r/JustNoHOA

I will start this off by saying; Yes, I have cameras. Yes they caught her. The reason I didn’t bother checking them when the alert on my phone went off, is because this happened around the time another guy on my street normally goes on his daily run. And no, I’m not part of any HOA. I am primarily noting all of this as an extra layer of documentation.

Today I came home from work on my break, and caught a woman screwing with my gate lock, trying to gain entry to my back yard. Now, I have a girlfriend who has two kids that live with me, and two dogs, so I do not screw around with people I don’t know trying to gain entry to any part of my property for any reason. Seeing her doing this as I was pulling into the driveway that connects to my backyard gate, I pulled my truck right up to her and got out, gun holstered but holster opened. (Leather holster with buttoned flap)

She was quick to explain that she was part of an HOA and that she was attempting to perform an investigation. I basically told her that I was not part of her HOA and to get off my property, or the police would be called. She begrudgingly complied. After attempting to argue with me.

Edit, since I’ve already had two people tell me to report it to the police, but I forgot to put it on here: I already did. Had em meet me down where I work since I do work close to home, I gave them a copy of the footage and was told “We’ll look into it.” Which in their native language roughly translated, generally means “We ain’t gonna do shit.”

Hey everyone, I need to vent. We moved into a brand new home in 2023 after 1.5 years of waiting for the build. In December 2024, my wife and I just wanted to build a solid wood privacy fence on our corner lot. But when I went to the HOA portal, it forced you to agree to a 4 or 5-foot wrought iron fence.

So, I looked at the fence rules, and because of that, I had to pull the governing documents. Because I pulled those documents, I started seeing other documents.

What did I find at the bottom of the rabbit hole?
• A Board that was amending our Declarations without any votes in Sept 2024
• Bylaws that magically slashed the quorum requirements from two-thirds down to 25%, then 10%, and then just 5%
• A developer that had control of the board for 16 years—way past what the governing CC&Rs allowed
• The homeowner “transition” happened just after the falsified documents, and those homeowners who made it on the board without proper quorum/votes refuse to reset and do it correctly (power hungry)
So we filed a lawsuit against the HOA in September, because we had to…
• An additional item in the falsified documents was a 1-year statute of limitations setting to challenge any governing documents (What the actual F\*?)

**But wait, it gets better.** Remember the fence that started all of this? The HOA actually approved our fence last May! But an ACC member didn't like that we got approval, threw a fit, and started a petition. They got nearly every neighbor around me to sign it and dragged the Town into the mess. So now, our fence is sitting in a second legal battle with the Town.

The court system and lawyers move like molasses. We couldn’t even get an ex parte TRO, and the court just ignores us while we're stuck fighting on two fronts.

Has anyone else pulled a single thread on an HOA rule and accidentally uncovered a massive, multi-year mess?

Tell me I'm not the only one who turned into an amateur legal investigator just to get some backyard privacy.

HOA size (just under 1000 single family homes)
Texas

Hi I live in a townhome Hoa is 319 month . Due to 2 snow storms there is an assessment of 120 k !! There are demanding each unit pay 634 which is 100.00 mo for 6 months bringing this to 400 mo. Is this legal being we did not approve this spending and what can be done Thank you