Another issue about the Condo Association. They demanded to know who had keys to our condo. They

[diabeticman]

claimed it was in case of emergency they needed to be able to contact someone BUT I wasn't comfortable giving them this info but I was harassed until I did. We gave a set of keys to my Dad and demanded to know his name and where he lived.

[Jamastiene]

1. I feel so lucky to have my own land and home and

no home owner's association or condo association to answer to. Even my landlord, I had one while I did the "rent to own" thing with my place, didn't ask that many questions or care what I did with the place.

I hope you can get some privacy and freedom somehow. That sounds like an invasion of privacy to me, but then again, I live in my own place and make my own rules, other than the very lenient ones the city and county have. I guess other people would prefer the group rules thing?

[yeoman6987]

26. I guess it depends on how you want to live

I purposefully moved to HOA. More positive then negative for me. I know many are not wanting that but I do.

[Jamastiene]

30. Different strokes for different folks.

It's good that there is variety like that.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Your recent posts have given me great comfort

knowing that I never bought a condominium. I don't think that I could tolerate having outsiders butting into my business. At least renting an apartment I always had the option of moving after the lease expired if there was something did not like about the management.

[LeftyMom]

3. Why does this belong in GD?

I guess it's a host issue whether every last thing your wife says, every dispute with your condo board, every minor stress or inconvenience in your life are GD or lounge material, but if you're going to post them to GD can you at least keep them in one thread and not clog the board up with a daily update what the lunch special was at Del Boca Vista Phase II?

[elleng]

4. This is unnecessary rudeness, LeftyMom.

[CreekDog]

7. Are you saying nobody is allowed to question or criticize a post of his on this topic?

how many OP's have been posted on this topic alone in the past 3 days?

and nobody can question them or criticize them?

who else here gets such a dispensation?

[uppityperson]

14. sorting OP's by author shows he has only 1 other OP, and his locked one.

So, in answer, looks like only this OP has "been posted on this topic alone in the past 3 days".

You got me curious so I checked.

[CreekDog]

15. 7 OP's on this since last Wednesday, First 4 in the Lounge, then...

for some reason, the most recent 3 in GD.

[uppityperson]

16. Thank you, I only looked in GD.

[HappyMe]

18. So what?

[CreekDog]

19. the poster was questioning what I said and I felt they deserved an answer

ok?

[HappyMe]

21. I meant 'so what'

in regards to the number of posts the OP has made.

Ok?

I don't see any clogging up.

[CreekDog]

22. and I didn't say there was clogging up

my first post in this thread is barely above the one you're responding to.

if you read it, you will see the context of my mention of the number of OP's on the topic.

are you asking me to post that post in its entirety again because you didn't read it the first time before responding to me?

[cwydro]

31. I'm still giggling about "clogging up the board." lol

It seems to be draining fairly well to me.

[NCTraveler]

28. No. They said it was unnecessary rudness.

That should help to clear it up.

[HappyMe]

9. How rude.

Scrolling past or putting him on ignore is the way to deal with it.

[uppityperson]

13. when he wrote this OP, he had only 1 other non-archived GD thread. That is hardly clogging the

board.

[cwydro]

17. Oh please.

There are umpteen Joni's shoes threads and about as many bread bag threads right now.

GD is often "clogged" lol.

[AtomicKitten]

23. Cmon. Not nice.

He is a member of this community and is going through some difficult times. I think you could have handled your complaint better than this.

[NCTraveler]

24. "clog the board up"

Truly made me laugh. Thank you. THEY CLOGGED UP DU!1!1!1!1!1!11

Any chance you were a middle school crossing guard?

[cwydro]

6. I know you said that you loved living there,

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but surely all this harassment must be changing how you feel about the place?

Edits to clarify that I meant the harassment from the condo association.

[snooper2]

8. As long as I'm still allowed to piss in the fireplace they can know where my keys are

LOL

[tammywammy]

10. Wouldn't this be covered in the Condo Association Rules?

Did you not get a copy of that during closing? Especially the cat thing would be covered in that.

[WillowTree]

11. It actually is important for them to know how to get in when it's needed.

Once there was a leak into my kitchen coming from the unit upstairs when no one was there. It was several hours before we could get in contact with someone who could let maintenance in to search for the source of the problem, meanwhile a small, steady stream of water was coming through my light fixture.

Our building has a lock box where we can leave keys for emergency use and, purportedly, only building board members have access to that box. We aren't required to leave keys there and I don't, only because our building president, while a general likeable guy, isn't someone I would want to decide what is an emergency and what he's just curious about. So I've left keys with a couple on the second floor who I do trust completely and let the board know that they have them. That way one of them can make the emergency/non-emergency determination. Problem solved.

[MohRokTah]

12. Consult your Condo Association Covenants and Rules.

Most likely, this is a condition and you must comply.

[isobar]

29. In general, and I have been in this business on both coasts, and in between....

if you do not give the HOA a "key on file", then in the case of a real emergency, the HOA , and its agents have no liability if they have to gain entrance to your unit by breaking in the door. I never supply a "file key" . If I were you, I would change your locks. This may inconvenience you, if they need to get in for Fire inspections and the like, but they need to give you notice for such entry.

[jwirr]

20. Lived in a high rise for a while - they also wanted to know who had keys. We had persons who were

practicing alcoholics and had given keys out to there party friends. We also had a young man who gave keys to his high school friends and would let them hang out when they skipped school. In order to be fair they asked all of us who had keys to get into the building.

That did not really work as both of the above cases would go down and put a piece of cardboard in that door so others could get in.

[NCTraveler]

25. All condos I have ever worked with require a key or contact info for someone close with one.

Most all I have worked with require the key itself. It is an extremely good policy to have. When water starts pouring on your head from the upstairs condo owner, and they are out of town, you will learn why.

[upaloopa]

27. I was on two HOA boards.

Before you buy you are given the CC&Rs. You agree to live by them when you purchase.
You should not have purchased,
if that is what you did, if you did not want to be subject to them.
It is very hard to keep a community together and finance the repairs to common areas without CC&Rs.