Ugh, on top of everything else in life... my HOA sent me a violation notice with a picture showing the pepper plants I've been growing in my front yard telling me to remove the weeds and mow. It's winter, so the grass isn't tall and is kind of dead, so it's really them just complaining about my plants.
In the 6-7 years we've lived here we have never once been able to successfully get in contact with the HOA management company, we don't even have access to the pool because you need key cards to access it, but you can't get in contact with the management company to get them.
Allegedly this new TownSq app thing they claim to respond to requests, so I've tried that, and I do know that the people who do violation assessments literally just slowly drive down the street and take pictures from their car if they think you're in violation, and from the road it might look like weeds, but they are pepper plants, and they are producing peppers as well as deterring all of the wild/loose animals they don't seem to care about.