Our HOA is being a fucking pain, but I guess thats on par for all HOAs. We want to cut 3 trees in our backyard (change from the 7 we wanted to), but now the HOA wants a arborist to certify that those trees indeed need to go. So we got an arborist to send them the recommendation - and now they like well we can’t the arborist certification on site. I’m like benchods, its a opt-in website. Now what you want me to do, bribe the fucking arborist to validated his credential so HOA overlords are happy? Lesson for next house - avoid HOA like a fucking plague.