‘I thought someone had stolen it’, says woman after car disappeared from garage – she was furious to find out who had stolen it

A Florida Homeowners Association resident woke up to find her car stolen.

Dystanee Brooks, a nursing student from Orlando, woke up one morning to walk her dog when she realized her car was missing.

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Brooks says he then called police to report his vehicle stolen.

But after calling 911 and providing her address, she said officers informed her that her car wasn’t actually stolen — her HOA towed it that morning while she slept.

“I thought someone stole it,” she explained on her TikTok.

The issue arose, according to Brooks’ Videobecause of the angle at which his car was parked in his own garage.

The tow truck also appears to have white scratch marks all over the stone sidewalk.

Some comments on his video speculated that perhaps his car was hanging off the street curb.

But Brooks responded to those comments and said she was, in fact, in her driveway.

She was able to provide photos to prove this and has now received reimbursement for the tow and a check for the damage her car suffered in the process, she said in the comments.

“Soooo… couldn’t they just knock on the door and ask you to fix it?” one comment read.

“Girl, my HOA had my car towed outside my house. I’m still furious about this 10 years later,” another user wrote.

“Sue the HOA and name the towing company in the same process,” another person added.

“Also open an HOA audit claim and have them show you how they are handling the funds,” the post continued. “They cope poorly.”

Some, like Anh Jung, who lives in a beautiful suburb of Gilbert, Arizona, would agree.

Jung lives in an HOA-run neighborhood called The Power Ranch Community.

They recently revealed to residents that they spent more than $167,000 on legal fees last year, more than six times what the HOA budgeted for legal expenses.

“We should know where our money goes,” said Kristi Kisler, a homeowner in the Power Ranch community.

In 2023, HOA fees at Power Ranch will increase by about 11%, followed by another 12% this year.

But what’s unclear to residents like Jung and Kisler is whether these increases are due to all their money being spent on legal fees, which stem from an ongoing 2019 lawsuit by developer Bela Flor, which owns some land within the country’s limits. HOA.

“We should know if they are going to raise fees and why they are raising HOA fees. It shouldn’t be, okay, we have to increase it by 20% this year,” says Kisler, “without explanation.”

However, the HOA denies that this increase in fees was for legal fees, attributing the increases for 2023 and 2024 to tracking inflation for major items such as utilities, insurance, contracted services and landscaping contracts.

But some residents aren’t buying it.

“And what did we learn?! DON’T LIVE IN HOA NEIGHBORHOODS!!!” said one user on Brooks’ video.