The AI-generated cat pictures thread
I don't understand HOA neighborhoods. What's the point of owning a single family home if you have to answer to the ******* of the neighborhood that has nothing better to do than police the neighborhood for landscaping that doesn't conform to his or her liking.
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Its to give bitchy woman who have nothing better to do in life, feel like they are doing something.
True story: Most HOA's are not enforced by the community, but instead a business, or whoever built the community. At my last HOA I got a complaint about my truck being parked on the street with a trailer. I called the company that runs the HOA, and no joke, they said "not another ******* complaint". Apparently the people holding the meetings had "passed" a rule about trailer parking without approval from the company that ran it. They said ignore it, and they would tell them to stop bothering me.
True story: Most HOA's are not enforced by the community, but instead a business, or whoever built the community. At my last HOA I got a complaint about my truck being parked on the street with a trailer. I called the company that runs the HOA, and no joke, they said "not another ******* complaint". Apparently the people holding the meetings had "passed" a rule about trailer parking without approval from the company that ran it. They said ignore it, and they would tell them to stop bothering me.
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Trees destroy underground utilities (supply laterals, sewer lines, etc) clog up things like storm drains, are a hazard to overhead utilities (power, phone, cable tv, etc) are a damage and liability concern to things on the ground (parked cars, children, houses, etc) buckle sidewalks and cause tripping hazards... the list goes on and on.
As a developer, why would you ever even consider planting a tree in a cookie cutter HOA neighborhood?
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As a developer, why would you ever even consider planting a tree in a cookie cutter HOA neighborhood?
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I've read them. I'm required to maintain the lawn & landscaping (there is no landscaping) in "neat condition." Specifically, the grass may be no taller than six inches as measured from the ground. No restrictions are placed upon the implements by which I may achieve this, meaning that a turbine-powered lawn mower is not entirely excluded from my future.
The house in question, including the tress which I was required to plant when I built the place:
(They've grown quite a bit over the past 13 years.)
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Buy an electric mower. Mount a cupholder on it. Download Podcatcher onto your iThing and subscribe to the following podcasts:
- Freakonomics
- Mystery Show
- Radiolab
- Reply All
- Science Vs.
- Surprisingly Awesome
- TED Radio Hour
- This American Life
It's like, a Zen thing, man.
Yeah, **** those guys! Wait....that's us. Okay maybe not a pink house or washer and dryer but the cars for sure hahaha
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That being said, robo-mowers are old news.
Something about this is oddly terrifying, in a Maximum Overdrive sort of way...
Not making this **** up.
Wow, a lot has changed since those days... The house on the right used to be sparkly pink, and the house on the left used to exist... and be sparkly yellow.
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Anybody near MRLS should come out to refuel on Sunday
I'm driving this thing
AWD, chain drive, all electric. Inboard brakes. Hoosier slicks. Should be interesting to drive to say the least.
I'm driving this thing
AWD, chain drive, all electric. Inboard brakes. Hoosier slicks. Should be interesting to drive to say the least.