Pay your bills on time and in full, lose home.

[Saz]

[Southern Dad]

I once lived in a neighborhood that had an HOA. Hidden Acres subdivision in Conyers, GA. The first six or seven houses (of which mine was one) did not have the covenants in our deeds. Therefore we were exempt from the HOA fees and rules. During the time that I owned the house, I had a large pine tree fall upon my house doing significant damage. When my insurance adjuster was out, he informed me that the insurance company would be willing to cut down seven trees on the property, at no cost to me as they were a danger. I jumped on it.

Within a couple hours of cutting the president of the HOA showed up at my door demanding that the work stop. She pasted a red "violation" sticker on my front door and mailbox. This wasn't new, I had a lot of those stickers in a drawer. After a quick call to my attorney, I had the crew resume work. Now, she was really mad. A couple days later, she got a temporary injunction to keep me from cutting further trees, as I was ruining the aesthetics of the neighborhood. When I went to court a week or so later, the judge dismissed the injunction without hearing the case. He told her it was a moot point as the trees were already cut down and he couldn't make me stand them back up.

About a year later, unbeknownst to me, the HOA voted to buy my house. I'd had it for sale for a while. They paid asking, and I didn't complain. Uppity people don't like it when you park cars in your driveway, park an RV alongside of your house and cut down trees on your own property. It broke my heart to read that the HOA went bankrupt and they had to permanently close the swimming pool, and fence off the tennis courts.

[Saz]

[spacemonkey]

Who in the hell would want to buy a house and have others tell you how to live in it anyway? Apparently, a lot like to be told how to live. Oh well, enjoy.

[Southern Dad]

[spacemonkey]

[Southern Dad]

[spacemonkey]

[exploited]

[Saz]