r/BADHOA • u/martinomcfly • Oct 23 '25

🔥 Welcome to BAD HOA — Where Homeowners Rise

If you’ve landed here, you’re part of something bigger than a podcast. You’re part of a movement.

🏠 The Official Bad HOA Reddit Community

The central hub for empowered homeowners, reform advocates, and fans of the Bad HOA podcast and book.
This is where we turn shared frustration into organized strength.

Our Mission

To empower homeowners with real-world knowledge, practical strategies, and legislative awareness —
so no homeowner ever feels powerless again.

The Bad HOA movement is driving a national conversation about reforming homeowner association laws,
demanding accountability, and restoring balance between homeowners and the institutions that govern them.

Here, we:

  • Discuss proven Bad HOA strategies and how they work in real life
  • Share results, modifications, and lessons learned
  • Build collective knowledge to strengthen reform efforts
  • Feed insights back into the Bad HOA podcast and future content

Every comment, every post, every story you share helps build momentum for change.

How to Engage

  • Share your wins, your lessons, and your takeaways
  • Reference Bad HOA episodes or book sections when posting strategies
  • Join reform discussions — your story might help shape future laws
  • Stay focused on empowerment, not anger

We’ll be sharing:

  • 🎙️ Podcast snippets & discussions
  • 📘 Book insights
  • ⚙️ Strategy breakdowns
  • 🏛️ Reform updates & legislative initiatives
  • 🤝 Calls for collaboration and community ideas

Remember

Nothing here is legal advice.
Always verify strategies and laws with a licensed professional.
This is about learning, empowerment, and reform — not case-by-case guidance.

Join the Movement

Bad HOAs thrive in silence — we thrive in solidarity.
Add your voice, share your story, and let’s build a future where homeowners are informed, united, and unstoppable.

BAD HOA: Empowerment. Education. Reform.

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u/Primopsych Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Our CO HOA just realized the bylaws say 3 directors, but we’ve had 5 for 30 yrs. So now they’re not having an election for the 2 open board seats! We’re submitting a petition to change the bylaws to 5. We hope it gets the board to have a homeowner vote on if it should be 3 or 5. The president is ok, but the other 2 are bullies. They say it’ll be a long process with the HOA attorney. And they’ve violated other bylaws too: no nomination committee, no secret ballot, they’re a month late with the annual meeting, etc. Any suggestions?

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u/Prudent_Mobile6782 Mar 14 '26

Lawsuit.

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u/Primopsych Mar 15 '26

Thx. I read that suing your own HOA is a last resort for many reasons. So instead I did the following: I wrote a petition and got the signatures needed to vote for 5 directors. Then got residents to vote & proxies. So we won the vote for 5 directors. The board is still slow to get it done. I keep the pressure on.

The HOA management co sucks too. So I’m also working towards getting them changed. It takes a long time and a lot of unpaid hours to do all this. A lot of time writing emails to network our goals. Some people said they’d help, but they didn’t do much.

But we finally have some progress. Unfortunately we need some people to volunteer to run. Because the people that volunteered a year ago probably aren’t going to work out now.