HOA Marking non-member homes with flags and spraypaint.

Contractors should be able to work off of a map.

That said, if the flags are on your property, you have a right to remove them.
If the flags are not on the common area, all you can do is bring the issue to the Board.

I would address your concerns in writing so there is a record of the issues.

As for the yellow paint, curb paint have specific meanings for drivers. Check your local traffic laws for the specific meaning in your area.

Tim

Sorry, "spot" should read "aspect."

They paint a yellow line in the street roughly 3 feet in length from the mailbox. According to state law no sign or markings resembling traffic signs are permitted. Not sure about local laws. When a homeowner joins the HOA sprays black over the stripe.

As for the flags those are placed on the property - not a common area. Those are placed by the lawn maintenance crew. They are given a list and place them on the corners of the lot. Depending on the shape of the lot sometimes the place more. They use random colors (blue, red, green, and yellow).

Another reason that has me concerned was that there are other markings in the neighborhood made by utility companies and the county in the same color and using similar flags. The HOA's flags and paint may cause some confusion.

For instance, the county was spraying orange dots on areas of the sidewalk that need replacement. Before the yellow stripe they used the same orange color. The gas company has been making yellow markings for lines that need replacing.

I thought about suggesting they tell their staff and yard people who to avoid but it seems like that is too difficult for them to follow. I guess if I press hard enough they'll have to deal with it.

Good point. I was trying to go the neighborly route first. I was actually trying to find the contact information for their landscapers but they don't have an online presence and I haven't seen any identifying markers on their vehicles. As for the flags and paint I removed them off my property and removed the paint in front of my house.

This is a shaming technique being used by the HOA to "out" non-HOA members. It's disgusting and low class. Period. There's no need to debate whether flags and paint are needed. They are not.

As far as the road paint, are your roads private or gated or are they county roads? If they are county roads, does the county know that your HOA is painting all over them? The entire thing sounds immature and absurd.

Would the member-owners be amenable to "positive" flags lining their lawns to alert mowers to mow? (Probably not.) At the very least, member-owners would insist the flags be removed when mowing is completed.

The border of your property is not the HOA's to trespass on and litter with lawn flags. I would photograph the area, remove the material, and make written complaints to both the HOA and lawn contractor.

HOA contractors are trespassers if they are entering your property and should be dealt with as lawbreakers. This is much more serious than flags. Perhaps you need some "No Trespassing" signs before you can make a complaint to sheriff?

Agree with other comments on roads ie Call the County regarding defacing county roadways with paint; it is a safety and environmental concern, in addition to cosmetic.

I am surprised the member-owners are not objecting to the HOA's cosmetic alterations in their neighborhood; isn't this what HOA's are supposed to protect property owners from?

I never considered this to be shaming. I figured it stemmed from laziness and ignorance. I wouldn't put it past this board to shame non-members. They used to send colorful postcards announcing your delinquency, they distributed photographs of "ugly" houses asking homeowners if they wanted these ugly homes (many cases the ugliness was highly subjective), they would attack their critics in the newsletter and claim the victim, and they called county code enforcement regularly on homes for the littlest thing - I got called on because my grass was a little high when I was in the hospital for the birth of my son. And then again a couple weeks later. Both times the code enforcer told me I was in no violation and that I "made an enemy."

Despite all this I try to be neighborly. I tried talking to the president once as she drove passed me in her golf cart. She just scowled at me and kept moving on. Not once did someone attempt to communicate with me. Especially when they sent me an enforcement letter, I corrected what they perceived to be an issue within the allotted time they requested, and then the next day they sent me a letter that they were sending me to their attorney. That is when my attorney got involved and discovered the covenants expired due to MRTA. Ever since then the letters from the HOA stopped but they still call code and these flags and paint are the latest.