LiberBEARian
[haus] HOA bullshit, boy howdy do i love being entreated to multiple conspiracies
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Jfc just let me pay my $200 a month to do the lawn and leave me out of this
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It’s so stupid. I don’t even want to talk about it because it’s so fucking stupid
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Grown ass adults believing the worst of each other and calling me up because I’m the weak link
spooky queer
"hi i was just in the ER please leave me alone"
skipthedemon
oh good lord
Ptriciadactyl
seriously?
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spooky queer
BASICALLY
spooky queer
XD
LiberBEARian
seriously. I love my neighbors but I hate when the anxious fights the anxious and everyone is freaked out over money. Fuck off I just wanna plow snow
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So fucking stupid. Calling me up and asking me if there are secret meetings and what should they put on the email and what do I think
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I’m not playing this junior high gossip game. I have one job and that’s to not let anyone stress me out
spooky queer
that's so dumb
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Oh you have no idea. I’m in the car now but when I get home I’ll write out the whole fucking dumb story. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of
spooky queer
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Actually I might not because even thinking about it makes me mad. :|
spooky queer
maybe just
spooky queer
ignore
Un(t)sundered
yeah, seconding that^
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...if you were privvy to secret meetings why would you tell them about it
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this sounds so intensely middle school
Un(t)sundered
also like. why would you assume there were secret meetings?
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by secret meetings do they mean hanging out with friends 
CricketMomJenn
Oh my god?? Sigh
Lady Stardust
what the fucking fuck
LiberBEARian
gonna pull my hair out.
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Okay
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So
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We're six units
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A year ago the five sold units banded together to unite against Frank the asshole developer
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Who held everyone's funds hostage for fucking ever
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until the last unit sold at last to Frank's banker guy Jim
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Jim inherited the trustee position of the HOA
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The five units (us, Ruth, Therese, Chafik, and Harshprit) were all like "okay brilliant can we have the trustee position to give to Ruth because se knows what's up"
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Jim instead was like "let's be cosigners"
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Whatever
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We knew Jim was flipping the unit to sell anyway
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Jim uses HOA funds to repair his roof when the wind blows part of it off which was not anyone's fucking plan
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But he got away with it and fine, whatever, now we have to get a special assessment to do paving and landscaping because now everyone is broke
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This HOA is supposed to do two things: landscaping and paving, with maybe occasional tree service to take down some trees that are threatening to fall in on everyone's homes
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Now Jim's sold the unit to Soban and Bob who have inherited the trustee position
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Ruth is like "Okay can you please turn it over to me like we all really want to happen"
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Soban instead is like "well think me and Bob should be doing this because we have the oldest house and you want us to pay for the retaining wall and we think the HOA should handle that."
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And Ruth and Therese are like "Fuck NO, we already got roped into paying for your roof when we shouldn't, just give the HOA over to us"
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HOAs are the devil
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and Soban and Ruth took a drive together at some point last week where Ruth says Soban bullied her into trying to sign some documents and Soban says Ruth tried to rush her into things
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Meanwhile Ruth is like "they're not even going to live in the unit, they're fixing it up to sell, I looked them up online and their current house is gorgeous, why would they move?"
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Soban's looking at me who owns the other half of the house and is like "I want to paint it."
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and I'm like "Haha I have no money. If I did have money, it would be going towards repairing the windows first and foremost because they're ancient, single-pane monstrosities"
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And it's gonna be $30,000 to repaint this monster and I was hoping to get a few more years out of this thing. I told her I'd go half and half on the cellar doors because it's how mice are getting into the house but don't try to stick me with an aesthetic bill when I have actual structural shit going on
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Anyway
skipthedemon
Is there no way to remove the trustee aside from like, litigation? ugh.
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So all this to say that I get called out early Saturday morning by Therese who is like "we need to tell Soban what the HOA will and will not pay for because I don't think she understands"
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and I'm like "Bruh. You have the brand new houses. We have half of a 150 year old house. I get it. I do not want your money paying for my roof, I am on the same page as you"
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And then I got to hear about this trip that SOban and Ruth took to the bank
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Now Chafik is fucking pissed because he's saying we all should have been on the ball and he writes this long-ass email going like "let's all be trustees. One sixth vote for each of our houses and call it a day"
𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔠𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱
Does your hoa have a rules document? Also is there anything on your deed or a master deed?
LiberBEARian
We go "sure fine whatever"
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Our HOA was basically copy-pasted from something else by Frank years ago
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It's just bullshit
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of course it was
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I
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I'm of the mindset of "I want to pay $200 to a fund every month so I don't have to break my back doing snow shoveling or lawn care and that's it." That is the extent of my responsibilities here
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Today while I'm in the car with Sergio and my mom. Soban calls my phone
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And I pick up because god forbid there's a flood or something and we need to come home ASAP
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No, she wants to talk about the email and how she's worried it's too many cooks in the kitchen and she takes her responsibilities as a trustee seriously and what do I think
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and Mom is freaking out in the backseat and writing me notes that say DON'T SAY ANYTHING YOU ARE THE WEAK LINK SHE'S TRYING TO GET A READ ON YOU
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and I'm just like
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"Look, I trust you, I trust Ruth, I think everyone is blowing this way out of proportion, there's no secret meetings going on. We'll figure this out, I promise. Let's just touch base, get everyone on the same page and go from there, okay?"
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20 minutes of reassuring a woman twice my age over the phone while trying to eat lunch
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And now I'm pissed because why is she calling ME
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because I'm the nice one
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because I own half the enormous house
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We're sitting in a Five Guys in Salem NH and I'm like
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"I just want to be Switzerland. Just let me be Switzerland. Just tell me where to sign the checks and keep me out of this bullshit."
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Now Therese is emailing everyone going like "if you don't turn over the trustee position to ruth, we're getting a lawyer" and I am like fucking WHAT
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calm the fuck down
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everynoe
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Ruth is scared that Soban is going to use HOA funds to fix her house and nothing else. Soban is scared of legalese documents that she inherited as part of the trustee position
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I just want the lawn taken care of, ffs
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make Sergio the trustee
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neither of them should get the toy :T
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/facepull
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oh cripes people are getting more frantic, leave me alone please
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"I am very confused and upset" okay well we've made these guys ONCE so calm down
236 bees
can you just
236 bees
"sorry about this but i'm under medical orders to avoid as much stress as possible so please talk to the other people about this"
LiberBEARian
Yep. Sergio is handling this
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I'm 100% gonna let the 'adults' fight it out
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everyone is 20 years or more older
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leave me alone to my RP and my knitting and my shitty shitty gallbladder
CricketMomJenn
Oh my god they're acting like children that have never had to share their toys
CricketMomJenn
The HOA has no money to fix anyone's house holy shit y'all
skipthedemon
To be perfectly honest, an actual lawyer looking at the HOA to see if it's....even valid is probably not a bad idea.
LiberBEARian
Yeah and now everyone is upset and fighting. Phenominal
CricketMomJenn
Sigh....
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christ it's still going.
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I can't even look at this, it turns my stomach and makes me stress out.
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I was sitting with Mom yesterday and she was like "Oh and I didn't even tell you what your aunt sally thought of all this. She kept going on and on about how she told us this was a bad idea
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*"
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Which we all know is bullshit but thanks very much aunt sally for lending your very helpful opinion
bluecanary
tell your aunt personally that i will meet her at any roadstop on a major interestate where we can engage in Combat