Pointless Fines
Let’s just say this, my HOA was $800 when I sold it last month. It’s due to go up to $840 in January. Went up $100 every year since 2015. I bought it at $425 monthly.
Next, I got complaints, 2-3x a week. Thin walls. Neighbor across the hall upstairs would be dropping weights, my downstairs neighbor would call to complain that it was me. I got fined $500 when I was deployed, 7000 miles away for NOISE.
I sent a video showing I was not home at the exact time the noise complaint came in. This happened at least 20 times in the few years I lived there.
My record was full of complaints of exact times I was either working at the hospital or deployed. Oddly the noise complaints never came in when I was home.
I also had carpet and got complaints about “rolling noises.” The plumbing was wrecked. The wall next to my condo flooded inside several times.
I got called at 3 am to hire a plumber to fix it. $700 later, plumber billed the HOA and not me. It was an HOA problem but these fools tried to blame me over and over again.
They did this to me every 6 months for 5 years. Oddly, that thing kept flooding. They never figured out where it was coming from.
I got fined $250 for having a tiny glass bowl in the bbq area, not pool, bbq. No warning. Nothing. I appealed it. They called me to sit in on a board meeting.
My patient had just passed away and I was trying to find family to pick up his body from the VA morgue but here I was explaining and begging the HOA to not fine me $250 for a small bowl.
The number of complaints we had against the HOA was amazing. Completely misappropriating funds, abusing their power on the regular. It was an absolute nightmare. Worst decision of my life to live in that building and deal with that HOA.