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Originally Posted by JBones81
Im in an HOA. It has been fine so far...in fact, I have reported a couple neighbors for leaving their dogs outside barking all day, and that has remedied the issue (I work from home, so it's very annoying). But, with that said, I also need to be careful not to piss off the neighbors and get an hoa letter myself
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That's how it begins, it's all benign and fun and games until the HOA elects an enthused karen as their new president, and then you are in a world of trouble...
I for one would want to just go and talk to the neighbors about their dogs instead of farming this "enforcement job" out to a third party. Now, to show that I don't just preach this, we had a neighbor back in NJ who objected senselessly and annoyingly to the new exterior color combination my wife wanted for the house, to the point of harassing and trying to threaten us, so I went over to him and we eventually managed to come to an understanding—I told him I lived with my wife and not him, so that takes care of my priorities about the paint job, but we did agree to change one of the colors slightly, and he stopped the nonsense.
Of course this isn't always possible with people, I'm not naive, but I'd rather keep trying than empowering some kind of local micro-police that can so easily turn into a self-serving body of enforcement, getting themselves on my deed and blackmailing me about petty crap.