HOA cut my tree down and refuses to acknowledge it
I have the worst HOA you can imagine. I live in SW Florida, and it’s run by a crazy boomer who makes it her life purpose to piss people off. She has spent the last five years suing other homeowners to regain a foot of common area that runs across the back yards of a number of homes, for no apparent reason. She has also repeatedly refused my help with the landscaping, which I have offered for free as a landscape designer.
In October, I came home from work to find three men in my backyard removing the central tree in a row of native hardwoods. These three trees have survived every major hurricane for the last 20 years here, and we've had some pretty bad ones. I was obviously irate.
Since then, our HOA has basically ignored us and given us the run around on why they removed it and why they didn’t notify us. They said the tree was on common area but it was clearly straddling my yard as well, which I thought was illegal to remove without my permission. I’m so angry now that I can’t even drive in and out of the street without becoming furious about this whole thing. The worst part is that if I sue them, my neighbors would have to pay the assessment, which I hate to do.
HOAs in Florida are the worst.