Yeah, gates only seem to make matters worse. That’s why I’m adamantly fighting against them for my community. Luckily, the way my neighborhood is situated and the areas that my HOA controls/doesn’t control make it near impossible to justify gates. In all, my neighborhood would required upwards of 10-12 gates to…

Yeah, that is what I am realizing as I go through my HOA’s documents. I live in a relatively new community, coming up on 10 years but still developer controlled (the downturn in 2008 really slowed development so we are still a ways away from the 90% of planned homes finished for turnover to happen). Most of the HOA…

On the solar panel front, if you can convince enough of the other residents in your neighborhood, you can change the rules of the HOA to ease the restrictions to better allow solar panels.

Does your HOA prohibit solar panels altogether or do they just place a lot of restrictions on type, location, etc.? A good amount of states have solar access rights, which limit HOAs from banning solar panels completely, although they can still place restrictions, which make installing them prohibitive. If you are…

My parents opted for the $1,000 non-refundable deposit. They say they like the concept and all that. When I heard they put down a non-refundable deposit for one, I told them to basically write off that money cause the odds of them ever seeing a production model are seemingly less and less each year.

Agreed. In fact, I had mac and cheese for dinner last night. I got fancy and had the 3 cheese shells version, but the cheesiest is still good too.

You might be able to evaporate some of the condensate, but in humid climates, I doubt you would be able to get to the point where you will not have to empty the tank. As humidity goes up, the problems double. First, you will tend to have higher humidity in your space due to infiltration from the exterior. And second,…

You might be able to evaporate some of the condensate, but in humid climates, I doubt you would be able to get to…

That would definitely help with having to constantly empty the condensate tank. Where do you run the drain line to? For my dehumidifier, I just empty the tank when it gets full, which hasn’t been too much of a pain so far and I don’t really have a great option to drain it to.

That would definitely help with having to constantly empty the condensate tank. Where do you run the drain line to?…

Draining every week would work just fine in a place where humidity is not an issue. But where humidity is an issue, that tank would fill up much more frequently than once a week. I live in Florida and have a dehumidifier that has a 16 pint tank. When I first got it, I was having to empty the tank at least once a day,…

Draining every week would work just fine in a place where humidity is not an issue. But where humidity is an issue,…

I highly doubt that is what these units are doing. That would not work very well. The higher capacity units are capable of pulling a good amount of water out of the air at ideal conditions (up to 101 pints per day for the 14,000 BTU unit). There is no way the exhaust fan on these units would be capable of pushing that…

I highly doubt that is what these units are doing. That would not work very well. The higher capacity units are…

It should be noted that at least 3 of the units that are on sale include both intake and exhaust vents, so the problems you note would be minimized. The bigger problem with these units, at least in humid areas, is the fact that the condensate would need to be constantly emptied. And reading some of the reviews for…

It should be noted that at least 3 of the units that are on sale include both intake and exhaust vents, so the…

This appears to be a sale. Looking at the price history for this item, it usually hovers around $20 with price drops fairly frequently. This information was found using camelcamelcamel.com, an Amazon price tracking website. All you do is paste the Amazon URL of the item you want to look at and you can see all the past…

This appears to be a sale. Looking at the price history for this item, it usually hovers around $20 with price drops…

I never said I don’t think they won’t sell that info. My post says that I have no assumption that that information remains confidential. I just have absolutely no problem with someone knowing the mileage of my car at an oil change. Oil changes typically happen far enough apart that the information one can correctly…

While some of the electronic deals were tempting, they would have been 100% impulse buys, which I am working very hard to avoid. The only stuff I have bought so far are the 16 pack of LED light bulbs that were available for $20 earlier (back-ordered, so I also went with the slower shipping in lieu of the $5.99 prime…

I have no assumption that the place where I get my oil changed keeps that information confidential. I just know that the amount of information they can deduce from the mileage difference between oil changes and my contact info is very limited. While they might sell that little nugget of info to someone who is looking…

Very true, you don’t need to save it all, but at the same time, unless you receive a significant raise, it won’t be a ton of extra after tax cash anyways. Mine last year was right around $50 more per paycheck. So it would not have made a huge difference in my day to day life, but it has allowed me to save up a good…

My first instinct when reading this article was that I would have no problem with my odometer reading being public. However, I had not thought about the frequency aspect you bring up. As you mention, as time goes on, the amount of data you can accurately determine from the odometer reading decreases. Everyone who does…

100% agree with this. It takes a lot of discipline to put that extra money towards something beneficial like paying off debt rather than going on a splurge spending it all shopping, more so with a raise than a bonus as the raise is ongoing. One way to help deal with this is to automate a transfer of money. With…

I’m not sure what is going wrong on your end, but I signed up for the free trial yesterday and had no problems, so the deal is working, but maybe not correctly for everyone. Hope you can figure it out so you can take advantage of the deal.

I’m not sure what is going wrong on your end, but I signed up for the free trial yesterday and had no problems, so…

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