All I'm hearing from the HOA is "we'd rather your children die to preserve our aesthetic"

Her backyard is covered by Trees the real question is who’s in there backyard to even see then report it. HOA’s are weirdo stalkers on a power trip 👀

Imagine paying thousands of dollars for a home, only to have someone tell you what you can and CAN'T do to your home......

I just could never understand how we ever got to a point in this country where you can buy a piece of land, put a house on it and an HOA can tell you what to do with it.

HOA = trash.

1st question when buying a home. Is there an HOA? Yes? Bye...

And this right here is exactly why I would never ever live in a home that has a HOA. There’s no way in hell somebody’s going to tell me what I can and cannot do with my own home.

She said it perfectly; the HOA is more concerned with their kangaroo rules and policies rather than the humans who live there and the enjoyment of their own property. Common sense should rule the day not power hungry tyrants.

“Your fence could saving lives but we don’t like the way it looks. Take it down” - Karen HOA

I hate HOA’s and will never buy a house with joining one required.

NEVER EVER live where there is an HOA!!! My brother got wrote up for having his motor home in his driveway while loading it to go on vacation!! He doesn't park it there on a regular basis, just to get ready to leave on vacation!! HOA's are a bunch of bs!!

When buying a house, just know, HOA='s RUN!!! Huge no no, it's literally an idea of being micro managed while you live, and work.

Fun fact: A HOA is born Everytime a Karen wins a divorce settlement.

As a real estate agent who cares, avoid HOAs like the plague

After recently becoming president of my HOA, I saw the BS the previous board pulled…unfairly targeting people they did not like and making them spend $$$. Lucky, by getting to peek behind the curtain, gaining access to past documentation the Board hid from residents, I was able to right some wrongs. Some people feel they are running their own country. This is why people NEED to be involved.

I have a friend whose on an hoa board. We drove her young daughter to a particular homeowners house for a costume party in the neighborhood. She said they were battling the homeowners over their fence. She only mentioned all this because i commented how i LOVED the wooden fence planks that was housed in black wrought iron with lovely ivy type wrought iron decorations from top to bottom. Was beautiful! I looked at her and said shes stupid. Lol ive know her for over 40 years so i could say that.

You spend so much money on your home only to be told by someone else how to live in it. YAY AMERICA home of the free!

Why is there an HOA? if its my home and I pay taxes on it I should have a right to do as I please , I think the HOA needs to be abolished

Im never buying anything with a HOA I really dont want to go to prison.

Yet another HOA making a problem where there isn’t one. Don’t get rid of the pool fence, get rid of the HOA. Quit buying in HOA’s and they will quit making them. Usually full of Little people on power trips, never a good thing.

HOA board members are typically retired, angry old seniors without a clue.

Never spend your hard-earned money on a house located within an HOA

Owning a home in a HOA neighborhood is like renting a home with a landlord. You still have to do what they want when they want or get out.

Never buy a house with an HOA.

And if a neighbor's kid drowned in their pool, they would no doubt sue them.

When an HOA takes aesthetics more seriously than someone’s insurance and human life, than that board is just a tyrant in disguise

This is one of the reasons I don’t like an HOA, homeowners association cannot use mediation and common sense. Take them to court and sue

Thank you Amy that’s what we need in news people helping people from bullies like this great job

The moment when a HOA member came and told me that I cannot hang clothes for sun drying inside my room was when I knew something was wrong with these people, I am saving resources and making use of sun power to dry my clothes and here they come putting up notice on mt house door and second when I lost my nerve was when my friend's house door knob couldn't be changed to their liking snd it had to look similar to other house to keep it aesthetic!!! Seriously??? What's wrong!

Remember. A small group of Karens is called a complaint. A large group of Karens is called an HOA.

the HOA orders them to take down something required by insurance not to mention that fence serves as a HUGE safety net. The HOA members should be ashamed of themselves that they would rather have aesthetics over the safety and well being of children.

We need an update on this case ASAP!

This sounds like a discrimination case.

Sounds like HOA board members is out to get her

I owned a house with an HOA, once. Never again. My first question when looking at a property is whether or not there is an HOA. If yes, that is an absolute deal killer.

The U.S. is weird. Constantly complaining about the government touching "muh freedoms". But also establish HOAs to micromanage every aspect of your largest investment.

That is crazy, every pool needs a safety fence when children are involved. Many children drown yearly in domestic pools.

Sue the board. And never, EVER buy a home that makes you be part of an HOA

So much for being ‘free’ and ‘my freedom’. In Australia it is a mandatory requirement that every pool has a pool fence installed. Pool fences save many, many lives each year. HOA boards are simply a power trip for weak a/holes.

I don't get it. Buying a house, question #1 - is there HOA? #2 - How many bedrooms? ... That's how important that is. HOA, nope. Bye.

Everyone in the U.S. are very divided politics wise, but one thing I think we ALL can agree on is abolish HOA’s haha

Never, Ever, Never, Never Ever, buy a home with a HOA. I bought a home and stayed in it six months, before I had had enough. They are policemen without badges and robbers without guns! Run Away Fast!

I had to fight with my HOA over my freaking radon mitigation system. Unbelievable.

I lived in an HOA community partly while in my teen years. The head of the association would just enter your backyard or come in your house because he “has the right” as head of the community. And we couldn’t have more than one car parked outside the garage. Hence, my parents moved us

This is yet another reason HOAs should be illegal. It's not anyone else's business what I do on my own property as long as it's legal. Period.

Then if a child drowns everyone complaints that there wasn't a fence.

Pool fence is not an eyesore, it adds value to the property? HOA needs to mind their own business. Homeowners purchased and paid for their own property. Hoa needs to stay out of everybody's business unless crime is involved. Who died and gave them the right to control what people can do with their property. They need to stop collecting nonsense yearly HOA fees from residents in the subdivision. What do they do with the money they collect from everyone, every year? It's not for neighborhood property maintenance or installing fence. Or security system. They really need to stop minding people's business. HOA is the neighborhood government! Don't buy homes in Hoa subdivision, they put liens on people's house . Fees are ridiculous, $800 a year for amenities. For what special features or benefit (for the subdivision resident)? Most of the time, 95 % of the people in the subdivision don't use the amenities that they offer. They built these amenities without asking the residents and slap the cost onto everybody. That lives in the subdivision. I can't beleve how everybody just accept one group of people to boss everyone around in their own subdivision and tell everyone what they can and cannot do with their home and property after they buy the property with their hard earned money. Your house and the land is a constant collateral (if you default on the Hoa fees). The land your house sits on is never yours after you pay off the house. If you default on yearly property tax that never goes away (a lien gets attached to the house). We don't need another form of government in the neighborhood, who is constantly watching you and your house 365 days a year (24/7). People buy house, don't harass homeowners. What they do with their prperty is not your business. Let them enjoy what they have achieved with their hard earned money. Everybody needs to vote the HOA out of their communities.

My friends bought a house in a gated Tampa community two years ago. Two days after they moved in, they received a notice from the HOA in their name about "stains" on the driveway. Same stains pretty much every other house on the block had from trees. It was the most absurd thing I have ever seen. :-/

I would never ever live in a home that has an HOA

Never move into an HOA neighborhood. That's all you need to know. No home is worth the trouble that an HOA could bring.

Petition all neighbors to remove all the HOA members, replace them with sensible members from the neighborhood, and remove the stupid rules they made. And do as the lawyer said, sue them first so once they lose in court they can pay for your court fees.

HOA = neighborhood Nazis

First year after we bought our house in an HOA, the 2 trees in the front yard that were planted by the builder died. I left them there because you are "required" to have 2 trees in your front yard according to HOA rules. When they sent me a letter saying I needed to replace the trees with 2 trees at a cost of $300 each, I said I have 2 trees. They said the trees have to be alive. I said show me in the rules where it says "alive."

It’s basically down to the language in the HOA. The one thing In this story that’s getting twisted is that the HOA is saying you can’t have a fence around the pool, they are saying they have particular types of fences to ensure neighborhood esthetics. This is the good and bad of HOA’s. If the HOA says corner lots are required a particular fence then that’s up to the owner to know that, if the HOA verbiage is not specific to the lot type and requirements of pool versus yard then the owners should file a lawsuit.

The fence actually looks fine and has the added advantage of preventing pets, debris and babies falling accidentally into the water.

Sounds like the HOA has a problem with just this family!

i’ll be damned if I’M buying a nice house like that only to be told i can’t put up a fence around MY pool. HOA’s are the worst

Never buy a home in an HOA.

Nobody should ever buy a home in an HOA. I guess if you don't want any control over your property, but I like having the freedom to do what I want with what I own.

One of my dogs wandered into our pool... if someone hadn’t been home she would have drowned. Shame on these idiots.

I propose a 28th amendment to the Constitution: Prohibition of Home Owner's Associations.

This is what you get when you agree to purchase a house that has a homeowners association. They are not there for you they are there for property value and to roll over your life.

Wow...in Australia it's mandatory to havexa safety fence around pools & is teken seriously. A child can drown in a few minutes of inattention

I’d legit pull the race card if I was her, and I’d tell the hoa either crack down on everyone or expect a lawsuit for discrimination as its unjust to single one person out when many are breaking their rules

move away from HOAs to really own your house. in an HOA, you actually dont own your house

Every indoor pool should have a fence around it. It’s life saving! HOA are nightmares.

The whole ugly sprawling McMansion subdivision is an eyesore, give me a break

This is exactly why we looked for a house in a neighborhood with no hoa. This is ridiculous.

Every HOA member I've met, are power hungry, & mean spirited ppl. 👎 Leave the family alone!

Mental cases… you give a human the smallest amount of power and 99 percent of them will go wild.

Alright, who’s petty Betty wants people to drown? Karen come get your grandma. I grew up in HOA neighborhoods and my dad got in trouble for mowing the lawn without a shirt..so you know what he did? Mowed it with cut-off short shorts, timberlands, a yellow vest and a bright yellow sun hat lmao no complaints after that!

Many HOA boards are run by retired folks and stay at home mom’s. These people tend to have little to do and are a nightmare to deal with. 🤦‍♂️

HOAs should be banned or something... some kind of reform law. Everyone I know that lives in a HOA area always have horrific stories to tell.

I don’t pity the homeowners. Everyone by now should know to never buy a house in an HOA.

I will never buy another home with a HOA.

The HOA, should get a liability agreement that HOA will be liable for any death, accident or claim against homeowners... if they are forced to remove pool fence.

Not sure who’s sillier, the HOA or the people that sign their rights over to an HOA. I think they’re all nuts 😂

So the HOA favors kids’ drowning as long as the neighborhood looks “nice.” Good grief!

I would never buy a house with an HOA. No one is telling me what I can and can’t do to my house and yard

HOA’s need to be banned in the US. There’s absolutely no reason why somebody should have the right to tell you what to do with your property.

never ever understand why someone moves to an HOA controlled area.

Why anyone chooses to live under an HOA regime is beyond me.

The Texas legistlature passed a HOA regulation bill which allows fences around swimming pools.

1: visual aesthetics 2: child safety It's good to see the HOA has their priorities in order.

Tip: Don’t move to a place with HOA or deed restrictions

Why would anybody move into a place with a homeowners association? Just say no to hoa's.

Everything you need to know about the moral character of HOA's and the petty tyrants who run them can be learned from their concern for child safety.

My friend lives in a neighborhood with a HOA and apparently his neighbor was told to take down the ramp he put by the front door steps, which he needs because he is in a wheelchair. Update: friend’s neighbor gets to keep the ramp :)

I know of a home owner in a very exclusive neighborhood in Houston, who installed a side door and was told he needed to remove it. After a long battle with them, he had to remove it but he painted his home in ridiculous colors, purple, chartreuse, pink. It was such an eyesore!!! Turns out, they did not have any rules regarding house color 😝

I would NEVER purchase a home in an area that have a HOA! I don't need the headache involved!

Take it to court and get $10 million. Sue the HELL out of them.

When I hear HOA I imagine someone’s bored nosy mom telling a neighborhood how to live. I would never want to live somewhere with an HOA.

That news agency went all out with flying a helicopter for this segment.

After all these news stories about obnoxious HOAs you would think people would stop buying homes in neighborhoods with an HOA. If they did, then home values in HOA areas would decline and HOAs would disappear very quickly.

Prime example of why you don't buy a home with an HOA.

Rule number one of buying a house. Does it have a HOA? Yes Bye. Never ever buy a property with a HOA.

There could be a 4th possible solution, depend on the state, gather all the homeowners and sue to disban the HOA.

Moral of the story, never buy a home in an HOA.

Omg most cities require a fence around your pool. These HOA's have to go. Why just her fence and not the other corner lot. Sounds like to me that this hoa doesn't like this family

I just watched another one where they wanted the trees down to see a playground... pretty much all I learned is that the HOA want access to your property.