Florida daughter says HOA is trying to force her out of 55-plus community after inheriting home from dad
A 28-year-old homeowner says she is being forced out of her father’s 55-and-over after inheriting the home following his death, as residents are expected to fund the legal fees.Bethany Michel said that “155 geriatric-aged residents” are being asked to foot the legal bills from the HOA dead set on removing her from the Arbor Mill retirement community in Jacksonville, she said on TikTok on Monday.“There is a 55-plus community that is so eager to get rid of one of their non-55 residents, myself, that on Wednesday, in order to sue me out of my own home, they’re asking 155 residents on fixed incomes to do a mandatory $1,000 assessment,” Michel said.Five people voted to approve the special assessment that will charge residents to help amass the HOA’s legal war chest for the legal fight, Michel revealed on her Instagram Story.
“They allowed 155 people to think that they had a decision in the vote,” Michel told News4Jax.“But it was the five board members who spoke for the whole community.”Michel, who hosts a podcast and reviews restaurants, has been living in the retirement community since moving to the Sunshine State in 2020 to care for her terminally ill father during the COVID pandemic.She inherited the home after her father died in 2023, and residents haven’t been pleased with their younger neighbor.Michel said she first received a note telling her she didn’t meet the community guidelines three months after her dad’s death.“I 100% am being forced out,” she told the outlet.
“They’re trying to rip my office away from me, too.”Michel has since been denied access to other community amenities as she faces the lawsuit, the outlet reported.Residents who don’t hand over the assessment fee will be charged $100 over the next ten months, in order for the HOA board to get the required money, Michel claimed.“So not only do I have to pay my own attorney to defend me against these f–kers trying to sue me out of my own home, but I also hav...