"No smoking building" - do they make those?
She did buy her own place - its a $350K condo. She feels trapped, and she was there first. (And that isn't high-end living - that's the cost of living here. A single structure home is hardly an option anymore on one income.)
There is no law against it, yet.
She did buy her own place - its a $350K condo. She feels trapped, and she was there first. (And that isn't high-end living - that's the cost of living here. A single structure home is hardly an option anymore on one income.)
So she needs a law to force her will on others because she can't afford to live in a place that costs more than $350K? Maybe she should have read the association aggreement more carefully before she put down her meager third of a million bucks.
When they add caveats about roaches and rodents to laws/ordinances such as this, I might consider supporting it.
I own an end unit townhouse in a neighborhood where most are rental units. When the people next door moved out and the place was being readied for new tenants, I was over run with roaches. The place next to that was vacated shortly after - same problem. But when a fire made the next unit uninhabitable I wound up with rats in my home.
Even my most die-hard "I hate smoking" friends would be more than happy to put up with a bit of their neighbors' cigarette smoke than what I have put up with living here.
As to your friend with her "not high-end" condo - she might want to consider moving elsewhere. My family of 3 lives on one salary, and we just bought a house that sits on nearly 2 acres of land and we're paying well under 100K.