the Board
“We encourage/dictate that you hand out small/cheap candy bars only so that others do not feel pressured/inadequate.”
What I learned last year is many kids don’t like typical candy bars. They want skittles and nerds, and the like, at least here.
All my “filler” candy was gone, and I ended up eating the candy bars myself. I dunno, maybe they all had food allergies?
Anyway, this year I got skittles and nerds, and less chocolate, so I’ll probably end up with no chocolate and a bunch of skittles and nerds which I don’t like.
I would understand why my kids would want to go to a full size only candy bar neighborhood but I wouldn’t really want to take them there… the house that does that is supposed to be the rare extra thing, if every house does it it’s not special anymore and my kids are getting diabetes
That is some seriously petty bullshit on the part of the HOA.
Get a fucking life.
This is hilarious. Somewhere on the other end of the totalitarian spectrum is an HOA encouraging all residents to hand out candy!
That sounds like one of those “ok guys, no gifts, okay?” situation where some are too poor / cheap to afford something, but then everyone else is gonna be “fuck that noise” and gonna one up each other into the nicest gifts just to fuck with the rest. Hilarious.
Request denied.
Well, I guess that means I can still hand out out the little airplane bottles of whiskey to the kids.
If people “feel pressured” over a candy bar, that’s on them. Some people have no issue not even participating so your inferiority complex can suck it
It’s because someone gave out apples and nickles next door and got pissed because every kid walked away going “awww, man…”
Also entirely possible, someone’s a cheap racist, classist prick and doesn’t want kids from “other neighborhoods” incentivized to come to their part of town,
I 100% guarantee you it’s the latter.
Based on the wording I’m guessing it’s a gated community.
Classic gated community…buy the cheap shit.
Makes me think it’s a “gated” community of McMansions
King Sized bars, it is. HOA’s can kick rocks.
Every child now gets 2 full sized candy bars and a bag of chips.
Fuck off busy body!
The whole concept of HOA is crazy for me
HOA seems a very bad idea. HOA in the US is terrifying.
ATM, the HOA in my neighborhood is very very tolerable. The money (all $100 per year) goes towards maintaining landscaping and the signage. The only “restrictions” they have are no above ground pools (which I 100% agree with and they were rather powerless when someone actually installed one), and if you’re gonna put in a detached shed, at least try to make it a permanent structure instead of some cheapo plastic plastic thing from walmart or lowes.
JFC, only $100 per year? Is that right? That’s nothing.
Oh, I thought you meant each yard had landscaping like we do. Is it just common grounds, like the median, etc?
Yeah, like at the front entrance, the median for the main drag, there’s a small “public” pond.
Sadly, corporate buyout of homes into perma-rent hell is so much worse in how insidious it is.
You really just have to hope against hope that if you are stuck with a HOA, they’re already reasonable or can be wrangled into it.
Corporations are nigh untouchable, and that’s horrifying.
it sounds almost reasonable for those weird buildings where people “own” their unit or share walls
So most apartments in most countries in the world? Sure. Not sure why you have “own” in quotation marks, it’s quite normal outside of the US where you get “condos” with a ton of fees.
Usually every apartment owner gets an equal say in what happens e.g for planning and financing renovations, hallway cleaning (take turns on a weekly basis or hire a service or hire some retired person who lives in the building as a part-time job), etc.
It does indeed stop making sense when you’re not all living in a shared building. If I want my lawn slightly taller than everyone else, that’s my right.
because how can anyone consider it ownership if you do not have the right to destroy/modify it?
I guess, kinda, but the concept of “ownership” isn’t the divine right of kings. It’s an understanding of possession in relation to the rest of the world and other people. There are like zoning laws and shit like that for a reason, just because you buy a piece of land doesn’t mean you can develop it into whatever you want and put a chemical processing plant in a residential neighborhood.
Just because you bought an apartment and maintain exclusive ownership of it, it’s in the context of someone else owning the building, and someone/thing further owning the area that building is in. Ownership doesn’t give you any right to alter something in a way that affects the other peoples owned property or possessions.
Not that I’m advocating that it’s right or even a good thing, but essentially the “final boss” of ownership is the government because people can’t be trusted not to be petty dicks to each otherUsually you can modify everything inside the condo (walls, floors, ceilings) as long as it doesn’t compromise the structure of the building. In smaller condos (4-6 units) sometimes you can change the siding of the outside or the roof of your part too, depends on the building.
A house isn’t so different in that there are restrictions, since you have zoning codes and stuff. It’s ownership in that you own the right to live inside it and sell it and modify it within reason.
And for shared expenses in fancy neighborhoods like a maintained garden/sign entrance area with a gate. Or a neighborhood club house with a pool. The kinds of stuff apartment complexes have.
Imagine buying a home for several hundred k only to be told by others in minute detail what you can and can’t do on your OWN property. Land of the free my ass lol.
Sounds like the complaint of someone who didn’t understand the legal documents they signed.
I have difficulty feeling sympathy for anyone who voluntarily bought a single-family home with an HOA
Land of the fee, home of the slave
No one (should be) going into this blindly. You are free to request all the CC&R documents of the HOA before buying, and often you can request the financials to see if they’re still solvent. FFS, if you’re about to spend hundred of thousands of dollars in one go - pay attention to the details!
Literally every new home going up around here is in a HOA, and the old ones that aren’t sell for a premium. It’s not so easily avoided. The whole concept should be abolished, or at the very least restricted to only providing services for the homes that are subject to it.
This might be, but I believe u often have no choice. Either accept the terms or u don’t get the house. And with the housing market being absolutely shitty, I believe many people have no choice but to accept those terms, cos the alternative would mean getting no home at all.
Good thing the hoa can never implement new rules or change who is in charge!
Right? Don’t like the rules?
It’s not impossible that enough people in the neighborhood like Bruce either. It’ll be some effort to oust him, and you might end up with the duties – but then you can make the rules minimal interference.
Cuts both ways, though. Not enough people involved could allow Bruce to take over.
My dad’s HOA had a Bruce.
must protect the neighborhood from the pressure of having a variety of candy
and think of the children! they need a consistent experience in receiving their candy
You absolutely must give out full size candy bars. What happens if Death visits?
I instead buy many pounds of bulk wrapped candy from nuts.com (or any other place) and then hand scoops of candy out.
The kids love having a 2 cup scoop of candy poured in their bag.
Until they realize you just gave them 2 cups of dog food.
Yeah but I spend a lot of time eating candy and then wrapping the dog food with the candy-wrappers, so … they should appreciate the effort I’ve gone to
We often buy too much candy. When we realize we did, we usually have a soulful moment where we need to decide how much candy we’re keeping for ourselves. Yes, we can buy candy anytime but we’re adults so we usually don’t buy bags of little sugar pucks.
After we’ve broken our hearts taking more than we need and less than we want, we usually try to wait until it’s the last kid of the night who’s old enough to understand but young enough to be utterly bombastically awestruck and dump some preposterous amount of candy in their bag after doing a quick non-verbal “you cool with this happening?” Negotiation with their parent.I definitely haven’t already eaten 3 pounds of salt water taffy ahead of Halloween.
I’ll need to re-up, my planning ahead works against me
