I'm in a voluntary HOA, and I still hate it. We have a few Karen that try to stir shit up. But we have more nonmembers, so we quickly shut them down.

@NobleKorhedron

Ай бұрын

Good for you, @roselady8395!

@markc7440

8 күн бұрын

Why don't you leave?

@roselady8395

8 күн бұрын

@@markc7440 Leave where?

@roselady8395

8 күн бұрын

@@markc7440 Why dont you leave?

Loved the comment, "my therapist might need a therapist after..."

As for the car sale and guilt-tripping salesman, you have feet, walk out. If they want the sale, they will call back and, when they do, demand a better price.

@nylanelson8660

Ай бұрын

No they make money off the Finance charges. We had the Same thing happen to us as we went to a car dealership to purchase a second hand car for a friend. We had $10K we were willing to spend & they played around making us wait, etc like in the story. We eventually walked out bought a car from a private party

@richardrichmond8006

Ай бұрын

@@nylanelson8660@nylanelson8660 I know they make money off the finances; however, since COVID, they have to scramble to sell cars.I

When given to option to join a HOA, *DON'T*

Last story, after you've testified against your brother and he's convicted sue your mother for her enabling of his behavior. If she'd have stopped him early then it wouldn't have led to the later issue and as the parent she was indeed responsible both for correcting him and protecting you. She can then be responsible for paying for your therapy past and in the future.

My name's not everyone, but hi😊

@alexius23

Ай бұрын

Hola

Hello everyone

@alexius23

Ай бұрын

Dia Duit

@AcousticGString

Ай бұрын

@@alexius23 Wakan Takan kici un!

When I was little, a friend of the family was a Saudi Arabian man. He was a political refugee who came to the US for asylum. He was actually the first non-Muslim Arab I ever met...that was _not_ why he was a refugee but it couldn't have _helped._ Anyway, he was a contractor and a trained architect. His main problem though was he was a bleeding heart. He believed in giving people second chances...and third and fourth and fifth. He would hire ex-cons to give them that second chance, they'd rob him blind or otherwise cheat him, then he'd welcome them back after they told him some sob story and apologized...again and again. He was not stupid, believing in people was just the hill he chose to die on. To be fair, the people who did _genuinely_ appreciate the chances he gave them, would happily throw themselves on a grenade for the man. Anyway, lets call him Sam, Sam was working on a big project and ordered materials from a company run by an 'ex' con. The materials arrived but half were not what he ordered, and the rest were such low quality as to be illegal to use. Sam stopped payment of the check and refused delivery of the materials. Now, like I said, he got cheated a lot, so he did have _some_ contingencies. He documented everything and put it away just in case. The guy sued him for breach of contract and theft of the materials. Sam approached my dad and asked him to come in as a character witness, to which my dad agreed. Sam was worried for several reasons. Sam had an odd skin condition, though he was Middle Eastern, he had a skin disease that cause his skin to darken to an extreme degree. He thought there might be some racial discrimination. Then he had a _really_ strong foreign accent, so he thought it'd be 'the American vs. the foreigner' and finally, this was in California....the state where a burglar broke into a family home, cut himself on a kitchen knife and *successfully sued the family for damages.* The case against Sam was just stupid. There was no way a sane person would rule against him BUT, again, this was in California, the 'sue everyone state'. Telling him at least the first one wasn't likely (though possible), my dad went to the court with him the day of the trail. They were worried at first because the judge was a cranky old man with dead eyes that clearly stopped caring a loooooong time ago, if he ever did. The judge would barely listen to both sides then make a ruling almost arbitrarily. Then one case before Sam's, the judge shift changed. A guy in his mid thirties at most walked in joked with the bailiff and sat at the bench with a big smile. Calling forth the first case a young woman and a man come up. The woman is suing the man for $50,000 because he 'ruined her life' with a bad haircut. As the woman is spinning her tail of sorrow, the judge stopped her. "Wait, you're suing this man for 50 thousand dollars because you didn't like the haircut?" The woman: "Um, yes." Judge: "did you *ask* for the haircut you got?" Woman: "yes, but..." Judge: "Are you a model?" Woman: "What...no..." Judge: "What _do_ you do?" (she tells him) Judge: "So your appearance in no way effects your livelihood?" Then she started crowing again about how it ruined her life and the judge cuts her off again, awarding her a refund for the haircut. My dad smiled, he knew they'd be fine, and they were fine. The case was basically thrown out immediately.

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That last story is confusing. So she's 30 when her mum and stepbrother try to break in, the stepbrother is 42, and OP is living with her 53 year old half brother, and his kids, who must also be same age as OP. The mum must be in her 70s. Everyone just seems awfully old in this story.

@jacoblouks186

23 күн бұрын

There is an update and it gets even worse. She finds her in public later and harasses her, then they find out she has a trust set up by her father that the mom has been stealing from for years. Real sick POS

SLow down a bit.