Our hoa is getting sued. They replaced the old board a year ago and that was a legal battle in itself. The new board is trying to fix all the mess they inherited. They passed one vote regardless of how many lots you owned. One guy owned 200 and had 200 votes at each election. He is suing our hoa because he says the deed restrictions for his lots say he only owed $1.25 in monthly hoa fees. The old board raised it to $25 without doing it properly and he wants backpay for the last 10 years to the amount of $200k. Now they are in a rush to update deed restrictions to reflect price increase so there are no other lawsuits. If they keep getting sued they will have to declare bankruptcy and hoa will cease to exist. What a hot mess

Never a problem here.

Some 'fuzzy' math going on here.

We went through a rough spot several years ago. All is now calm in our subdivision.

Your HOA could easily lose this case if the individual has a good lawyer

The HOA in the neighborhood across the creek from us lost a big case against one of the landowners
The landowner wanted to expand all the way to the creek instead of 100ft short of it
They actually didn�t simply lose; they chose not to contest due to the expense of enforcing their deed restrictions

HOAs are like a big dog with a loud bark, but no bite

If challenged with a potentially expensive lawsuit, they will tuck their tails and whimper

I enjoy hearing about HOAs being sued. I hope they all fail

The one in pecan plantation was a mess when I lived there. Our little 3 house development now with DNRs and a process to handle variances is great. We have been at total peace for 11 years.

Our hoa is pretty chill . Don�t live like trailer trash and ask before you build a structure . It gets hairy when the old men get into a squabble and it turns into a pishing match . Other than that no issues.

If I read the newspaper right they settled for $200k but other people started suing as well. They are trying to fix this before they go bankrupt.

I live in Sun City Georgetown. Our HOA currently has about 8000 homes. Build out is 10,000. Been here 6 years; overall no problems. Everything is kept up and looks like a park. HOA owns the three golf courses inside the community.

When I was in pecan there was a lawsuit going on over RV parking. Different areas had different rules. Rather than read the restrictions for their area they would see someone else in neighborhood with one and assume it was ok. There is a similar bunch of bickering going on in the subdivision I back up to over out buildings. Some houses predated the annexation of the neighborhood and were exempt on their ridiculous looking stuff they put in their yard then new people move in and want to do the same. There is always that old Codger who figures he bought the place so he can do whatever neighbor be damned. In the case in the neighborhood we border it's a hippy who runs wild trashing up his place with all types of nonsense. I'm sure the neighbors to him will take a beating at sell time as nobody wants to live near it. Everyone hates HOA and cnr until a dirty slob moves next door.

I would be very curious to take a close look at your covenants. I was our HOA president for 10 years and we were about as chilled as any HOA. In our covenants which you signed when you bought your house oh and by the way most don't read then when there is an issue they play dumb. Anyway ours said we were protected up to 2,000,000 and after that each homeowner were responsible for an equal share. I can tell you most covenants are boilerplate agreements so I would check yours to see if that clause is there because there is a good chance it is. I don't know if you are self managed or you have a management company but I would be checking what you signed.

We have a management company.

I lived without one for fifteen years. It was awesome. I moved. I have one now. I don�t like them. They can kiss my arse.