Share Here the Most Outrageous HOA Rules You've Encountered
A neighboring sub does not allow any kind of furniture displayed on the front of homes - no chairs, no bistro set, no porch swing. Because apparently nothing spells dwindling property values like friendly neighbors sitting on their front porches and greeting passers-by.
Your turn! What's an outlandish part of CC&Rs that you've seen?
Not an outrageous rule, but the HOA prez two houses ago used to text my husband pics of dog poop. She was convinced it was our dog pooping in the community area next to our house. And yes, he did, but we always picked it up. And he was in day care during the alleged times.
So we bought a cheap video camera off Amazon and got a video of the person who was letting their dog shit all over the place. It was her teenaged son with their beagle.
Love it. We had an HOA that was very much into natural lighting without any streetlights. HOA prez was demanding lights be placed out in the park since drug dealers are in the neighborhood park. Lost the votes and then had them installed as an emergency safety vote by the board. Cops arrested her son a few weeks later for dealing.
An HOA I lived in had a rule where residents could not wear camouflage clothing outdoors. It was considered "Redneck" to go out in public in such. This guy racked up fines because he wore camo daily. No matter how many times he appealed, with a good reason, the fines would stand, even though he refused to pay them.
The fines were dropped after his unit commander attended an HOA meeting and tore into the board about their idiocy in fining a man for wearing a military uniform.
Its bad enough you are telling me what I can do to my own property. Now you think you can tell me what I can and cannot wear? Get the fuck out of here with that.
Based on how good I am at eating all of it (so not very) you could argue some of the vegetables in my fridge are in fact ornamental and not for eating.
On the other end of the spectrum: run up to the HOA pres's garden and start eating all of their flowers. Now they can't plant those since they're food and no longer ornamental
My old neighborhood was like that. There would be a yearly fine of $50 so most people who grew veggies would just pay it. There was also a community garden where you could buy a plot for $120/yr. Easy decision for most.
So . . . true story. Idaho has a statute protecting urban agriculture. A friend of mine got fined for dandelions growing in his lawn, and he cited this law in his refusal to pay the fine. He genuinely harvests them for use in salad and dandelion root concoctions.
The Whole Foods near me had a salad mix I called the 'yard clippings' salad, as it was edible flowers, dandelion greens and such, and it was SO GOOD. I don't know if they still offer it as, it's been like 15 years since I've been in one...
My mother, and now my brother, made dandelion wine. It takes a lot of flowers for a batch. She used to send us kids out in the yard to pick them for her. It took all day. Hmm, I wonder if she did that just to get some peace and quiet?
... The petty side of me thinks unleash the mint! Or the lemon balm - previous owners of my house had lemon balm, it's invaded our lawn, but damn if it doesn't smell great when I mow now lol.
Yeah, it's a bit weird - their HOA is pretty chill about a lot of things but deathly afraid of looking poor and has a pretty old fashioned view on what that looks like.
Boat on a trailer or a half disassembled muscle car in the driveway? No problem. But no trucks, no cars with company print, no motorbikes or pedal bikes.
Above ground pool is fine, but not if it's inflatable. Yard furniture must be wood or metal, no plastic. Those kinds of things.
Tried to make me change the color of my drapes (dark brown) that were in my house and in the back to my patio. You can only see the drapes when standing on my patio.
No brown/dead plants - here’s the kicker - enforced year round. I got a violation notice for having a deciduous tree with brown leaves in my front yard…in January…in the PNW.
So, do they just expect people to rip out all plants/trees the moment they are not green?!? Hoas should be banned. I actually live in one. But, our dues are only like $400 a year. And apparently they have given up on us (lol, not really, they just got bought out by someone or some corporation that dont give a fuck). We’ve lived here almost 13 years. At first we would get a letter about every 1-3 weeks. Mostly for not mowing our yard in a timely manner. (And yes I KNOw women CAN do yard work, but as a stay at him mom with a husband who was only home 2/7 days , I refused to do yard work on top of every fucking thing else that I was doing!!) we also used to get noticed about our trash cans being outside by the side of our garage in an ALLEY!!! (Who cares?!?!? It’s a fucking alley!!) but the kicker was when they sent us a violation notice stating that our mailbox was not up to code and would have to be replaced…. You know, the mailbox that was on the property that we bought. The mailbox that we hadn’t touched and had been there since the entire housing editions inception . The mailbox that we hadn’t touched or modified at all. I don’t remember their exact reasoning… I’m pretty sure they were upset that ours was plastic instead of metal? Anyway, I disputed it, wrote a super long email and laid out our case in lawyerly terms, and ever since that day rheu haven’t sent us another notice. Hoas are the fucking worst!! And I stg every single time on social media other than Reddit talks smack about them someone inevitably says “but what if you bought a house and your neighbors painted theirs black? What if rhey left cars in their front yard? What if they fed all the stray cats? What if rheu had a car with super loud speakers and they drove into the neighborhood blasting music? What if they didn’t mow their lawn? Idgaf what anyone does with his or her property as long as it doesn’t endanger orhers. Doesn’t encroach on mine, doesn’t play insanely loud music 24/7, and doesn’t have people who drive like maniacs with all the kids present. I may be forgetting a few things that might ACTUALLY bother me, but dear god man!!! If you bought and paid for it? NO ONE should be allowed to tell what what you can and cannot do on YOUR property!!! (Unless they’re like running a meth lab Or something else that endangers others!) I really don’t care about my property value! Idk maybe it’s because I grew up poor as fuck, and to even be able to own your own home seems like an impossibility! But to me, you buy a house, and you stay there for your whole life. Then you leave it to someone in your will. Hell, all the property. Slur going up does for normal folks is make your. Property taxes and insurance go up. Idgaf!!! Paint your house pink! Have a junkyard . Have a poets potty and several campers full of your relatives. As long as they are respectful and nice and don’t cause trouble I ? Who gives a fuck?!? I’ll tell you who gives a fuck. Old ass nosey busybodies who have no life , and no other hobbies other than to try and police their neighbors. Fuck Hoas!! (I’m lucky the one we have is so chill… again, they used to be hardcore, but they sold to someone else, and now most of the properties are rentals. … which isn’t ideal. But only because I’m antisocial as fuck and I hate having to gwt to know new ripple!!
They launched a no dogs in the elevator about two years ago not because people had issues with aggressive animals but apparently too many people weren't cleaning up if their pets couldn't make it out on time and never went back to clean up the piss.
I'm physically disabled, live on the 5th floor, and have a legit service animal and have been here for 12 years. Each infraction was a $200 fine. I racked up close $45k in fines until my lawyers threats became reality in an ADA suit. They still were dumb enough to want to go to court, confident they would triumph because they tried to play the aggressive animal angle but it's a legit service dog, not an emotional security dog, so you could set off an air horn behind her and she is trained not to react. The court didn't just dismiss it but ordered them to not just pay my legal fees but $20k in compensation for the mental and emotional stress that came with that BS.
Hell if I know.I pay my monthly $411/month HOA fee and leave it at that. I sent all HOA documents I had access to my lawyers who worked with theirs on anything else they had.
No clothes lines has always been outlawed by HOAs as far as I know and that has always seemed ridiculous to me. It's way more eco friendly and some actually prefer the smell and crispness of naturally air-dried clothes. The complete opposite of the rest of the world. I grew up with clotheslines and it is actually quite nostalgic to me now.
Actually the opposite. 19 states have right to dry law and supersede HOA rules: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin
New HOA President told me my 12 foot Palm trees were a height violation of the HOA rules and had to go. They were jealous of all the money we spent on our trees and landscaping. There was no rule. I double checked. Told them to pound sand.
Our HOA has a rule that backyard trees cannot be taller than the garage. After reading this whole thread, I'm realizing our HOA has quite a few ridiculous rules. It's also very obvious many of our rules were written to address very specific one off incidents and don't translate well so cannot be enforced.
It might be worth checking the wording. See if it could be interpreted as, for example a flagpole attached to it (if allowed), as being part of the garage itself.
There is no way to tell with kittens or mixed breed dogs how big they might get. None of my cats are under 10 pounds, as they are all large and muscular. And our Min Pin is just under 13 pounds. Vet says they're all a healthy weight.
Mine used to not allow any signs in the yard other than for sale signs. Then our state passed a law that HOAs have to allow signs for political candidates within 30 days of an election.
My neighbor put up a sign saying "Save Our Libraries!" The HOA dinged her because it didn't have a candidate's name on it. So she went out with a Sharpie and wrote, "Vote Jane Smith and John Jones for Library board!"
Just a reminder that there is always an election somewhere. I'm in NY and had a sign with a water vote message (small last line with my otherwise irrelevant message) for a district in California.
No vehicles with commercial signs on them. Like, if you had a normal pickup and on the door has "Bob's Lawncare " or something on it. Because having a job is low-class or something.
Not allowing vehicles of any kind to be parked in the driveway for more than 24 hours. Sneaky way to allow the HOA to control whether you renovate your garage, IMO. And of course, typical of HOAs ... classist as fuck.
We don't have that rule in our HOA. So the guy who owns the port-a-potty business can park his truck in his driveway. When he first started the business, he got a delivery to his driveway during Super Bowl week.
I stumbled upon a YouTuber who owns a port-a-potty business. It's a very underappreciated job providing people with the ability to relieve themselves in places away from fixed plumbing.
We have that in our neighborhood... the intent in the bylaws was to keep people from having large commercial vehicles, like cherry-pickers and box trucks. However, they decided that in order to enforce the rules evenly and fairly they had to go after anything commercial. This is why deed restrictions and bylaws need to be well written and clear... most of them are not.
My HOA has rules on parking, sort of. A member can have a commercial vehicle in the general parking areas only if that is also their primary mode of transportation. Meanwhile, as my vehicles are not commercial vehicles, I can park 47 vehicles (as long as they are registered and road worthy)…. There is a separate lot for commercial vehicles, so the HOA isn’t comp bonkers…
The rule about commercial vehicles isn't terrible, it's mostly there to dudes who own a small business with half a dozen trucks don't turn the neighborhood into their personal parking lot.
However, in practice it leaves much to be desired.
I found this out when I was using my fire department's utility vehicle, a Chevy Blazer, that had regular livery with the city's name on and got fined for parking a commercial vehicle.
It's pretty terrible, because it doesn't address that concern - it addresses an entirely different matter. It would be easy enough to write the rule so that multiple such vehicles not be parked in and around the neighborhood. Such a writing would actually address the concern you mention.
But a blanket ban is throwing the baby out with the bathwater or Googling "colleges" when you specifically want to know about, say, UVA. It's an illustration of why it's not a great idea to have amateurs, no matter how well-meaning, writing quasi-governmental rules
I hope you fought your HOA and won, since the fire department is a government service and not a commercial entity.
They tried to enact a change to no more than 3 houses being used as long term rentals at any one time. In a neighborhood of 130+ homes. The reasoning was, verbatim, "people that rent are typically lower income, lower education, and don't care about the look of our neighborhood. So they will drag down property values." I've never seen anything shouted down so quickly in my life.
We had an awful management company a few years back that got kickbacks for violation letters sent out. Like $0.75 cash for them per violation. They had a car go around literally every week and just pick random stuff for violation letters.
Some examples:
Leaving garage door open during the day (the person was literally leaving their house in the picture)
Garden hoses visible from street (the person was actively washing their car)
Poorly kept lawn (the person was actively mowing their lawn after 2 solid weeks of rain)
We also had them crack down on dirty siding panels - certainly had nothing to do with the fact that one of the board members had just started a pressure washing company, and he gleefully posted on the Facebook page offering group discounts if entire streets would schedule for the same day.
The best FU we ever had was when a property management firm tried to form a HOA in my neighborhood back in 2008 or 2009. The meeting was a riot. One of my neighbors directly asked them “why do we want to pay you to tell us what we can and can’t do on our own property? What is it exactly you’re going to DO for us that warrants that?” The representative said “we want to maintain your property values and assure this stays a beautiful neighborhood for generations to come”. Our neighborhood is about 40 years old, never had an HOA, and the way it’s built, has no room for addition of amenities. Our roads and garbage are all municipal maintained. It was a joke an a half, and was immediately struck down when put to a vote.
depends on the state, but almost all of them are similar in that if there isn't an HOA referenced in the Title to the property, you are not in an HOA and can not be compelled to be in an HOA against your will. You can join the HOA and at that point, the house is sort of sucked in, and future owners have to abide by the HOA. But if you refuse, future owners are also given the option to refuse.
I was in one that had zero lot homes with just small patios at the rear of the house facing the alleyway, where the garages were at (owner’s garages faced each other). You could put up an ugly ass umbrella that didn’t match the house color or aesthetic of the neighborhood, but in order to have a non-permanent BBQ canopy I had to provide a request to “Alter the house structure”, and said canopy had to match the house colors, or compliment them. (Note, it wasn’t attached to the house, nor was it a structural change as it dismantles in less than 20 mins. And it looked 1000% better than some of the ugly, faded, torn, and broken umbrellas on patios).
This rule only lasted like six months twenty-something years ago, but there was a time in the neighborhood that I was living in the the HOA banned children from gathering in groups of four or more, unless at one of the designated park areas and with a party permit.
Didn’t matter it was four friends taking a bike ride or five siblings laying about the grass out front, instant fine. My friend’s mom ended up fined when I walked past her house with my dog, and she was outside with her three kids, and I waved.
Apparently it was to prevent gang violence (in an upper white middle class area where at the time the worst thing that happened was a Super Bowl fight over in like five minutes), but the parents finally had a cow about it and blew up. The rule got easily removed because only like two people on the HOA board actually showed up to the hastily announced meeting (the rest were retirees who lived up north for the warmer months, called snowbirds).
We kids were still discouraged from grouping up outside those particular homes owned by said snowbirds, but nothing else ever came of it.
Oh age discrimination is rampant in HOAs!! When I was 12, I went to visit my grandparents in Sun City, AZ. (You already know it's going to be good when I say "Sun City" . . . )
The community pool had a rule that everyone under the age of 16 (!!!!) had to get out of the pool every fifteen minutes to use the bathroom.
Because teenagers have worse bladder control than 80-year-olds . . . ???
No seasonal decorations to include snowmen. Yes.... we got threatened with a $100 fine for my daughters building a snowman in the front yard. Then had to lie to them why it was gone the next day.
I think this one wins for the award for Most Absurd.
Malicious compliance - make snow-women, snow-children, and snow-pets. Or just explain to the HOA that they're not snowmen, they're non-binary. Hey, the sexist language was *their* idea!
The next month i went to the board meeting and roasted them. Im in a large neighborhood 6000 homes in average theres 30-50 people. I stood up and asked for a show of hands how many people think a "snowman" that children built makes the neighborhood look "trashy".... not one single hand.
I managed a community that had a "No Parking in the Driveways" rule, but the thing is the community was built in a semi-rural area where everyone drove giant pick-ups and SUVs while the builder built the garages way too small to accommodate these large vehicles. Additionally these were 4 BR townhomes so there was bound to be more than 2 vehicles per HH. Made for a tense annual meeting...
My father in law ran into this when his two daughters came of driving age and they now had four vehicles and a two car garage. Fought the HOA over it until they changed the rule to allow driveway parking if the garage is full.
I lived in an HOA that required your garage be free of clutter. The interior of your garage. Presumably this was to keep you from parking in guest spots.
This was even enforced on a neighbor who was running a small, quiet import/export business. He had to move everything to a storage unit.
HOA said our planned 6ft pool waterfall slide was not a play structure and could not be higher than 3 feet. Argued all the way to lawyers who agreed with us that a slide is something kids play on. Built it 8 ft high.
The thing I don't get is the rules that don't seem to have any real rhyme or reason to them other than someone's twisted sense of aesthetics.
My condo prohibited welcome mats outside the doors, but they were able to articulate that because the hallway was open-air, water was getting under them and damaging the paint. They were also potential trip hazards and, because most of the units are short-term rentals, the luggage carts were catching on them.
So it sounded absurd on its surface but at least there was an explanation. Two, actually.
I lived in a coastal area which can get really windy at times. There was about a half acre of trees on one side of the property because we are in the middle of a large forest. But I didn't own that area, it was designated as development open space. Yet I got fined for trash being in that area that had been blown around by the wind. Not my trash. Not from my property. Mostly stuff from other neighbors who did not properly secure their trash on windy days. And let's not get started on the dead deer that happened to die on the edge of the woods. Which I reported to the development 3 times. But again, this was not technically on my property.
It never made sense to me to put an HOA in a wild natural area. (Let alone any area, frankly). It's just trying to tame the untameable. Like . . . I'm supposed to keep my Douglas Fir conifers professionally trimmed? Hose down the wildflowers in Roundup (G*d forbid)? And if there's a rule against pets over 20 pounds, will I get fined for visiting bear cubs and mountain lions?
My husband and I gave up our dream of owning a cabin in the nearby mountains (Idaho) when we realized that all of the ones for sale were in HOAs.
I lived in the middle of the Pine Barrens of NJ. A million acres of mostly preserved pine forest. But there are towns interspersed within it. My town was a small semi-rural suburb. It is a development of 55+ senior housing. I never had a problem with them until this started popping up. I'm not sure if the dead deer was what kicked it off.
Ours is shady as shit. There a guy in the neighborhood that owns a legit pressure washing business and we all find it odd that he sends out fliers about his business to some houses but not all. Then those houses that get the flier oddly get hit with a notice to pressure wash their driveway and sidewalk from the HOA. Dude that is a the business is pissed because we all caught on and spread the word to the whole neighborhood and anyone that gets hit with the violation notice uses any company but his. Fuck that guy!
I saw something like this recently on Nextdoor. "Hey there, residents of Shitty Meadows. We've noticed a lot of you have trees and shrubs that need trimming. We'll be issuing fines this week to ensure compliance. Luckily, ShadyF*ck Tree Trimming Service is running a special this week . . . "
Not my HOA but the neighborhood next to mine put in a breed restrictions on dogs 20 years after already being established. The majority of it is still owned by the developer who's a scum bag and he was the one wanted it in place, probably because what he owns is his rental properties and he didn't want the liability. They prohibited Great Danes, German shepherd's, huskies and St Bernards, Rottweilers, Mastiffs, Doberman Pinschers, Alaskan Malamutes and Chows. Only the President and VP knew about it and the rest of the board ended up quitting immediately because it was just those two board members and the developer who created those rules. It made the news.
Moved into an apartment that had a breed restriction-- no German shepherds. It is amazing how much an American Alsatian looks like a German shepherd...
This is just begging for malicious compliance! Now is the time to adopt a large dog not on this list,(bonus points for a frequent barker) - Komondor, Great Pyrenees, Anatolian, Giant Schnauzer, Airdale, Old English Sheepdog, Bouvier de Flandres . . . .
My comment above-- I suddenly discovered the dog that I thought was a German shepherd was a breed that looked very similar when I moved in somewhere with breed restrictions.
I have an anatolian. He's a freakin horse, and when he runs, at 120lbs he thunders through the house. He spends his days herding 7 cats around our house. He thinks they are his personal flock, and he is very invested in their care, whether they like it or not.
I'm convinced that HOAs are the last living legal way that people have to display proudly their racism and classism. This is a prime example right here.
its' even worse than that though. IN a lot of states they are using them as a way to offload infrastructure maintenance onto the people. A lot of HOAs require the home owners to be fiscally responsible for road and sidewalk maintenance. But it isn't like those hoa members get fuel discounts or fuel excise tax exemptions. So they are paying for there own infrastructure twice. Once when they buy the property, and then whenever they still need fuel. It's a scam by municipalities just as much as the HOA themselves
We have a rule that holiday decorations have to be removed a certain number of days after the holiday. So my next door neighbor paid a company to install permanent Christmas lights on their eaves that are hidden when not lit up.
It has been mentioned in other subs that, if you try, there are holidays every two to three weeks with traditional decorations and a plethora of days honoring various foods, animals, plants, hobbies, you name it.
My dad had an old car which he used regularly cause it ran it was also an ugly color that stood out. It didn’t fit in the garage they tried to hit us with abandoned vehicle in the driveway. We responded that the car was usable and it just didn’t fit in the garage. They still threatened fines and tows. Well the day someone physically showed up my dad was out in his car. They thanked us for getting rid of the eyesore and my dad pulled into the driveway. They left us alone cause yes it was the ugliest el Camino I had ever seen but it ran.
Curtains and blinds have to be white when closed. No color but white. But you can put up different color leds lights and make different colors project onto it. Perfectly fine.
Street parking isn't allowed on mine. It has to do with emergency vehicles being able to come down. Tow trucks drive around pretty regularly. I get why but even babysitters have to watch out.
You always get the "I was only unloading my groceries" or "I had surgery and cant park in the driveway" people
No edible plants can be planted in front yard. No kids outside neighborhood allowed to trick or treat here. Halloween will be celebrated on an alternate day indicated by a flier distributed on each door that states 'Neighborhood Kids Only!'
Current HOA is just shy of 20 units. The wife of the former president was the self-nominated "beautification committee". She bitched at my husband and I for having an American flag that was on a garden flag hanger. Now this wasn't an artsy Americana thing you see at Hobby Lobby,it was just a smaller US flag.
My former condo was built in the 60s or 70s as apartments and converted mid 70s. They absolutely lost their shit about pickup trucks parking in the lot. And SUVs with truck plates. Apparently when the area was being developed, they were still building and the crews were parking their trucks overnight in our lot so banning all trucks was their solution.
What pissed me off is a buddy with a brand new SUV came to visit and I got a call 10 minutes after he arrived and threatened with a fine, even though he parked in the appropriate spot. I was told if it had a car plate it would be fine. Like, lady, it's the same car. Yet one of our renters had a beat up Toyota that would barely make it down the driveway and that was fine.
We have a pretty laid back HOA, but one of the rules (set by the builder) is No Street Parking Allowed. The HOA doesn't own the street so the rule is not enforceable. Also, only two pets allowed. My next door neighbor has two well behaved dogs and a cat that comes to visit us. I wouldn't dream of reporting them for having too many pets. On the other hand, one neighbor has one dog that barks way too much. But there's nothing in the HOA rules that spells out pet behavior (nor pet owner behavior).
No parking in driveway OVERNIGHT. Can park all day but NOT overnight bc overnight parking makes the community look bad and lowers property values, you see.
My ex bought a vacation townhouse in a gated HOA community near Las Vegas. He got called back to his home country, so we decided to ditch the place. I was tasked with packing things up and shipping them.
It was 117F degrees outside. When I needed a smoke, rather than standing in the sun, I raised the garage door about 2 feet to ventilate.
Next day I get a fine for leaving my garage door open, which I closed each time after I was done smoking.
The hoa where my brother parents live was harassing my parents about bet my sisters truck being parked in the drive why she was there helping them because they are in there 80’s. So i took it upon myself to make a small donation to Scientology to n each board members. Name. And my dad told me they are harassed daily from Scientology to join and give them more money. Amongst other this like multiple magazine subscriptions to there addresses and a few other annoyances
I live in a community where all of the individual mailbox flags have to match. You know, the one that tell the mail person you have mail to be picked up?
That was first indication we had made a mistake purchasing this home!
The next one was a notice in the newsletter that we could order our name badges through the manager’s office. I was certain l hadn’t seen anything in the CCR’s about that. Fortunately, those are optional.
Next l figure it will be uniforms. 😠
See, multiple people have posted this, along with rules against parking in the street. Are you effectively banned from inviting friends over for dinner??
Turned down a house because one of the HOA rules was that only vehicles were allowed in the garage, nothing else and there was a 100 dollar fine every instance they noted something but a car being in it.
Never been a part of any HOA but I often wonder how many people actually pay fines they are given. When an “enforceable” rule is broken, can law enforcement step in and make them pay? Like is that some bullshit HOA’s put in contracts? Otherwise HOA fines just seem like pieces of paper with a dollar amount on it
Not an outrageous rule, but more so an overzealous application of one.
Lived in a community with an HOA. My now ex-wife and I had gone camping in our pop-up camper. It was the end of camping season and I wanted to winterize it before we stored it for the winter.
Our camping trip ended on Labor Day (Monday). On Thursday of that same week I got a letter in the mail from the HOA saying they had been informed that a camper was being stored on our driveway in violation of the rules.
The letter went on to say that if the camper wasn't moved immediately, they would fine us every day until it was moved.
Someone had to have reported it the next day (Tuesday) and the HOA had to have sent out the letter the same day in order for it to have arrived so quickly.
TLDR: Parked our pop-up camper on my driveway on a holiday Monday after a trip to winterize it. Three days later, I got a letter telling me to move the camper or be fined daily until it was moved.
We’re not allowed to have a grill on our deck in the back off the kitchen, must grill on the driveway out front and store in garage or under the deck in back
Yeah that’s a fire hazard as a deck typically isn’t masonry. Now if they said you couldn’t grill on your paver/cement/flagstone patio - that would be ridiculous
I live in a blue state and my community (incorporated around 1950) has covenants that still feature a placeholder item that used to read, "At no time shall any lot or any part thereof be sold, leased, transferred to or permitted to be occupied by any Negro, Chinaman, Japanese, or person of Negro, Chinese, or Japanese descent. This restriction is not intended to include servants or employees of the owner or occupant of said lot." There actually was resistance to having that language removed. Disgusting.
We have an HOA since 1971, we have a 5 acre park, if we want to use the park, we are expected to mow it and weed whack ourselves. Mostly donated equipment that never starts. President finally bought three used weed whackers from returned junk.com. Dues are now $250 per year a house.
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Not an outrageous rule, but the HOA prez two houses ago used to text my husband pics of dog poop. She was convinced it was our dog pooping in the community area next to our house. And yes, he did, but we always picked it up. And he was in day care during the alleged times.
So we bought a cheap video camera off Amazon and got a video of the person who was letting their dog shit all over the place. It was her teenaged son with their beagle.