A product of his environment

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• mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t believe it… Moving a welcome mat when the guy has a camera doorbell? C’mon…

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  • Thatuserguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even the trash cans. Just…put the trash cans in actual view of the camera? How would you buy a camera just to watch your trash cans and then not actually watch the trash cans with it?

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, you’re overthinking it. Say the cans are on the opposite side of the house from where op is. If he crosses in view of the front door, he’ll be spotted. So he goes through the backyard instead for access to the cans.

      He’s not buying a camera and pointing it straight at the cans from the property fence or something.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Easy solution, jam the wifi signal while moving the mat. Added benefit of making them more concerned that the house is haunted. If the houses are close enough (likely, hoa so suburbs) you could just hook it to a basic wall-wart timer that actives at 3 and deactives at 3:05, and have it + jammer plugged in at the closest outlet to neighbors front door. Ring doesn’t have a wired ethernet version to fix this vulnerability.

    …why are you looking at me like that?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, good idea. Commit a felony offense to cover the tracks of your late night trashcan shenanigan…

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t have to jam it. You can spam it with DEAUTHs from anything that will run aircrack.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

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    • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You guys are no fun

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Impossible!

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have a Google doorbell and it’s night vision is terrible. I’ve taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it’s the darkest and the doorbell didn’t register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it looks like a ghost

      Even better

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you tried turning the porch light on?

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have no idea how many of those things are mounted such that you can walk up from the side unseen.

    Source - my neighbor’s an idiot

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Found op. That’s some nice work you’re doing.

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  • night_petal@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is easily accomplished with a fishing rod. I also don’t believe this, however.

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not HOA but similar. I was living in a different city during covid. The city closed the outdoor parks in the poor and working class neighborhoods, the rich folk parks remained open.

  They started wrap the swings at the park around the top bar. I’d unwrap them each day and that went on for about two weeks. Then they went to zip tying the swings together so they couldn’t be used. So I would cut the zip ties each day. This went on for another few weeks. They they brought a sign post and a sign saying the park was closed and using the swings was prohibited. I dug the sign post out and threw it in the woods. Then they chained the swings together with a pad lock so I went to harbor freight and bot very heavy duty bolt cutters and lopped the chain off. That lasted a few weeks then they just took the swings away. I debated about buying swings and attaching them but figured the gambit went on as long as it should have and called it. I had fun.

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love it. Perhaps it would have been more effective to just do whatever they did to the swings at the other parks? Either way it’s good stuff

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My park was close to my house and it was closed by ordinance, the other rich ones were not. There is no difference in the parks at all other than the property values in the neighborhoods in which they sat. I wasn’t going to go to city hall and complain since the mayor and council people were all from the rich neighborhoods. Rule of law is downwards in our class based society.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you saying sabotage the rich kids swings? Thats awful. Like something done shit to your park so you’ll pay it forward to other innocent kids. Terrible behaviour. You should be mad at the people doing it and take it out on them or the rule makers.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The difference in the swings in the other parks were that they were surrounded by rich people

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  • DeadPixel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good effort! Hopefully some of the local kids got to enjoy the swings after your heroics each day, & that the council/city eventually put them back after restrictions loosened again.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They did eventually, I think it took more than a year. It was ridiculous.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blind spot so big the cans are there too which defeats the purpose of the camera. Got it.

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  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone who reports people’s trash cans to the HOA so they can be fined for it probably aren’t someone who understands camera angles.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even the dumbest person is going to check the feed bro, come on.

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Imagine being so fucking basic you care about trash cans being visible from the street.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its not about the trash cans, its about making sure your neighbours know YOU are calling the shots. If it wasnt the trashcan it would have been the grass a half-inch too high, or the paint on the door chipped slightly, or gravel leaving the premises, or dirty windows.

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      • didn’t respect mah athoriteh

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, basic as fuck.

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    HOA zombies are a plague

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These are creative writing exercises on reddit. It’s gotten a million times worse since LLMs.

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  • VinegarChunks@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A LLM that does not understand that you can’t avoid being seen by a ring camera by ‘approaching from a different side. ‘

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean its perfectly conceivable for any camera to have a blind spot. The lens can only see so much. Heck given its a Ring camera its almost certainly on a wireless connection so its trivial to briefly disrupt the connection if you’re okay with violating FCC regulations

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    • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re making the assumption the cameras can see the bins. Might just look at a driveway.

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• statelesz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HOA are such a crazy concept. There is no such thing in Europe.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course there are home owners associations in Europe. They’re just not crazy.

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  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Am in US. I will NEVER own a house with an HOA. NEVER

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OTOH, your town planning councils tend to be a lot more restrictive.

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  • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look up the word bünzli

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    • Bababasti@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For real, Switzerland does not nearly get enough shit for being exactly like the stereotypes that actually exist for Germany but even more so

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Condo buildings I saw things. Did you know that you can stuff a keyhole with glue and human feces?

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Challenge accepted, I just need to find a step ladder to reach!

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  • Bababasti@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the whole of Europe? That thing that‘s made up by a big bunch of countries, all with very different laws and regulations? Bold claim.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Us Germans sadly have owner’s associations in appartment buildings that can pull similar shit with the house rules, and also crazy restrictive building codes in some places, dictating how your driveway is allowed to look etc.

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  • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My parents kinda has one where they live in Sweden. Except everyone is welcome to the meetings. And it’s mostly about planning, upkeep, and budgeting for snow ploughing, play parks and things like that, instead of relying on the local council to do it. And it’s only for the one street they live on. Definitely no where near what an american HOA is like 😅

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have them for apartment buildings in Romania. Never heard of any for houses, fortunately.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The term Gaslighting gets thrown around a lot, but if this story were actually real it would be the perfect modern day example of it.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ya no way this is real. My ring doorbell detects the damn trees when the wind blows too hard. Not a chance he avoids the camera.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My ring doorbell

      Obligatory get that police state spyware off your home and use something else (if cameras are even at all necessary!)

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless he was behind it, like the post implies.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m a little confused how OOP is moving the welcome mat without triggering the camera. Though I’m sure this story is $100% real.

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OOP edited it to clarify

    EDIT: since people keep asking about the ring camera - the welcome mat is by his side door. camera points at the driveway. but i’m not taking chances so i bought the same ring camera model and spent a month testing angles in my own house. there’s a 2 foot blind spot if you approach from the left hedge. 10 second delay before recording starts. i can be in and out in 8 ;)

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    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh btw here’s the link

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Let’s hope his neighbour is not on Reddit.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the $ sign too

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would that be 100 dollars percent or 100 percent dollars?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Realist

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    • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1$00%

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• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shit Americans will do instead of just abolishing HOAs.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve creeped into Canada. I always call people who voluntarily join an HOA authoritarian morons.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a reason I bought a 14 acre homestead for $225k four years ago than anything in an HOA.

      I’d rather live in the middle of no where and shovel snow, carry firewood downstairs, feed chickens and pigs and break up frozen waters and dig out doors, deal with 6ft drifts blowing around my house all winter, than ever share space with fucking Gary.

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the HOA Karens that run politics, so you do the math on how well that’d work out.

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This would be me if I ever moved to the suburbs in an HOA, which I would never do on purpose.

  I am enraged by proxy at the very existence of HOAs even though I have never been part of one or indeed interacted with an HOA or even (knowingly) a member of one. I just hate them for existing.

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have had some shitty HOAs and I now live in a home with no HOA for a reason. Fuck those overbearing shitheads.

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IDK. I’ve had good and bad experiences with them. But overall more positive than negative. It’s all about which HOA you’re talking about. Yes, you can say you should be able to do what you want with your land. But that isn’t how any kind of land ownership works anywhere on Earth. There are always some entities regulating how you can use it, as you inevitably have neighbors and you don’t have a right to damage the enjoyment of their property.

      Can they be overbearing? Sure, the wrong ones can. But they also keep mean that I don’t have to worry about my next door neighbor turning his property into a junkyard.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m the kind of person who would go full rules-lawyer on them, get myself elected to the board and generally rip out every silly rule they have if not completely disband the HOA if needed

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    • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not that easy - changing the rules generally requires a vote to the homeowners, not just the board, and usually requires a minimum amount of participation (like a majority have to approve, regardless of how many(few) vote).

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This should be green text.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Weird request, but okay.

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    • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MY EYEBALLS ARE MELTING

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• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fake but still kind of funny.

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• ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anybody have any neighbor revenge tips? As in my neighbor is a fucking psycho who tried to break into my house, but is also rich, so he paid a lawyer and got a hand slap?

  Obligatory, ACAB and fuck America. Can’t wait to take a position overseas again.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends how much revenge you need. There is a sliding scale between pooping on his doormat to planting creeping bamboo to planting an IED.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Check every morning if the cans moved.

  Notice they move Wednesday night.

  Set alarm for middle of the night (3AM) and check if they moved.

  Didn’t move? Next week set alarm for 4.30AM.

  Moved? 3.45AM.

  Moved…

  Shoot the guy trespassing on your property in dark clothes in the middle of the night.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bruh this is literally Stasi shit

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

  OOP should join the FSB lmfao

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather live in a cardboard box behind a wal-mart than in an HOA.

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• Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HOA are bullshit, but the folks who actually use em to cause problems for their neighbors are a different kind of scum.

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• Ecen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can someone explain why there are so many stories of bad HOAs in America? Don’t everyone in the HOA get to vote on who will be on the board and what rules there should be? Why do many of them seem to have strange and petty rules? What makes them able to issue fines for so small infractions? Where does the fine money go? Who sets up the HOA in the first place and what is the motivation to do so?

  We got plenty of similar associations where I live (both for apartments and houses, though not so often for fully detached homes) and they usually work great. Basically you pay a monthly fee to your HOA that the board use to keep the plumbing and outside areas maintained, pay for tv/internet for everyone at a much reduced cost or maintain other common areas like laundry rooms, guest apartment, parking garage, workshop etc. There are of course some restrictions too you need to follow, but those are usually minor and common sense anyways (like you shouldn’t play very loud music too late in an apartment in the middle of the week) and that you don’t get to do whatever you want to the outside of your place.

  (Another common rule is that you need HOA approval to sublet your apartment. This can be occasionally annoying to deal with, but is good because it prevents people from buying up apartments just to rent them out. And most of the time the HOA will approve you if you’re just moving away for a year or similar.)

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t even notice if the bins moved 6"

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m just glad my HOA is chill and I like them.

  The only thing they’ve had to bring fines about is people trying to move furniture in the wrong elevator and scratching up the wood finishings, and they should. We have a freight elevator for that.

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Reads like greentext

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