HOA letter. WWYD???

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Anonymous wrote:OP, please post a photo or diagram. Please.

Preferably with your naked silhouettes.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you do this process every time you go outside? Or just after the store?

Just after the store.
We can’t use our garage for this— it’s full of stuff from a hobby we do— and I’m not putting plastic sheeting in my foyer. This is the solution that works best for my family. I really DGAF if our neighbors see our nude silhouettes.

OP, please, I beg of you...I have to know what your hobby is.

Making statues from asbestos.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you do this process every time you go outside? Or just after the store?

Just after the store.
We can’t use our garage for this— it’s full of stuff from a hobby we do— and I’m not putting plastic sheeting in my foyer. This is the solution that works best for my family. I really DGAF if our neighbors see our nude silhouettes.

OP, please, I beg of you...I have to know what your hobby is.

You probably haven’t heard of it— it’s live action role play. We build and store the costumes in our garage.

This thread is only getting better. Please keep going.

ROFLMAO

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Anonymous wrote:This is the best thread I have come across in a long time.

Why can't you construct this in your foyer or in back of your house?

I was literally just thinking this and had to grab something to snack on while I finish this thread.

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Please op. We need you. These are desperate times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know one family that set up a temporary screen on their front porch, but they are BOTH hospital workers and BOTH working with covid patients every day.

OP is doing this after coming back from the grocery store?

That's.....a lot of work and totally unnecessary.

Maybe they wear their LARP costumes to the grocery store and they need an extra spritz of Lysol.

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Anonymous wrote:We put up a small disinfection structure attached to our front door. It enables us to stay safe. Just got a letter from the HOA that is is not an approved structure. WWYD? I can’t believe they would disallow something like this at this time.

I haven't read past the first page of responses but could you put it someplace less obvious--do you have a basement or garage entrance? The HOA (and your neighbors) might be less likely to fight you on it if it was less visible. I'm not going to pick on your for being scared. We all have our own level of anxiety and in my opinion you can't tell another person who they "should" feel. Hang in there, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:We put up a small disinfection structure attached to our front door. It enables us to stay safe. Just got a letter from the HOA that is is not an approved structure. WWYD? I can’t believe they would disallow something like this at this time.

I haven't read past the first page of responses but could you put it someplace less obvious--do you have a basement or garage entrance? The HOA (and your neighbors) might be less likely to fight you on it if it was less visible. I'm not going to pick on your for being scared. We all have our own level of anxiety and in my opinion you can't tell another person who they "should" feel. Hang in there, OP.

PP. you MUST read. you will thank me when you stop laughing.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep it up. What will they do to you? Revoke your pool pass? The pool probably won't open anyhow.

One of the neighborhoods I lived in in Fairfax took people to court regularly. They were way too aggressive of an hoa and they were seriously. They held up the sale of our home because we didn't have the correct letters on our mail box. Everyone in the neighborhood had the same letters.

OP here. Thankfully our HOA is not like that. They’re usually pretty laid back. I guess I can understand why they do not approve of our structure— but it is so obviously a TEMPORARY structure we didn’t think it would be a problem.
We are responding back to them, per the excellent advice in this thread, but also looking into how we might retrofit the structure to work with our back door. (The problem there is the dogs running through.)

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old is an EMT. He is exposed to everything. We don’t have a damn decontamination station outside. My sister is an RN on a COVID unit. They are careful, but certainly not crazy. They remove their shoes outside and then take a shower and wash their clothes. You aren’t returning from the moon. It’s not necessary to decontaminate yourself, OP. Team HOA.

How can you be an EMT at 17?

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old is an EMT. He is exposed to everything. We don’t have a damn decontamination station outside. My sister is an RN on a COVID unit. They are careful, but certainly not crazy. They remove their shoes outside and then take a shower and wash their clothes. You aren’t returning from the moon. It’s not necessary to decontaminate yourself, OP. Team HOA.

How can you be an EMT at 17?

You just have to be 16 in VA. Many of the Fire Departments operate with volunteers working nights/weekends.

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old is an EMT. He is exposed to everything. We don’t have a damn decontamination station outside. My sister is an RN on a COVID unit. They are careful, but certainly not crazy. They remove their shoes outside and then take a shower and wash their clothes. You aren’t returning from the moon. It’s not necessary to decontaminate yourself, OP. Team HOA.

How can you be an EMT at 17?

My nephew worked as an EMT from 17 to 22. He started the summer before senior year, worked his senior year part time, then full time during college in summers and holidays then part-time when school was in session. When he graduated from college he was accepted into medical school. He thinks it was because of all his experience being an EMT because he didn't have the highest MCAT scores (they weren't low but just average).

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Anonymous wrote:Keep it up. What will they do to you? Revoke your pool pass? The pool probably won't open anyhow.

One of the neighborhoods I lived in in Fairfax took people to court regularly. They were way too aggressive of an hoa and they were seriously. They held up the sale of our home because we didn't have the correct letters on our mail box. Everyone in the neighborhood had the same letters.

OP here. Thankfully our HOA is not like that. They’re usually pretty laid back. I guess I can understand why they do not approve of our structure— but it is so obviously a TEMPORARY structure we didn’t think it would be a problem.
We are responding back to them, per the excellent advice in this thread, but also looking into how we might retrofit the structure to work with our back door. (The problem there is the dogs running through.)

Do your dogs go into the garage and mess up any costumes? Do your dogs also dress up? Do you have kids you dress up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call hypocrite: OP, the same reason you do not want plastic sheeting in your foyer is the SAME reason your HOA doesn't want it at your front door. If you must have it, figure out how to put it INSIDE your foyer or INSIDE your garage,this way it is yours to look at and not your neighbors.

This. I was sympathetic when envisioning my tiny old townhouse with no garage or foyer. But OP lost me when it turns out she has a garage, and a foyer, and is not an essential worker but only going out for groceries (and 2x4s).

OP, your money and effort would be better spent on food delivery so you don't have to go out.

Team HOA here.

[Anonymous]

I thought you have to be 18 to sit for the EMT test.