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drgitlin posted:TBH if I could get our co-op board to mandate that everyone had to use the same (not ugly) curtains I’d be over the moon. Co-ops and HOAs get a bad rap on here but they can be a force for good. 3 olives parachute account spotted. How do you feel about children playing on playground equipment? What about Christmas wreaths on apartment doors? Do you have a keurig?
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Atticus_1354 posted:What type of curtains are so bad that you feel the need to have a rule outlawing them and why don't you just not look at them instead? There are a bunch of barrel-roofed townhouses with floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floors (it’s a mid-century development designed by Charles Goodman). Some neighbors have just hung sheets across the lower halves of their windows, it looks absolutely loving hideous. Why would you live in an awesome architectural design if you’re only going to gently caress it up by draping a sheet across it? Just go live in a normal house at that point. Anyway I wouldn’t worry about them, I have had enough experience being on committees in the past that I’d rather slit my own wrists than serve on another board. And this place has so many old fogies it was a multi-year fight just to get solar panels installed on the flat roofed bits.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:3 olives parachute account spotted. That’s what it’s there for. Fine as long as they come down on January 6th and not some time in April. Nope.
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peanut posted:tell me more about that muffin monster There’s one at the county jail, the wastewater department made them install it or pay for cleaning and unfucking of pipes since inmates flush everything. So now, if you flush your entire jumpsuit down the drain it gets chopped up into tiny bits and nothing clogs.
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peanut posted:tell me more about that muffin monster The second video is better but I like the intro on this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wQfWsexv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh9rELBpmo What were these guys on?  :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdZkSdNKSM
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Nov 2, 2017 03:14
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Collateral Damage posted:Every time I read about HOAs I'm glad they don't really exist here. HOAs and easements are the very first thing I ask about on any house I look at, because gently caress both of them with a red hot poker.
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drgitlin posted:Fine as long as they come down on January 6th and not some time in April. Get hosed; Knut's day isn't until the 13th. You're not taking my decorations before Christmas Peace ends.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:03
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Russian Orthodox Christmas doesn't happen until January 
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Nov 2, 2017 10:07
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What about people who start putting up their christmas decorations in november? I hate that.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:10
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Facebook Aunt posted:What about people who start putting up their christmas decorations in november? I hate that. They should be forced to relocate to a
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Nov 2, 2017 10:22
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There's a pop-up store here that only sells christmas decorations and other christmas stuff. It opened in mid October.
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Collateral Damage posted:There's a pop-up store here that only sells christmas decorations and other christmas stuff. I noticed the first Christmas store decorations on September 21 this year. Just so we’re clear: it was still Summer.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:29
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Facebook Aunt posted:What about people who start putting up their christmas decorations in november? I hate that. Nope. Decorations go up the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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Liquid Communism posted:HOAs and easements are the very first thing I ask about on any house I look at, because gently caress both of them with a red hot poker. 
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Platystemon posted:I noticed the first Christmas store decorations on September 21 this year. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Nope. Decorations go up the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Correct. Pre stringing outdoor lights if you've got good weather but not turning them on yet is also acceptable.
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Liquid Communism posted:HOAs and easements are the very first thing I ask about on any house I look at, because gently caress both of them with a red hot poker. I passed on two properties because they were in an HOA. I love where I live know, and I find the lack of HOA leads to an honest to god diverse neighborhood which is awesome and good. Blue Footed Booby posted:Nope. Decorations go up the Saturday after Thanksgiving. They don't *have* to, but anytime after Thanksgiving is perfectly acceptable for Christmas decorations.
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drgitlin posted:There are a bunch of barrel-roofed townhouses with floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floors (it’s a mid-century development designed by Charles Goodman). Some neighbors have just hung sheets across the lower halves of their windows, it looks absolutely loving hideous. Why would you live in an awesome architectural design if you’re only going to gently caress it up by draping a sheet across it? Just go live in a normal house at that point. Whhhhoooooo carrrreeeessssss
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Progressive JPEG posted:Whhhhoooooo carrrreeeessssss The same people who banned rack-drying clothes on balconies at a place I lived, because "technically the balconies aren't owned by the apartments" and I guess it's more important to appease the aesthetics of people who work there than the needs of the people who live there.
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I guess I lucked out with my HOA. Dues are basically $100 a year and it basically pays for trash service. Only time I ever hear from them are the newsletter they send out every once in a while. I've always been wary of HOAs because of my amateur radio hobby, but my wire antenna has been up for over a year and I haven't heard a peep, except from my next door neighbor. He thought it was neat. 
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Nov 2, 2017 15:54
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Proteus Jones posted:I love where I live know, and I find the lack of HOA leads to an honest to god diverse neighborhood which is awesome and good. This has been my experience as well. I would honestly prefer to live somewhere where the neighbors can put cars up on blocks or plant veggies in their front yard, rather than somewhere where the houses are all painted the same set of 4 variations on beige, and every yard has the same combination of grass, shrubs, and one small tree. I'm sure HOAs can be good, especially if you aren't interested in caring for the exterior of your house, but if you buy into an HOA, you're ceding power to an authority that can be unbelievably petty, and pretty much the only ways to fix it are either to leave, or to descend into neighborhood politics
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Platystemon posted:Sounds like someone needs a Muffin Monster™ I always smile when I see this poo poo or that youtube video of them shredding everything in one of their grinders. My dad has worked at JWC as an engineer for forever. The place I live in has an HOA and it is insanely expensive for what we have as far as common grounds gardening (and water and trash). Its horrible and I can't wait to leave it. At least now I'm an adult and the "no playing outside" doesn't gently caress me over nearly as bad as it would if I were still a kid living here.
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Good Dog posted:The place I live in has an HOA and it is insanely expensive for what we have as far as common grounds gardening (and water and trash). Its horrible and I can't wait to leave it. At least now I'm an adult and the "no playing outside" doesn't gently caress me over nearly as bad as it would if I were still a kid living here. 
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Who wants a fun HOA story? In the state of Florida, ponds are very common to control storm water runoff, and also just to look nice and have fish and wildlife. Ponds in housing developments are maintained by the HOA almost without exception. Except in my aunt and uncle's community! A few years ago, a pond was repaired out front of a neighboring community. It's right out front, two houses back up to it. My aunt and uncle were sick of living up north, and they found a house for sale that they loved, just down the road from us, in that community, on that pond. They love their pond, and love to watch the ducks and water birds and feed the fish and turtles. Then hurricane irma blows through, and the pond breaks. How do you break a pond? Aparently, it had been dug and laid incorrectly, with an insufficient retaining wall. It all drained into the woods thankfully, but my aunt and uncle are out a pond. Then the HOA fires back that the pond had been repaired by the former homeowner, who paid like 20 grand to get it fixed, and it's now their responsibility to get it fixed again. This is of course utter bullshit. Aunt and uncle call out several pond repaid guys (including the dudes who 'fixed' it for the last homeowner, and swear up and down that it was done to code), and then they get the guy who's in good with the Saint John's Riverkeepers, who do a lot with the water management in the area (a big deal). Good pond guy is baffled by the HOA, and goes to the Riverkeepers, and turns out, the Riverkeepers go, "Oh, yeah. THAT fuckin HOA. They pulling this poo poo again?" So the Riverkeepers are already working on litigation against the HOA. They tell my aunt and uncle to hold fast, and don't give the HOA a dime. Turns out the pond was never up to code, the HOA is full of poo poo, and are going to be IN deep poo poo because water management is a BIG DEAL in an area where there's a pond or watershed every block. So yeah. gently caress that HOA.
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HOAs are for trashy people who don't want to be seen as trashy who know their neighbors are, like them, trashy people living beyond their means in pine boxes pooped out by a giant Toll Brothers factory, where everything will go to seed immediately without the iron fist of authoritarian rule.
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Children should be neither seen nor heard.
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I work in (the office side of) remodeling and I truly hate having to tell people "You like these nice French-looking sliding doors? Tough poo poo, right over here is what your HOA or condo association requires. You want dual-color so you can match your white living room and still match your requirement of bronze exterior? Pay out the rear end for vinyl* so you can have white inbound, bronze outbound!" Repeat ad nauseam. I can't stand condo commandos one bit. It's a way for retired old farts to feel important again when they slam their hammer of stupidity on people's desires. I get the PURPOSE of them, I just think 95% overstep that. * because building-grade plastic is more expensive than aluminum, I guess?
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I like the HOA I live in. No one gives a poo poo about anything. It's $150/year and they cut the grass and leave everyone alone.
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Variable 5 posted:Children should be neither seen nor heard. I know you're being sarcastic, but I hate that attitude. I don't have kids and probably never will, but I don't *hate* them. When I was getting my fence repaired, I had to put some chicken wire up to keep my dogs on the property. My dogs formed a bromance with the kids next door. Now the fence is replaced the kids constantly, on purpose/accident get balls in my yard when the dogs are out. Of course, I told them they were more than welcome if their parents were cool, but not to be too rough with the little one and stay cautious of big one because it's a 100lbs of clumsy dog that knocks me over at times. I meant that as "go through the gate and make sure it stays latched". Those little shits took it as "climb over newly repaired fence and drop into yard". Which is fine. Because they're kids. And they do kid things. If at times they get a little loud or annoying, that's fine too. Because they're kids. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Where I live I'm governed by 2 HOA's- one for the unincorporated city I live in, and one for the townhouse neighborhood I live in (for reference, this is Reston VA in Fairfax County, which is the second richest county in the US). The Reston HOA is great (albeit they have a pretty incompetent board, but what HOA board of directors isn't incompetent?)- they maintain miles and miles and miles of walking trails, seven community pools, tennis courts, rec areas, etc etc etc. The most "intrusive" thing that they do is forbid anyone from cutting ANY tree unless and until they've had the tree assessed by an arborist and a member of the HOA board- which I agree with, as it keeps people from doing things like buying lots with older houses, clearing the entire lot, and then building some ugly rear end McMansion on it and loving up the watersheds. They're also actively fighting against raising the population density of Reston and keeping it from turning into aforementioned McMansion and condo heavy sprawl like the rest of Fairfax county. My townhouse HOA is half-chill, but they do stupid poo poo like send me a citation for the shovel I keep in front of my house for mucking out the sidewalk whenever it floods from rain... because they haven't fixed the sidewalk that floods when it rains EVEN THOUGH they specifically went through and fixed the sidewalks in the entire neighborhood a couple years back... but not the one that always floods when it rains. The main issue with HOA's is when they're started to put some teeth to dog whistle racism and/or by meddling old busybodies who think mayonnaise is too spicy.
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brugroffil posted:Pre stringing outdoor lights if you've got good weather but not turning them on yet is also acceptable. I'm amazed at this point that every store that sells holiday decorations doesn't have controllable RGB LEDs for sale in a style that can be installed stealthily along the edges of a house. I can buy strips on Amazon that would be basically invisible from more than a few feet away unless turned on. With something like that you could potentially install it once and just leave it between holidays. As far as HOAs go the two times I've lived under the control of one they've given me poo poo about not having the right mailbox. In both cases the mailbox in question was a normal, good looking mailbox which had been installed at that house since day one as far as I was aware. In at least one of the cases the required mailbox happened to be built by a local company owned by a friend of someone on the HOA board, the other one wasn't as corrupt and just wanted a different model that was sold at most home improvement stores. In both cases it would have been legally possible for a refusal to submit to their mailbox rule to result in loss of property. That's loving absurd no matter what you think about your neighbors possibly letting their grass grow too long. tl;dr: gently caress HOAs
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My dad got annoyed at the HOA (well, condo association), so he took over leadership for a year and streamlined everything. Never underestimate the power of an impatient retired accounting teacher. Now all they do is pay dues for snow removal, landscaping, and basic repairs and have a vague "decorum" policy for outside decorations that's not hard to follow. This way, my mom gets to hang her million bells in the summer and her Xmas wreath in the winter and nobody can tell her otherwise.
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D34THROW posted:I work in (the office side of) remodeling and I truly hate having to tell people "You like these nice French-looking sliding doors? Tough poo poo, right over here is what your HOA or condo association requires. You want dual-color so you can match your white living room and still match your requirement of bronze exterior? Pay out the rear end for vinyl* so you can have white inbound, bronze outbound!" Repeat ad nauseam.
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Slugworth posted:.... whoa, I think I agree with an HOA about door color for once. On a house, gently caress anyone who dictates what color a door should be, but in a condo hallway? I dunno man, every door being the same color sorta makes sense. i dunno friend, its a lot easier to say "the door with the giant purple penis on it"
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wolrah posted:your neighbors possibly letting their grass grow too long. Oh, this reminds me of my twat of a neighbor. I have three small kids and we played out on the porch all day during most of the summer. My neighbor to the right (as you face the house) had a fence put in A FOOT BACK from the property line. Do you think her lawn guys mow that extra bit of grass? No, they let it get wild and overgrown and a habitat for the black racer that likes to hang out between those houses. It got nearly a foot and a half high before our lawn guys decided gently caress it, they'd cut that too so my kids could play in the yard. The ONLY time I wished for an HOA was when I saw the snake slithering around there when my kids wanted to play in the yard.
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Shrug. I have fond memories loving with snakes when I was growing up in Chicago.
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Slugworth posted:.... whoa, I think I agree with an HOA about door color for once. On a house, gently caress anyone who dictates what color a door should be, but in a condo hallway? I dunno man, every door being the same color sorta makes sense. Not all condos are apartment styled. I life in a condo that's basically a detached house.
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Black racers are like, sub-squirrel levels of dangerous, unless there is some Australian deathsnake by the same name or something.
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Slugworth posted:.... whoa, I think I agree with an HOA about door color for once. On a house, gently caress anyone who dictates what color a door should be, but in a condo hallway? I dunno man, every door being the same color sorta makes sense. Why the gently caress does this make more sense than every door in a neighborhood of identical houses? Are you spending a lot of time in the hallway? I honestly can't imagine why you'd care unless it was the aforementioned big purple dick or something.
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