ATLANTA — The tow trucks arrived early one August morning to haul away abandoned cars that had sat rusting in the Peyton Place parking lot for months. At least one car wore the wounds of gunfire. Another, tucked under a tarp, was completely stripped.

"We're cleaning this all up," Michael Shepherd said, watching the last vehicle disappear down the road.

After a two-year battle that cost him more than $30,000, he finally won control of his homeowner’s association.

Within days of setting up the new HOA board, members accomplished what the previous leadership had failed to do in years: they created a payment portal for dues, a website for key documents , removed broken trash bins that had turned part of a parking lot into a landfill, and started fixing leaking roofs. Credit: 11Alive

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