HOA letter. WWYD???

[Anonymous]

Please send a pic of the structure so we can decide if the HOA is out of line. I’d also love to see the costumes.

[Anonymous]

Me too. Please!!!!

[Anonymous]

This made me LOL. Thanks!

OP it sounds like it doesn't look good. Do you have a back or side door? If not, you don't need a lot of space to undress. You can do it in the garage if it is attached to the house. My garage has two cars plus other stuff. We have groceries delivered and they leave them in the garage between the cars. I only take out the things that need to be refrigerated. I wipe those with a disinfectant wipe. I leave the rest in the garage for 3 days. I leave packages on the porch for 24 hours. Just sharing some ways you can disinfect without a structure.

Our HOA would have sent the same letter. We have to get approval and signatures from neighbors before building a structure.

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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?

Please dress the dogs up immediately OP.

[Anonymous]

I think you should call the local TV stations and ask them to come do a segment on this injustice. I also think you should tell us when the segment will run. Then we can all watch. It will help alleviate the boredom of quarantine.

I've got two incredibly high risk people in my house, one of them a child. My level of paranoia about this virus is through the roof. I'm doing all sorts of crazy things like disinfecting wheelchair wheels, and leaving all non-perishable food in the garage, and changing clothing and bathing with CHG after hospital visits, and wiping down everything. And yet you STILL have me beaten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you should call the local TV stations and ask them to come do a segment on this injustice. I also think you should tell us when the segment will run. Then we can all watch. It will help alleviate the boredom of quarantine.

I've got two incredibly high risk people in my house, one of them a child. My level of paranoia about this virus is through the roof. I'm doing all sorts of crazy things like disinfecting wheelchair wheels, and leaving all non-perishable food in the garage, and changing clothing and bathing with CHG after hospital visits, and wiping down everything. And yet you STILL have me beaten.

I assume you are being sarcastic about calling the TV station. I don’t need more attention to my situation.
My husband is also high risk (asthma).
Our solution works well and is less piecemeal than yours! Give it a try...

[Anonymous]

OP pandemics better than the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Famous troll, this is some of your better work. You were in a tedious rut for awhile, but this is quite good.

[Anonymous]

A troll that actually made me LOL. Well done!

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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.

but have you seen Home Depot? Contagion lives there!

[Anonymous]

I can’t even imagine a home in my UMC neighborhood putting plastic around homemade extension to their front door.
Talk about trashy...
We built a victory garden - and a few neighbors initially gave us bad looks until we explained the concept. And now that the structure is complete, it looks nice. It helps that we put a cute sign out.
But plastic wrap around the front of a home? Crazy.

[Anonymous]

I dont have a HOA and would never live under one. Its a little fiefdom for wannabe nazis.

[Anonymous]

Wait - OP, how are you decontaminating your cars between visits to the store?????

[Anonymous]

Op, your husband should have built a small porch instead. I bet there would have been a design acceptable to the HOA. Then put up blinds or curtains, and you can Saran wrap yourself to your heart's content!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait - OP, how are you decontaminating your cars between visits to the store?????

Hi.
Well, you really CAN'T decontaminate your car entirely. That is an important lesson to remember. ALWAYS wash your hands and change your clothes when you get home. I obtained 8 containers of Barbicide wipes off eBay back when all this started and I keep one container in each vehicle plus in the house. I wipe down the steering wheel and all other surfaces inside the car every time I use it, plus the door handle. I also park at the far end of the grocery store parking lot. Another tip, which I think is helpful, is that I wear shoe covers in the grocery store and remove them before I get in my car. We do wash our cars 2-4X per week in the driveway but that is more of a personal preference around car cleanliness, and taking advantage of free time due to telecommuting, than an actual decontamination.

Also an update, I am pretty sure I know which neighbor complained, based on something that was said to my husband yesterday. I realize that is their prerogative and I understand, objectively, why they would complain. I practice peace.

At any rate, I am not optimistic that we will receive approval to maintain the structure in the front yard. The back yard is fenced and we usually let the dogs out the back door. Hoping we could retrofit it to the back door, but not wanting to go to the trouble if it wouldn't work out, last night we tried to see if the dogs would be willing to enter/exit the house through the structure; however, they all refused to enter even with a treat provided. Therefore, attaching it to the back door seems like it's not going to be an option and we are looking at replicating it inside the garage somehow. There is not much room in there, and I am concerned it won't be as efficient as the current setup.