doubleohwhat
Member
Unfortunately, I've dealt with HOAs in the past that are essentially just one cranky person with a bunch of time on their hands. It's always been dumb stuff that they start a fight over. 99% of the time it's just best to let it go because it'll end up being a stressful and expensive fight over something silly. I feel like this is one of those times. Just install your own charger and be done with it.
I've only had one issue that I thought was worth fighting and it was clear that as long as the HOA president was this crazy old guy, nothing was going to get resolved. So basically I made it a very expensive fight for the HOA. I had my lawyer send them so many stupid notices, requests and demands that the HOA burned through their cash reserves due to legal fees on their end. Yes, it was expensive for me and yes, I was slightly paying for the HOA fees via my dues. However, I was only one of 96 units. So once the HOA was out of cash, they had to do an assessment to cover the ongoing legal fight. I sent a letter to the other 95 condo owners explaining what was going on, why it started and that the stupid stubbornness of the current HOA president was going to continue costing everyone money. At the next HOA meeting the president was removed, the issue was resolved and I donated some money to the HOA to restore the reserve fund.
What was all this over? It was a beach condo that I flew down to twice a month and I wanted to keep a car there for when I visited. We were allowed two parking spaces and I was only using one. However, the HOA president insisted this was "illegally storing a vehicle" and had the car towed. I even offered to park the car in the boat storage lot but that was shot down as well.
I've only had one issue that I thought was worth fighting and it was clear that as long as the HOA president was this crazy old guy, nothing was going to get resolved. So basically I made it a very expensive fight for the HOA. I had my lawyer send them so many stupid notices, requests and demands that the HOA burned through their cash reserves due to legal fees on their end. Yes, it was expensive for me and yes, I was slightly paying for the HOA fees via my dues. However, I was only one of 96 units. So once the HOA was out of cash, they had to do an assessment to cover the ongoing legal fight. I sent a letter to the other 95 condo owners explaining what was going on, why it started and that the stupid stubbornness of the current HOA president was going to continue costing everyone money. At the next HOA meeting the president was removed, the issue was resolved and I donated some money to the HOA to restore the reserve fund.
What was all this over? It was a beach condo that I flew down to twice a month and I wanted to keep a car there for when I visited. We were allowed two parking spaces and I was only using one. However, the HOA president insisted this was "illegally storing a vehicle" and had the car towed. I even offered to park the car in the boat storage lot but that was shot down as well.