Bingo. Still.... If I were on the HOA and KNEW he was deployed, I’d have made every effort to contact the soldier. HOA’s have the choice of pursuing collection thru small claims. Also, I have a hard time believing the soldier had no clue his wife was whacked. This is a tough one.
HOA, Little tin gods in their own eyes.
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.