HOA Demanded I Only Have 1 Garden Decoration....So I Complied | Reading Reddit
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's story, OP faces a strict HOA rule: only one front lawn decoration allowed. Instead of arguing, they follow the rule to the letter - and in the most hilarious way possible. What started as petty control turns into a perfect act of creative compliance.
0:00 Intro
0:20 Story 1
3:34 Story 1 Comments
5:47 Story 2
8:42 Story 2 Comments / OP's Replies
11:18 Story 3
12:48 Story 3 Comments
15:02 Story 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you are well. |
| 0:05.7 | My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories and if you do love |
| 0:10.3 | a Reddit story why not consider, then the like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. |
| 0:15.2 | And let's crack on with today's first story. |
| 0:18.8 | Much love guys. Now today I fancied going for a bit of a mix of stories. |
| 0:24.9 | There might be some with updates, some with not. We've got some malicious compliance slash HOA |
| 0:29.6 | stories slash HOA stories and my am I overreacting, you know, just a bit of everything, |
| 0:35.3 | what's been popping out to me during the week and I've been saving. |
| 0:38.4 | So our first one comes from, fuck HOA, was also cross-boasted to malicious compliance from Parody TX, |
| 0:45.3 | who says, only one front lawn decoration allowed. You got it. |
| 0:51.1 | One of my many HOA stories when I was regrettably a member for the longest two years of my life was regarding decorations. |
| 0:59.5 | All of our homes had a porch and rules regarding front of house decorations. |
| 1:04.3 | The R&R said, you could only have one decoration. |
| 1:07.9 | Fine, had no desire for any decorations at all in my front lawn. |
| 1:12.7 | We did put two nice chairs on our Porsche to use on pleasant evenings with a sunset potential. |
| 1:18.3 | We received a notice regarding our violation of having two decorations in front of our house |
| 1:23.9 | and the R&R only allowed one. And we had 24 hours to comply. |
| 1:29.5 | Alrighty then. I removed both chairs from the porch. I searched for hours online for the most |
| 1:35.9 | obnoxious decoration I could find, because the R&R made absolutely no mention of what the |
| 1:41.5 | decoration could or could not be. Only that, you could only have one item. |
| 1:46.3 | I ended up with an at least seven-foot-tall blow-up sphere, with an obnoxious, naked, mermaid-like |
| 1:55.7 | thing floating inside it, clapping like one of those windman devices at a car dealer. I also posted a small |
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