I’m Semi-Hot and Super-Annoyed.

May 2nd, 2008 Posted in General Bitching, Poetical, The Bella

haikufridayBangable Blog Babe
Damnitt! Only ranked @ 3!
Gotta get hotter.

I found that link via the ‘Incoming Links’ section on my dashboard. If that’s a real picture, the blog owner’s pretty hot. I’d do him.

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I was looking at places to rent around Wilmington. I came upon this little townhouse, which is too far outside of town for me, but I still thought it was cute [and hella cheap to boot] so I skimmed the description. And I read:

“All tenants must be related by marriage or blood per HOA”.

Damn North Carolina! I thought we were past that! This pissed me off. I don’t understand how it’s even legal for a Home Owner’s Association to dictate the living arrangements of a couple or family. There’s no way in hell I’d live in a neighborhood with those types of restrictions. I for one love the gay couple down the street, and the unmarried folks that live beside us. They are perfect neighbors.

Now I can understand, somewhat the ‘no students’ thing. This is a college town, and college students can get pretty rowdy. I can sort of get no co-signers as well, that’s pretty common. But to stipulate that their ‘values’ must be on the same strange and outdated level as yours?

Who the fuck wants to live in fucking Stepford? I sure as hell don’t. Not to say they’d even accept our family – I’m pretty sure that minorities and interracial couples don’t fit in their little mold either.

I cannot believe this type of blatant discrimination is still allowed. I can’t even say anything more…I’m just too shocked/disgusted to delve deeper.

Does anyone out there understand this? See why they would have this type of stipulation? If so – let ME know. I’m just a puzzled as a drunk squirrell on the highway.

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53 Responses to “I’m Semi-Hot and Super-Annoyed.”

  1. Kathryn says:

    Nope.  It is not fair and it is not right.  I don’t get it.
    Maybe they have that clause more so that they don’t get transcient owners.  Maybe they just don’t want people moving in and out all the time.  They want long term owners.  I have no idea.  I’m grasping at straws here.

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  2. Hey, at least you found out before you moved in, right? At least they posted their assholery for all the world to see, take it or leave it? Thank God you don’t have to live among those people. Right?
     
    I know, it still makes you want to shank someone in the kidneys, but…
     
     
     

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  3. LunaNik says:

    Makes me want to go break all the windows and then take a dump on the floor.  Ok, I know that’s really gross, but so is their blatent discrimination. Grrrrrr…

    The latest from LunaNik…Silent, but Deadly

  4. Kori says:

    I think that the Homeowner’s Associattions pretty much get to do what they want.  I mean, there are places here for senior citizens only, and they are allowed to do it because it is clearly stated; nobody can move themselves and their kids in there and then say “Hm, I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to do that!”  Doesn’t mean it is right, not in a million years, and has just goven me one more reason to be pissed off-like I need one.

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  5. i’ve never heard of such a thing.  that is crazy!

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  6. Kori says:

    And oh, I just hopped on over there and told old maddog he was SO wrong, that I am not even a lesbian and I’d do you!  We got your back.

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  7. BusyDad says:

    That is fucked up. I’m commenting on both parts of your post.

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  8. Natalie says:

    That is fucking ridiculous!   HOA’s suck donkey balls anyway.  It’s crap that they are legally allowed to get away with discrimination. There’s no other explanation. If they don’t want college types in there, they could have just said “no college roomates”.

  9. Sadia says:

    “marriage or blood”. Shit, that means my sister, who happens to be adopted, couldn’t come live with me. My blood is BOILING. Is that even legal?

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  10. OHmommy says:

    HAOs suck.

    Ours won’t allow us to have an RV parked in our driveway.  They are haters!

    Never heard of HAOs excluding people.  Errr…..

    The latest from OHmommy…Out of the mouth of Lola…

  11. Sybil Law says:

    All I can think of is that inbred kid playing that song on the porch in “Deliverance”! Haha
    Seriously – HOA’s suck ass.
    Also, I KNOW I updated your new feed TWICE already and still it leads me to the old page! WTF, man, WTF?!
    P.S There is no inbred smilie!

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  12. Sybil Law says:

    Nevermind – I am a fuckstick anal contraption…
    I had 2 different links to your blog on my blog, including the old one, and I fixed it.
    I am not inbred, I swear! Haha

    The latest from Sybil Law…Trashy Talk

  13. Honeybell says:

    HOA is a group of judgmental bastards?
    I had a friend in college whose landlord put into the lease that women couldn’t have “male overnight visitors”.  At the time she didn’t care, but when the landlord couple started calling at night and driving by to make sure she sued them for harassment.
    Interesting that the lease didn’t say anything about men having women stay the night.
     
     

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  14. Stephanie says:

    Ridiculous! Is that even legal to specify that?

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  15. crazy.
    both the no. 3 ranking (i chimed in on the shit-giving) and the hoa.

    suckitude central.

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  16. trouble says:

    They want you to be related to EACH OTHER.  Landlords do this to keep students out of quiet areas. 

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    • Maria says:

      @trouble: They say no students, and no co-signers separately – why the extra stipulation about blood or marriage, I don’t get.

  17. Kristie says:

    Dammit. Another strike against Leland. We could have been neighbors. Damn HOA.

  18. Katie says:

    “They want you to be related to EACH OTHER.  Landlords do this to keep students out of quiet areas.”
    Well, then…they should say-NO STUDENTS.
    PS~I also commented on that kid’s blog…wtf is up w/ him “rating” people anyway??? Fuckwad.

  19. Crazy!!  I can’t believe it’s even legal!!!

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  20. Mama Zen says:

    HOA = Head-up Own Ass!

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  21. Jill says:

    Congrats on being “bangable!”

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  22. Jo Beaufoix says:

    The house is cute, the owners are arseholes.  Such a shame.
    And yay to being on the bangable list.

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  23. Kelley says:

    It is worse here in Oz.  Rental prices are skyrocketing and now they are doing rental auctions, highest bidder wins.  So the haters get to hate on whole new levels.
    And yeah, you are so much hotter than those other biatches.
     
     

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  24. You’re definitely being robbed.  That Barbie doll in the #1 slot can’t hold a candle to you.
     
     
     

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  25. Meg says:

    Hey, I’d do the guy, too.  But both of us doing him…that would be weird.  Find out if he’s got a friend.

    The latest from Meg…Flashback Friday – Landscape Look

  26. Oh, it happens. Where I live, they do something called Redlinning. If a minority couple goes to look at a house, they deliberately only show them houses they CAN’T afford in the towns they do not want them to live in. I live in the most segregated area of the entire country. Seriously. It’s scary. Their are white towns, black towns, hispanic towns. And, we are on the east coast in a supposedly democratic/liberal state. Whatever!

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  27. Tara R. says:

    In Gainesville, where my older kid goes to college, there is a similar restriction on some rental properties. When renting a house, if you have more roommates than bedrooms, at least two have to be related by blood or marriage.
    Seriously, the blog dude is just WRONG! You’re a #1 all the way. 
     

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  28. Momo Fali says:

    That’s just wrong…so wrong.

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  29. Karen MEG says:

    I guess the Royal Family would be the only ones who qualify?  Weird.

    Even weirder … that you’re only #3!  Don’t even think about bangin’ him until you’re numero uno, babe!

    The latest from Karen MEG…Weekly Winners #20

  30. That’s legal?  That’s fucked up.

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  31. Gypsy says:

    I hate that shit. Restrict the number of occupants, fine. But blood relatives or spouses? Please.

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  32. Yeah, my sister ran across a townhouse like that a couple of years ago… It’s ‘perfectly’ legal and perfectly shitty.

    As for the bangable blog babes thingy, ummmm, while I definitely find you as a number one bang… That site totally turns me off.  Have you read some of his comments?

  33. Madison says:

    This is to keep out the gay couples, who obviously can’t marry in most states.  Yes it sucks, but it is legal.  Are they going to ask heterosexual couples for a copy of their marriage license? – Of course not.  It’s clearly a homophobic rule.

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