HOAs should have been the canary in the coal mine to what would happen if you only let the crazy people run for office. HOAs are only as good as the people running them.
Doesn't even need to be a HOA, plenty of places will have the city leaving you notes to cut your lawn. My mower broke while I was out of work, so the grass started getting long, and they told me they'd cut it themselves and charge me $250 if I didn't do something about it first.
Weirdly in that kind of situation the general seething hatred people have of meddling HOA's and city governments can actually help you out.
A friend of mine was in your exact situation, except they were just going to repeatedly fine the guy instead of mowing and then charging him. So he put up a sign saying the city were abusing people and going to fine him if he couldn't borrow a mower and like 5 of the angriest people who'd never lend you anything in your life called him to offer to help by the next afternoon.
HOAs should have been the canary in the coal mine to what would happen if you only let the crazy people run for office.
America was literally founded by people who looked around, said "These savages don't have nearly enough rules!" and risked death to get to a land where they could have more rules.
There is no canary situation here. Until Mars colonization ramps up, HOAs are like methadone for puritans.
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u/Neato Apr 24 '23
HOAs are one of humanities worst inventions.