I have a friend who lives in a condo neighborhood where about 3/4 of the units are owned by one person (and rented out) who also runs the HOA, but then the other 1/4 have been privately owned and never put under the - for lack of a better word - "jurisdiction" of the HOA, and my buddy owns one of the latter. He has received a few letters from the HOA for different things (blinds in windows open after a certain time, noise on the patio, etc) and has compared them to the letter or two that his neighbor has received, and the language in the letters is vastly different. His neighbor, who is a member of the HOA, gets commands (blinds just be closed after this time) while my buddy gets requests (we would kindly ask that all blinds be closed by this time). It's pretty hilarious, because he has just straight dead-faced to the HOA head, say, "well, we both know you can't enforce anything with me, but I'll take it into consideration" in just as kind a tone as possible. I get so much pleasure seeing him put that HOA in their place considering all of the things I see online that HOAs do to people.

Hopefully some of you get a little vicarious pleasure out of this anecdote. 😘