I'm a doorman for a high-rise condo building. The board is often the biggest complainers who use their position to get special privileges for themselves. One board member nearly succeeded in getting our Christmas bonus removed. Now we have a lady who is convinced her unit is infested with mold in spite of numerous tests showing otherwise. She's trying to get the building to pay for the full gut rehab of her unit.

In both cases their are shared maintenance expenses for the allotment. Like roads, drainage, and other things taxes would pay for but they cut themselves off from city by allowing an HOA.

Shitty that they even exist and anyone thinks it's a good idea to trust unqualified people to manage projects they have no experience in usually. All a scam to let the developers cut costs and pass it onto the residents.

Now most of these HOAs are managed by older residents and most of them have a "I'm gonna die, why should I care" attitude about future planning.