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Liquid Communism posted:As a matter of curiosity, what exactly would be the rationale behind giving a poo poo what color someone's house is painted so long as it's in good repair and not causing a hazard to anyone? Property value for neighboring properties. The problem isn't necessarily the person who wants to paint their house very light blue rather than beige, it's the guy who wants to paint it black and red, or fuschia, or some other objectionable color. Whether or not it actually has an impact on property values is a completely different argument, it's more of a preventative measure because there are people out there who are just assholes and will push boundaries just because they can.
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some_admin posted:As far as the postal facilities on your property those are very likely the responsibilities of the HOA and again, will be spelled out in the covenants. Just want to reemphasize this - postal services in the US are really weird. Unless your HOA has unusual provisions, my understanding is that you buy a USPS box, which then grants them a perpetual license to use it for delivering/receiving mail with no payment to the box owner. So you get service, they get the rights to postage paid. This is why UPS and Fedex can't put anything in your post box, and why it's a federal crime to tamper with it. It's a weird system, and probably either your HOA's problem or your problem as an individual to deal with (not to mention any HOA covenants around what an acceptable USPS box is).
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Motronic posted:Nobody's buying it. So there's no money in separating commingled recycling anymore. You can either pay more to have it sorted and stored, with no real timeline on if or when it would be actually recycled, or just landfill it. This  China finally realized that the environmental harm from accepting recycling was no longer worth the meager economic benefit of accepting it from other countries. My understanding is that they'll still accept commingled recycling, but only if the contamination rate is <5% or <3% or some other crazy number. If you had entire populations being very vigilant about rinsing cans and bottles, not adding greasy cardboard, etc. it would probably still be economically viable - but people are lazy.Note that this isn't just a US problem, contamination is enough of a problem in the EU that they also don't know where to send their recycling. And AFAIK, Canada never figured out what to do with those containers full of dirty diapers they sent to the Philippines ostensibly as clear plastic.
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