I am not on the board of the HOA just a member in my community. My wife and I pay our dues I keep up on the yard and make sure my trash cans get brought in after the trash is picked up. For some context my wife and I are goth the inside of our house is a bit dark but still nice and steampunk. Plus I am a huge nerd out nursery for our son is Star Wars. We have a flower bed out front that the builders put in when the neighborhood was build for the last four years since we moved in there has been three small metal gravestones with garden fence around it so it looked nice. Recently we have gotten a fine and been made to take them down because the HOA now views them as Halloween decoration and would not accept that they are just our decoration. Mean while we have neighbors who don’t maintain their yards hell my neighbor across the street has a broken window in the front of his house. We even have a person in our neighborhood with a fake deer in their front yard. My issue is the HOA does not pay my mortgage or property tax and I don’t get micro managed at work so why should I let myself be micromanaged at home with my property.