A dispute at one Texas homeowners’ association is drawing attention after a resident said the community’s landscapers left oil stains on their driveway. The HOA later tried to make the homeowner pay for the damage.<\/p>\n
The complaint<\/a>, shared publicly alongside a neighborhood petition<\/a>, is resonating with people because many homeowners say conflicts with HOAs can quickly become expensive and difficult to fight.<\/p>\n Here’s what to know<\/p>\n According to a Reddit post<\/a> in r\/F***HOA, the complaint involves the Preston Oaks HOA in Austin, Texas, and oil allegedly left behind by its landscaping crew.<\/p>\n The homeowner wrote that the association sent “a letter in the mail” seeking payment over the driveway and wrote, “So I got a letter in the mail from Preston Oaks HOA charging us for their landscapers destroying our driveway. They park their mowers and they leak oil everywhere.”<\/p>\n The OP continued, “The HOA is threatening legal action if we don’t repair the driveway\u2026 This should be fun. With all the other neighbors hating them, we started a petition.”<\/p>\n Commenters were quick to support both the OP and their petition.<\/p>\n One commenter wrote<\/a>, “Sue the HOA, which is a legal entity. It’s on them, or their insurance, to recoup from the landscapers.”<\/p>\n Another Reddit user asked<\/a>, “Did you document all of this? What did they say at the last board meeting when you bright this up?”<\/p>\n “All documented. ‘They’ll get back to us about that,'” the OP responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another commenter argued<\/a>, “No HOA bylaws allowing the board, or its agents, to damage a homeowners property will stand up to legal scrutiny.”<\/p>\n Where can I learn more?<\/p>\n Homeowners have raised similar complaints when HOA contractors damaged property and the dispute turned into a fight over repairs.<\/p>\n \u2022 A homeowner said their HOA tried to dodge accountability<\/a> after flooding damaged the property.<\/p>\n \u2022 An HOA’s landscapers allegedly chopped hedges without permission<\/a>, leaving more than $1,000 in damage.<\/p>\n \u2022 Homeowners said their HOA tore out their garden<\/a> and then demanded payment.<\/p>\n Get TCD’s free newsletters<\/a> for easy tips, smart advice, and a chance to earn $5,000 toward home upgrades. To see more stories like this one, change your Google preferences here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute at one Texas homeowners’ association is drawing attention after a resident said the community’s landscapers left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4561,155712,98029,155711,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-453027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-hoa","tag-hoa-bylaws","tag-homeowner","tag-landscapers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}