Restrictive rulings do more harm than good. Why does our HOA leadership endorse them?

FACT:

1. Code of Conduct complaints, fines, cease & desist letters, bans from social media & facebook, harassment of one kind or another and more are frequently imposed by our leadership, singling out selected residents, those who might interfere with their agendas to spend (way too much) money or work for needed change in the community. It happens often via persecution and set-up traps. On the other hand, residents popular with the 'in crowd' and community leadership, even though guilty of the Code, are never penalized.

2. Those who have been targeted, whether fined or not, have smeared records, kept by the HOA for 7 years. This procedure somehow, perhaps even unofficially, came to be written into the HOA's governing documents!

OPINION:

1. This modus operandi is about control and power and it's called blackballing or blacklisting. The aim is to stop those who are considered a risk to the ultimate plans of those in the inner circle, from volunteering on committee positions or running for the board.

2. Why are we morphing into a tyrannical community? Our HOA is really not a 'happy place' for many, it only appears to be from the outside. Those who are keenly observing, realize that underneath it reeks of forced compliance, maltreatment, noxious doctrines and ominous oppression. The sleepy residents of our HOA had better wake up or they will be weeping the whirlwind of dysfunction, none too soon.

2026 Update: Since the previous General Manager left, these issues are thankfully filtering down a bit. At least it seems the key players involved have either stepped away or are not granted so much power to control and abuse others, as the previous General Manager had promoted in order to create dysfunction in the community. His psychological reign over the weakest and most malleable of residents was one of the techniques he used in order to allow him to mismanage and splurge the community's multi million dollar stock pile of funds to near extinction.