I must be the only decent HOA president around, the way everyone else is bad-talking them. A couple months ago, I got all five buildings full of townhomes re-roofed, and came in under-budget by ten percent. I also got to pick the roof shingle color, and I went with deep black.
I’m in this role cause I was the only person who showed up to the annual board meeting who wasn’t the board. Honestly I felt a bit like Michael from the Good Place—rest of the board vacated and then I had twenty-seven people’s homes in my hand? Very odd.
But I’ve done my best to be a good steward to the neighborhood. I bet people don’t even think the weird old lady with a cane taking pictures of pretty stuff is the president. They just see me doing whatever I do and don’t even know.
I think the difference between me and lawn-measuring karens is that I’m not a dick.
There’s also a big difference between a condo/townhouse HOA and a suburban neighborhood one. Condo HOAs are focused on maintaining shared facilities and that would otherwise be too expensive for the owners to care for. Suburban HOAs for single family homes are all about enforcing uniformity and control.
In both cases their are shared maintenance expenses for the allotment. Like roads, drainage, and other things taxes would pay for but they cut themselves off from city by allowing an HOA.
Shitty that they even exist and anyone thinks it’s a good idea to trust unqualified people to manage projects they have no experience in usually. All a scam to let the developers cut costs and pass it onto the residents.
Now most of these HOAs are managed by older residents and most of them have a “I’m gonna die, why should I care” attitude about future planning.
roads, drainage, and other things taxes would pay for but they cut themselves off from city by allowing an HOA.
Wtf?! That’s insane!
Shitty that they even exist and anyone thinks it’s a good idea to trust unqualified people to manage projects they have no experience in usually. All a scam to let the developers cut costs and pass it onto the residents.
rAmen!
In my experience you are definitely the exception. Good on ya
Give it time, HOA becoming evil always happens eventually…
By joining a HOA you already proved you’re an asshole though.
Heternormative Overlord Associations are fucking creepy, you telling me some fucking busybody with no life can tell me what colour to paint my fence if I lived in America?
Fuck right off. I thought y’all were the Land of the Free.
Here in Europe, we can do what we want as long as it’s within health and safety rules, without some weird stepford cult being like “it’s not approved by the council of elders!”
