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[–] [email protected] 189 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Authorities say that HOA members first summoned police due to reports of “children running an illegal lemonade stand on county right of way.”

When the sheriff’s deputies arrived, they “found that the children were not blocking the roadway but did ask them to move back from the road a few feet for their safety.”

Thinking the matter was resolved, the officers then moved on to other calls about parking issues in the area, only to head back to the scene of the stand when the “original reporting parties came out and began yelling at the children claiming they were on private property.”

As the refreshment row reached fever pitch, the officers discovered that the children running the stand themselves lived within the HOA and that the lemonade pushers “had a right to be there” on the association’s communally held property, leaving the wayward youths to continue their street war against scurvy.

Assholes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

They should have arrested the adults for harassing the children - could be considered assault under the right conditions.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Losers whose entire identity is defined by the tiny amount of power they have.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

IRL trolls. Human scum with nothing better to do but shit on others.

Like, get a life.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Run for your local HOA to dismantle and disband it if you have one. Make it your platform and every person who's ever gotten a petty ticket from a nosy nobody will vote for you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

In this area there’s a HOA but most of the people who live here are renters and don’t get a say. This leads to strange regulations that are sometimes impossible to follow.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Can we ban HOAs? You never see a good story about them posted. At best it seems like they lead to boring cookie cutter neighborhoods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Problem is they do serve a purpose. Good for home values (in theory). Bad if you actually want to live in your home.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've actually seen that HOAs fared the worst after stuff like the 2007 crash and took much longer to rebound versus non-HOA properties.

I'll never understand how banning shit like pickup trucks in driveways has any effect on property values. It's not like they're permanent fixtures that persist from one owner to the next.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Many people choose to live in neighborhoods with an HOA and I don't see why they should be forbidden to do that. "I know what's good for you better than you do" ought to require a high burden of proof.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I still have compassion for those who live a HOA and then go on to complain because choosing to live there is a complex decision involving many factors. In some parts of the country, there might be no options to practically avoid a HOA.

“I know what’s good for you” is precisely the ethos of the HOA. I’d have less compassion if housing wasn’t such a tight commodity. In that case, it’s a choice. But I think in the current market it doesn’t always feel like one.

I don’t think an outright ban is the right answer either.

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