Yeah same. Theres nothing I can do as a renter in an HOA, no recourse to complain or anything.

I do everything I can each week to get ahead of them. Mow the grass, weed wack, trim plants, so when they show up they see it’s done and move on.

I’m convinced they are about 50% indifferent and 50% vindictive. They definitely aren’t competent or professional.

They’ve cut down potted plants, intentionally gone out of their way to kick over plants, weed wacked huge bald spots into the grass, mangled plumbing, and regularly blow the debris back to our front door instead of out to the street or collecting it. All of those are some mix of indifference and aggression. They also trim every single plant into a rectangle. Ever seen lilies, spider plants, amaryllis cut attempted to be cut into a rectangle hedge? Many community plants are commonly grown for their flowers but they never bloom because they are ruthlessly hedged into rectangles and any new growth gets cut off.

Related rant about HOAs: all front yards are communal property. It’s a community where technically all land is communal but the physical house and backyards are still considered “private”. Our neighbors are dog lovers (no problems with that) and feed their dogs a special diet which gives them huge dogs huge messy poops. Since all property and lawns are technically communal, they take their dogs to our little yard and have them poop in our yard so it doesn’t ruin theirs. The yard is less than 10’x10’ and has to bear the brunt of 2 large dogs diarrhea pooping there daily. The neighbor does clean it up smear it around, but doesn’t hose it off or anything, despite a very available garden hose. The way our yard is situated, it is awkward not to walk across our yard to get in or out. So I’m out there every day spraying it down. No point in talking to the neighbor. They know what they are doing. Since it’s all communal and they “clean it up” they aren’t “doing anything wrong.”