Our concerns
Paid for with your dues. Pointed back at you.
Homeowners across Waterglen have come to us with the same unsettling account: they feel watched. Photographed. Logged. Followed up on. Not by an outside threat — but by the very association their dues pay for. There is a plain name for organized, funded monitoring of people in their own homes: domestic spying. This page collects what residents are telling us, and the questions we intend to keep asking until they're answered.
"We didn't buy our homes to be surveilled by our own HOA."
Dramatization — but ask your neighbors
What residents describe
The accounts we hear share a pattern. Residents report unfamiliar vehicles pausing outside their homes; photographs of their yards, cars, and porches appearing as attachments to violation notices; and a level of detail in enforcement letters that many say they find hard to explain without someone actively monitoring them. Several describe the feeling that documentation is being gathered first, and a rule to justify it found or invented afterward.
Why it matters
A homeowners association exists to serve the people who live in a community, not to police their private lives. Money collected as dues is meant for maintenance, shared amenities, and the genuine upkeep of the neighborhood — not, residents fear, for building files on the neighbors who paid it. When monitoring becomes routine and enforcement feels targeted, the relationship between a community and its association is broken. Domestic spying is not "community management," and no line item in a budget makes it so.
The questions we're demanding answers to
These are the questions Waterglen homeowners deserve straight answers to — in writing, on the record:
- What monitoring, photography, or data collection does the association conduct on residents and their homes, and under what written policy?
- Who authorized it, when, and at what cost to the community's dues?
- What is collected, where is it stored, how long is it kept, and who has access to it?
- How can a homeowner see what has been collected about them, and how can they have it corrected or deleted?
- Who, exactly, is conducting these inspections? Have the people photographing our homes, yards, and children passed criminal background checks — or could the association be sending registered sex offenders to our doors without even knowing it?
- What screening, if any, does the association or its management company require before someone is paid to walk our streets and photograph our homes?
If you've experienced this, your account matters — and it's stronger alongside your neighbors'. Add your name to the petition, and share what happened to you.