Im getting married at the end of the summer would this be a cool idea?

We are getting married in front of my soon to be in laws house…they have a huge front yard with beautiful landscaping and even a pool….. and a beautiful house… this is going to be a semi formal wedding no jeans or tshirt or tennis shoes but I thought it would be kinda neat to let the groomsmen wear tuxedo tshirts and black converse with bootcut dress pants. My fiance thinks its cool b/c most guys hate tux’s and dressing up. My bridesmaids dresses are knee length hot pink tube top with canary yellow sashes. If I let my groomsmen do this would it make it informal?

Anyone have experience in dealing with a Home Owners Association?

I’m trying to assist a guy who works for me. He’s in a development with a HOA. He’s the subject of repeated violation notices and threatened fines for violations of their rules.

The problem is that other home owners in the community are engaging in same activities that bring him violation notices without any complaint from the HOA…. above ground pool, unlicensed car in drive, bales of landscaping hay beside house, non compliant fencing, unsecured dog, failure to fertilize lawn, failure to patch bare spots in lawn, etc…

He’s actually talked to these other home owners and inquired whether or not they’ve received any violations. None of them have heard a peep from the HOA.

This guy works for me on the second shift and can’t attend meetings. I have offered to cover his shift the next time there’s a HOA meeting so he can attend.

All his dealings with the president of the HOA have been by phone. From the sound of things she’s a fool. She claims to have no idea what’s going on and says, “I just sign what they put in front of me.”

Does selective enforcement, or failure to uniformly enforce the rules, render the rules unenforceable?

Any advice on how to proceed? I have recommended that he retain an attorney for a consultation, but I get the feeling that he simply can’t afford it.
1. He HAS fixed each and every violation and he’s done it IMMEDIATELY… the same day they were received.

Do you agree with Cap and Trade, does this synopsis work for you?

An acquaintance wrote this and I thought I would put it out there to see what people’s opinions are of this bill.
I have been challenged with explain exactly “What is Cap and Trade” and I am amazed that very few people that I know has any idea what is in this magical black box. Since this bill has passed the House and is soon to be voted on in the Senate, I would like to make my best effort to explain what it is.
Specifics and formulas have not been worked out to my knowledge so the examples below are not to be taken face value but should get you pointed in the right direction.
Every individual in the United States will be given a set value of acceptable carbon footprint. Every function whether it is purifying water, keeping your house cool, driving your car uses energy. Energy usage through mathematical formulas can be converted in to carbon output. For example, water is pumped from Lake Meade, sent Through processors and filters. Chemicals are added and the water is pumped to your home or business. The pumps from the lake take energy, the processors take energy, the chemical factories use energy to produce the chemical, the water is used and has to be treated back to its original state. The byproduct of all this energy is carbon.
Now we get down to how this is applied to you and your life. Every household will be monitored as to how much power, water, waste, gas, fuel…..to determine if they are over or under their allotted carbon footprint. Believe me the values are not high for example: Water usage-Showers not to exceed 3 minutes per day using a low flow shower head. Flushes using a low flow toilet to be limited to a set number per member per day. Dishwashers, baths, and normal laundry, landscaping and swimming pools will put you over your limit. Let’s just consider them luxury items and you have to pay more for using them.
Electricity gets a little more complicated but follows the same principal. Every household will be allotted so much electricity per resident. The value will be set around 250 square feet of living space per person living in the residence. So a family of four will be allotted 1,000 S.F. of living space and the electricity to light it using energy efficient lighting a limited number of hours per day, air conditioning or heating to climate control the living space at 860F in the summer and 670F in the winter a limited number of hours per day. They will probably throw in 3 hours of TV and some power for small appliances.
Your car, you will be allotted a certain number of miles to drive per week and they will be based on average commute to and from work along with a few errands and necessary trips. If you go over your miles, then you will have to buy carbon credits.
Now, who is going to determine your allotted carbon footprint? The government will and they will also monitor it. So you can save some carbon credits here and spend some there but at the end of the year, you will have to square the account to zero.
Where will you buy carbon credits? Not everybody has a car, air conditioning, 250s.f. per resident and they will have carbon credits left over. Now you just have to buy them. Another example: An inter-city mother of 4 children living in a 550s.f. apartment with no electricity and no daily commute will have ample carbon credits left over and she can sell them to an exchange. We will purchase them from an exchange along with a processing or administrative fee to the exchange.
The intent of the Cap and Trade Bill is the following:
People and individuals who have excessive carbon footprints as determined by the Federal Government will have to make every effort to reduce their standards of living or pay a yearly fee (tax) to keep it. Public transportation is one way to conserve, using public restrooms, laundry facilities, city pools….
The second is that less fortunate households, with many members living under one roof, will have a commodity that they can sell to the more fortunate citizens….otherwise known as “Trickle-Up Economics” or “Redistribution of Wealth.”

If this is so, what do you think is right or wrong? What do you think is fair or unfair? Do you think our government has any place stepping in to your life in such a way? Do you view this as intrusion? How much do you think that implementing something like this would cost?
Again, I did not write this, but I would love to see what people here on YA think.

hi ,i have an underconstruction 1bhk flat in a posh locality in calangute goa.?

it is a secured locality with landscaped gardens and a swimming pool .it will b ready for possession in another 3 months ..does anybody has an idea if the resale value will b more now or should i wait for the flat to b ready n ill get a better proposal later ???thanxxx
any idea if the rates for land will keep increasing in the months to come or will it b useless to wait longer …

landscape project for geometry?

i have to make a backyard landscape project. i have 5 sections that i have to cover with some sort of thing (soil, rock, cement, etc.)
to get extra credit, i can make it 3D. any ideas on how?
oh, and i also want a pool for one section, but i have to find that myself. i have to know how much it cost per square foot (find it online so that i can print it out and turn it in so my teacher knows). i can’t find that anywhere. the closest one i found was that it cost about $23-$24 per square foot…is that about right? if you could help me with that too. thank you

Realtor in Las Vegas?

We are thinking about selling our home in the 89131 zip code. We are hoping to also buy a new home in the northwest. We cannot afford to sell our home paying the full 6% commission. Are there Realtors willing to cut their commission if they represent us when we purchase our new home? We have our new home pretty much picked out online we just need a Realtor to take us to the models.
Also….how bad is the market in Vegas?
We have a 5 bedroom 3 bath about 2200 sqft, pool size yard, landscaped front and back, tile/carpet, oak railings (no pony walls), Lamplight home in a gated community. Does anyone have any idea what we can realistically expect to get for our home? Thank you.
Jerrold J do you have substance abuse or anger management problem? Your answer was completely erratic. It made no sense, you were spewing unintelligible and bitter words with no meaning. Why so angry? Not that it matters to you but we have lived in Vegas for 6 years in the same house that we purchased for $189,000. So no we did not spend more than $220,000. I would consider a career change if I was you, “investing” doesn’t seem to make you very happy. In fact you sound downright enraged. Remember the golden rule and you will be a much happier person!

Not so Big and Fancy – suggestions for places to stay in Santa Fe, NM?

Many moons have passed since I lived & worked in The City Different. Now, my fiancé and I are heading to Santa Fe for a visit and I need help! So much has changed in the lodging landscape and I very much want to make the right decisions here. (I’ve been talking up Santa Fe for so long now… we’re coming so that I can prove to him that it really is THAT great!!!) So, help please. Do you have any suggestions about where we should stay? Wait! Before you list all of the big and fancy hotels, in and around the Plaza (luxurious, yes but, SO not our style), please hear me out. I would love a casita or something with a kitchenette (sometimes, I just want to cook, you know?), and I would really love, love, LOVE a pool. Gads, that’s bad, I know. I am truly sorry about the drought situation. I’ll take shorter showers if I can dip in the pool, I promise. Señor Fiancé chimes in with a request for high speed WiFi for working (we live in the bubble out here, in the other SF!) Ideas, please?

Problems finding housing?

I’m planning to (hopefully) move out of my parents house soon. The next town over is bigger than the one I live in now and slightly closer to my job. Since I have a pretty good job and make pretty good money, I looked at some really nice apartments first. Landscaping, gated entrances, nice/neat grounds, good side of town, patrolled often by police, rural areas but still close to or in town etc. I was out looking around, making calls, visiting places today and almost every place that I inquired about-as soon as they asked me how much I earned and/or if I was employed, they told me I made way too much money or the fact that I was employed at all seemed to deter them. They actually took applications back from me!!

I don’t understand, why do they want someone who might not possibly be able to pay their rent. I mean, from what almost all of them said, I make almost double and can’t live there at all?!? At the nice places!! I finally found about 2 apartment complexes that wasn’t based on my income. They were both bad, but the first one was horrible- seedy looking people were standing at the entrance, some guy questioned me as I was looking at one apartment, it was noisy-like they were having a party near the pool area, door knob was broken, and the walls of the apartment had holes in them. Granted rent was kinda cheap, but so was it at the other places (they told me before they found out about my job).

I don’t get it, shouldn’t the amount of low income places equal regularly incomed places? It was soo hard! If I go farther, I run the risk of a longer commute to work. I don’t want to get a place right near where I work either, because I’m not planning to be there much longer-looking for a job now in another city kind of far from where I work now but no closer to my current living situation.

Anyone have any ideas about how to go about this? since I can’t I’ve been looking for roomates for weeks now, and so far, no luck in this area. Any suggestions welcome! and thanks.

Now I’m looking at having to stay in my parents home (which isn’t really, I’m at my wits end) or renting a house where I don’t need that much space. I’m single with no kids…

Just served with foreclosure papers?

About a year ago, I stopped paying my HOA installments of $150 per month because the complex I live in hadn’t carried out the improvements they’d promised. I bought the place 10 years ago, and they have never painted or maintained the exteriors, the pool is not safe to use, the plumbing in my unit has cost me well over $5000 for repairs (the whole place was plumbed wrong), the electrical system is tenuous at best and really pretty scary, they’ve never repaved the parking even though it’s full of pot-holes, the landscaping is not kept up, and they would NOT let me look at the accounting books. They informed me that they’d put a lien on my place after a couple of months of not paying, and now they have decided to take it and sell it to recoup on the back assessments and all the extra charges they tacked on. I’m thinking of selling to an investor immediately to avoid the foreclosure, since the HOA is refusing to allow me to make up the arrears or state my case.

Any other ideas?