Apparently that had been enough.
He replied with three sentences.
Please provide the name of the sustainability program referenced during the open meeting. Please also identify any application or supporting materials that reference infrastructure located on my property. Email response is preferred.
No answer.
Three days.
Five.
Then management replied.
The association is exploring multiple grant opportunities. No finalized community charging plan currently exists.
That did not answer the second question.
The Homeowner responded.
Please identify whether my charger, solar system, battery system, address, energy-production data, or charging history have been included in any HOA grant application or related supporting documentation.
Nothing.
He showed his sister.
She said:
“That’s an answer.”
“Technically it’s silence.”
“Exactly.”
The Homeowner contacted the city sustainability office.
A receptionist transferred him twice.
Then a program coordinator answered.
The Homeowner explained only the basics.
His neighborhood.
HOA.
Possible grant.
Private charger.
The coordinator searched.
“Yes.”
“There is an application.”
The Homeowner sat straighter.
“Public?”
“The summary is.”
“Can I request the full application?”
“Most of it, yes.”
“How?”
The coordinator gave instructions.
The Homeowner filed the request that afternoon.
He expected days.
It took less than forty-eight hours.
A PDF arrived.
Forty-three pages.
He opened it after dinner.
The title seemed harmless.
Neighborhood Distributed Clean Mobility Demonstration Proposal.
Applicant:
His HOA.
Project objective:
Demonstrate residentially integrated charging availability to support low-cost EV adoption without immediate construction of dedicated public charging infrastructure.
The Homeowner read slowly.
Six residential charging locations were identified.
Not by owner name.
By lot number.
His lot was one.
He stared.
The application described the six chargers as:
Resident-accessible charging assets available within the participating community network.
His charger was not resident-accessible.
It was Homeowner-accessible.
Private property.
Private electricity.
Private insurance.
Private equipment.
He kept reading.
A map showed his house.
A small charging icon sat on his driveway.
Under utilization data:
Demonstrated recurring charging activity across four of six identified nodes.
The Homeowner’s pulse accelerated.
A graph showed monthly energy use.
The numbers looked familiar.
Too familiar.
He opened his charger records.
January.
February.
March.
The unauthorized charging sessions almost exactly matched the utilization dates referenced in the grant application.
The Homeowner stood.
Walked around the kitchen.
Sat again.
The HOA President had not merely been helping herself to free charging.
Her Tesla appeared to be generating usage at the very charger she had represented as part of a community charging network.
He opened the appendices.
Photographs.
One showed his charger.
Taken from the sidewalk.
Another showed a Tesla connected to it.
Her Tesla.
The photo was captioned:
Example active distributed charging node.
The Homeowner stared at the image.
His house.
His driveway.