Obviously no one here has tangled with Condo Nazi's or HOA Gods.
Good for you Normy,
AFAIK the people that take over those groups are normally (not always) losers in life and this is their chance to torment other people.
I was just pondering our HOA this morning, we are not allowed pickup trucks , cars or vans with company names on them. Meanwhile this is a total blue collar neighborhood, my neighbor, the ex-president of the HOA and a total loser has a Sanford and son pickup truck in the drive with expired tags. But she is smart, its backed up against the garage door so you cannot see the tag if you tried.
I was surveying a condo on the beach a while back, the President of the Condo Association was talking to me (actually he hired me to mark the limits of their property) and I mentioned when my son got older I would like to sell my house and do the condo thing.
He asked me a couple of questions, is it quiet where you live? Does anyone bother you? No and No. Then he said stay where you are, dealing with these people is like dealing with a bunch of 5 year olds, all they do is sit around looking for something to fight over every day.
My HOA is pretty hands off for the most part, the only issue I have had is the work truck thing and if I had the time and energy I could probably band all the work truck owners in the subdivision together and get the rule nixed.