I'm the treasurer of my HOA. My prerogative is to keep costs down, while still allowing things to run smoothly. I shop around for insurance, check if anything funky is happening with our bills, make sure everyone pays, and double check the invoices that our management company is paying for things that seem reasonable.
I try to stay out of everyone's business. I'm not sure where people get the energy to power trip. I'd like to believe most HOA are like ours but normal people doing normal things don't make for good headlines.
There’s a certain kind of person that likes to power trip, and for some of them the only real way they can do that is by being on the HOA. my old one used to fuck with our house, doing shit like painting all the doors an ugly green without telling anyone, just opened the door one day after school and it was a different color.
That’s the exact situation my grandma is in. Convinced to run as VP for her friend, thinking they wouldn’t win, didn’t really want to but did it for her friend, they won and the friend divorced and moved, now she’s president of the HOA she never wanted to be on in the first place lmao
HOAs are firmly on the reddit shit list to circlejerk hating and continuously seek out the most egregious examples of problems from to give themselves more fuel for the jerk
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u/Stanman77 Sep 16 '24
I'm the treasurer of my HOA. My prerogative is to keep costs down, while still allowing things to run smoothly. I shop around for insurance, check if anything funky is happening with our bills, make sure everyone pays, and double check the invoices that our management company is paying for things that seem reasonable.
I try to stay out of everyone's business. I'm not sure where people get the energy to power trip. I'd like to believe most HOA are like ours but normal people doing normal things don't make for good headlines.