The Last Thing Our Elderly, Infirm and Financially-Challenged Neighbors Need is for the HOA to Pretend They Want to "Help" Them...So They Won't Get Fined by the Same HOA!!!

If it wasn't clear before, we now know the Peachtree Village HOA actually does understand what the ramifications are of establishing a precedent--a previous action or decision that must be followed in subsequent, similar actions or decisions.

At their Board meeting on July 16, 2025, the Peachtree Village HOA Board refused to provide funds to help one of our needy neighbors (who is in trouble with THEM, because she is too elderly, infirm and financially-challenged to maintain her lawn and the fence surrounding it and, consequently, is committing several “violations” according to the HOA’s draconian rules) to get her lawn and other plants and trees trimmed and her fence repaired. When asked why, the President said that if the HOA helps one person, then they would be obligated to help everyone else who, down the line, also needs help! In other words, she didn't want the HOA to establish a precedent of actually helping residents in need, for the fear they would then "have to" keep helping all others in similar need!

Of course, this is the very same HOA which, in the very same meeting, rejected the principle of establishing precedents as it pertains to the, now, long history of the Peachtree Village HOA either actively or passively allowing SOME homeowners to make all sorts of changes or additions to their property in contradiction to what they now claim are the “rules” that were ignored! Clearly, when it suits their agenda to discriminate against some homeowners (likely with the long term goal to force them to move), precedents don’t matter to them in the slightest! But when it comes to actually helping our neighbors in need, THEN the last thing they want to do is establish a precedent which they KNOW would result in obligating them to help others…especially if they're the type of residents they don’t like!

It would be one thing to say, before expending any HOA money, that we need to first establish a set of guidelines to make sure that, whichever neighbor receives help is truly in need or, maybe before offering help to a needy neighbor, first find out if they can get help from family, existing charities or government assistance and, then, if that’s not enough, HOA funds could be used as a supplement to fill in the gaps.

But the main problem with our current HOA is that, when they talk about helping someone, it’s to protect them from how the very same HOA is threatening them!

As the median age of our residents continues to rise, and more and more of our elderly neighbors no longer have the strength, the health and the money to maintain their homes and landscaping they way they would surely, otherwise, want to, we should, as a community of good neighbors, do our part to help them out when they can no longer help themselves or get help from family or other resources.

But the last thing our elderly, infirm or financially-challenged neighbors need is for the HOA to pile on by threatening them with fines for not following their draconian and arbitrary rules about how THEY think a home or a yard should be maintained, especially while these neighbors of ours are experiencing enough problems as it is, only to turn right around and put on some fake show that they care! If they really cared and really wanted to help, they would not threaten our neighbors in need in the first place!