but when you own a piece of property how American is it that some asshole can dictate everything you do

It also doesn’t specify anything about a hurricane, tornado, war or any other emergency either.

HOAs can make a difference. I currently live in a condo complex that is much, much quieter than the rural area I moved here from. 

Vigilantes? You act like they’re dragging you out of your house at night and forcing you to mow your yard.

Mine are 6 pages long, and my last neighborhood was less than 10 pages as well. Please link to this 400 page HOA rules.

What? Even if 50% of the neighborhoods are HOA (they’re not) that still leaves you 1000's of homes not in HOAs to choose from.

Sorry, I meant that the threat the HOA spoke of in the letter wasn’t real. I don’t doubt for a minute some idiot actually sent that to their neighbors.

That’s the free market.

I’m not paying them to tell me what I can & can’t do. I read the rules before I moved in, and I’m fine with them.

No, this is not real. An HOA can’t “foreclose” or evict anyone from a home. They can fine, and after fines go unpaid file for a lien. But we’re talking years of proceedings. This is just a batshit crazy HOA president who doesn’t remotely understand the law.

Ugh. This again.

How nice was it was it to watch the cruise lines get shut out because of all their off-shoring games?

I think the odds of GM, American Airlines, or Boeing being taken over by another company if they keep some cash on hand is very, very low.

I’d rather they plan for any contingency besides “all the income, all the time”.

I mean, lots of companies have money on reserve & I don’t hear anything about it. If people were going to get bent out of shape over that, wouldn’t something like a college having over $40 billion in their endowment but still charging tuition cause an outrage, because it hasn’t...

I don’t wish bad things for a single worker or anyone dependent on them, but it’s hard to watch all these companies that work only for the next quarter’s profit, and don’t care one whit for the long term impacts of their behavior, panic at not making money for 2 weeks, and to not experience a little bit of…

Italy is for sure the worst in Europe.

I just got my dog food, 1 day ahead of schedule. Pet supplies are on the list of essential items, thankfully.

But those have some added cargo capacity & versatility over the Corolla/Civic, in addition to the CUV “look” that everyone wants. I can’t see what this adds except a slightly higher seating position.

I don’t think that being a magnet for assholes is really any better than producing them.