30 year mortgage.

[@FKCENSORSHIP]

When looking for a house my very first question is "is there HOA?" If the answer is yes I don't even want to know anything else about it and move on.

[@UnstoppableYaris]

The worst thing about HOA's is that if you do take them on, your neighbors will not have your back.

[@EavyMuturuh]

Only if they’re going through it too then they’ll help fight on your behalf.

[@aprillester-proctor1006]

My home is mortgage free and my HOA fees were paid however the president decided, by herself, that a special assessment for each property owner was necessary. The bill was sent to the wrong email and because I did not associate with residents I didn’t receive any information. I was served with foreclosure notice. The attorneys fee and other fees cost me $19,000. The best part is that our bylaws clearly state that the HOA cannot foreclose because of ANY missed fee but the judge literally refused to read the governing documents.

[@Crk2784]

Appeal.

[@patrickday4206]

Counter sue them for breach of contract

[@howardtreesong4860]

HOA fees: pay someone so they can better sue you.

[@LynnMcbeth-hp4tb]

When my husband and I purchased a home he demanded a pool, I demanded no HOA! We both got what we wanted and I'm so effing thankful I don't have to deal with that crap!

[@nolongerblocked6210]

HOA's should be banned nationwide!!

[@ostlandr]

STUDY COMMITTEE? Any politician who voted for this in lieu of actually doing their jobs needs to resign- yesterday.

[@c.r.chandler5905]

That is the same exact thing I thought. Just a COMMITTEE!!

[@robsemail]

Yeah, that’s not always terrible. I don’t know anything specific about Georgia, but in my state and I know in many others, the legislature is only in session for a few months each year, and by May many legislatures have completed or nearly completed the session until the next year. The study committee can do its work while the legislature is not in session, and hopefully by the time next year’s session opens, the committee’s findings can inform new legislation that will be introduced. If it’a true that Georgia’s legislative session is nearly over, then you can bet that lots of people will be watching what happens when the next session opens, and how the committee’s report will be handled. People will be expecting new legislation.

[@JohnDoe-bu1lv]

@@c.r.chandler5905:: Local Government "LAWMAKERS" Where Are You???

[@Tes7000]

I think a study committee is definitely needed before a law is passed. I think some of what we heard from the homeowners in this report was bull.

[@dez6278]

​@@Tes7000 found the HOA board member.

[@mikepalmer1971]

You pay property taxes to the government and the HOA is like having two governments taking your mo yea and telling you what to do.

[@suelingsusu1339]

More like two competing Cosa Nostras

[@rageinbull]

Reporters need to start publishing the names of these HOA officers that are doing this. Make them publicly accountable for their decisions. Tell their coworkers and families what they do. That will make them think twice.

[@jimsmith1846]

I said 30 years ago that I would never move into a home with a HOA.

[@garycurry4600]

In Florida, there was ONE law firm filing about 70% of the foreclosures in the state. Upon investigation, they were found to be a foreclosure mill, and put out of business.

[@Hotdaddy536]

Buy a home in a HOA you're asking for troubled..HOA's should be abolished..

[@willieverusethis]

Lots of people love HOAs. They keep property values higher because everyone's property is well maintained and the landscaping is done. Just don't buy a home in one if you want to grow weeds and let the paint peel.

[@Mercenary-1914]

@@willieverusethis HOAs change their laws/rules depending on how the feel and who they wish to kick out. I have heard of stories about people changing rules on fence height, and landscaping as a way to force people out. It's not right.

[@objective_evaluation]

​@Mercenary-1914 there should be tighter regulations around hoa's but im perfectly fine with my neighbors being fined for not maintaining their lawn.

[@Mercenary-1914]

@@objective_evaluation I agree with that. "Fined for not maintaining lawn"...I am talking about when someone get a certain tree type or a tree height, or cut their shrubs a certain way...They fine them. Making things up as they go. One year shrubs can be 5 feet high...Then the next year they lower it to 4.5 Feet....stuff like that.

[@cutiepiecatloveallanimals6602]

Everyone worrying about everyone else, deal with yourself and leave your neighbors alone

[@carmelaclarkson-webber2932]

NEVER BUY a home within a 'Homeowners Association'....NEVER!!!

[@thom8728]

HOA's are ridiculously out of control! It is a complete sham!

[@damonr4136]

I've never understood why anyone would pay 100's of thousands of dollars so someone else can dictate what you can do, never buy a house in an HOA neighborhood

[@Saliferous]

Racism.

[@rajbeekie7124]

They work. Home values are better in HOAs.

[@damonr4136]

@@rajbeekie7124 Maybe, but it comes at a price

[@kenw.4539]

They don't know what a HOA is or they only have HOA choices.

[@orionhauk2968]

There's a war on home ownership by the working class in this country. This is one of the tools.

[@rileyboy66]

No… the war is with the companies who employ you not paying you fair wage to afford homeownership… Your employer tells you what you are worth to them by paying you. They think you are not worth a home… but they’d rather have us fight each other. HOAs are just power hungry neighborhood residents that like to bully people they don’t like with trivial bs fines until they take everything.

[@Kuttie03]

Right. But the thing is people were all for it because it kept “certain” people out. Now it’s come back to bite people in the butt. Smh

[@orionhauk2968]

@@Kuttie03 So True! As with most things that so many have been trying to warn them about. I am trying not to smirk or say "I told you so", when horrendous actions by people towards me is suddenly done to them, and I have tried to be the voice of the canary in the coal mine but like the canary, no listens until the canary is dead. I am working on an exposition that shows how the Affordable Housing Contractor Scheme and the Wall Street / Investors residential buying scheme are working symbiotically with the current state of the Occupy Wall street turned homeless crisis that is leading to Criminalization of "homelessness" which is actually under the category of "Transient" with the status of being "At Large" to LE. If a person lives in a monthly motel or with a loved one, they are considered transient and unless they have called the sheriff and reported there current location, they are at large. Only a deed, mortgage, or lease (or official letter of residency) allows people to get the RealID , have a bank account, etc. Once laws punish people for not having an instrument of residential proof, Landlords (wall street) can charge any amount they want and people will pay.

[@ronaldhudson169]

YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.

[@patty109109]

@@ronaldhudson169 if owning nothing would make a person happy shouldn’t we all strive to own nothing?

[@MoniqueChenard-e2t]

One woman in the video compared her HOA to the mafia. Sounds about right.

[@allenwmann01]

HOAs should all be abolished. How are you going to tell me what I can do on my property I paid for?

[@Mayabee321]

My brother and sister in law are currently looking for a home to buy. I overheard my brother mentioning that he wants to avoid buying a home within a HOA. When I saw this video, I now understand why.

[@Findpepperbridge]

Send him this

[@SandcastleDreams]

It's racketeering!

[@SATX_09]

I totally agree

[@Elizabeth-ij2rv]

I would NEVER buy property that has an HOA

[@BluntressVidaLoca]

Federal government needs to ban HOA indefinitely in all states

[@pat8497]

the fed gov. needs to e banned al well.

[@Legendary_UA]

The Feds need to stay out of it

[@darrennew8211]

The feds don't have the authority to ban HOAs, fortunately.

[@mawmawd627]

Never never never buy a house with HOAs.

[@MHB0210]

This is exactly why when I bought my 1st (only) home 15yrs ago, I said "NO HOA" stupid realtor wouldn't listen & I had only one other request besides price range 3-4 bed ranch...how hard could that be, but every home attempted to show me--Hoa, I would not go & said I wasn't be cooperative let them do their job. Relator fired, found my own--no HOA property!! Been loving life every since, neighbors don't bother us, we don't bother them & always kind to each other.

[@rashadhaughton22]

Realtors are a holes & full of it too!!!

[@nanook6620]

Was probably just trying to upsell you and thought "oh as soon as they see this house they won't care about HOA".

[@MHB0210]

@@nanook6620 yes so true. It's the same with car sales. No dude, I came here to see & test drive "this car" because that's the one I want, if I cared abt any others I would've said so, asked abt them. I know what I want & what I'm gonna pay, don't try to tell me otherwise, cuz you sure as hell don't my thoughts or be able to change them

[@truracer20]

Not only is the realtor getting their normal commission but it's a guarantee the HOA's pay them commission as well.

[@english7451]

I found my home too on. Zillow. Realtors were worthless had 3 and they never listened to me.

[@Effiemay4445]

I left an HOA because I found out they can put a lien on your home if you do t follow the terms to the letter. Not for me!!!

[@jeffreywwilson]

Two rules to live by, Never talk to the police and Never buy a home in an HOA

[@jasonrodgers9063]

100%!!!

[@basillah7650]

If you talk to cops point finger at other person first they arrest them even if you are criminal that robbed or attacked them

[@VERJENKS]

NAILED IT !

[@sarathomas8499]

The heck.... The police save us. If youre being shot at belive me your calling 911😂 Yes there are some bad cops who gets covered everywhere on yhr news because bAd cOpS OMG. But half and most of them are good cips changing lives

[@lightwarrior432]

lmk how that works out for you 👮🏽‍♂️

[@kasarnfla]

I never heard of HOA's while living in New England until i moved to Florida. I promptly moved back up north. I don't even understand what they do. Home owners take care of their own property and the city or town takes care of the street. We have property managers but they have zero say of your property, just the maintenance of public space. What happened to the land of the free? HOA's should never be able to fine a property owner, that's the local municipalities job.

[@darkstorminc]

In most HOA communities your dues go towards road maintenance, public spaces such as pools, sidewalks or playground(s). Usually if the roads are built and maintained by the state there is no need for an HOA.

[@kasarnfla]

@jakeshields2905 Like I said, I've live in New England and never heard of HOA's. There are zero HOA's in Boston. HOA's are a cash grab and are everywhere in red states. Florida, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, etc.

[@slowbiscuits]

@@kasarnfla there's literally thousands of HOA's in Boston. Just google it.

[@JiggyJones0]

​@@kasarnflaMassachusetts has the 7th highest amount of HOAs in the country. The state with the most HOAs and the most residents living under HOAs is California. Arkansas, a red state, has the lowest percentage of residents living under an HOA. South Dakota, another red state, has the fewest homes in HOAs. Your claim that HOAs are everywhere in red states is biased and incorrect.

[@kasarnfla]

@@JiggyJones0 but you will never see them taking peoples property

[@emmyo6678]

It's crazy how different it is in Canada. This could never occur. We live in what would be termed an HOA but we do not have these issues. The only way a person could be forced to sell would be because if years of unacceptable behaviour to their neighbours. No one can take your home. HOAs in USA need to be abolished or seriously restricted in what they can do. I feel compassion for these owners. Hope your future is better.

[@RioGirl16]

I have never lived in a HOA and I never will. Crooks

[@andromedach]

It is not hard to sort out. Simply remove their ability to penalize any homeowner more than the annual HOA membership but provide a means to deny those in default from any services provided by the HOA

[@willieverusethis]

You really can't do that, since HOAs usually own and pave the roads, keep up the common areas/landscaping, and re-roof condo complexes. I guess you could ban them from the pool, if there is one.

[@ssuwandi3240]

You cannot because they can sell or monetize whatever unless your neighbors would actively participate to manage .but who wants to volunteer these days..

[@cadenceglass8809]

​​​@@willieverusethis Okay. Then the state/city can make any of the services the HOA is giving the communiy; a ONE TIME payment ONLY Before my mortgage is signed or not at all. This is straight BS. This is simply landowners taking more money even though you own the home. Just theft plain and simple. Because after the home is purchased they can just change any rule after the fact no matter what you agreed with at purchase. That's insanity.

[@bsgvlog5640]

@@cadenceglass8809what about special assessments? If someone isn’t paying their fair share that means everyone else now has to pay more. That’s not fair. Make them pay or toss them out and recoup fees via foreclosure. These people are ADULTS, in most instances outside of rare abuse of authority you have home owners not living up to community standards

[@msomething3579]

Limit the HOA to annual assessments and failure to pay is simply a lien on the property that has to be settled before sale.

[@wargriffin5]

I'm confused, is the HOA acting as a bank and offering home loans? Because if not, the banks should REALLY take issue with someone interfering with their mortgages like that. Also, shouldn't the idea that a whole house went for $3.25 be a MASSIVE red flag to any state/federal body that investigates fraud?

[@krslavin]

A friend of mine painted his house himself, in an HOA neighborhood. Did a good job. He didn't realize that, although his neighbors liked the color his wife picked, they were only allowed certain colors by the HOA. They forced him to repaint his house again. Cost him a lot of money and time.

[@kjmclassiccars]

HOA maffia.

[@JohnDoe-bu1lv]

\Legalized Mafia. Doors were opened for this kind of consumer "Rip-Off" by Republican Deregulation. The Voters must start taking notice of Local Government Elections and Vote In Mas Voter Turnout at all Local Elections... "All Politics Is Local". Vote Local Always!!!

[@Shadow__133]

Don't tarnish the Mafia like that 😂

[@tomc.4860]

Why did this take 40 years to stop HOAs??

[@RREvilMonk]

Corruption. Many HOA’s are VERY in tight with city councils and local authorities.

[@derekwest4032]

Easy fix. When buying a house get it in writing that if your Agent even suggests you look at a house in an hoa their contract is null and void. Worked for me. My first didn't get it and he was replaced the next day.

[@BellaLola26]

Great idea! Didn’t know this was even possible in the search. Thank you for sharing!

[@topher2113]

I have heard nothing but terrible things about HOAs and how terrible they treat those living in their neighborhood. I will live in a cardboard box before I buy a home with a HOA

[@Cmz083]

There should be no HOA at all!! It's completely ridiculous what goes on in these things

[@ponylovermadden4560]

want to protect yourself? NEVER EVER buy a home in an HOA. NEVER!

[@NattyAC]

I live in a neighborhood with no HOA..and we all take care of our homes. My neighborhood looks better than most HOA neighborhoods in my area

[@velmaphillips2701]

Exactly but unfortunately some people don’t like to cut their grass and have unnecessary BS in there front yard. Then you have to call Code Enforcement. I don’t think all HOA are bad

[@formula112967]

@@velmaphillips2701 Are you 'that' Karen that walks up and down your street, threatening to call the cops on people that don't live in the neighborhood?

[@jenf1387]

@velmaphillips2701 I am so obsessed with my lawn I am like a living version of Hank Hill from family Guy. My neighbor across the street doesn't cut his weed infested wasteland at all. It could grow to four feet in the summer. Another neighbor on the corner in the dilapidated house looks like they have a junkyard worth of crap all over the place. I deal with the weed infested wasteland neighbor by putting Crabgrass preventer on my lawn so the seeds don't spread and I don't walk in his yard. The people with the junkyard worth of crap in their yard I deal with by not even dealing with or looking at it. The thought of calling code enforcement on your neighbors is ridiculous. If there is destruction to your own property I could understand such as rats burrowing through your yard because of a filthy neighbor then I get it. Calling code enforcement because of an eyesore is ridiculous.

[@velmaphillips2701]

@@jenf1387 Well I’m ridiculous because I’m calling Code Enforcement. PERIOD

[@formula112967]

@@jenf1387 Would you like to come over and do my lawn?....then I would have time to put a buff and wax on my Trans Am and Corvette.

[@ouiroc]

Never buy property with an HOA ever

[@Sommers234]

I moved into an HOA community and had a horrible experience in the first year,,, and for 3 or 4 years I was miserable every time I came home. In a meeting trying to settle a fence dispute with a neighbor one of the HOA members said if you think you're going to get a fair hearing forget it.

[@c.harris9989]

Lady's beautiful home of 18 years sold for $3.20. How do you recover from that kind of trauma? May God give her the peace she deserves. Seriously if the person buying the home was a decent person they'd have sold it right back to her for $3.21. How could you live in that home knowing you kicked a woman out like that?

[@jcook2433]

Likely developers. It’s a shell game in Georgia. Shuffle people around to get new ones in. Build massive condo/ apartment type housing. You know…. For the homeless.

[@Tes7000]

1:27 - "Quigley admits she did not pay two of her bi-annual homeowners dues payments, $800 total." I think a lot of her story is glossed over in this report, but she admits she didn't pay for more than a year. When she received her first delinquency letter from the HOA, had she gone ahead and submitted the payment, she might have avoided the explosion in legal fees that eventually resulted in the foreclosure.

[@TheVsingh2]

@@Tes7000 Why is there an explosion in legal fees ? It's not like they have to do a lot of work sending in bills. Looks like lawyers are piling up hours and exploiting home owners here.

[@eagledefenseusa4799]

​@@TheVsingh2 Greed by lawyers, HOA board and the HOA management company.

[@Tes7000]

@@TheVsingh2 The explosion in legal fees would have been pretty much for the reason you stated, but I don't know about "exploiting" a homeowner who had not paid HOA dues in more than a year. I think we can safely assume the law firm representing the HOA did a lot of legal work leading up to the foreclosure. The homeowner probably ignored all the letters from the HOA and then lost a lawsuit before the HOA attempted to garnish any wages the homeowner was receiving. If the HOA was unable to collect, foreclosure would have been the only other option. The law firm representing the HOA might have billed thousands of dollars just to handle the foreclosure. Obviously, we can't know what details were left out of this news report, but many details were definitely left out.

[@KKemp-bt6nl]

For me, an HOA was/is a deal breaker. I don’t know how these people sleep at night.

[@lamarw7757]

They have no conscience. Just like law enforcement, thinking they have power over people. FHOA, FTP, and FJB!

[@thewaywardwind548]

Oh, crooks all sleep just fine.

[@zb7688]

HOA took my home for a $3k past due dues. Took me 15 years to recover before i could buy another house

[@apv5774]

The fact that the HOA at Florida who caused that poor elderly to get mauled by an alligator was not disbanded still baffles me

[@brandonpeterman9964]

There's HOA builders now putting into the contract when they build the neighborhood that the HOA can never be disbanded. It's possible that was the case with that one

[@dcg590]

How could something other than the alligator be blamed?

[@apv5774]

@dcg590 They kept feeding the gators which made them come back. They also didn't allow the victim to walk her dog I her very own streets or front lawn. Had to be the back where the pond, infested with gators were or get evicted from the very home she paid for. You can't fully blame the gators for acting on its insticts. HOA was to blame for causing a preventable death.

[@reginarobinson2080]

That absolutely sickens me that HOAs are writing in that they can't be dissolved. Thieves every last one of them.

[@tw8464]

OUTLAW the "HOA" CRIME SYNDICATE.

[@a_9408]

Just rent, if you planning on getting HOA home owned property. There’s literally no difference…

[@kate178946]

Exactly

[@Akeza71]

As a Canadian, I never quite understood what HOAs are or why they exist. All I see about HOAs in the medias is horror stories...

[@wil.d_sage]

The original reason was to make sure people maintained property, like not allowing the 15 junk cars to pile up in the yard or to have mountains of trash. But middle class soccer moms with zero life (and power) outside their homes decided to make the rules more and more draconian over the years. I hear stories of people who aren’t allowed to plant a garden or have a kids sand box because they said so. Hopefully more and more people start putting their feet down

[@florforever1]

The HOA needs to be abolished and shouldn't have that much power over people. It is so wrong, just throwing people's livelihoods. And they're so worth it is criminal criminal intent

[@dboucher26]

The nicest neighborhood I've ever lived in is non-HOA and everyone is happy, my neighborhood is very nice, our lawns can compete with golf courses, and we are not tied to an HOA. My wife and I were firm on staying away from HOA, and we passed up a lot of nice homes because of it, but the nicest house we looked at was not tied to an HOA and we bought it.

[@johnburrows5119]

NEVER buy a home with a HOA.

[@LarsLarsen77]

How anyone is stupid enough to buy a house with an HOA is beyond me.

[@sandraleeashie3080]

Will never buy a home with HOA ever again. HOA harassed me for years even though my purchase agreement clearly said in writing that my property was “grandfather clause” out of HOA as it was there long before HOA.

[@calistogauva707]

Just got pushed out of ownership ship on my condo here in Florida. HOA fees went up 1,700 a month. Now I’m in debit and no longer own the condo I’ve been making on time and extra payments for the past 7 years.

[@iJSabelle007]

Sad. Unfair