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HOA fines man over handing out water in heat (local12.com)

submitted 3 days ago by M0oP0o@mander.xyz to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30242210

A homeowner in Goodyear, Arizona is locked in a dispute with his homeowner's association over his practice of distributing free cold water from his driveway.

Odd this was not already cross posted...

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Taking the right steps, HOAs are elected. This shit is what happens when election participation is low.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In this case they did vote them out, then the HOA said the vote was not valid and tossed the vote out.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/west-valley-man-fined-for-giving-out-free-water-bottles-calls-for-hoa-board-step-down/75-db277d3b-8e0a-4d33-bf52-093967ea9a83

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The next step would be to file a lawsuit to decertify the HOA for violating the law.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry best the us can to is kirkland brand gestapo. (I agree that yes, this needs to go to court)

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The fun trick with this is when the HoA defends themselves there's usually a clause that allows them to charge folks within the HoA to pay for legal bills, aka you.

So you have to pay for the HoA to defend itself against you filing a lawsuit about how it is violating your laws. While also paying for your side of the lawsuit too.

(This is of course all depending on the nature of what youre filing for and specifically who it is against, but it's just another example of why HoA's are useless profit generation for those that run the HoA. Specially if its a mega-corp owned HoA like Sentry)

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