Talk about your day thread

[spike]

who pays for that ceiling leak in 2F?

it’s complicated

[Chris_H_2]

I’m president of our HOA /:

what are the monthly dues?

Three hundred something

Do you have an elevator in your building?

oh heavens no

your assessments seem high. do you have a doorman or something?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

I’m president of our HOA /:

what are the monthly dues?

Three hundred something

Do you have an elevator in your building?

oh heavens no

your assessments seem high. do you have a doorman or something?

They’re really not.

[Bammer]

I’m president of our HOA /:

what are the monthly dues?

Three hundred something

Do you have an elevator in your building?

oh heavens no

your assessments seem high. do you have a doorman or something?

$300 is not high

[bodysnatcher]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

[Bammer]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

Generally speaking:

Water, sewer, and garbage utilities

Exterior maintenance (landscaping, siding, roof, windows, etc.)

Common areas (parking, playground, courtyard, pool, elevator, weight room). However $300 likely wouldn’t have some of the amenities such as a pool or elevator.

[Chris_H_2]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

Generally speaking:

Water, sewer, and garbage utilities

Exterior maintenance (landscaping, siding, roof, windows, etc.)

Common areas (parking, playground, courtyard, pool, elevator, weight room). However $300 likely wouldn’t have some of the amenities such as a pool or elevator.

You seem to know a lot about spikes building and their governing documents.

[Bammer]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

Generally speaking:

Water, sewer, and garbage utilities

Exterior maintenance (landscaping, siding, roof, windows, etc.)

Common areas (parking, playground, courtyard, pool, elevator, weight room). However $300 likely wouldn’t have some of the amenities such as a pool or elevator.

You seem to know a lot about spikes building and their governing documents.

I owned a condo. This is basic stuff.

[Chris_H_2]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

Generally speaking:

Water, sewer, and garbage utilities

Exterior maintenance (landscaping, siding, roof, windows, etc.)

Common areas (parking, playground, courtyard, pool, elevator, weight room). However $300 likely wouldn’t have some of the amenities such as a pool or elevator.

You seem to know a lot about spikes building and their governing documents.

I owned a condo. This is basic stuff.

lol

[spike]

Bammer’s on point, though we raise special assessments for any major building maintenance needed to keep monthly assessments lower. It’s only a twelve unit building, so you can get away with passing the hat around when it’s time.

I’ve only had a few minor issues with that method during my tenure, but folks eventually pay. The key is don’t sign any contracts for work until you have everyone’s portion in the bank. One guy had to get a loan to pay for the roof last year and wanted to pay at the completion of the project to minimize interest, but I squashed that fairly easily.

[Bammer]

what all does one have the pleasure of getting for $300/month?

Generally speaking:

Water, sewer, and garbage utilities

Exterior maintenance (landscaping, siding, roof, windows, etc.)

Common areas (parking, playground, courtyard, pool, elevator, weight room). However $300 likely wouldn’t have some of the amenities such as a pool or elevator.

You seem to know a lot about spikes building and their governing documents.

I owned a condo. This is basic stuff.

lol

Go on…

[BurtReynolds]

Just had a long tube shoved up my ass. I feel like they inflated me like a balloon.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[BurtReynolds]

Maybe. I can't remember now.

[spike]

Just had a long tube shoved up my ass. I feel like they inflated me like a balloon.

Alien abduction?

Clinton intern

[Higgs]

Bammer’s on point, though we raise special assessments for any major building maintenance needed to keep monthly assessments lower. It’s only a twelve unit building, so you can get away with passing the hat around when it’s time.

I’ve only had a few minor issues with that method during my tenure, but folks eventually pay. The key is don’t sign any contracts for work until you have everyone’s portion in the bank. One guy had to get a loan to pay for the roof last year and wanted to pay at the completion of the project to minimize interest, but I squashed that fairly easily.

This sounds like hell. In Australia we have separate independent strata managers for these communal spaces situations. No need for any (shock!) personal tenant interaction that way.

And I get a HOA for an apartment building, but why do they exist for groups of green title blocks/houses?

[spike]

Bammer’s on point, though we raise special assessments for any major building maintenance needed to keep monthly assessments lower. It’s only a twelve unit building, so you can get away with passing the hat around when it’s time.

I’ve only had a few minor issues with that method during my tenure, but folks eventually pay. The key is don’t sign any contracts for work until you have everyone’s portion in the bank. One guy had to get a loan to pay for the roof last year and wanted to pay at the completion of the project to minimize interest, but I squashed that fairly easily.

This sounds like hell. In Australia we have separate independent strata managers for these communal spaces situations. No need for any (shock!) personal tenant interaction that way.

And I get a HOA for an apartment building, but why do they exist for groups of green title blocks/houses?

We have property management firms all over the place here, but it’s an added cost and a lot of them suck anyway. It’s been discussed hiring one before, when there were several things to juggle at once, but if everyone on our four person board is pulling their weight, things get done and it’s really not worth the expense from a workload aspect. Otherwise, not too much personal interaction is needed regularly. We have one problem owner, but our lawyer will be the go between there if things don’t turn around.


Neighborhood HOAs are kinda silly, but they generally exist to keep the block looking ship shape. Having rules in place to keep cars off lawns etc. Dumb shit that dumb people do anywhere.

[Higgs]

Oh. Lawyers are involved. Cool.

[spike]

Oh. Lawyers are involved. Cool.

Yeah it’s not good, but she has let her unit fall into disrepair, which affects everyone’s resale values. She also causes some disturbance (up late drinking and noisy), and of course she’s adjacent to an OCD owner who probably isn’t cut out for shared wall living in the first place.