Building HOA harassing women for throwing a party missed one key detail and it landed them in court

It's concerning how intimidating it can be for people to stay alone in their apartments. Not only do they have to take care of everything alone, but they also have to be mindful of intruders who are always on a mission to threaten them. A 22-year-old lady who owned a house in one of the city's most prestigious societies had a similar terrifying experience when a group of oldies entered her home without permission and even called the cops on her for inviting friends over. However, the lady (u/ananyxgupta) stood her ground and decided to take legal action against the intruders. She posted the incident on Reddit on December 21.

It was a Saturday night, and the lady had called 5 of her friends home. They weren't partying, shouting, or doing anything that could trouble others, but still, they managed to make some uncles upset for no reason. Moments later, a man knocked on her door and said, "Bachelors aren't allowed here." He also asked the lady to call up the owner she'd rented the flat from. That's when she told him she was the owner and shut the door. "After a few minutes, 4–5 uncles came together, accused us of drinking and smoking w**d, and entered my living room without permission, saying we were checking," she explained.

Somehow, she managed to push the uncles out, but that didn't end the matter. In fact, the intruders called the police. The cops entered the scene but didn't cause any trouble because the woman had everything captured on her living room CCTV camera, and she and her friends were all law students who knew their rights well. The uncles introduced themselves as the society's board members and threatened to take legal action against her. However, before they could proceed any further, the lady sent a legal notice to the society asking to remove those involved from the board. "Separately, I’ve sent individual legal notices to every person who entered my apartment for trespass, nuisance, and assault. Tomorrow I will file a civil suit on all of them," she said. 

According to the Foundation for Community Association Research, nearly 75.5 million Americans live in communities governed by a homeowners association. This represents over 30% of the U.S. housing stock, and shows just how widespread HOAs really are. Out of these, 57% don't like the organization, and 1 in 10 have reportedly been looking to sell their homes to get away from the HOA, per a Rocket Mortgage survey. “[HOA fees] are not included in a mortgage and can rise with inflation,” one respondent noted, sharing that the average monthly fees amounted to $259 nationwide.  A survey of more than 1,000 US homeowners living in HOAs by Frontdoor found that people are so frustrated with the association that one-third of them considered leaving their cherished neighborhood. This explains why HOAs' troubling homeowners isn't something new, and it is one of the top reasons people are reluctant to buy homes in HOA-governed societies.

The homeowner received overwhelming support from netizens who slammed the HOA for such terrifying intervention. u/expensive-fig-4180 commented, "Please, I beg you, don't stop until they've learned their lesson. I own a flat myself, and the society members did the same to the girl I rented to, who then filed an NCR against the secretary. They never harassed any of my renters later. Please do the needful and let them learn a lesson out of this."

Similarly, u/flatcoconut9210 suggested, "Not only a civil suit, file an FIR against all these uncles for harassment, intimidation, criminal trespass, and criminal conspiracy. If you don't do it now, then they might entrap you in some frivolous litigation later on or might bother you more." u/boots_the_barbarian wrote, "Brilliant! I hope you win this case, those losers get humiliated, and this case gets covered widely in the news so other similar losers think twice before acting like bullies."

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