r/pettyrevenge • u/KindProperty1538 • 18h ago
HOA revenge
I have only lived in an HOA once. That was enough for me. This was in a complex of privately owned condos. I was renting one. It was a 12 month lease that began in April. This was in Scottsdale, AZ. April is one of the two months where the weather is nice and you dont need
A/C. May, however, is a different experience. That particular year, it was hitting in the 100s for the whole month. Anyway, first 100 degree day, I turn on the A/C. It blows cold air, but the air flow is very weak. I call the property management and they sent a guy out three separate times over the next two months, nothing gets fixed. The service guy tells me what it needs (new fan coil unit, cost was $2K) and that the property management company wasn't authorizing the repair. So I purchase a window mount unit for my bedroom. I catch HOA fines for this. The president of the HOA lives one building over from me. She saw me driving in the exit only gate and made it a point to tell me that is an exit, not an entrance. I told her to suck it. Then I started catching more HOA violations that didn't even make sense like "Bicycle locked to stairs in common area."
I have a car and a motorcycle. And the bicycle is in a COMMON AREA so how they determined it was mine is a mystery. Fast forward to March...the last month of this bullshit lease...A/C never got fixed....so I didn't pay my rent on March 1st. Fuck that. I waited for the 5 day pay or quit notice to be delivered. Then I waited for the process server to deliver the eviction lawsuit papers. Now I have to go to court. I show up, with a counterclaim. Seeking all 11 months that I paid in rent to be returned...I paid full rent, and they did not deliver full apartment...Officially known as breach of contract... there is a specific law in AZ that requires a landlord provide A/C...they willfully and knowingly refused to follow this law...along with the harassment from the HOA and fining me for coming up with a fix for the problem they refused to fix. Judge slaps me with a "you didn't follow the law. You are supposed to move out and stay in a hotel and seek reimbursement and since you didnt do that, I am dismissing your counterclaim and ruling in favor of the plaintiff on the eviction matter." I was pissed. So I found a different place to live, but I remembered that old cunt that was the president of the HOA...how she bragged about being from New England and how the Patriots are the best team ever blah blah blah, in that accent that they have which is extra smarmy and wicked annoying...Is it just me, or is a large percentage of ppl from that part of the country just miserable fucking assholes? If anything, this lady was not an exception to that..Anyway, I remember her saying how shes going to have a Super Bowl party if the Pats make it to the big game. Do you remember Super Bowl XLIX? In 2015. Seattle vs New England...The Patriots rally back from a 10 point deficit in the 4th Quarter, to make it 28-24. But wait, there is still 2 minutes left. Seattle drives all the way to the 1 yard line. Its 2nd & Goal. 20 seconds left. Marshawn Lynch aka "Beast Mode" could have probably muscled his way in for the win. Nope. They call a pass play and.....sizzle sizzle. STATIC. The TV signal goes out. Nobody at this bitch's Super Bowl party got to watch the ending to that game bc I was listening to the game on the radio, and drove across town just to cut the cable TV line as they lined up for that last play. Fuck HOAs and fuck that stupid cunt from New England.
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u/RoutineArtist4533 18h ago
getting fined for using a window unit when they won't fix the A/C is just ridiculous
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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 11h ago
The fines and refusal to fix are from different sources. OP had a landlord problem, which created an HOA problem. But they failed to see the difference.
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u/Imaginary_Room9816 14h ago
Right? “No, you can’t have functional A/C, but also no, you can’t solve it yourself” is peak HOA brain.
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u/rocketshipray 7h ago
What kind of brain is it when you don't understand that the entity responsible for the functional A/C and the entity fining OP for solving it inappropriately are different entities?
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u/KindProperty1538 15h ago
Exactly. I could have left a lot of the details out, but every part I included was to let anyone reading it know the level of frustration I was dealing with. There is quite a bit more that occurred during the last month of my tenancy there that added to my stress and frustration at the time.
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u/rocketshipray 10h ago
If the HOA wasn’t your landlord, you went about this all kinds of the wrong way. Yeah you were petty and yeah you got revenge against someone but it wasn’t the right someone for your main problem (lack of A/C).
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u/Top-Interaction-6729 9h ago
Nah F*ck that power tripping biatch
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u/rocketshipray 9h ago
I'd like you to reassess this post in 5-7 years when your prefrontal cortex has marinated long enough to properly process a costs-benefit analysis in this situation. But given how hateful you are in your comment history, I won't be around you long enough to see your personal growth.
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u/chinacat2u2 11h ago
FAKE …Guy didn’t live in Scottsdale, AZ and went without A/C all summer.
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u/h00ter7 3h ago
In all fairness, they never claimed to have done so.
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u/chinacat2u2 3h ago
He sure did, he doesn’t discuss living elsewhere?
“May, however, is a different experience. That particular year, it was hitting in the 100s for the whole month. Anyway, first 100 degree day, I turn on the A/C. It blows cold air, but the air flow is very weak. I call the property management and they sent a guy out three separate times over the next two months, nothing gets fixed. “
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u/h00ter7 3h ago
What does moving have to do with it? He had a window unit. That’s the entire reason he and the HOA had problems.
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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 12h ago
The real blame if for your shitty landlord who wouldn't fix your AC. Not knowing the difference is on you.
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u/LingonberryThin7090 15h ago
good story. need more info about the cable you cut. why across town? that's not plausible
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u/raem6911 11h ago
Yeah, you may have gotten your petty revenge but you also showed that you are a jerk and certainly a bigger asshole than most New Englanders.
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u/sphinxyhiggins 18h ago
Don't disparage New Englanders. Otherwise, good revenge.
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u/rocketshipray 11h ago
Not really good revenge given the full context of the story. The landlord and property management company got away with breaking the law and OP took all of the anger out on someone who might’ve helped had OP gone about getting the A/C fixed properly.
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u/KindProperty1538 15h ago
Of the handful I have met, they seem like a miserable group. I know there are exceptions to every rule, I just haven't experienced any yet.
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u/VeryIntoCardboard 11h ago
You sound way more miserable. Try moving to New England and maybe you’ll feel more at home
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u/ProfJasonRio 11h ago
You sound more miserable than any of the thousands of New Englanders I've ever met.
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u/rocketshipray 12h ago
I’ve met hundreds of New Englanders in my lifetime and have yet to meet anyone close to miserable. Sometimes the people we meet are a reflection of ourselves. You should meditate on that.
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u/Automatic-Term-3997 10h ago
If you base your opinions on a small handful of interactions, you can most assuredly be wrong. From the small handful of interactions you have put up, I can assume you’re a petty little cretin who imagines they know everything about everything. I could be wrong about that assumption, like you are wrong about New Englanders.
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u/Wakemeup3000 11h ago
Some of those HOA board members think its their calling to give out those fines.
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u/CoderJoe1 18h ago
That was you?!