I hate HOA, I would make their lives hell if they pulled this on me.
I would bend the rules and give them hell.
Put Ping Play Boy Bunnies on my lawn, what ever it took
I would never buy the property back, but I would sign a lease so I could make it hell for them to get me out of there.
I love a good fight.
I had the lady from a HOA giving me a hard time about slicing concrete up with an unapproved contractor (apparently bonded and insured isn’t good enough). The lady was trying to get me to hire her son-in-law. Fatchance.
I told the contractor to stop work and dump all the concrete in a dump leaving large sections of concrete missing from the driveway and the garage. It was the mother of all eyesores.
She moved out about 1 month after this after I got everyone to understand what went down. She was done as Assoc President, no one ever messed with me again. I am not above calling their bluff.
After she left, I called the contractor back to finish the job, he charged me $50 more because he had to make two trips, but he was happy to see that “$@@ch” out of there.
That is the best damn story ever.....if I were your neighbor I would have helped you decorate the holes in your drive way with things like....plastic pink flamingos or an old toilet used as a planter....
it would have been fun......
You’d have paid your bill. Nice primping, though.