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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by warent on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:25PM (#14714097)
There are plenty of neighborhoods where you'll be fined by the HOA for doing that. Just "tossing in the front yard" isn't a feasible sustainable solution. Anyway if he's paying 50% in income taxes then it's unlikely he even lives in a neighborhood where junk collectors drive around
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by jimmaswell on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:33PM (#14715091)
I don't think I could live in an HOA even if I was paid to. Those things are atrocities. To anyone in the market for buying a home, watch out for those and never buy one if it's under an HOA. You can find lots of horror stories about them online with a quick search.

A good tip for anyone suffering through one: they can't legally interfere with amateur radio towers, so if you're dissatisfied with having to live with your HOA, you can put up as big of an amateur radio tower as you can afford and they can't do anything about it.

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by ryuker16 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @12:37PM (#14726012)
Usually they will ding you on every other HOA law to make up for it.
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by rubidium on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:21PM (#14714772)
At 50% tax bracket that's exactly the neighborhood scrappers want to be in. Only problem is if it's a gated community. Then you have to pay for what the rest of us (who actually rub shoulders with the world) get for free :)
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by Tharkun on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:33AM (#14716527)
HOAs can issue fines? That's madness. I'll get fined for putting trash on my curb on the wrong day of the week, or the wrong kind of trash, but it'll be by my local government's very efficient income generators/police.
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by brianwawok on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:31PM (#14727827)
People voluntarily agree to more strict rules to not have their home value lowered by a dirty house in their block.
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by hkmurakami on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:29PM (#14714128)
typically you'll need to call a "junk collector service" which will charge you about $50/item to get rid of it for you.
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