That’s how one frustrated homeowner describes his HOA. I can understand his frustration. A relative of mine with a back problem that made yard work especially difficult received repeated ugly letters from the HOA when weeds grew higher than 3 or 4 inches above ground. It was silly and annoying. Problem is, when you agree to be part of an HOA, you agree to live by its rules and pay the fee. Buyer beware.
In Huntersville, Jim Lane has filed a lawsuit against the homeowner’s association in the Gilead Ridge community, where he owns a townhome. Lane says the association improperly fined him more than $7,000 for planting pansies in a lot across the street from his house. But the lawsuit he filed in civil court details a laundry list of problems he’s had with the association – fines for seemingly insignificant landscaping violations, and members of the association sitting outside his house during a party to “ensure the plaintiff was not telling untruths about the board.”
Lane, who says he’s been shouted down at homeowners association meetings, claims the association has been hijacked. “They ought to be Somali pirates,” he told the Observer.
