Gilbert HOA is threatening to fine residents over critical social media posts

Don’t ever buy property that has an home owners association.

It seems that all the old High School bullies end up being HOA board members.

If the community can get together like this, they can disband the HOA. We did.

Another example of a HOA going to far and another reason HOA's should be illegal

So, girl starts her own Facebook page, for the community, does the work to get people to join it, and the board, who has not contributed to the group, wants to tell her what to do with the Facebook group she started, grew, and maintains. Wow.

Forget suing the hoa, file criminal charges against them. See how they like spending 18 months in Fed prison for civil liberty violations.

"When you cut out a man's tongue, you do not prove him a liar, you only tell the world you fear what he has to say." - George R. R. Martin Those board members are only proving why they should be replaced.

When we were house hunting in Gilbert, a property came on the market for sale in Val Vista Lakes. I refused to even consider it because of this lawsuit. I find it absolutely disgusting that private homeowners should be left living in fear of having their free speech infringed on because they happen to live in an HOA. I wish the homeowners the best in getting this resolved. May God grant them favor in the courts.

I was a maintenance person for a HOA for a few years. Many of the board members during that time were quite full of themselves and truly believed that their authority was much broader than it really was. Hearing stories of other HOAs makes me believe that the majority of people who become board members are spoiled, or were picked on as children and are looking to avenge their unhappy childhood by being petty adults.

Petty tyrants. Unfortunately, that's the type often attracted to those positions, those with a desire to use their power to push people around and lord their privilege over others. History is full of these types.

I bought my moms house 3 days later someone was knocking on my door lol it was the HOA sayin I had to be part of the Association. Told him and her that’s never gonna happen slammed the door in their face. Won’t say what I said to them before closing the door never heard a nothing thing from them. My property does border up to the New neighborhood but being existing property with 2 acres of land still 12 years later still no word from them. Did tell them that I was here before the neighborhood was built. So it’s not going to happen here. I don’t need an Association telling me anything. Screw them all

The fact that the attorneys even played along and sent these notices, is asinine. They should know better. They should understand that what they're doing could be incredibly damaging to them and HOA

why would anyone buy a house were other people can tell them how to live.....

Another reason to NEVER buy a house with an HOA!

"How dare you say we've retaliated against members who've disparaged us! We're going to threaten legal action for saying that!" Damned near broke my irony meter.

When we started our house hunting some years ago, the #1 rule we gave our agent was "No HOA." She said that wasn't a problem, a lot of people ask for that.

Are all HOAs staffed by former HS hall monitors?

If I found my absolute all time forever favorite dream house, had cash money to buy it, and learned it was an HOA community, I'd take a picture of it, enlarge it, hang it over whatever fireplace in another choice, and dream on.

I would like to bring to everyone’s attention that it is a common practice of attorneys to send “demand” letters on behalf of clients. They are fully aware that the demands in such letters may or may not be based on legalities, but can sometimes produce results because of the recipient’s fears. Oh, and they of course get a fee to send the letters regardless of whether or not their claims are based on law.

It's amazing how much power HOA's actually have, and it's the homeowner's who gave it too them, NEVER buy into an HOA