00:00Our neighborhood HOA president is notorious
00:02for walking around with a wooden ruler,
00:05fining homeowners $50 if their grass
00:08is even a quarter inch above the two inch limit.
00:11Last Tuesday, he rang my doorbell holding a clipboard,
00:14claiming my front hedge was encroaching two inches
00:17into the common sidewalk,
00:18and slapped me with a $100 citation.
00:20I was fed up, so I hired a private land surveyor
00:23to remap my front lot.
00:25The surveyor discovered something incredible.
00:27The city's sidewalk was actually poured three feet
00:30inside my private boundary line eight years ago.
00:33Not only was my hedge 100% legal,
00:36but the HOA's decorative brick community entrance sign
00:39was sitting directly on my deeded private lawn.
00:42I sent the HOA a legal notice,
00:44demanding they remove their sign within 30 days
00:46or pay me $2,000 a month in commercial rent.
00:49The HOA president resigned 48 hours later.
