Exactly! I am so glad I moved away and live in a regular, non-HOA, neighborhood (now if something can just be done about the guy at the end of the street who burns garbage :) ) I became President of our HOA several years ago; immediately weeded out the waste and started some bylaws to hopefully prevent the abuse of the board. But even with that, a later board managed to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a small project that should have been voted on by the members, according to a new bylaw, but they didn't have the vote and did the project anyway.
Our HOA is a microcosm of a fascistic dictatorship. They treat the residents like sheep and themselves like blessed holy shepherds.
Exactly! I am so glad I moved away and live in a regular, non-HOA, neighborhood (now if something can just be done about the guy at the end of the street who burns garbage :) ) I became President of our HOA several years ago; immediately weeded out the waste and started some bylaws to hopefully prevent the abuse of the board. But even with that, a later board managed to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a small project that should have been voted on by the members, according to a new bylaw, but they didn't have the vote and did the project anyway.