What It Looks Like When You Get Fined By Your HOA

I never expected to get a letter about fines in my email. My “HOA e-mail address” is not for official business purposes. It is for miscellaneous bullshit that I don’t care to know about on a regular basis. This is why I don’t frequently check this email address.

My email inbox is flooded with information from both the CDD and the HOA about food trucks, blood drives, gatherings at the clubhouse, the pool is closed, the pool is open, the jacuzzi is out of service, the lawn company is this and that and this and that. The only reason they have my email was because I used it to create an account so that I could pay my monthly fees online. I never asked them to email me a damn thing.

Everything started going down hill when the HOA hired a property management company. And so, I got this in my email at the end of last summer. Of course, I didn’t see it on time (emphasis mine):

Vista Palms Community Association Inc.

C/O Unique Property Services

P.O. Box 2878

Riverview, FL 33563

(813)-879-1139

rkessler@uniquepropertyservices.com

9/7/25

The Fining Review Committee met on September 4 , 2025

The committee found you to be in violation of Section 12.4.3 of the Covenants, Conditions and Restriction of Vista Palms Community Association, Inc. The violation(s) were not corrected by the deadline of September 3, 2025, 2025 mailed to you in correspondence dated December 29, 2024.

The conclusion of the committee is as follows:

A fine of $1000.00 was approved. If payment in full is not received on or before October 4, 2025 the total amount due will be turned over to the association's attorney for collections. Please be advised that unpaid fines can be placed as liens against the property.

Please be advised that any correspondence regarding this issue must be submitted in writing.

A copy of this notice has also been mailed to you.

Thank you,

Roger Kessler, LCAM

So, according to this letter, the year 2025 was mailed to me in a letter dated the previous year. This is why literacy and communication skills are important. But why be literate and make sense when you can just lie? (The lie is that a letter about my roof tarp being in violation was sent in December of 2024, if I am interpreting their garble correctly. My whole roof was not tarped in December. And they sent me nothing. Also, the last hurricane of that terrrible season was in October 2024. Did they want tarps removed two months later?)

The attachment to this email was a .pdf copy that they mailed to an old address of mine. I have no idea how that address got in their system; but I didn’t live at that address. I LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. And they know this because they attempted to foreclose on my house that previous month—August 2025.

Remember that the HOA doesn’t have to issue any fines. They choose to. And they can fine you and tell you your neighbors snitched on you (and they can also lie about it all because how are you going to prove who said what) while someone else with what would be the same violation they let slide. This is the arbitrary and abusive nature of HOAs.

If you want to know what happened before and after this read the following posts on this website:

Also, the HOA did send it to their attorneys, Mankin Law.