Stupid HOA’s - You Must Act Now To Avoid a Fine!
I’ve never dealt with HOA’s before, but every development in the area seems to have one, so when we were looking, we knew we’d get stuck living in a subdivision that had one, it was a given.
We moved in three months ago and in the three months, we’ve had two notices from our lovely HOA. The first, letting us know that the summer months were coming and that they knew those of us with “desert landscaping” would be facing the annual battle of keeping the weeds at bay. When we moved in, we had weeds. They were letting us know that we needed to stop our unpacking and do first things first. Kill them. Great, ok - let’s do that.
We hired a guy to come out and spray and remove, and he did. It lasted a little over a week.
Now, it’s up to us to stay ahead of the pesky foliage growing in our rocks and I’d say, we do a darn good job of it. Except this one area. We have Barrel Cacti - several of them. The weeds, they like to grow real close to the cacti and then up the side, where they are unreachable until they poke their little heads out of the top. We’ve got two of them and so far, I’ve not found a way to get rid of them, beyond waiting them out then picking them from the top.
This simply WILL NOT WORK according to the HOA.
The one singular weed growing within the needles of my barrel cactus in the front yard MUST be addressed NOW! Not in a week or two when it will grow tall enough for me to pluck it out. No. NOW! Or I will be FINED!
Grrr.
Just a few houses down from our ‘eye sore’ of a front yard (said with much sarcasm and a lot of random irritation) is a house that has a ‘natural’ front yard. Not sure what that means? Ok. Take some rocks, throw them all over the yard - then take random wild flower seeds and do the same. Water. Watch the freakin beauty grow. Now, personally, I find this (apparently acceptable) type of yard hideous. But, the HOA, apparently feels that my single, solitary weed, growing right next to my barrel cactus, not even viewable from the street, is more atrocious.
I think HOA’s can be good - but in neighborhoods where there simply isn’t anything for them to do (because they are nice, neat and clean) they tend to get bored and go on these random quests to find something wrong in order to justify their $250 a month maintenance fee.
So, Springtree HOA, I have removed the offending weed. I even went out with a pair of pliers and removed the soon to be offending weed, from the other barrel cactus. You’re right, it is hideous and I am sorry that my one single solitary weed has caused you so much pain and could possibly make the entire community look bad. I will do my best, Nazi HOA members, to keep my weed(s) at bay. Hopefully you never have to spend $.42 to let me know how badly I have offended the rules of the HOA again.
I wonder, is artificial turf addressed in our HOA rules? Hmmm…
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Funny story about weeds coming up this week. Oh, neighborhoods.
Been there… Hated that!