Boards, bylaws, and doormats. 27 stories.
A Washington HOA fined homeowners for refusing to install fences under a rule that applied only during a development period that had already ended. The appeals court sided with the homeowners and awarded their attorney fees, leaving the association with a bill and no new fences.
A lawsuit accuses a Nashville HOA board of 'callous indifference' toward the homeowners it was elected to serve. The board's own records are now the central exhibit.
Fined for a small garden fence, a homeowner read the rulebook carefully and then filled his yard with everything the rules did not happen to forbid. The HOA got exactly the letter of its own bylaws.
A Boca Raton HOA is being sued for defamation by a resident it used to govern. The association's choice of words has become a matter of damages.
After a three-year fight, a San Antonio homeowner won more than $32,000 from her HOA — and $12,500 of that came personally from the board president for interfering with her rental contract. Both have since paid.
Neighbors are suing their Orlando homeowners association over where exactly the money has been going. The association's books are now a matter for the court.
A resort island property owners association fined a man for the things he wrote about them online. He is now suing, which is unlikely to improve his standing with the board.
A disabled Navy veteran says her HOA's charges kept appearing and vanishing while she sat locked out of the resident portal for ten months. She sold the condo and is now suing; the association denies everything.
A lawsuit has left homeowners in the Horn Rapids community stuck in limbo while their HOA fights it out. Nobody who bought a house there signed up to be a party to litigation.
A Mesa couple put up a backyard sunshade to survive an Arizona summer and drew a $50 HOA fine for skipping the paperwork. Now the city's zoning code has opinions about it too.
A neighbor talked the HOA into branding a backyard vegetable garden an illegal 'farm.' The complaint collapsed the moment the board learned the harvest had been going, free, to elderly neighbors all summer.
An influencer inherited a home in a Jacksonville 55-plus community, and the HOA is suing to keep her out. The bylaws, it turns out, outrank the will.