[kiki]

Hi.
I am back and happy for two reasons:

One very important: “Trumpet (sic)” -like my 5 yr old calles him – lost!! and I had the opportunity to teach my kids (5 and 8) about compassion, racism, equality, taxes, life penalty, abortion or prolife depending how you see it, a women vicepresident, etc and my 8 yrs old was asking every other hour for the past 2 days if Georgia or Pennsylvania has turned blue yet. Note this kids are on still on paw patrol and sofia de first so I was very impressed they cared and listened.
I do not support all democrats policies the same way that I don’t support all republicans policies that is why I am independent. But this election, I voted to remove hate, narcissism and lack of compassion from the White House and Biden was the best choice. Additional bonus to have a woman with diverse ethnic background and most importantly with strong qualifications be a VicePresident.

I lived in a country where a corrupt narcist president also lost a reelection race and he just didn’t show on to the change of command ceremony. It wouldn’t surprised me that it will happen in this case too.

Second, and the reason I commented on this thread, is to share that I finally – after almost 4.5 months, I finally got approval on the color of my house. I spoke to the lawyer from my work service and he was ready to write a letter but my husband is a non-conflict person so we went to 3 more back and forth – including one when I said ok I will use the stucco color from the last recommended schemes for my house – if I get the trim and accent colors I want – and then they said “oops that color was not allowed we made a mistake”!!!! It was so ridiculous. I did tweak the main stucco color which I think will be better but they agreed to the 3 colors I wanted. My gray and blue! On the not so bright side, they approved just when rainy season start. My painter is available on Thanksgiving week so my crossing fingers it will be a dry week if not we will be the house with the 17 different patches of color painted until it dries again.

Thank you for bearing with me and my venting and most important for the recommendations!
Have a great weekend!

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Svelte, Coronita. Thank you for your kind words.

The neighbors that have to sign the form (immediate front and back) did sign it. One even, one year ago, painted white that is no even on the scheme list. We signed so he can paint what he wanted. No hoa issue. Or maybe because white did match the roof warm color

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In my head yes. I have thought to run and bring some sense to this nonsense.
But I work 60-70 a week. I have to homeschool a kindergartener that cannot stay on a zoom for 2min and make sure that my 3rd grader is not watching you tube or Netflix while on her 8am-3pm zoom.
My husband also works crazy hours and cooks and takes care of handyman issues at home and feeds the kids. Weekends are cleaning and homework catch up.

We are blessed we have a good jobs that we could outsource our needs gardener, nanny,cleaning lady but now with covid-19 we are is full lock down. We stopped contact with anyone except essential.

I lost my wonderful father to covid in the early stages of the pandemic. We don’t know where he got it. he only had fever, we did not know it was covid-19 until day 10. He did not have any preexisting condition. His fever started the day of stay at home. He went to the hospital (only with fever) in my home country to get checked due to his age. They called us the next day saying he was in icu and the following day that he was on a ventilator. 9 days and he passed. It was devastating not being able to travel. To have to tell my mom via zoom my dad died. He was 70 no heart problems, no blood pressure not even even cholesterol.

We are taking this stay home seriously so no more outsourcing of anything. We do it all. Cook, clean, teach, work.
Sorry for the long explanation but although I wish to be part of the board I just can’t.
Also I so busy I don’t even know my neighbors much beyond the friendly wave on my way to school or work. I usually came home late from work and weekends we used to go out. And now we don’t leave the inside of the house.

Besides, I often think how selfish of me for just worrying of something as trivial as color painting when people are dying, have no jobs or kids are abused at home and cannot escape at school. I thank God for being blessed with work and health.
I miss my dad a lot though.

I still have to continue with life and house needs to be painted else a violation will come my way and I will fight until is just not worth it.
That is what I came here for some perspective and got great advice.

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Thank so much for all the great advice ! I will call the legal service from work on monday and use the wording recommended.

I am from South America and although I have been blessed not to feel discriminated – I am pretty laid back so if people did I actually didn’t notice/care. I work for a Asian company so ethnicity diversity is in their DNA. I have strong supporters at work that are white. But you never know, they might not like our last name.

It is crazy (and funny) the stories I am reading from you – thank you for sharing!. Is common sense that hard??

I hope I don’t have to go to arbitration though. I just want to paint, i am not interested in ruining the HOA that at the end will increase the fees for everyone. I’ll keep you posted on my saga.

thank you!

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Coronita
This is actually great advice thank you. I do have a benefit from my employer, in fact a pay $3 extra every paychek for a little more benefits but never use them. I will give them a call.

In the country I am from I do know a lawyer, a doctor a techie and handyman. I am living in the United States for 16 years but is harder to make friends LOL. Need to start working on it.

Thank you a bunch!

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spdrun

Even though I wanted to add (and thought of) many adjectives during this whole ordeal and I confess I laughed a little at your last comment. Reality is, I don’t wish harm to anyone.

I just want world peace and common sense but I guess I am just a dreamer or a fool.

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Coronita,
I understand that I am only allowed to paint the exterior with one of the color schemes. What I am baffled at is the fact they won’t approved a color from their approved list so the question is do you think I any chance to win if i fought back.?

is B E R N A R D O P O I N T corner of Alva and RB road.

I already work full time and have 2 small kids that i have homeschool I don’t want to waste my time if HOA will win regardless of how illogical they are.

thank you

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Separate question: How do i put the text/comment that i am replying to at the beginning of my reply? I hit REPLY to a comment but still doesn’t show. Sorry, i am long time lurker, and rarely posting (maybe 6 years ago was the last time)

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Yes it was to you svelte.
Sorry for the confusion. My situation is I like to put an offer on a house that already has a solar lease. I was debating whether to still put the offer or not considering the seller does not want to buy it out.
If i do end up buying, i still want to considering buying the lease out.

If i buy a house with no solar, I would buy 100% over leasing but since this house already has a lease, my dilemma was what to do? or how to assess if it is a good deal.

Unfortunately i live in a townhouse so i cannot even compare my current bill because the house i want is double the sqft and has a pool.

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I heard about the program not sure if it would apply if i decide to buy out the lease. I am guessing not as the investment for energy efficient has already been made :-(. I will still look more into it.

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How would you assess if it is reasonable? If you did not live in the house BEFORE the panels where install , how do you know how much are you savings.

There is a house i really like but it has a solar lease on it. The NPV of what i have to pay for lease the remaining period is around $30K and i still need to buy out or renew after period expired. I read buying could be $15K-$25K before rebates and incentives. if i have the money to purchase, it doesn’t make sense to take the lease.

I only know one person that did not know the house she was going to buy had a lease until after her offer was accepted . She told buyer to buy out the lease to proceed with the purchase. Online, i read similar stories.

So, i am curious if this is the norm, or there are people (you seem to be one) that would take the lease and how would they assess it to be reasonable.

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Thanks Rich,
I just sent you a message with the steps i took and error i encounter.

I just tried again and did not get any message or the option to write the verification code. Maybe when you added me to the spam filter, it helped. Thank you.

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I do not know the proceduce they did to find it. but it was on the wall from that are on the bedrooms and bathroom
All the property manager told us was: “We need to take all your stuff from your rooms to fix the walls. Also, we will take a sample (not sure of what: wall, insulations?) to determine if there is asbestos and if so, we need to take the asbesto out before starting any repair”.
To find out if there is asbesto they had to take it to a LAB.

They told us they found it and two days ago my husband went to check the place saw the rooms tented. Not sure how, he did not take a picture but told me “Honey, the apartment looks like ET, when the FEDs go to the house to get ET out and there are white tents all over”. He said there was sign in hall saying ” to enter in this area you need special clothing and mask” so he left and we have not gone to the place again. We are waiting to get a call with some updates.

as i said i moved most of my stuff (Except the kitchen and pictures hanging on the wall) to a storage so we are just waiting.

We are trying to get more information but the property manager does not seems to know much and he is telling little by little day by day based on what the people doing the work do and based and the insurance tells him what they will pay.

[kiki]

I do not know the proceduce they did to find it. but it was on the wall from that are on the bedrooms and bathroom
All the property manager told us was: “We need to take all your stuff from your rooms to fix the walls. Also, we will take a sample (not sure of what: wall, insulations?) to determine if there is asbestos and if so, we need to take the asbesto out before starting any repair”.
To find out if there is asbesto they had to take it to a LAB.

They told us they found it and two days ago my husband went to check the place saw the rooms tented. Not sure how, he did not take a picture but told me “Honey, the apartment looks like ET, when the FEDs go to the house to get ET out and there are white tents all over”. He said there was sign in hall saying ” to enter in this area you need special clothing and mask” so he left and we have not gone to the place again. We are waiting to get a call with some updates.

as i said i moved most of my stuff (Except the kitchen and pictures hanging on the wall) to a storage so we are just waiting.

We are trying to get more information but the property manager does not seems to know much and he is telling little by little day by day based on what the people doing the work do and based and the insurance tells him what they will pay.

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