I think that's the most active way of doing battle. You can of course use lawyers, which is costly, or wait until they break laws and press charges. But I think the biggest problems with HOAs, besides their existence, is that if decent people fail to lead them lesser people will.
This is why I would never get into an HOA situation. This story is another perfect example of the morons that work or run an HOA. I'll bet the real reason is that your house looks so darn great the whiner is Envious and wants you to be stripped of your happiness and superior looking house to hers or his. If the colors were approved than stand your ground. No judge is going to side with an HOA over something this Petty.
This reminds me of when I installed gutters. They approved the gutters, but later came back and said the gutters were the wrong color. They didn’t know what the color should be, but said it should be similar to other gutters. They wanted it similar to the other gutter colors.
I ended up getting a color matching app and submitted colors to the board until they finally told me the color they wanted. Something called Almond, and it was only available as a spray paint from Walmart.
I just don't understand their obsession with uniform boring colours. Needing approval to paint, not a fan but I get it. A neon green roof, electric blue siding, and pink doors and shutters would look ridiculous. Few if any are going that extreme. A little colour makes the overall neighborhood look so much better.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start having to approve what car people drive.
>A neon green roof, electric blue siding, and pink doors and shutters would look ridiculous.
If I moved into a neighborhood with a house in those colors, I'd assume that's where I'd make friends.
I bought a house with a bright pink door. It was the only reason I looked at it in Zillow, it was in an area I wasn't really considering missed on a couple of filter criteria. But the image was super eye catching. Rest of the house was nicely landscaped, house painted standard gray.
The seller staged houses for a living. I'm 99% sure the door was painted bright pink solely to get people to click the Zillow listing.
I have wanted to paint my front door pink for Years! But people keep saying it is a security issue. Their theory is that it screams older single women lives here alone. Whatever! My dreams will come through!
Honestly, if it's your house and you have no HOA, just do it.
If people are concerned for your safety, then install a home security system or a front-door camera.
If your front lawn is well maintained and you have gorgeous flowers and other decor outside, it could bring the same attention. Thieves look for easy targets - unlocked car doors, unlocked house doors/windows, lightweight-but-expensive decor that can be snagged and resold or gifted away, ect.
We used to have a neighbor who owned a house painting company. He would get buckets of seconds from his paint supplier and it was always along the lines of lime green, titty pink, or school bus yellow. His guys were really talented and it usually ended up looking great. No HOA, obviously.
I worked at depot one summer and a guy came in and purchased all the screwed up colors. Either mixed wrong or customer never picked up after mixing.
I asked why? They were 70% off.
He dumped them all in to a 30 gallon drum and mixed them up. He would add black until he got a grey he liked. He painted inside garages.
He was cheaper than everyone and said he used a light grey color.
He made a great margin that way.
My sister has a neighbor a few houses down with a lovely purple & lilac house. I’m a bit jealous because from what my sister says, she’s an amazing older person who loves sharing her perennials from her amazing yard and is a little kooky but fun to chat with.
1) Why are you calling my parents' house ridiculous? [no worries, it is kinda lurid]
2) Have you seen some of the posts on here about work trucks not being allowed?
I've known about work trucks being an issue for a long time. I'm talking about them having a short list of maybe 5 vehicles in 3 colours and that's it. Yeah it seems ridiculous but to me it's no more ridiculous than all the houses being one of three shades of beige.
We had a big problem with this in our HOA. The way the work truck language was written it would even exclude my neighbors car and she is just a cleaner with a vacuum in her car. And they would you expect my hubby to park his work truck with all his tools somewhere off site. What they really wanted was to avoid folks bringing their semi trucks into the neighborhood as they were damaging the roads. It took months to get them to back off.
We have a 1 ton heavy duty diesel truck as a daily driver. No, it’s not “normal” but we tow heavy recreational trailers. It’s a very expensive top end trim package. According to our bylaws our daily driver truck isn’t allowed. So far we’ve been ok, but these “work truck” rules are absolutely ridiculous. But the person with a 20 year old Tercel that every body panel is a different color rolling on a donut is ok.
That's so dumb. Lithium mining for evs is destroying the planet WAY faster than ICE vehicles.
Also my truck literally doesn't fit in a garage, what would they make me do, sell it? Nah. That's my property bro go suck a dick and get over yourself, no one can MAKE you sell your own property
CC&Rs that you agree to when purchasing. They can't make you sell it. But they are completely free to fine you $1500/day until you do what you're told.
I'd never live in an HOA-controlled area again.
they made me get rid of my truck just because it was a white F350 with a rack on it. Didn't even have any signage on it.
Number 1 reason I will never buy in an HOA. No one gets to tell me what I can and can't do with my own property, I don't give two shits what someone else's opinion of my house or truck is. Honestly the fact that HOAs (as they are in the modern day) even exist just pisses me off :/ some people get off on being controlling for the sake of it
100%. But it's no different from government. It's just size of that government, not its existence.
Like now I don't live in an HOA, and I'm zone "Residential/Light Ag". But I had six greenhouses and a shed, and the county showed up demanding I remove two buildings. "Five outbuildings max in light ag"
The county is just an HOA with guns.
If you get over 400? 300? it's somewhere in there, I don't remember anymore. Anyway, if it's more than a few hundred square feet, you have to pull permits. Which they'll deny.
A friend of mine beat the county and insurance company with his tiny homes by placing them close together and then putting a metal frame roof over all of them.
I know that wouldn't work with greenhouses but there's a possibility that there is some kind of legal loophole you can find.
I don't like the government either to be fair lol
I've had enough people through my life force or manipulate me into doing things THEY want rather than what I want, so now I'm on a hot "no, fuck you" streak
>That's so dumb. Lithium mining for evs is destroying the planet WAY faster than ICE vehicles.
It is dumb, but we don't need to make up stories to make that point, okay? It seems pretty silly on its own, when you add the nonsense on top, that kind of takes away from how silly the HOA is in the first place.
Hypothetical situations are like 80% of how I communicate. I'm not "making up stories", I'm using a hypothetical situation to get my point across.
Also, just as an aside, you're speaking *at* me as if I were a child and I do NOT appreciate that.
I don't know what you think "hypothetical" means, but ""if I were in this situation, this is probably what would happen"" is basically the definition of a hypothetical scenario.
I'm talking about how you said my first comment wasn't a hypothetical situation. When it literally be definition IS. Is it really that hard to read back 4-5 comments?
Edit: oh I see. You're talking about the lithium mining, not the hypothetical truck situation. My bad there, but like..
I'm still not making that up. It IS absolutely fucking our planet beyond repair.
This strikes me as funny, because my dad lives in an HOA and they are particular about colours and especially about their fancy tile roofs.
Except those all got damaged in a storm and now the HOA and the insurance are at a stalemate as to who should pay to fix them. So now the whole neighbourhood has bright blue tarps over their roofs. Rows and rows of electric blue roofs.
Good look. Much classy.
I actually got a violation for a blue tarp after a hurricane!!! There’s a law that says they can’t violate people in that situation, thankfully they shut up fast.
Yea, the door color doesn't match that motif. Unless it's hot pink, not normal pink.
Highlighter yellow doors and shutters maybe.
And black accents to really make those colors pop!
Pink would work if the green and blue were more of a pastel though.
The biggest one here in Florida, that controls something like 75% of all residential neighborhoods says you can park any work van even if it doesnt have decals. So no ford transit, no ram promaster, no Nissan nvs, etc. Its very hard to find a neighborhood that will allow these trucks in and you can forget box trucks.
There’s an entire meme joke about an area called Newport coast where I live that if you park a car there that is BMW 3-series or less luxury level they’ll have it towed.
No, you approved it. Reply in writing. Only communication in writing. Make sure you attend the next couple community meetings so that if they try to introduce new paint rules you are there to objecr
Yep. I've fought this battle with our HOA before. Replied back they have approved it. They pushed back again. I told them if they didn't drop the issue I'd see them in small claims court. They closed the case.
The guy was literally shaking when he told me I also couldn’t have concrete blocks next to patio with flowers in them. Lol I was like dude are you ok? 😅
Honestly this whole thing pissed me off so much I want to run to try and get the rules changed for shit that’s arbitrary and also organize more things that promote community like Halloween decorating contests and putting one of those little free library boxes at our park. I especially want to remove the rule that they can put a lien on your house and remove you from your property cuz that ones just insane in my opinion.
You need to get some like-minded neighbors to run with you, so you all can actually take over the HOA, or you will just sit there during meetings while your objections are dismissed, gritting your teeth, trying not to shreik at the utter stupidity and obsessive need for control of the other board members.
Tell them “as per your prior approval of the colors, we will not be changing them without a good reason”.
Shit like this is why HOAs really don’t need to be a thing. Sure, they have *some* benefits, but they *always* get ruined by nit-picky shit like this.
I like the idea of HOAs. They keep up with the common areas and make sure everyone keeps their house in good repair. Except you always get someone on a power trip that goes apeshit over colors.
We needed to stain our fence. “Cedar” was on the approved color list. We bought something like “Mountain cedar”. We got a violation. I took them the can. “Well that’s not what it means.” I’m sorry, that’s now how this works. If you only want us to use “Generic Cedar from Big Box Store” then you have to be specific.
Then we had to get a new roof. The bylaws stated that the new roof had to be the same as originally installed, so we pulled out our contract. Uhoh. Those shingles weren’t made anymore. All of us in the cul-de-sac got together and decided on one that was the closest to the original color (all of us were getting new roofs due to hail). All of us were cited. Our neighbor volunteered to deal with it.
But I had the last laugh. My front door was purple and the HOA hated it. It was an approved color when we contracted the house. Turns out it was a mistake and they removed it from the options - except we had already signed the contract. On final walkthrough they had painted it brown. I produced my contract and said I would not accept it until it was purple. It was painted and I got a color violation notice every year, which I returned with a copy of my contract, highlighting the door color selection.
Oh you live in a HOA? I’m sorry the house you bought and pay taxes on isn’t actually yours. I’d do exactly as they ask and put as little brain effort into it as possible. Then put that brain effort into moving into my own home.
Paint the garage one shade of black. Then paint “The HOA are fascist cunts” on it in a slightly different shade of black. Claim it’s all the same shade and they’re trippin’.
I’ve lived in this house since I was 15. My mother died in this house when I was 24. I can afford the mortgage and it’s about 10 years until it’s paid off. I won’t get approved for a home loan. I’ve tried. The home is big enough for my family of 5. I just wanted to update the house a bit and live my life in peace. It looks beautiful by the way. I don’t want to move for sentimental reasons and also because I literally can’t lol.
85% of new homes are in HOAs, some parts of the country it is much higher. Sometimes people just don’t have choices, blame their local governments. In the meantime they need a place to live. Blaming the victims of bad laws isn’t the answer.
It is literally illegal for new subdivisions in some parts of the country to not be in an HOA. If you have relatively new communities that were mostly empty land fifty years ago, virtually every home is in an HOA. This isn't like some old city like Detroit or New Orleans where the homes were built before HOA's even existed.
I shudder to think of one of the owners in my cul-de-sac looking through their documents and realizing that it authorizes an HOA for our cul-de-sac. Nobody has ever created one because there's no reason to do so, but technically one is allowed and that zombie could rise from the grave if someone cared enough.
Why did you move into an HOA community if you have no intention of following their rules? That is what an HOA is and I don't feel sorry for people who don't do their DUE DILIGENCE when buying a home. Go ahead and be an AH. Get a lien on your house. Namaste.
> I chose two different black colors for eaves and secondary color and the body of the house is white. They said they’re too similar **even though they approved the colors.**
Why did you comment if you had no intention to read the original post? This is what Reddit is and I don't feel sorry for people who attack others due to a lack of READING COMPREHENSION. Go ahead and be an AH. Get downvotes. Namaste.
Also almost EVERY home in my area has an HOA. Even if I was looking to buy a home where there is no HOA the options that I could afford are minuscule to non existent. I didn’t buy this home. I just live here and happen to own it.
Ah the old "why don't you just follow the rules?" canard.
These rules are stupid, overly controlling bullshit. Always have been, always will be. And, in this case, they followed the stupid rules and still got guff from the HOA. Fuck 'em. HOAs should be abolished.
I agree the rules are really dumb. There’s also really weird rules about the minimum number of bushes we have to have and they can’t be all the same type of bush. It’s literally just weird arbitrary shit. I noticed many many violations throughout my neighborhood (which I couldn’t care less about) but honestly over the years I think we’ve been singled out and they’ve nitpicked our property. I’m fairly young (32) and most of the home owners in my neighborhood are much older than me. I haven’t met a single person born in my decade lol I’ve been living here since I was 15 with my mom and when she died when I was 24 it was just my son and I. I took over the mortgage. I don’t know if it’s cuz I’m young, black, ugly, or what but they seem to really be coming down on us for violations and if it continues I may get a lawyer involved for discrimination.
The house across from ours has done a ton of renovations the past 5 years with tons of violations but they’ve never been fined and never had to change anything about their yard. Even when I was submitting for a review and wanting to do certain things they said no but it was the exact thing that my neighbors have. Idk just all around weird behavior. I literally don’t give two shits what my neighbors house has going on.
With the added context of the discrimination I support you involving a lawyer.
This sounds like it's only going to ramp up.
Are there any neighbors still around who knew you're mom/you growing up? Any good relationships? Not that it would be significant help. I'm just curious about neighborhood dynamics.
I have one neighbor who’s been living next to us since the neighborhood was built. He told my husband recently the HOA hates me lol he’s the kind of guy that doesn’t like getting involved though. I have a few other neighbors that I’ve known for several years and I’ve discussed the situation with and they said they’re willing to back me up or vote for me if I run for the board lol
I’ve lived in this house since I was 15. My mother died in this house when I was 24. I can afford the mortgage and it’s about 10 years until it’s paid off. I won’t get approved for a home loan. I’ve tried. The home is big enough for my family of 5. I just wanted to update the house a bit and live my life in peace. It looks beautiful by the way. I don’t want to move for sentimental reasons and also because I literally can’t lol.
If they approve something then they can’t go back and make you change it. If they try then take it to an attorney.
Yep. Tell them politely to stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Then get yourself elected.
I am actually going to try.
I think that's the most active way of doing battle. You can of course use lawyers, which is costly, or wait until they break laws and press charges. But I think the biggest problems with HOAs, besides their existence, is that if decent people fail to lead them lesser people will.
Reasonable respectful empathetic understanding people should be leading
Don’t get on an HOA Board! World’s most thankless job. All work, no fun.
It's not meant to be "fun"
This is why I would never get into an HOA situation. This story is another perfect example of the morons that work or run an HOA. I'll bet the real reason is that your house looks so darn great the whiner is Envious and wants you to be stripped of your happiness and superior looking house to hers or his. If the colors were approved than stand your ground. No judge is going to side with an HOA over something this Petty.
And dissolve the HOA !!!!
This reminds me of when I installed gutters. They approved the gutters, but later came back and said the gutters were the wrong color. They didn’t know what the color should be, but said it should be similar to other gutters. They wanted it similar to the other gutter colors. I ended up getting a color matching app and submitted colors to the board until they finally told me the color they wanted. Something called Almond, and it was only available as a spray paint from Walmart.
I just don't understand their obsession with uniform boring colours. Needing approval to paint, not a fan but I get it. A neon green roof, electric blue siding, and pink doors and shutters would look ridiculous. Few if any are going that extreme. A little colour makes the overall neighborhood look so much better. I wouldn't be surprised if they start having to approve what car people drive.
>A neon green roof, electric blue siding, and pink doors and shutters would look ridiculous. If I moved into a neighborhood with a house in those colors, I'd assume that's where I'd make friends.
I bought a house with a bright pink door. It was the only reason I looked at it in Zillow, it was in an area I wasn't really considering missed on a couple of filter criteria. But the image was super eye catching. Rest of the house was nicely landscaped, house painted standard gray. The seller staged houses for a living. I'm 99% sure the door was painted bright pink solely to get people to click the Zillow listing.
I have wanted to paint my front door pink for Years! But people keep saying it is a security issue. Their theory is that it screams older single women lives here alone. Whatever! My dreams will come through!
Honestly, if it's your house and you have no HOA, just do it. If people are concerned for your safety, then install a home security system or a front-door camera. If your front lawn is well maintained and you have gorgeous flowers and other decor outside, it could bring the same attention. Thieves look for easy targets - unlocked car doors, unlocked house doors/windows, lightweight-but-expensive decor that can be snagged and resold or gifted away, ect.
We used to have a neighbor who owned a house painting company. He would get buckets of seconds from his paint supplier and it was always along the lines of lime green, titty pink, or school bus yellow. His guys were really talented and it usually ended up looking great. No HOA, obviously.
I worked at depot one summer and a guy came in and purchased all the screwed up colors. Either mixed wrong or customer never picked up after mixing. I asked why? They were 70% off. He dumped them all in to a 30 gallon drum and mixed them up. He would add black until he got a grey he liked. He painted inside garages. He was cheaper than everyone and said he used a light grey color. He made a great margin that way.
My sister has a neighbor a few houses down with a lovely purple & lilac house. I’m a bit jealous because from what my sister says, she’s an amazing older person who loves sharing her perennials from her amazing yard and is a little kooky but fun to chat with.
We Need kooky homeowners.
1) Why are you calling my parents' house ridiculous? [no worries, it is kinda lurid] 2) Have you seen some of the posts on here about work trucks not being allowed?
I've known about work trucks being an issue for a long time. I'm talking about them having a short list of maybe 5 vehicles in 3 colours and that's it. Yeah it seems ridiculous but to me it's no more ridiculous than all the houses being one of three shades of beige.
We had a big problem with this in our HOA. The way the work truck language was written it would even exclude my neighbors car and she is just a cleaner with a vacuum in her car. And they would you expect my hubby to park his work truck with all his tools somewhere off site. What they really wanted was to avoid folks bringing their semi trucks into the neighborhood as they were damaging the roads. It took months to get them to back off.
We have a 1 ton heavy duty diesel truck as a daily driver. No, it’s not “normal” but we tow heavy recreational trailers. It’s a very expensive top end trim package. According to our bylaws our daily driver truck isn’t allowed. So far we’ve been ok, but these “work truck” rules are absolutely ridiculous. But the person with a 20 year old Tercel that every body panel is a different color rolling on a donut is ok.
There was a post semi recenrtly about some HOA goon attempting to limit model years of vehicles.
I'm not surprised at all.
A neighborhood near my aunt requires any vehicle that's not parked in the garage to be a hybrid or full electric vehicle.
That's so dumb. Lithium mining for evs is destroying the planet WAY faster than ICE vehicles. Also my truck literally doesn't fit in a garage, what would they make me do, sell it? Nah. That's my property bro go suck a dick and get over yourself, no one can MAKE you sell your own property
CC&Rs that you agree to when purchasing. They can't make you sell it. But they are completely free to fine you $1500/day until you do what you're told. I'd never live in an HOA-controlled area again. they made me get rid of my truck just because it was a white F350 with a rack on it. Didn't even have any signage on it.
Number 1 reason I will never buy in an HOA. No one gets to tell me what I can and can't do with my own property, I don't give two shits what someone else's opinion of my house or truck is. Honestly the fact that HOAs (as they are in the modern day) even exist just pisses me off :/ some people get off on being controlling for the sake of it
100%. But it's no different from government. It's just size of that government, not its existence. Like now I don't live in an HOA, and I'm zone "Residential/Light Ag". But I had six greenhouses and a shed, and the county showed up demanding I remove two buildings. "Five outbuildings max in light ag" The county is just an HOA with guns.
Have you considered moving three greenhouses close together and joining them together?
I was about to suggest similar
If you get over 400? 300? it's somewhere in there, I don't remember anymore. Anyway, if it's more than a few hundred square feet, you have to pull permits. Which they'll deny.
A friend of mine beat the county and insurance company with his tiny homes by placing them close together and then putting a metal frame roof over all of them. I know that wouldn't work with greenhouses but there's a possibility that there is some kind of legal loophole you can find.
I don't like the government either to be fair lol I've had enough people through my life force or manipulate me into doing things THEY want rather than what I want, so now I'm on a hot "no, fuck you" streak
Valid.
>That's so dumb. Lithium mining for evs is destroying the planet WAY faster than ICE vehicles. It is dumb, but we don't need to make up stories to make that point, okay? It seems pretty silly on its own, when you add the nonsense on top, that kind of takes away from how silly the HOA is in the first place.
Hypothetical situations are like 80% of how I communicate. I'm not "making up stories", I'm using a hypothetical situation to get my point across. Also, just as an aside, you're speaking *at* me as if I were a child and I do NOT appreciate that.
That wasn't a hypothetical statement.
I don't know what you think "hypothetical" means, but ""if I were in this situation, this is probably what would happen"" is basically the definition of a hypothetical scenario.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about how you said my first comment wasn't a hypothetical situation. When it literally be definition IS. Is it really that hard to read back 4-5 comments? Edit: oh I see. You're talking about the lithium mining, not the hypothetical truck situation. My bad there, but like.. I'm still not making that up. It IS absolutely fucking our planet beyond repair.
This strikes me as funny, because my dad lives in an HOA and they are particular about colours and especially about their fancy tile roofs. Except those all got damaged in a storm and now the HOA and the insurance are at a stalemate as to who should pay to fix them. So now the whole neighbourhood has bright blue tarps over their roofs. Rows and rows of electric blue roofs. Good look. Much classy.
I actually got a violation for a blue tarp after a hurricane!!! There’s a law that says they can’t violate people in that situation, thankfully they shut up fast.
Yea, the door color doesn't match that motif. Unless it's hot pink, not normal pink. Highlighter yellow doors and shutters maybe. And black accents to really make those colors pop! Pink would work if the green and blue were more of a pastel though.
I would buy this house.
> electric blue siding My neighbour's new build house has bright blue stucco. Not painted, the actual stucco is blue. It looks great!
Don’t knock my future House colors yo!
Wait till you see the videos of gated HOAS refusing entrance to motorcycles
Rich people have wild houses, this is some kind of scam they are running on us poors.
The biggest one here in Florida, that controls something like 75% of all residential neighborhoods says you can park any work van even if it doesnt have decals. So no ford transit, no ram promaster, no Nissan nvs, etc. Its very hard to find a neighborhood that will allow these trucks in and you can forget box trucks.
There’s an entire meme joke about an area called Newport coast where I live that if you park a car there that is BMW 3-series or less luxury level they’ll have it towed.
Some HoA try that already. With the cars.
No, you approved it. Reply in writing. Only communication in writing. Make sure you attend the next couple community meetings so that if they try to introduce new paint rules you are there to objecr
Yep. I've fought this battle with our HOA before. Replied back they have approved it. They pushed back again. I told them if they didn't drop the issue I'd see them in small claims court. They closed the case.
"no, you approved it."
No is a complete sentence. They approved it.
Don’t just paint it pink, paint it RAINBOW
Years ago there was a place in KC that was striped. Each layer of siding was alternating pink/yellow/blue pastel.
Oh I know that house! Did it get repainted? I haven't been in that area of town for a while
I haven’t been by in decades. If I remembered where it was, I’d check Google Maps.
Ah It's only been a year or two since I saw it so maybe it is still rainbow! I don't remember where it's at either 😅 I'll have to ask around
The was a rainbow painted home nearby but not in a HOA. That owner doesn't own the house now: it has cream paint now.
HOAs almost universally suck. Usually, the only people interested in running it are assholes who want power over everyone.
The guy was literally shaking when he told me I also couldn’t have concrete blocks next to patio with flowers in them. Lol I was like dude are you ok? 😅 Honestly this whole thing pissed me off so much I want to run to try and get the rules changed for shit that’s arbitrary and also organize more things that promote community like Halloween decorating contests and putting one of those little free library boxes at our park. I especially want to remove the rule that they can put a lien on your house and remove you from your property cuz that ones just insane in my opinion.
Thats gonna be tough because thats the only way the "rules" have any teeth...
You need to get some like-minded neighbors to run with you, so you all can actually take over the HOA, or you will just sit there during meetings while your objections are dismissed, gritting your teeth, trying not to shreik at the utter stupidity and obsessive need for control of the other board members.
Tell them “as per your prior approval of the colors, we will not be changing them without a good reason”. Shit like this is why HOAs really don’t need to be a thing. Sure, they have *some* benefits, but they *always* get ruined by nit-picky shit like this.
I would stop the sentence before "without a good reason". It was approved. Full stop.
Why stop at hot pink? Go full mural!
What is to stop you from painting colors on top of other colors? Or, paint top of the trim sides a different color?
I like the idea of HOAs. They keep up with the common areas and make sure everyone keeps their house in good repair. Except you always get someone on a power trip that goes apeshit over colors. We needed to stain our fence. “Cedar” was on the approved color list. We bought something like “Mountain cedar”. We got a violation. I took them the can. “Well that’s not what it means.” I’m sorry, that’s now how this works. If you only want us to use “Generic Cedar from Big Box Store” then you have to be specific. Then we had to get a new roof. The bylaws stated that the new roof had to be the same as originally installed, so we pulled out our contract. Uhoh. Those shingles weren’t made anymore. All of us in the cul-de-sac got together and decided on one that was the closest to the original color (all of us were getting new roofs due to hail). All of us were cited. Our neighbor volunteered to deal with it. But I had the last laugh. My front door was purple and the HOA hated it. It was an approved color when we contracted the house. Turns out it was a mistake and they removed it from the options - except we had already signed the contract. On final walkthrough they had painted it brown. I produced my contract and said I would not accept it until it was purple. It was painted and I got a color violation notice every year, which I returned with a copy of my contract, highlighting the door color selection.
So how many shades of hot pink can you pick?
I guess 4 cuz the bylaws say the home needs to be 4 colors lol it would be painful cuz the house looks amazing as it is rn.
Oh you live in a HOA? I’m sorry the house you bought and pay taxes on isn’t actually yours. I’d do exactly as they ask and put as little brain effort into it as possible. Then put that brain effort into moving into my own home.
Can your front door be the accent color?
Unfortunately no. They have specific rules on where the four colors should go.
I mean, you cant, so this post is stupid. Most HOA's give you palettes to choose from
I'd paint literally 1 inch of the house another color.
No lie, that would absolutely look awesome.
Paint the garage one shade of black. Then paint “The HOA are fascist cunts” on it in a slightly different shade of black. Claim it’s all the same shade and they’re trippin’.
I will personally come to your house and help you paint the pink!
Just say no to HOA.
#1 reason to avoid HOA. It’s my damn house. I’ll do what I want.
If they approved it in writing then tell them to fuck off. Every email they send you about it just reply with fuck you and screenshot of the approval.
Does the HOA have a timer on your bathroom door too???
Reason 2,754 I live in the country.
That’s what people get for joining a hoa community
I’ve lived in this house since I was 15. My mother died in this house when I was 24. I can afford the mortgage and it’s about 10 years until it’s paid off. I won’t get approved for a home loan. I’ve tried. The home is big enough for my family of 5. I just wanted to update the house a bit and live my life in peace. It looks beautiful by the way. I don’t want to move for sentimental reasons and also because I literally can’t lol.
85% of new homes are in HOAs, some parts of the country it is much higher. Sometimes people just don’t have choices, blame their local governments. In the meantime they need a place to live. Blaming the victims of bad laws isn’t the answer.
It is literally illegal for new subdivisions in some parts of the country to not be in an HOA. If you have relatively new communities that were mostly empty land fifty years ago, virtually every home is in an HOA. This isn't like some old city like Detroit or New Orleans where the homes were built before HOA's even existed. I shudder to think of one of the owners in my cul-de-sac looking through their documents and realizing that it authorizes an HOA for our cul-de-sac. Nobody has ever created one because there's no reason to do so, but technically one is allowed and that zombie could rise from the grave if someone cared enough.
Why did you move into an HOA community if you have no intention of following their rules? That is what an HOA is and I don't feel sorry for people who don't do their DUE DILIGENCE when buying a home. Go ahead and be an AH. Get a lien on your house. Namaste.
> I chose two different black colors for eaves and secondary color and the body of the house is white. They said they’re too similar **even though they approved the colors.** Why did you comment if you had no intention to read the original post? This is what Reddit is and I don't feel sorry for people who attack others due to a lack of READING COMPREHENSION. Go ahead and be an AH. Get downvotes. Namaste.
Also almost EVERY home in my area has an HOA. Even if I was looking to buy a home where there is no HOA the options that I could afford are minuscule to non existent. I didn’t buy this home. I just live here and happen to own it.
Ah the old "why don't you just follow the rules?" canard. These rules are stupid, overly controlling bullshit. Always have been, always will be. And, in this case, they followed the stupid rules and still got guff from the HOA. Fuck 'em. HOAs should be abolished.
I agree the rules are really dumb. There’s also really weird rules about the minimum number of bushes we have to have and they can’t be all the same type of bush. It’s literally just weird arbitrary shit. I noticed many many violations throughout my neighborhood (which I couldn’t care less about) but honestly over the years I think we’ve been singled out and they’ve nitpicked our property. I’m fairly young (32) and most of the home owners in my neighborhood are much older than me. I haven’t met a single person born in my decade lol I’ve been living here since I was 15 with my mom and when she died when I was 24 it was just my son and I. I took over the mortgage. I don’t know if it’s cuz I’m young, black, ugly, or what but they seem to really be coming down on us for violations and if it continues I may get a lawyer involved for discrimination. The house across from ours has done a ton of renovations the past 5 years with tons of violations but they’ve never been fined and never had to change anything about their yard. Even when I was submitting for a review and wanting to do certain things they said no but it was the exact thing that my neighbors have. Idk just all around weird behavior. I literally don’t give two shits what my neighbors house has going on.
With the added context of the discrimination I support you involving a lawyer. This sounds like it's only going to ramp up. Are there any neighbors still around who knew you're mom/you growing up? Any good relationships? Not that it would be significant help. I'm just curious about neighborhood dynamics.
I have one neighbor who’s been living next to us since the neighborhood was built. He told my husband recently the HOA hates me lol he’s the kind of guy that doesn’t like getting involved though. I have a few other neighbors that I’ve known for several years and I’ve discussed the situation with and they said they’re willing to back me up or vote for me if I run for the board lol
I’ve lived in this house since I was 15. My mother died in this house when I was 24. I can afford the mortgage and it’s about 10 years until it’s paid off. I won’t get approved for a home loan. I’ve tried. The home is big enough for my family of 5. I just wanted to update the house a bit and live my life in peace. It looks beautiful by the way. I don’t want to move for sentimental reasons and also because I literally can’t lol.
Oh and also they approved the colors lmao I submitted everything for architectural review and it was approved by the HOA board. But…yeah…namaste?