• Chris@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My landlords HOA would bitch at me if my grass was slightly too long.

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        10 months ago

        That’s how I feel every time I have to mow the lawn even though I’m renting from them.

        Free labor for them.

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          10 months ago

          Is it in your lease that you need to mow the lawn? Here, it’s the landlord’s responsibility unless you specifically agree to it.

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            My lease has two things. Mow the lawn AND abide by any HOA shit, so I had to mow the lawn to their standards and do the random bullshit they came up with. My garbage cans were in front of my house for 9 months and then all of a sudden it was a problem. Fuck HOA’s and land bastards

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              10 months ago

              That second one is the real killer.

              Well defined and constrained responsibility: No problem.

              Open-ended obligation to people you don’t know: Bottomless pit of potential despair.

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              10 months ago

              Well, if you decide to move out you can be a prick your last few months there and a violate every HOA rule imaginable. Might try to take away your deposit but could be worth it.

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            10 months ago

            In my case yeah. Sucks but me mowing the lawn is still cheaper than hiring a company to do it.

            So I pretend to be Hank Hill once a week.

            “Who needs drugs when you could mow a lawn?”

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              10 months ago

              Hank Hill has such a small mind… He could do both, and still refer to both as “grass” if he wanted!

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      10 months ago

      check with local state and native plant groups – there’s several cases where native plant species are protected even from HOAs