HOA costs community $400,000 fighting "Obama for President" sign

[niyad]

2. some hoa's are completely out of control, run by power-hungry little jerks who seem to love the

sense of control they have.

on the other hand, I have heard of hoa's (one here in this community), where the board actually works to help make the residents' lives better. in the one here, a woman who lived in the association community had not been maintaining her yard--it was weedy and overgrown and dying. instead of harassing and fining her, the members of the board (having learned that she was very ill) actually got out there and cleaned up the yard themselves. imagine--an actual neighborhood community.

as for the story--sounds to me like the guy hughes was the one who started it all--the man made some very ugly threats, and seemed to have some major control issues.