HOA letter. WWYD???

[Anonymous]

Couldn't you put this by your back door rather than the front, or move your hobby supplies into a storage unit? My next door neighbor has an underground autoshop going in his driveway and another neighbor runs an underground dance club in his garage and it's not any skin off my nose, but if I chose to live in a place with a HOA I would not expect to build or have my neighbors building a decontamination shed out front.

[Anonymous]

First step, file an appeal. Explain that this is a temporary structure during the stay-at-home orders. When the governor reopens the state, you will take it down. This will buy you some time until the HOA can review the appeal and craft a response. They cannot do anything to you while an appeal is in process. By the time the appeal is processed and you have a response, the situation may change.

If the situation has not changed, then that means that it will still be a very long time until there are any LARP activities. Find another storage space for your LARP costumes for the duration of the pandemic response (where you will not be using the costumes) and move the disinfection station into the garage.

There is no time where you will need both the LARP costumes and the disinfection station. If you need the station, then there will be no LARPing. If you can go out LARPing again, then you won't need the disinfection station.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

My husband is a firefighter/first responder and we don't go through all of this. Good grief!!!!! If you have a garage, you could do your decontamination/strip down routine in the garage - it will be totally fine and it won't get into your house. (if you're extra worried - and it sounds like you are - shut all the vents in your garage).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's not ingenious, OP.

Well, I disagree.
Nobody in my house brings any virus laden clothes or shoes inside the house, and all groceries and other packages can be disinfected inside the structure as well.

Disinfection of packages, groceries, etc is unnecessary. You’re delusional paranoiacs with a hideous eyesore on your house. Take it down.

Not true. Bring it into your own house if you want to. I'm making sure I don't.

Haha!

OP you created a CONTAMINATION unit outside your front door! Imagine a UPS worker or grocery delivery person coughs in there. The virus can live on plastic for several days. Then you come along and actually take off your clothes out there! Ha! It’s like you have your own virus incubator. You’ve exposed all your skin - BUT you put sanitizer on your hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First step, file an appeal. Explain that this is a temporary structure during the stay-at-home orders. When the governor reopens the state, you will take it down. This will buy you some time until the HOA can review the appeal and craft a response. They cannot do anything to you while an appeal is in process. By the time the appeal is processed and you have a response, the situation may change.

If the situation has not changed, then that means that it will still be a very long time until there are any LARP activities. Find another storage space for your LARP costumes for the duration of the pandemic response (where you will not be using the costumes) and move the disinfection station into the garage.

There is no time where you will need both the LARP costumes and the disinfection station. If you need the station, then there will be no LARPing. If you can go out LARPing again, then you won't need the disinfection station.

Best answer!
You sound like a lawyer pp, and I mean that in a good way.

[Anonymous]

Famous troll, the addition of LARPing has pushed this to the next level. Truly A+ effort.

[Anonymous]

Lol is OP serious or joking? I would be really annoyed if my neighbor put up a fugly structure like that. If you want to do what you like then you need to be on acreage, not 1/4 acre suburban lots.

[Anonymous]

OP, get a pop up shower tent. You can use it when you need it and put it away once you're done.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you kidding me?! Others have real problems with HOA and you are simply creating them.
Put this thing into garage of build it inside a room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's not ingenious, OP.

Well, I disagree.
Nobody in my house brings any virus laden clothes or shoes inside the house, and all groceries and other packages can be disinfected inside the structure as well.

Disinfection of packages, groceries, etc is unnecessary. You’re delusional paranoiacs with a hideous eyesore on your house. Take it down.

Not true. Bring it into your own house if you want to. I'm making sure I don't.

Haha!

OP you created a CONTAMINATION unit outside your front door! Imagine a UPS worker or grocery delivery person coughs in there. The virus can live on plastic for several days. Then you come along and actually take off your clothes out there! Ha! It’s like you have your own virus incubator. You’ve exposed all your skin - BUT you put sanitizer on your hands.

I'm the PP above but I'm not the OP. I was responding to the statement that wiping down groceries and packages isn't necessary.

[Anonymous]

People love to disparage HOAs, but this story is exactly why I'm happy to live in a neighborhood that has one. Our previous neighborhood didn't, and this type of project would have fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People love to disparage HOAs, but this story is exactly why I'm happy to live in a neighborhood that has one. Our previous neighborhood didn't, and this type of project would have fit right in.

I usually hate HOAs, but I would be lying if I wouldn’t be happy to have one if OP lived in my neighborhood...

Common sense is not an universal value.

[Anonymous]

I would be team HOA on this one. Sounds like an eyesore and potential hazard.

But I also think you are doing more harm than good for yourself. You are potentially trapping and keeping alive virus particles in the plastic that wouldn't survive in fresh air and sunlight. Leave packages outside. Take off and bag your clothes inside your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be team HOA on this one. Sounds like an eyesore and potential hazard.

But I also think you are doing more harm than good for yourself. You are potentially trapping and keeping alive virus particles in the plastic that wouldn't survive in fresh air and sunlight. Leave packages outside. Take off and bag your clothes inside your house.

I also feel for the UPS and other delivery people you are forcing to go into this petri dish structure.