Posted on 11/17/2006 10:46:11 AM PST by TheKidster
I totally agree with both your points, dear CindyDawg!
No smells permeate the mandatory firewall between our townhouses. I can barely hear my neighbor run his bath at 5:45 every morning, and presumably he can hear a trace of my nightowl television viewing. As for smells, the vegetarians in our townhome neighborhood better not start in about the slabs of meat grilling on the numerous side-by-side decks!
Of course you missed the part where the bylaws were amended last year, 5 years after they had purchased the town home.
Funny that you berate them for not reading the fine print, you didn't even bother to read the entire article with comprehension before spouting off.
I did the same thing. I paid an attorney specifically to go over the agreements.
One tenant spent thousands of dollars trying to minimize the odor.
Unfortunately I'd probably rule on the side of the other tenants, because bottom line, their property is being damaged by another tenant.
"I think it's ridiculous. If there's another blizzard, I'm going to be having to stand out on the street, smoking a cigarette," said Colleen Suave.
Well, there is always the option of foregoing the cigarette or taking a drive.
I wonder, why doesn't this 'news' channel use a spell-checker?
I wonder, are these Suave's related to Ricco?
This is a tricky one. It sounds like the units have walls in common, which can be problematic for lots of reasons.
It's not often that I go out to my car and sniff the bumper. How could smoke possibly invade the inside of a car that is not running and the ventilation system is off. Your car must surely leak when it rains then. It is your imagination.
I couldn't understand how it was expected to work: If they legalized the MJ and passed the laws to stop smoking everywhere, then how was the MJ supposed to be used?
Can anyone explain this??
It would be interesting for them to stop smoking while all this was going on and see if there were still complaints of smelling it, while they weren't. Yeah, if you smoke I can usually smell it in your house or your car and sometimes on your hair or your clothes. In another apartment though...Unless something is wrong , that is pushing it IMO.
Okay, I see a strategy and tactics coming together here. Passive resistance. First, the constantly simmering cabbage and curry (when cabbage and curry are outlawed, only .....), then, a vacation with the fish supply accidently left out of the frige. An endlessly looping tape with a crying baby. This would keep them busy updating their HOA rules.
I was well aware of the timing of the bylaw amendment, as my responses to posters less silly than you demonstrate.
What about kids? Listening to them cry or scream could be considered a nuisance by singles. Are they going to have to keep them on the curb?
Possible, but were there complaints of adjoining fart manefestation, cooking odor manefestation, pot smoke, whatever? No.
There are places in San Francisco with this rule.
You want out or not? Either countersue or sell. If the market not being right vs. your personal rights is a tough choice then I have no pity for you. I owned a HOA condo, and it wasn't a bad deal overall. A glorified apartment but it was better than renting. I would have sold it in a minute of they had decided to ban smoking. Heck it might have even increased the value to certain people. Time for a cigarette
No, you have to couple the noise with a law somehow....for instance, the protection for disabilities act, whirring respirator, colostomy bags, whatever....
The skids are greased for the slippery slope of constituional rights.
Nobody pointed a gun at their heads and forced them to live there. Don't like the HOA rules? Move.
As for smells, the vegetarians in our townhome neighborhood better not start in about the slabs of meat grilling on the numerous side-by-side decks!""
Don't give them any ideas!!!
If you have children and have invested in your home and the majority decides to limit them, you would pack up and move, peacefully?
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