Oregon homeowner's association refuses to let bus come into neighborhood to pick up a girl with

[Lee-Lee]

81. That's the kind of people who love HOAs

After one experience living in a community with an HOA I said never again.

What makes it worse is that the only people willing to do the work to run the HOA and enforce the rules, without pay, are the exact types you don’t want doing it. They are all petty, power hungry, arrogant control freaks.

I saw where recently one HOA was requiring all residents to have their garage doors open one day a month, all day, so they could look in and make sure nobody was doing anything “unauthorized” in their garages. Not acting on complaints and checking specific homes, but literally making everyone leave their garage doors wide open all day so they could snoop.

The one I lived in was not bad at first. Then a new board was elected and the 7 member board was dominated by two retired married couples who could both be on the board because both couples owned more than only lot on the development. They got elected because nobody else cares enough to show up for HOA meetings and they usually hold them in the middle of the work day. They immediately started putting in all kinds of new rules- you can only have X model trash can in X color. You can only have X square feet of your lawn landscaped in mulch or pine straw. You can only have X number of pets, only these kinds, only this weight.

I actually had them demand a letter from my very certifying my dog was under 65 pounds.

But those are the kinds of people who thrive on these kinds of things. And since they are the only ones who show up for HOA meetings and elections they end up running things.