You’re correct in that you never said they were immigrants. You said they were a family living 10 people to a two bedroom and running a restaurant that sells food out the window. This is an extremely common immigration tactic, and doesn’t occur much outside of that scenario, but okay I will withdraw my assumption. The rest, however, remains the same. These people weren’t stealing cars, they weren’t stealing anything from anyone. Their water use wasn’t stealing. Their water use didn’t take water out of your house and it didn’t adversely affect anyone or anything aside from a poorly planned HOA water monitoring system. Like you said, these units are owned primarily by single owners. Why shouldn’t they have individual meters?
$180 a month is a miserable HOA fee and a high water bill for a single person in a condo alone as well. I don’t know why they’d have to pay for their own meter or monitoring service, that’s never been the case anywhere I’ve ever lived, but I’m positive they saved money in the long run assuming the HOA reflected the change in their monthly dues. But again, they didn’t steal and they didn’t fuck over their neighbors. They fed people, boosted the local economy, and shone a light on shitty HOA practices.
Also, why should they have individual meters in the first place when the existing system had worked for over a decade without issue
So any system that has functioned historically should never be reconsidered or replaced? Who exactly was it working for? Are you worried about the bottom line of your HOA?
Let me put it into perspective, these two abnormal building bills accounted for $47,000 a year in extra water charges or about 20% of the HOA’s annual budget (and that’s just the excess, not the rest of the bill).
But yeah, it’s ok to fuck over your neighbors because you’re struggling and corporations are worse.
I’ve gotta say, it sounds like the only ones doing the fucking over here are the HOA to it’s tenants, then using the totally not migrant renters as a scapegoat. pretty typical HOA stuff in my experience.
You’re correct in that you never said they were immigrants. You said they were a family living 10 people to a two bedroom and running a restaurant that sells food out the window. This is an extremely common immigration tactic, and doesn’t occur much outside of that scenario, but okay I will withdraw my assumption. The rest, however, remains the same. These people weren’t stealing cars, they weren’t stealing anything from anyone. Their water use wasn’t stealing. Their water use didn’t take water out of your house and it didn’t adversely affect anyone or anything aside from a poorly planned HOA water monitoring system. Like you said, these units are owned primarily by single owners. Why shouldn’t they have individual meters? $180 a month is a miserable HOA fee and a high water bill for a single person in a condo alone as well. I don’t know why they’d have to pay for their own meter or monitoring service, that’s never been the case anywhere I’ve ever lived, but I’m positive they saved money in the long run assuming the HOA reflected the change in their monthly dues. But again, they didn’t steal and they didn’t fuck over their neighbors. They fed people, boosted the local economy, and shone a light on shitty HOA practices.
So any system that has functioned historically should never be reconsidered or replaced? Who exactly was it working for? Are you worried about the bottom line of your HOA?
I’ve gotta say, it sounds like the only ones doing the fucking over here are the HOA to it’s tenants, then using the totally not migrant renters as a scapegoat. pretty typical HOA stuff in my experience.