Red Mosquito

doug rr wrote:who pays for that ceiling leak in 2F?

spike wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote: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

Carl Sandburg wrote: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.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote: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?

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote: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?

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

Bammer wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote: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 wrote:

Bammer wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote: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 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Bammer wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote: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 wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Bammer wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote: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

Carl Sandburg wrote: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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

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

Alien abduction?

spike wrote: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.

Higgs wrote:

spike wrote: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?

Higgs wrote:Oh. Lawyers are involved. Cool.