Imagine being banned from wearing camouflage clothing in your front yard, or not being allowed to grow anything edible in your garden. It might sound like a little dictatorship but in reality, it’s the way some people are being forced to live thanks to a few wild Home Owners Association rules.

HOAs are meant to keep neighborhoods neat and tidy, properties valuable, lawns uniformly green and pools sparkly blue. But sometimes they feel more like a proverbial judgemental cloud hovering over your home, just waiting to rain on your parade.

Bored Panda is filled with stories about people having run-ins with their power-hungry HOA boards of dictators, many of whom seem to have mistaken a cul-de-sac for a small, sovereign nation. And we aren’t done yet…

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