Does Banging Your Head Burn Calories?

I'm not talking the fun kind either where there's hard rock music involved and you have a neckache the next day and curse your age.  

If I overheard one more excuse from the HOA minion, I was going to absolutely lose my shite.  He's the kind of person who will sell water to a drowning man and I felt like that was the scenario I was listening to.  I heard him reference our window twice when explaining stuff away to the Mr and on the second mention, I fired off an email to the people who installed our windows in 2019 telling them the situation, that they keep trying to blame the window and do they come out to inspect under their warranty.  I wanted to at least get that ball rolling.

I finally had enough and went out front and asked 'where we were' on things.  Again, he's refusing to replace or check under the siding (where the subfloor would be).  He thinks he may have found the issue with our downstairs wall and is looking to patch up a huge chasm the Mr found there in the mortar.  That's great junior but that has zero to do with the water pooling in ABOVE that area and under our subfloor.  He kept talking about putting sheathing down there to stop rain from 'bouncing up'. 

 ~*~ rain does not bounce up under siding and onto the subfloor!!  Not how that works~*~

I am so sick of these band aid approaches but we have to bend over and crack a smile to play the game while this moron tries everything except something that will actually work.

He left declaring he would be back yesterday to finish the band aid job.  The window company called the Mr and we have an appointment next week for them to come out free of charge to inspect the window, fix anything if needed and if they don't find any issues, they will write up an inspection report to submit to the HOA.  We were both pleased with that especially at no charge.  The Mr went downstairs to bleach out the mold and he used his scope camera to stick down the chasm that minion passed on looking at with the camera when offered.  Well, low and behold a HUGE reservoir of missing mortar and what appeared to be a wide open path straight to the back of siding.  Time to fire off the video to the dude so he could potentially get a different plan together before coming back out.  (Hahahaha!  That implies logical thinking)  My brain was on fire and a quick headache was ensuing with the stench of bleach wafting throughout the house.  It was 81 for the first time in 84 years so we decided to go walk outside so we weren't sitting there breathing everything in and to walk off the steam coming from my ears.  The only good news from that visit was he said our sill plate was totally dry.  Uh, for the first time in history a piece of "spongy" wood miraculously heals itself in a week to perfect condition??  That is the mentality we're dealing with here.  Pure Talkoutofyourassery!

Yesterday he comes back- hellbent on the original idea of course.  Again, very sure that rain not only bounces 3-4" but does so up and under siding and with such force and volume that it soaks the subfloor.  Fine, we'll play the game.  We've got a plan in place so you do your thing, we'll do ours.  Instead of filling the mortar in from the outside with the siding off, he decided to use some acrylic Quikrete filler hoping it would go where it needed to go in order to again band aid something that could be fixed properly.  (Reminder, this is not the original issue we called about.)  As I type, he's downstairs shuckin' and jivin' the Mr with his asshattery logic and filling the crevasse from the inside where he hopes it'll fill in where it needs to.  After he left, we just shook our heads and ordered some of those cheap 12x12" concrete pavers to put against the house.  I checked with him Monday to see if that plan would be okay because I would be planting stuff up against it but still wanted maintenance to have access if needed.  He said that would actually help with the issue and stop this miracle 'rain bounce.'  Fine.  We'll put those there and wait for the heavens to open up this weekend to see what happens.  

This is the ridiculous part of HOA's.  While yes, the exterior is their responsibility, they will also do as little as possible for as cheap as possible to band aid something.  Like the Mr said, if this was ours outright and the outside our responsibility, we'd have had the siding ripped off and fixed on our own by now.  Fingers crossed but with very, very little hope this paper towel to plug the Hoover Dam approach does anything.

Have you dealt with HOA's/property management before?

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