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Port Orange HOA Tells Residents Yard Statues Aren't Allowed {AOL Real Estate}
Apr 5th 2013 5:12PM I can't STAND these Homeowner's Associations. It's just organized snobbery, legitimized bullying by adults. It smacks against everything be believe should exist in this country. WHY IN THE WORLD people move into communities that operate such groups is beyond my understanding. Sure, if residents have items that are just pure junk such as moldy old sofas on the lawn or beat-up cars on blocks, but a basketball hoop? That's insane! Just where ARE the people suppose to place this item for their children? In their living room? If you support a group like this then you are just a STUPID as they are. This is why in the retirement community my parents, my brother and I built we ALLOW certain items many HOAs ban. We have to build the items to our specifications but we actually allow clotheslines, raised flowerbeds, gas grills and there is NOTHING about our facility that would be considered "low life" or tacky. I think any organization that would take away a family's basketball hoop or an angel in the yard of a recent widow need to have BOTH their heads AND their hearts examined.
Gun Owner Sean Blakley Says Landlord Is Evicting Him Over Firearms {AOL Real Estate}
Mar 16th 2013 6:43PM As a landlord myself I can tell you now this landlord is on VERY thin ice here. While he does have the right to rent or not rent to individuals he does NOT have the right to discriminate in numerous ways and when he said "it's personal" considering the other tenant who owns guns can stay I think he just "shot himself in the foot" here. He's lost his own case when he's allowed this to become known. Personally, since the man himself is a gun owner I can't figure out why he wants this man gone. And since other people in the unit also own firearms his reason of putting others at risk is a bunch of manure. This man isn't black or hispanic so it's not that sort of issue. It doesn't sound as if he's gay so just what IS this landlord's beef with this guy? He has it out for him for some reason and so far he's not telling anyone the truth. If the courts side with the landlord I'll be shocked. I can tell you from first hand experience landlords in America today have no rights. As far as I'm concerned the saying "landlord's rights" is an oxymoron. If you don't know what that is - look it up! The worst part of it is in the long run it doesn't hurt us, it's hurting the public, espeically the low income public because all the costs that are heaped on us by ALL levels of government eventually are passed onto the tenant. I'll be very interested in hearing the outcome of this situation.
Full Disclosure Laws: Janet Milliken Sues Seller, Realtor Over Home's Notorious Past {AOL Real Estate}
Jan 30th 2013 7:17PM Talk about letting your immagination run away with you! It's stange they were all content in this house and loved it till someone told them about this event. Why should she say anything to her kids? It sounds to me as if she needs to grow up and stop being afraid of the "boogie man". If nothing is happening in the house then who cares about what other people did before them. If this previous family had won a billion dollar lottery and moved away would she think the house "lucky"? No! Seems to me they've all watched Amityville Horror once too often (much of which is false and greatly elaborated). I honestly think this woman is "disturbed" in more than one way. What does she do - sit there and think about this all day long? She needs to move on in her life and forget it. It's the past, not her future.
Full Disclosure Laws: Janet Milliken Sues Seller, Realtor Over Home's Notorious Past {AOL Real Estate}
Jan 30th 2013 7:07PM What difference does it make! Unless a haunting begins in the house what difference does it make whatever happened in the home previously. My home I live in is over 200 years old. Our family line has been in it for almost a 100 years now. I know several people have died in the home just with my ancestors. They died of natural causes and at that time were actually laid out in the parlor. In fact, the undertaker "prepared" them in the room because my father was 5 years old at the time and wanted to watch. Needless to say they didn't let him and I'm sure he didn't understand what it was he was asking to watch but deaths occurred in homes all the time in the past. Funeral homes are a modern creation so I'm sure numerous deaths and wakes have been in that house. In fact, this very same parlor was a tavern during the at least the years of the Civil War. There may have easily been someone killed in there but I've not heard of any at this time. I've also wondered since this was a public space at the time of the Battle of Antietam were any of the wounded brought there for care? I know wounded were brought to the small town where I live after this battle. Also, a participating general was at "my" tavern when he received his orders to head to Gettysburg. And yet, to the best of my knowledge I have no hauntings in my home. If a neighbor hadn't told this woman something happened in the house I lay odds she would have been 100% content in this home. I don't think she's owed anything.
Justinianos' Bronx Home is 12 Inches From Apartment Building Construction, and It's Ruining Their View {AOL Real Estate}
Jan 19th 2013 6:31PM Whatever happened to zoning ordinances? I don't live in a place like the Bronx but even there I don't understand how this was allowed to happen. What went wrong?
Landlord From Hell Bans Pork, Long Showers, Overnight Guests {AOL Real Estate}
Jan 12th 2013 9:35AM This isn't an apartment, this is a boarding house and that makes ALL the difference in the world. If this had been an apartment no landlord could EVER get away with rules like this but this person is apparently allowing people to rent rooms in what is probably their own home. I'm not saying I will NEVER consider such a thing but I would have to be VERY desperate to have strangers living in my home.
5-Year-Old Boy Saves Family From House Fire in Beacon, N.Y. {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 1st 2012 8:46PM People like this have more luck than brains in those empty noggins of theirs. Did it NEVER occur to them to do this silly little thing called "TESTING" the detector? Amazing, talk about dummer than dirt, that's this set of parents. Thank GOD for those wonderful firemen who go around to schools and teach the little children these VITAL important facts about what they're suppose to do. My own father was a volunteer firefighter all my life and even though he is now in his 70s he's still considered a member of the station. For 5 of those years he was fire chief and he would bring training films home to watch and we would ALL have to watch them. We also had fire drills and for almost 50 years until the windows were replaced in the house there was a tot finder sticker on the old bedroom windows of our rooms. He did everything humanely possible to keep us ALL safe. Even though I'm over the age of 50 he has all my detectors hardwired in my home so if one sounds in the basement they all sound. I also had an extra detector put outside my bedroom as I am a VERY sound sleeper and a carbon monoxide detector put in installed due to having a fuel-oil furnance. You can NEVER be too careful. During those years as a fire chief if my dad had to respond to a fire when my mom was away in the evening he would grab pillows and blankets and toss us into his vehicle. We loved it and thought it a great adventure although my mom would be livid. But because of this both my younger brother and I watched more than one house or barn burn and even as a child it was a very sobering thing to watch. You learn the seriousness of fire and the damage it can do and to show it GREAT respect. I guess the only good thing is that you can bet from now on this family and their friends will actually TEST the equipment, not just assume.
Thelma Taormina, Houston Homeowner, Pulls Gun on a Utility Worker Installing Smart Meters {AOL Real Estate}
Jul 24th 2012 5:45PM Hey, this meter man was trespassing. She has NO trespassing signs posted, especially for this purpose. The man SHOULD have received permission. I agree with these people. The government AND computers have become FAR too intrusive in our lives. Folks, this is a trend and a belief of the DEMOCTATIC party. Republicans believe in LESS government intrusion in our lives. ANYTHING that is transmitted electronically also can be stolen or have interference. How do you think people steal cable? Here's another example of the disasterous consequences of Congress depregulating power companies. First they messed up the telephone companies, then, they didn't learn from that mess they RUINED the airlines. Now, I hope they get bothered by telemarketers all the time from odd power companies as much as I am. Trust me, in 10 years your electric bill will be a mess just as badly as your phone bill is now. Good Luck!
Liquids Surrendered At Airport Security: Is There An Afterlife? {Gadling}
Jul 12th 2012 12:09PM Of course it's unworkable, that means the TSA couldn't pocket the things they want or keep all this extra money. I watched a documentary on the TSA and airport security places and the TSA gathers BARRELS of nail clippers and the most BIZARRE stuff they confiscate from passengers. I would still like to know how someone hijacks a plane with a pair of nail clippers. There are some things which obviously should not be allowed on any flight. These are guns, knives, etc. But some of the things, like nail clippers, are just a sign of massive overcompensation and show the lack of common sense among those who make the rules. I'm still trying to understand how they took control of planes with box cutters. Yes, they can definitely cut someone but unlike a gun several large men should be able to take down a person with a box cutter. Thankfully now we've learned NOT to be cooperative and just do what these people want. If the all of crews and passengers had fought back on that horrible day knowing what was happening life might be very different now. So that brings me back to the original question, just how do you hijack a plane with a nail clipper? Don't you think several passengers would be able to control someone and get it away from them?
Liquids Surrendered At Airport Security: Is There An Afterlife? {Gadling}
Jul 12th 2012 11:57AM You will NEVER convince me that the expensive good stuff doesn't go home with TSA agents. Do they really think the public is that stupid to fall for their story of halos and angel's wings? It's about the same thing with the Goodwill. First their CEO makes a salary which anyone associated with a non-profit should feel ashamed and then, we've heard many accounts how multiple items go home with volunteers and never make it to the sales floor. This is why things like the good items from the TSA and all donations should go to the Salvation Army or a Rescue Mission.
