Calling the HOA about an HVAC issue
Overreaction is rampant these mornings, and this especially true when it comes to people who have just a smidgen of authority… And still, I’m entirely getting our fill of this automatic hostility and defensiveness that is pervading our culture; this has never been more true given the way the HOA has reacted to a minor heating and A/C issue at our home.
First of all, I should say that I definitely agree that having rules and regulations are beneficial when it comes to ensuring property value remains steady.
I actually don’t want to have our property value come down because somebody has more than four used cars on blocks in their yard. So I get the reason we need an HOA, but the problem inherently is that we give just a little bit of authority to people who are power hungry. This is clearly evidenced given their overreaction to a small heating and A/C situation at our house. The heating and A/C at our loft is not supposed to be seen from the street. This is 1 of the HOA rules. It seems as if it’s a fairly arbitrary rule and I don’t entirely understand what the purpose is. I mean we all have heating and cooling components so I don’t guess what the huge secret is. However, I have complied with that rule by having a privacy hedge that screens the residential heating and A/C. But unluckily, our landscaping folks ended up trimming it way back as it was sort of unhealthy. And this resulted in the heating and A/C component being able to be seen from the street. I’m now doing our best to calm the waters with the HOA until it can grow back.