I’ve had a previous experience with this group as I live in a neighborhood that has an HOA but I was there before the rest of the houses were built and before they formed this group. I’m not a member in anyway and that has been verified by a real estate attorney.
So anyway apparently they have a rule over how many lights you can put up and what the earliest date you can put them up. The woman who I deal with the most when I upset them came by on 11/30 and told me my lights were against the policy and that I was not allowed to have as many lights up as I do.
I told her that we been over this before that I am in no way beholden to their policies and don’t care. I told her out of respect to the people in the neighborhood I did like that I wasn’t going to go full Clark Griswold on my house but that my nieces and nephews loved lights so I would be putting up a fair amount. I also told her that I didn’t care about their rules that the lights could only be on during certain hours and that once done putting them up on the 30th I would likely turn them on and leave them on till Christmas.
She told me that me breaking the rules upset other members and that I should respect their rules even if I don’t follow them because I technically live in the neighborhood. She offered me a flyer which apparently had their rules for lights.
I tossed it in the trash and told her to just get off my property. I probably could’ve entertained some of what she asked but I’ve just had enough of them.
About 20 years ago, my wife and I had just gotten married and we rented a condo where all the windows and sliding door faced the parking area. My wife, to celebrate our first Christmas as a married couple put a white rope light on the railing on our 2 foot grilling area. It, was nice little gesture.
That night we went out to dinner and when we came home, found a letter under our door. The letter read "All holiday lights must be removed immediately from the exterior portion of the condo. Christmas or other religious lighting is against HOA policy and failure to remove can result in fines and other legal actions." My wife felt horrible and I couldn't believe it. The owner of the condo had left a copy of the HOA regulations and I found a nice little loophole. Apparently, they could regulate lights on the exterior balcony/grilling area, but not lights inside the condo. Game on.
I took my wife immediately to the big box hardware store and picked up two fake Christmas trees, about 2,000 colored lights, a light ball and whatever holiday decoration I could find. Our condo had 3 windows and the sliding glass door. I filled up each one of those windows with lights, crisscrossing, around the inside of the perimeter of the window and one had the led ball hanging in the center. The sliding door had the Christmas tree in full view completely covered in lights and ornaments. Also the sliding doors were full of Christmas lights. My electric bill must have tripled. When you came into the parking lot of the Condo complex, you saw a beacon of light full of Christmas spirit. You probably could see the condo from orbit. And, nothing could be said by the HOA snitch.
Apparently at the next board meeting, a proposed rule change was brought up to limit the amount of "holiday lighting" being shown through windows. It was quietly pointed out by another HOA board member that was an attorney that you probably could not regulate activities inside a person's dwelling.
I moved out before next year, but I never received another notice.
Why? I mean how can you possibly relax in your living room when your tree is flashing so obnoxiously. I can kindof understand outside, at least you don't have to look at them constantly, but right in your faces? It'd be like trying to watch a film and having a million torches clicking off and off repeatedly from the corner.
I don’t mean to be a Grinch and impede on the holiday spirit. However, those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has red and blue flashing lights?
Every time I come around the corner, I think it's the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my beer out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It's just too much drama, even for Christmas.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. Happy Holidays🎄.
Why. Why why why? In fucking November? SERIOUSLY?
If you somehow weren't aware from the hundreds of posts about it that have shown up on r/all over the past year or so, there's been a pretty severe shortage of certain gaming consoles and processors/graphics cards, especially PS5s and the newest series of NVIDIA Geforce RTX graphics cards, both of which are visible in the post.
The comments are surprisingly divided:
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It isn't breaking news by any means, but the fact that it's still up and that OP seems to have found some friends in the comments is novel for reddit.
I'm looking for a house with a TON of Christmas Lights to re-create the house lighting scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for a very short filming project. Are there any in the area that have an extravagant amount of lights? I'd need to get in contact with the homeowner because it involves turning the lights on, on camera. It can be in the suburbs as well (I'd think there are more there than in the city). Thank you!
I've heard of tannenbaums and mistletoe, but what were decorations like before the invention of Christmas lights? Once those lights were invented, how did the modern American tradition of extravagant outdoor light. displays emerge and spread?
It really added a nice touch to maps around Christmas time, I miss it!
Valve, pls fix!
Excuse the formatting, I’m mobile. So I (27F) live next door to a family who is Christmas crazy, I don’t mind Christmas but I lost my mom around Christmas time several years ago so the appeal just isn’t there anymore. My neighbors have, quite frankly, an obscene amount of christmas lights in their front yard and on their house. I have none.
The parents approached me recently (with young kids in tow) and asked if I would consider putting up lights to match their property as this would make their kids happy. I said absolutely not, I’m not paying extra in electricity for something that I myself will get no enjoyment out of.
They proceeded to call me selfish and say that I was ruining it for them because no one wants to stop outside of my lightless house to take pictures of theirs because they feel like I’ll come out and tell them to go away. A day or so later, they came again and said that they would foot the bill for any lights that I put up and I still refused.
Now they won’t talk to me and I’m feeling very uncomfortable when I’m in my yard or around my house and I see them.
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