Dad Fires Back At HOA Informant Who Went After His COVID Tree Fort

As a dad who lives in an HOA neighborhood, the OutKick editors thought I'd be the perfect blogger to address the viral letter written by an angry dad to some "anonymous passerby" who went to an HOA to complain about the tree fort Dave constructed for his kids during the pandemic.

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Dave's all emotional, and I get that side of things because here he was, stuck in his house with boys. Dad was going nuts. The boys were going nuts. Dave's survival instincts set in, and he decided a tree fort would suck the energy right out of those kids. I get all of it. I lived that life, but I had the foresight years ago to trade a bottle of Crown for a neighbor's playset. My dad and I moved it in three pieces before driving to Green Bay for a Packers game one year. I left the bottle of Crown on the neighbor's porch, and we were on the road.

I look out in the yard and always think about how I saved at least a thousand dollars by trading a bottle sent to me in a promotional package from Crown Royal for that playset.

Dave's problem here is that he built it in a neighborhood with an HOA. That's right, I'm going to side with the HOA rat on this one. Think about your neighborhood. Do you want random houses with tree forts constructed from pallets that some of these weirdos find on scrapping journeys? I don't. That's what unincorporated land is for.

Dave needs to understand that this most likely isn't personal. This isn't about him and his little 'VID project. This is about pumping the brakes on the weirdos bringing in their pallet wood and building janky sheds, tree forts, etc. This is a preemptive strike, and it's necessary. You can't complain about the rules when you knew the rules going into the buying process.

There's a house in my neighborhood that's had approximately 6-7 dumpsters in the driveway over the last 12 months. There's currently an old tire in the driveway, random piles of sticks and other junk laying around. Would I love these idiots to clean their property and live like the rest of us sane people? Yes, I would.

It's not happening. These weirdos who inherited the house have to be strung out on drugs. I'd also put $100 on the moneyline that there's a dead body in the house. Do I want these animals constructing tree forts, parking multiple cars in their yard, parking dumpsters in the driveway for months at a time? It's going to be a no from me, dawg.

Dave needs to go buy a bottle of Crown, get on the neighborhood Facebook group page and ask who wants to trade booze for a play set.