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The original was posted on /r/fuckhoa by /u/cannacat420 on 2023-08-10 05:44:41.
My HOA created 'clubs' for this complex. These are how the HOA defines the 'clubs':
Grill Club: The name implies that it's community event where it's a grilling get-together, but oh no. It's actual purpose? Purpose is to oversee the grills to ensure approved HOA usage, and to hand out fines for any violations if one of the 12 rules on how how to use a grill at the complex is broken. You must register to use a grill via a phone app and reserve a time, can only use the grill for 2 hours between the hours of 8am to 6pm. And many other rules. 12 rules. Just to use a grill.
Parking Club: Patrolling the parking lot to hand out fines to anyone who isn't parked correctly, or has a parking permit sticker on the wrong side of the windshield. Anyone who has any parking violation, including the parking permit sticker on the wrong side of the windshield, is booted and towed with costs being the owner's responsibility.
Garden Club: To oversee the gardens to make sure that only approved plants are planted, which can only be planted by the HOA, as no one else is allowed to plant any plant on the complex. Anyone who attempts to plant something is automatically fined with the plantings removed immediately.
Photography Club: Walking around the complex to take photos of violations in order to hand out fines.
Oh and our HOA monthly fees were raised in order to support these new "amenities" (aka fine clubs for busy bodies who have nothing better to do with their lives than to control how other people live theirs).
These clubs sound so much fun that I think I'll join!!! (jkjkjk)
And unfortunately, there's a lack of interested among other owners running for the board as either they don't care, are complacent, or too afraid of crossing the authoritarian HOA. One HOA board member is a real estate investor who doesn't even live on the complex, owns over 10 units, and has 1 vote per unit so he's constantly voting himself and his cronies in.