A FESTIVE family has been slapped with an HOA violation for putting up Christmas decorations too early.

The family from Tampa Bay, Florida, put the Christmas decorations up on November 6 and received a letter shortly after from the HOA demanding they take them down or be fined up to $1,000.

The Christmas decorations were put up early because the family hired a decoration company and there was only limited availability, according to NBC affiliate WFLA in Tampa.

The company was needed because no one in the family was capable of climbing on the roof to put them up.

“That was their only availability, and I can’t climb up on the roof myself,” said Michael Moffa, per WFLA.

However, the HOA did not have empathy for the family’s need to decorate early and still insisted the decoration be taken down.

The letter said if the lights were not taken down the family could be fined $100 a day and up to $1,000 in total.

“Right before Christmas, who could be a Grinch to hand this out?” Moffa said about the letter.

A lawyer for the Westchase Community Association was asked by WFLA if the reason the family received a violation was because someone was angry about the lights or if it was purely just rule-following.

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Attorney Jonathan Ellis said that someone had complained about the lights to HOA, per WFLA.

The situation was then investigated by the manager of the community who concluded it was a violation and led to the letter.

“Which led to the community manager to investigate it,” Ellis said.

Ellis explained that the community wants to ensure that people do not keep Christmas lights up all year with the rule.

“One of the things they’re preventing is from the person that has the holiday lights up all year round or things along those lines,” he added.

Although the family offered to keep the lights turned off, the community still did not budge.

It is unclear if the family took the lights down or paid the fee.

Ellis said the community is open to reevaluating HOA rules but there must be enough people who want it to be changed for it to work.

“If there’s enough of the community that wants to change, I believe generally the Community Association of Westchase will listen to the residents and will make changes,” Ellis said.

HOAs are allowed to enforce any rules they feel are fit for the neighborhood.

The rules are intended to preserve property values and keep uniformity across all homes along with having a sense of community.