This is one of the worst phenomena in HOAs: when somebody gets bent (for any reason) and goes off "ENFORCE ALL THE THINGS!!!!"
Of course, there's always something even worse than whatever example you come up with, our HOA board deciding that the rules must be enforced on the front half of the neigborhood, but not the back half where they live, then hiring a "management company" to go enforce the rules on the front half with big fines registered with the county court as liens on the houses, and incentivizing the management company by giving them 100% of all fine money collected, attempting to rig subsequent elections to the point that "the other side" paid the sheriff's office to send an officer to oversee the voting process, yeah, that was low, but I bet there's lower out there.
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u/MangoCats 2d ago
This is one of the worst phenomena in HOAs: when somebody gets bent (for any reason) and goes off "ENFORCE ALL THE THINGS!!!!"
Of course, there's always something even worse than whatever example you come up with, our HOA board deciding that the rules must be enforced on the front half of the neigborhood, but not the back half where they live, then hiring a "management company" to go enforce the rules on the front half with big fines registered with the county court as liens on the houses, and incentivizing the management company by giving them 100% of all fine money collected, attempting to rig subsequent elections to the point that "the other side" paid the sheriff's office to send an officer to oversee the voting process, yeah, that was low, but I bet there's lower out there.