Love it! Great ending. Now if only all HOA’s would go bankrupt!

That’s some big deck energy right there

​@@gwadason971 Nailed It

HOAs are so villainous that we are routing for this guy! 😂

I'm so glad that had a happy ending for this guy and his deck

Your assessment is so accurate that it hurts. 😣

Good news, corporations were deemed 'people' by our government decades ago, in order to get around lobbying laws (if corporations are people then they're allowed to spend their huge amounts of wealth on paying off our congresspeople, because it's a first amendment right to do so). So they can say it's good for 'people' and be totally accurate. Just not what most of us consider people. But we're not the people our government cares about.

Freedom is nothing but propaganda.

Can't say I ever attended a VVE meeting in my old building.

Just a random example of a difference: a seller is required to give the buyer financial statements and meeting minutes of the HOA. The idea that there would be no transparency of what you'd be getting into with an HOA is astonishing.

Born in 1978. Working as a journalist. It made me laugh, too.

2004. 💀

He has a point, 2/30 ppl I know under 35 who own a house.

"The generality doesn't apply to me, an individual, so it doesn't apply!"

@@user-th1pv6ks5ou prob die off heat anyway so at least you don’t have to worry about owning a house…

Apt description.

Thought the exact same thing

The one time in history jury nullification becomes relevant. No reasonable jury would convict you.

​@@Radiodragonofdoom You underestimate the jury.

Concurrent or consecutive sentences?

The worst part of Capitalism.

@@mikemann1960 I mean, the conditions of workers in global south countries is pretty not great. There are just a lot of worst parts lmao

There is some truth to that. I've lived in two neighborhoods with HOAs and they've both been pretty hands off, but then people complain that they don't do anything or enforce anything. And if you don't have one at all, people endlessly complain about their neighbors. There's just no pleasing people!

lool

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

And Mel Gibson

Also the answer to the question "what if libertarians lived in communes?"

FFS do you mean PAINTER?

@@DrBjaminwhy would painters put up planters? But why would papers do anything. Sure you can three hole punch a piece of paper and put it in a notebook but papers rarely do anything on their own. Never, I meant never.

​@@DrBjaminI think I lost braincells 😂

I hope he didn’t pay

@@nicolenotizieeamici And now his house is worth 5 dollars.

I feel this. On a much smaller level I got in trouble from my landlord for having dog poop out front of my studio. I do own a dog but my dog is 20 lbs. The shits out front were dinosized. Hm. I wonder why they sent me the email about the poop and not the guy next door who owns a great dane eh? I sent a photo of my dog's poop for comparison. I showed them that a freshly laid 20lb dog poop is literal acorns compared to the giant shits out front of my place and hinted "perhaps a larger breed, say a Great Dane, is responsible?". They never replied but I never got another complaint from them again either so I think they got the idea. For storytelling purposes it would have been amazing if you'd saved the 'he doesn't own a dog' for the very last lol.

This is awful

I wonder if the dog belonged to one of the HOA members. 🤔

Don't post this unless the statute of limitation has passed, some guy may want to come after you

Holy shit thats iconic. Did he get away with it?? If so, thats actually a good tactic. If the hoa doesnt bar people from fucking up your property and fining you for small infractions, then people could use the same lack of regulation against the hoa.

Freezing Round up in an ice tray, then toss the cubes into the yard at night. Ring cameras can’t catch that.

​@Skullair313 the absolute chances of that happening are as close to zero as you can get. The sheer odds of some random schmuck who HAPPENED to be a .. "victim" of Gramp's legendary exploits finding this random comment in a UKposts video about HOAs is astronomically low. Also I doubt people who run HOAs are John Oliver's Demographic. They're mostly conservative arsewipes

@@Skullair313 they'd have to go after my grandfather and he's been dead for years

The fuck? !

They didn’t, they tried.

With this SCOTUS i prefer most ignore their rulings.

Just a normal thing for the US.

But that's just not true. In Shelly v. Krammer SCOTUS specifically held that racially restrictive covenants can't be enforced and federal law prevents HOAs from being overtly discriminatory. Is it true that HOAs can implicitly discriminate? Yes, ofc but that's no different than city government or anywhere else. Bad but nothing special.

Yeah, he said 1988, but he meant 1975.

Practically Anyone can buy a home, just may not be where you want

Honestly, I hope people who have the ability avoid HOAs like the plague. Want to control your neighbourhood with an iron fist? Enjoy empty houses.

I was born in 1991 and bought a home 2 years ago. I 100% made sure there was no HOA. I have no inheritance, just no student loans and living in a relatively cheap area. My house was built in 1930

@@franquil85connget a load of this genius

he's trying to spark a revolution :)

Honestly it should be 45. The only folks my age who own houses also had well off parents who helped them out.

I agree and I was thinking "ouch". haha

​@@unseeliesidhegoddessso right! Either rich parents or they live in the middle of nowhere where homes don't cost as much. That is what my friends did they work from home and live in the small town in the nowheresville Texas 😅.

37 now, and I own a house because A) I married someone who had a duplex we sold to buy one, and B) I've gotten damn luck in the past 4 years with jobs. Otherwise I'd be totally fucked and still stuck in an apartment spending thousands on rent and getting NOTHING back out of it. It really is true that owning a house is a MASSIVE wealth boon for the middle class. Because at least the money going into it comes back out. Either if I move or pass own and my family inherits it. I think it's super shitty we're allowing so many apartments to be made that don't give ownership to tenants and thereby keep them poor.

He might also get a four dollar Cheque to cover the expenses, that way he couldn’t complain, right?

I could see a court letting you go for it was a crime of passion.

Then the HOA could find for having ashes on the ground 😂

Not needed, just call your local neighborhood KillDozer

Ok, so if they foreclose on you and sell your house from under you for $4, does that mean you lose all your money in that home? Like all equity, value etc? So you would have to start from nothing to buy a new home?

Damn! that's why that voice is so righteous and irritating! great job, I too love the voice actor

Put some respect on cyril figuses name

omfg I knew that voice was familiar! and so shit eating...lol

Roe v Wade is so much more important, but I get where you are coming from. It's insane to me too.

It costs money. I can’t afford it!

and the board members are just down the street!! maybe it's the Jar Head in me but Just saying!

We are. This isn't a left or right issue. HOAs are evil to everyone.

@@markusbrauns4274I get that’s important and it’s horrible it’s been repealed. This is more crazy it’s easy to have another kid. It’s not so easy to buy a new home.

we just joined and subsequently managed to purge all our the old board members on our HOA. They were awful. 2 of the 8 have so far put their homes up for sale.

"They had a meeting to vote if it should be put in place and only two people voted for it. Those people were then ostracized to the point they sold their homes and moved." *good*

this happened in my neighborhood as a kid. My dad who is typically never involved in anything went house to house and ran a serious campaign against it. The neighborhood voted against it by just one vote!

@jade Gourley what you do than with tash collections and roads, who fix that?

​​@@viktorasantanaitis8602 The local elected government, who should be doing it in the first place.

OMG. That's complete BS! One townhouse we saw we fell in love with it expect we weren't comfortable with that the siding looked like it was rotted and the roof we had no clue and they couldn't tell us when they expected to fix the wood siding or roof...wow I didn't think a HOA could raise rates that high. I'd be wondering why the f÷÷k are you paying fees if they won't cover exactly why you bought a HOA. I bought a townhouse in a new development (I'm the first phase so living in a construction zone). I hope HOA at least will follow maintaining the exterior.

It was awesome

​@@theAmazingDavidKidd1 my entire thought was what did I just watch

Came back from Last Squeak Tonight. Yes, it's actually as long as he said it was. Man, Chuck E. Cheese's history is fasinating!

I snuck a peek even though I'm just past 40, and you are indeed correct 👍

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

the lack of freedom is what shocks me most! I rent in Australia, but my front garden is a great big vegetable patch - and we're alleged to be really bad on renter rights here! Just disgusting to not have control over a person's own home! Stuff like pools & other dangerous stuff is reasonable to require approval to build (from appropriate authorities who decide the outcome based on safety, not a whim), but just insane they can control the colour of shutters or what trees are allowed in a garden they don't own!

@@mehere8038 I do know certain places in Canada have rules for homeowners.. Some condos require you to have certain curtains and such since they're visible from the street, not have certain items on your balconies, etc.. I don't know if we have anything to this level (maybe gated communities) though

Also renting here in Australia @@mehere8038 but in an apartment block. I have been told I'm not allowed to feed the cockatoos because they hang around and get destructive and we aren't allowed to have washing drying on the balcony but other than that, they have little impact on me. I can't imagine that HOAs provide a hard rubbish collection.

@@Chiater no junk on balconies here is pretty normal too, although it's been modified by government regulations to be nothing visible from the street, which in many cases leads to people enclosing the bottom part with nice looking stuff & hiding junk behind that, one of my neighbours for example has what looks like a gorgous hedge from ground level, but is actually just a piece of fake grass hanging over the railing. I think the landlord, or body corperate if it's an owner, do have the authority to stop it, but they tend not to & things have been made difficult for them in stopping stuff, by legislation that was introduced to combat inappropriate demands by owners & body corperates. I think there's a balance that's needed, yes landlords/bodycorperates/HOA or whatever should have the option of maintaining property values, but this still has to be balanced with people's freedom to control their own living spaces! Controlling what's visible from the street is very different to going onto goggle maps to see what's in someone's backyard & fining them for that!

@@MissIncorrigibleOfOz Try my neighbour's trick if you want washing on your balcony :) A piece of fake grass from bunnings, hung either in front of, or behind the railing seriously looks great - and hides the washing behind it :)). I think the washing thing is pretty common, cause they don't want units to look like traditional images of slums in other countries. I think there is actually something in the rules where they have to provide alternative clothes drying options to be able to enforce it, but I personally see their point on this one & think it's better just to avoid it or hide it if needed. The cockies is a challenging one. I've recently had to stop feeding my familly, but I chose to do that myself, because there was a screamer that moved into the area & it was beyond a joke, dawn every morning, absolute screeching, so I didnt' want to upset my neighbours & knew it would if I didn't stop the feeding, at least for a little while until that stopped, even though it wasn't actually any of my family that were doing it. I miss my cockies! Really hoping I can return to feeding them soon & noise is reducing, so I hope I can. That must be really horrible for you to have been told you are not allowed to feed them! I know how much mine mean to me & yes, they CAN be destructive, but they can be managed too, feeding them doesn't mean they're hanging around being destructive! I really feel for you! pets, including wild ones, make such a difference to mental health don't they! That's really sad they're taking away your ablity to have that connection to nature!!!!!! I hate that! & yeh lol I can't imagine a hard rubbish collection under the circumstances described in the video! Let alone the chance to collect from the hard rubbish! I live next door to 130 units, in a council that offers 1 free on demand hard rubbish collection per year, in addition to a few scheduled general ones. Body corperate in that unit block's attitude was "if council wants to fine us, I'll just start ringing every week & giving a different unit number & booking a once a year free collection". So we've ended up with council just agreeing to schedual it on a set day & rubbish out only 1 day before it (not that people comply with that) & the area next to the bins becoming a weekly hard rubbish collection point, which is pretty cool for foraging :) My most recent was about 20 old records to use for my pouring art. Rather cheaper than the $3 each plywood circles or similar priced canvases! Got a few old mirrors for my garden to make it look bigger & increase reflected light for better growth too, love the hard rubbish at the best of times, but a permenent one 50 metres from my door is awesome :) (especially when it's out of sight & smell from my home)

> slaves for the system for 45 years > gets a 401k > buys own house > gets ruled by a mf that thinks he's a landlord or something

Sociopaths

The way to get rich is to figure out ways to put ppl into debt🤷🏻‍♂️

1. Be born rich. 2. Steal, legally if possible.

There’s a reason so many here go postal and it’s not gun proliferatiion. If it were, Switzerland would have as many incidents per capita. There’s a level of hypervigilance & daily stress in USA you won’t find in other developed countries.

​@annalieff-saxby568 there's also onlyfans

@@ShakaCthulu The main reason Switzerland has safe gun proliferation is because they have mandatory military service. Anyone who has a gun received and adequate amount of training and anyone who couldn't complete that training doesn't own a gun. In essence, they use their military to enact adequate gun control.

I'm going to guess most of those homes are in actual cities where some level of individuality is still permitted

The statistic applied to *new* construction, specifically. I work in a field that gives me a pretty good look at *new* housing construction and most new construction is subdivisions/suburbs. So it's unsettling but not surprising.

Also, best of luck with the home search! No HOA 🤟

Yeah it truly sucks being in Phoenix where every fucking suburb has an HOA. One of the reasons why I hate it here.

There are very few HOA's in rural Indiana where I live. But then again, it's Indiana. I'm the worst neighbor as far as cutting hedges (I don't) or letting trumpet plant overtake my mailbox until it looks like "Little Shop of Horrors". Surprised this hasn't led to a LOT more violent confrontations. If I lost my house...After paying it off over 20 years, I'd be VERY angry.

Nonsense. I live in a vibrant community. Best neighborhood I’ve ever lived in BY FAR, and it’s an HOA.

It’s been the same for nearly ten years he’s been doing this show. We are still here.

Y'ain't wrong

Negativity earns views.

Lmao u right

Pretty sure this show is funded by the government to scare people from immigrating to the US. - it works :D (joke8)

Pat did not sell her house they took it for 3.24 after she had already given them all the late fees and the law cant help because there are not laws to hold them accountable

Worse than that. She didn't even know her house had been sold for $3.24 until an entire year afterwards. And that whole time, she was paying thousands in HOA fines for a house she no longer owned. They likely didn't even give her the small amount of money they paid for the house, just deducted it from her debt. Literally ripped her off. She paid who knows how much to own her home and furnish it, then paid monthly fees to the HOA, then thousands in fines to the HOA, only to lose every cent of investment into her home when the HOA just took it from her for an insultingly low price. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a regular racket they were pulling on new neighbors to basically rob them of all their money and take the property back, only to sell it again to some other victim and repeat the process.

​@@misterb3577 if I were her I'd actually go postal

@@tammygarrett8427 There is 2nd amendment and bet that was open carry state , at that point what more have you to lose ? What jury would convict a person who finally snapped at HOA ?

​@@misterb3577 😊ד

America is a violent and corrupt third world country. If the founding fathers had known what we'd turn into, they probably would've just paid the damn tea tax.

It was one of the best segments they have ever done

I'm kind of surprised how the Chuck E. Cheese episode seems to have taken a Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov level twist; "We thought this segment was going to be much shorter, but then..."

It was fascinating, yes!

tsy

Now that I actually watched the Chuck E Cheese story, I stand by my original comment. That was actually more entertaining that the HOA story.

America: the land of the fee for the home of the enslaved. 😳

First time?? Land of the free is more like "land of the corporate entities that have entire control over almost all aspects of our life but we somehow pretend we have freedom" lol..

You sign up for it. LOL.

But - they can have all they assault rifles they want, so there's that!

No HOA for me! I ripped out my entire lawn and plant fruits and vegetables each year. It may not look as "nice" as a well-manicured lawn, but I don't care. ^_^

Good job supporting your local tyrants

I would look into the drone thing if I were you, cause I'm like 70% sure that's illegal.

The first thing I told the agent as well. No HOA, I don't care if the house looks like a castle with 20 swimming pools. No bloody HOA. How those things are still legal baffles me.

I guess that's true until you are in an HOA

I can't believe this is real. . This is like an April fools joke for the rest of the world to see if we will believe every dystopian thing about the US

I bought my house the same way in 2011 as I only see downside to living in an HOA.

​​@@rebeccasidden5637 they are hell. If I own a house I want to do whatever the hell I want within my rights on MY PROPERTY. Not have some bullshit HOA council on a powertrip govern what I can or can not do.

Same. I refused to even think about them, lead alone look at them. It just isn't worth it, no matter how low the price is.

It is definitely very high in my list as well.

Will always be my number one weed out. The government already controls too much of what I can and can't do on my own property.

Same, closing in 30 days or so and I checked for HOA before ever looking at a place

Was it easy to find a place without HOA? How do you avoid it?

That's nothing. Our hoa in Sacramento decided to raise our fee $100 a year for the past 3 years. We pay $499 a month now... We are so f-ed, we can't afford anywhere else in California. F the hoa, they are f-ing up our f-ing lives.

For those running the HOA, it's not about crushing young people. It's that they are the greediest scumbags on earth wanting to protect their ever precious home's property values, even if your "park bench" really doesn't affect squat.

@@robwisdom4521we moved from the Bay Area to Florida a couple years ago. We only did it for financial reasons. Politics didn’t come into play because that can change drastically in just a couple years. I know it sucks but you might want to look into moving elsewhere. I lived in California and the bay since I was born and was raised there but I wanted to own a nice home. It also helped that there isn’t any state income tax here either which can add up quickly depending on how much you make.

Very similar to what happened to us. The property was still intact, but my wife became very sick and I just overlooked the silly annual fee because we were a bit distracted and missed the payment FOR THE FIRST TIME in 20+ years!~ Terrified my Kids by sending out law enforcement to serve me and after lawyers fees was $1,100+ a bunch of aggravation.

"Still wish the absolute worst for all those involved in kicking us when we were down." ME TOO. Been there with a coop board. Fuck those motherfuckers to hell.

May they burn in hell!!!

Why is ur mom's HOA asking money from you?

@@lilducko cuz his mom fucking died? Are you serious?

Shut up

Government corruption is bad, but privatization corruption is worse.

Oh i agree!!!

The land of the free...

Student loans..medical debt

LOVE how you turned their own tactics against them. Bravo!

Bravo.

Yeah, that selling and moving out piece is crucial. Fuck them then move, because I guarantee they'll retaliate.

That's what's up!!

>you have to understand how to play the game There shouldn't be a game to play is the point.

The Divided States of America, welcome to this abysmal reality.

Money and guns

Im wondering how americans can consider their country "the greatest in the world" at all. It looks nice like a 1st world country but when you know the rules it appears more like a dark age version of a third world country minus the public executions.

As a non-American I wonder why won't US just collapse like every day!

Yeah, Thank fuck I wasn't born in the USA. I *never* want to go there.

what a bizarre story lmao. i hope you and the nepobaby fall in love and mend the rift

Watch out -- you may get into legal jeopardy from the Boomer unless you can prove his son isn't capable of performing his assigned tasks, or is outright not performing them (and is thus engaged in theft of wages from the HOA). BTW, tax-saving books always recommend employing relatives, incld. one's children, in one's real estate management enterprise; since they are employees you can write off all the expenses of hiring, compensating, training, transporting, etc. them on your business's taxes. Private businesses don't have to adhere to all the open-hire, age-at-hire, and non-discrimination rules public ones do. Tread carefully -- what he is doing is legal!

Y'all should have just dissolved the HOA

omg that's awesome

Thats really the only solution. Community activism! Also, the HOA should def. be dissolved.

Fight the Power!

Now That's What I Call Democracy!

😨😨 Your story about that old guy..... wow. You almost sold your soul to the devil. 30k$ on bullcrap imaginary fees. 😨😨.........

I'm shocked you lasted 7 months

Wow America sucks

Tyr, that's horrible.

😢

In that case, everyone living in a bad HOA should do a board revolution and vote to kick the entire board out.

I am so happy that you and your community was able to get together and overthrow the board. As someone who hates HOAs, that warms my heart. Your community's example is the way an HOA should be, a few people from the community looking out for the community, not some corporate a-holes looking to shake people down.

how about dissolve them all because no one should have to pay a mortgage to be micromanaged plus glorified protection racket money

seriously could some start lawyer start a RICO suit over HOAs

Hopefully no one will ask why those each of those 2 people only have 8 fingers now, but hey, there's no law requiring them to explain it.

Believe I heard a Reddit post about someone who inherited their grandparents place. It wasn't apart of the HOA. Didn't stop the HOA from trying to force finds regulations and trying to place a lien on their house with fake paperwork saying that they joined the HOA.

lien on the home

God speed your good fight 👀

Jesus F Christ

If you're going to be a bear ... BE A GRIZZLY! outside the box - fortune favors the bold - go for it. Best of luck!

Yup. You just described the same demand for uniformity that comes from the left and their ilk on a daily basis. Conform or else". Liberalism is a mental disorder.

"The next time she violates our privacy I may very well enact castle doctrine [...]" Good. You Americans have so many guns, at least put them to good use for once.

I was just think that people need to go after the individuals too not just the HOA

Why are you waiting for the next time mate?

@@girasol911zoomThat’s not happening, unless the individual has done something illegal. The laws and bylaws are full of “save and hold harmless” language to protect board members.

I watched the entirety of both. Long live Amimatronics!

Since that video didn't have comments, I thought I'd just come out here as a former CEC employee and confirm Nolan Busnell's comments he made at about the 25:00 mark. Yeah, that happened. Also, we all giggled whenever somewhere in the show a character said "But Munch, ..."

I think the "Pop Lock n' Drop it" version of Rockafire would have been a better comedic showoff than the one they picked, though.

With eighty percent of homes controlled by HOAs you are lucky to escape being a home owner.

I’m burdened with all this knowledge about Charles Entertainment Cheese. What do I do with it? There’s nothing to be done but marinate in this newly acquired information.

The fact that someone can purchase a home without knowing it is in an HOA blows me away. In NY where you basically are required to have a Real Estate Lawyer to do a purchase the fact the property was in an HOA would 100% come up before you signed a contract even.

Some HOA fees might also be very high, on top of your mortgage. My in-laws’ home has a $1200/mo HOA fee, on top of their mortgage.

@@michaelell389 If you say “the fact” one more time, you get the meal for free.

I would ask for a legally notarized document stating the house WAS NEVER, IS NOT CURRENTLY, and NEVER WILL BE part of a HOA before buying.

@@michaelell389 I am always surprised to find out there are states with mandatory lawyer review. How do I get that passed in my state? I could use some more clients that have no choice in whether or not to hire me.

But does he say "It's true" to an opinion / to some anecdotal point? Without that, it's just not the same. I have no idea what chuckie cheese is, but I'm gonna watch it if he says it

Gotta say, I'm impressed that they didn't bring up Five Nights At Freddy's even once, and even said that kids these days don't like animatronic!

They should link it in the description so the visually impaired can actually hear it.

Yes! Basically this was a two-for-one deal on episodes from LWT! Two great episodes! 😂

@@eat_pray_porg8450 ...I get the feeling he meant for it to be online only, and it just... Went. Insane. Especially since it was ALL SET UP TO A CALL BACK. Like, 29 minutes for a hilarious callback.

What the fuck. HOW could they even put a bus stop in front of your house?

Good for you! I love hearing stories of people who managed to evade or get out from under the thumb of HOAs.

This would be my dream scenario. Every time they'd come knocking, I'd add another gnome to the front yard. I'd paint my mailbox pink, and I'd have my Christmas lights up all year long. Every time they did something antagonistic, I'd pay them back with more kitsch.

@@ShaferHart Yeah. The house was on the main street in the neighborhood so school busses would hold up traffic in front of our house all the time. They made the pick up and drop off just a few feet from the end of our driveway.

@@cariwaldick4898 lol. We weren't like that. I think my mom figured someone was paying for the attorneys and all the stuff they were doing. If that's what they wanted to spend the money on, let 'em

Snacks & pups help with that

@@asecretone doctors hate snacks & pups

Probably because hes enjoying snacks and puppies all damn day. Damn it that sounds like the best damn day ever.

A lot has changed since people had to stop smoking indoors. Even the smokers look better than the ones in the past because having to smoke outside at least gets them a fresh exchange of air. When I was a kid I remember my grandma smoking in the Kmart and Montgomery Wards. She had one of those little portable ashtrays that had a clip where you could hang it off of the shopping cart. It had a cigarette holder built into the lid. She died a horrible death at 75 from emphysema. All the white surfaces in her house were BROWN. Her face looked like a relief map of Pennsylvania for as long as I could remember. My other Grandma didn't smoke, but her husband did. He was 68 when he died after a few strokes reduced him to a miserable shuffling old fart who lived his last 10 years watching TV while smoking and drinking miller lights. He went in '93, so she got a break. She lived till she was 88 and didn't look anywhere near as decrepit as the other two

No we can't. Bc s#^$ is not funny. Email, call, and otherwise legally annoy the f#$@ out of these HOA's.

Most "home owners" are one missed bank payment away from being homeless.

@@edwardallenthree This.

​@@edwardallenthree it's really fucked it's the literally only way for normal ppl to acquire wealth in our psuedofuedalistic society

Same here.

@@edwardallenthree Or a tax bill away from the likes of BlackStone, seizing the house with government assistance

@@RugMuncherReal "Poor" because I earned an easy $1K per month doing nothing? Whatever you say, kid.

Use those violation letters as toilet paper

@@OC-CPA Poor and lazy. Get a real job.

Bro, that infiuriates me. Imagine buying your own house and not being able to do whatever you wanted to it. Like I’ll paint my house purple if I feel like it and no one can do shit😅

I always find it curious that they give people fines for something the previous owner did, but presumeably not the previous owner. Feels like they single people out.

Awesome! 👍 but how is she single and married with kids? 🤔

@@LindaC616 single as in "one person, no one else was joining her in this attempt" not single as in "lacking a partner"

@@kaorufan8 what do you mean “lacking a partner?”

Trol level 9000 is she employed?

@@CaseyWilkesmusic Did you even read their comment in its entirety? "Lacking a partner" as in "single".

This episode is obviously a "best of" compilation of the most garbage human beings and HOAs to ever exist. Most are not this bad. Either way though I'm not volunteering to give some nanny board of directors control over me and my property.

​@@dcgregorya5434 If you have to conceal that you're an HOA in the 1 pt print, yeah you're bad.

Not all HOAs are as bad. Also, he was misleading when he claimed you don't get to know the HOA until you sign a contract. Which is TRUE but most contracts will have a 10day review period where you can review the HOA docs/rules/meeting minutes and all and you can back out. I'm on the baord of a small HOA we have never sent out a letter let a long a fine in the past 2 years. We really don't give a fuck. We just collect money to take care of the shared areas and plow our private street.

@@abdiazizaideed9038 The fact that you think he lied about something that he didn't lie about means that you, in fact, are a toxic HOA board member. Pro tip: Disband your HOA. You get overcharged by landscaping services because you're a HOA. You don't need the extra income.

Eno: There is a steep fine for that.

Sounds like the neighbors should maybe run for election to the board. They sound like kind understanding people.

@@artboymoy the neighborhood getting rid of the hoa would be better because who’s to say that her neighbors running the program wouldn’t also do the same thing to someone else

But if the neighbors got on the board, they could start working towards the abolition of the HOA.

i never saw any benefit from HOAs. only grief. sorry for your aunt.- like she needed the harassment for how much...she probably paid over a thousand dollars a month? they charge so much and do so little . a total scam.

It's a money making scheme just like payday lending

Hey, he was explicit to say this one was not for you! 🤣 What a mess…

I just went to watch Charles entertainment cheese instead too lol

I'm 42, so technically too old for one segment, but also will never own a home, so technically this one doesn't apply to me either. So I'm watching both.

You can afford a home more easily than rent you’re being brainwashed to think otherwise, respectfully. What you can’t afford is to keep renting. You can message me if you want more details.

@@unseeliesidhegoddess see response to other guy

Don't worry. The home owner you'll be renting from will pass all the HOA fees onto you and evict you when you don't pay.

Most homes still aren't part of HOAs. Most NEW homes are, but there are still a lot of homes that aren't brand new.

​@@dylan_the_wizard holy shit

Don't let that copium make you feel better, go out, work hard, earn that home

@@dylan_the_wizard How is it legal while it is INSIDE your appartment ? This is such a bullshit. How don't understand why you US citzen aren't rioting :(

WHen the ghetto moves in you will wish you had one. Mkay

With all the stories I've heard over the years it's the same with me, if I ever decide to be closer to town than I am HOA's are a no-go for me unless I can get an Iron-clad exemption reviewed by my lawyer. If I own not just the building but also the land upon which it sits who the hell are you to tell me how I must run my house? And my sovereignty would be enforced through law and force which I would make abundantly clear before day one.

I'm grateful to have bought property in an older neighborhood with no HOAs. If the neighbors want to paint their house purple, put up a flagpole or park a boat in their front yard, it doesn't annoy me in the slightest -- it's a symbol of freedom. One could say that the lack of rules lowers property values, but that does not apply here -- where ANY single family house is worth over $800,000. I am not gratified at all by the upsurge in local housing prices -- I am saddened by it.

I don't know how people in those creepy communities can feel like they really own their homes . And the fact that they conceal the HOA "agreements" from prospective buyers is shady af. They're flat-out acknowledging that their intrusive rules threaten to bring DOWN everybody's property value.

@Nancy McMonarch they're flat out asking for themselves to be visited by the modern day equivalent of a Pinkerton payed for by everyone else in the community, you want to act like an unregulated organization? Be prepared to deal with the consequences in any number of unconventional ways.

The US is so broken and messed up that you would think it was built upon thousands of old Indian Burial Grounds.

"Greatest country in the world" only applies if you're rich, everyone else is treated as expendable fodder for capitalism AT BEST.

I'm glad I'm at the other end of the birth cycle. We are killing each other very slowly.

And this is, why over here we roll our eyes, every time Americans condescendingly tell us, that all our rules and regulations are stealing our freedom and crap like that. No, our rules and regulations GIVE us freedom. Coz theyre there to protect us, among many many other things from being exploited like this.

Hoa is what is fixed about USA. Unless sec 8 is allowed there you can avoid ghetto scumbags you run into outside the hoa. Sign me up.

Every time an HOA loses in court, an angel gets its wings.

A+ for saving water, increasing the biological diversity of that area, AND fighting that stuck up HOA.

I've read about HOA's in CA fining members for not watering their lawns during a severe statewide drought when state laws made it illegal to water your lawn.

@@shadowninja6689 Maybe they shoulda taken them to court? Idk. I also can't remember if that law was in Temecula city, Riverside County, or California. It may have been a Temecula City law that backed him.

I am

@@brianbirmingham8458 Me too!

you should've video tape him counting it, and post it on video just to make sure that he can count properly

You have absolutely no right to try and humiliate the chairman of the HOA. Who the hell do you think you are. Hopefully they'll run you out soon like they do all busy-body trouble makers.

That’s hilarious! Would love to have seen that.

You clearly haven't moved out of your mother's house, yet, if you think needing her permission for things stops when you move out. Needing permission from your parents only ends when they start asking *you* for money.

What? Are you assuming everyone is financially dependent on their parents well into adulthood?

Pretty much. PLUS Property Taxes + Monthly HOA fees.

"Condo Boards" and Apartment coops are the same. (Ever watch Frazier?)

My mother never made me stand in the county courtroom to pay several thousand dollars for my trashcans being visible. But, in the county I live in, there are no houses that are on paved roads but less than a million dollars that don't have HOAs...so we didn't have a lot of choices.

not surprised given how racist the average hoa is

also couldn’t you sue them for religious discrimination?

LOL, that would make it like 8 months before Christmas then, right?

@@francisp7825 No. HOAs aren't beholden to those laws. That's part of the problem the piece is getting at. You're entering into a private contract. If the contract doesn't allow decorative lights outside of certain dates then that's that.

@@Iudicatio Diwali is in November, Holi is in the spring.

😢

It sucks how universal they are. We had an HOA and it wouldn't allow me to work on my car on the weekends with the garage door open. So we moved, and with the realtor were like "What else in the area is in our price range?" "There are over 150 houses for sale" Ok, how many aren't in an HOA? "3"

And see? You are doing your part in dissolving the HOA system by moving out and not engaging. This episode has me seriously confused. HOAs are shit, they've always been shit. So, don't buy a home in an HOA development. Problem solved

@@12x2richter Almost invariably when a suburban neighborhood is built an HOA is established to run things. You pretty much have to buy your own land and build a new home these days to keep yourself out of an HOA.

Did you not read the part where the homeowner was struggling to make ends meet? Also, if a bit of flaky paint can destroy the value of the neighborhood, then the property wasn’t worth very much to begin with and we’re all being scammed.

We should do something about that Walter. I want a house.

Yes, Walter, I want a house. Figure that shit out. Get me a house bro

You can own a home. It'll take a very long time though if you don't know how to build one. Fortunately it's pretty easy.

I'm pissed that even John Oliver perpetuates this myth. We bought our home five years ago at 30. We're community college level associate degree holders, so nothing unattainable there. We were working second shift, frequently getting off well after midnight. It was hard work and required an incredible level of discipline. The thing that helped the most was whenever we saw something we wanted, we said "Oh! I want that! But, you know what I want more? A house." And then we'd take that money and put it into the house fund. Before we knew it, we had that 3% for the down payment. Three, NOT ten. Don't fall for that bullshit, educate yourself. All this in a PAC NW housing market running much higher than the national average. The only thing keeping young people out of owning property is believing the splattery rain of bullshit that showers from the squawking beaks of rich, disconnected chaods like our pal Zazu, here. It's a fucking lie, don't fall for it. I believe in you.

Well, it´s never too late! I have buyed my apartment when i was 27 yrs and finished my payments last year when i was 42yrs! It´s never too late for your own property! I wish you all the best, greetings

Damn! We got a 28% increase this year, but in the 17 years I've been here it's only gone up like 5 times, all of which were about 2-8%

@@katstorm13 Yup, 2 people on the board went to jail.

Prison Ftw

That scandal might be enough to prove breach of contract and let you claw your house out of the HOA alltogether

@@mikeloeven I don't know much about that. But you can look it up. It was the Hammocks HOA community in Miami Florida. All I did was vote to remove the board and elect a new one.

You're still paying dues, they just call them taxes now.

Good luck bb! A pox on those bottomfeeding wastes of air

Violence is cheaper. Stink smoke balls are a fraction of the price and can be thrown anywhere. Ruin lives back.

​@@TheMarjolein96but at least there is some transparency, judicial oversight and procedural rules that put a bit if an (imperfect) limit on abuses of power.

Basically, they try to passing their responsibilities to another. What a scheme.