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Faced

Last Thursday night I received another ridiculous "Violation Notice" from my HOA for parking on the street overnight. I can't even begin to explain how much I hate my HOA. Really, words that come to mind are lazy, heartless, pretentious, fascist and really, that's just scratching the surface. If there was one reason alone to not live in Las Vegas, it would be for the sheer fact that it is next to impossible to find somewhere to live in this cookie-cutter housing market that doesn't involve an HOA and/or gated community.

Anyway, I've received plenty of these violations before. I know not to park on the street overnight, but sometimes I'm in a hurry and think I'll just need to run inside my house to grab something, but end up staying and forgetting that my car is parked on the street. That's what happened last week. Apparently, every time you receive a violation, your fees increase. Of course they do, and I was sitting pretty in my defiance right about in the $250 range. This was ridiculous. For one thing, there was no way I was going to pay $250 for parking my car for 5 hours in front of my house and secondly, I could not let my brother see that fee on his HOA dues for the month. He would not be happy.

So, I emailed the HOA office demanding they cancel the violation. I told them my car battery had died and there was no way of moving it off the street and that I had left a note explaining the situation. I was fully expecting some pompous reply back disputing my dispute, but was pleasantly surprised to find out that they bought my story and would disregard the violation, "but please, in the future, notify Rhodes Ranch Security ASAP of the situation..."

So I may have lied my way out but I totally stuck it to The Man and walked away victorious.