Is this legal?

My wife is president of our neighborhood HOA and it is a nightmare. People complain about everything. They won't just talk to their neighbors, they want the HOA to handle it. Dog barking? Call the HOA, grass unkempt, call the HOA. There was one incident where they thought the neighbor was possibly growing weed. My wife said that's not an HOA problem because there's nothing in the By-laws about it :D Another called our house at 1 in the morning because they thought they heard someone in their backyard. I answered and told them to call the police and not the freakin' HOA.

We were redoing the pool house and one neighbor called the STATE and got them involved which cost the HOA nearly 50K and we had to jump through so many hoops, inspections, submission of reports. The pool was shut down for a year. Every inspector asked us why we contacted them because it wasn't necessary but now that they were involved they had to make us follow everything to the letter. We live in a small rural community so state inspections never happen except that this neighbor kept calling them. We had to be classified as a public pool which led to more regulations, separate handicap bathrooms, etc. It was ridiculous.

HOA's are a pain but can be beneficial. Some HOA are way too uptight but you'd be surprised how much of it is other home owners just being a bunch of whiney, needy babies. She off the board in 1 year and is counting down the days.