$6,300 in HOA penalties for not maintaining lawn/shrubs

I purchased a SFH in a suburb of Dallas in Nov of 2023. I live in California, but have family who are RE investors that are local to this property and have been managing it for me. They have been having the grass cut by someone who does yard work on their numerous other properties.

The property has been vacant till July of 2025. Shortly after tenant moved in, I got a notice from the HOA saying the grass needed to be cut. I informed the tenant and they told me it had already been taken care of.

Several weeks later, I received a notice from the HOA stating that my account is delinquent by the amount of ~$6,300!!! The letter didn’t say for what, so I create an account on their portal and saw that they have been charging penalties for grass and shrub violations going back to March of 2024. The HoA was basically stacking $500 fees for delinquencies for grass and shrubs accumulating to $6,300!!

I had not received any notices from the HOA until July 2025.