u/geekydreams

So my dad has lived here since the 90s. We have a Townhome Condo type (3 floors, 1300 sq ft); and it's just my dad , myself and my wife living here. We have 3 cars in our family (His 2 and mine); and my wife wants a car soon as well.

We have a lot of renters and I'm pretty sure there's more than 4 people living in a lot of these properties and I'm sure they each have a car. There's also kids that come in and hang at night smoking pot and leaving trash everywhere and taking up spaces plus the neighbors have parties with guests that take up spaces.

They are having a meeting before voting to take comments . They only do it on Zoom now so I'm not sure how this will work.

I spoke to a HOA person and she said many tenants have complained about not being able to find parking. They are voting to implement 2 passes per house and everyone else must park on the street. The "street" is just one winding road that goes down the outside of the community. Parking is only allowed on one side , and most of this is ALREADY full of cars.

Plus any guests must share our pass or park on the Street. There's no guest parking

If you live at the end of the community this would be hard and long walk for people back to their homes .

The HOA lady said this complex was originally designed for 2 spaces per home when it was built. But a normal household usually has 4 people. Husband, wife and 2 kids. I'm just being genetic here not actually saying this HAS to be this way but 4 should be the max passes in my opinion.

Once they start towing like they said they will , a lot of the guests and people that don't live here and people with more than 2 cars there should be a lot of space. But this creates the problem of no more spaces available on the street once "guests" start parking there.

Hopefully they can see there would most likely be enough space for 3 cars or maybe 4.

I'm not sure what I should say at the meeting or how to post photos on Zoom to share . I wanted to post photos of these people having parties with all the cars and what it looks like after midnight vs daytime. They keep raising the damn HOA fees as well but supposedly don't have the $$ to power wash the siding this year.

What are your thoughts?

I read that the USB-A port in the dash doesn't give enough power, as USS C, especially to do things like charge your phone, run Maps and play Android auto music at the same time off your phone. I was wondering if it's even possible to switch this port out for a USBC connection?

I so I set my dad up with the homestead tax credit and I just submitted the application for the home owners Tax credit. Then I saw on Reddit that there's something about where they're going to be removing the 692 property tax credit from Montgomery County .

Give Anyone give me any information on the status of this.

Went to DFF and Pig was my highlight. I keep missing good shows though because I don't know about them

Our budget is $3500 or less.

Looking at Hondas or Toyotas. For reliability at higher miles and older years. Ive been told these models can go reasonably high miles so if I'm buying one at 200k miles between 2004 and 2009 should I not worry? Is it just better to go with the newer car even if the ones are much more ?

Hi I'm in silver spring and I'm looking to get a used car off marketplace for my wife anyone know a reputable place to have it inspected near me?

Also should I do a basic inspection and Then take it to a state inspection place or is just the state inspection ok and then if it passes buy it? I've heard some places will lie and make things up to get you to spend $$ to "fix" a problem.

I see a lot of gas stations do state inspection as well .

What should I look for when going to see the car ?

I'm coming from silver spring and being dropped off here to take Amtrak but when I Google it, people say the kiss and ride on H st has been closed for a while. Where exactly is best to just drop off and leave that I can avoid taxis and traffic?

Thanks!

So once a shard is splintered, the majority of their near infinite investiture resided in the spiritual realm. Which can be accessed by a Bondsmith , like when Dalinar opened a Perpendicularity and recharged all the gems. So can't someone use that to pull a massive amount of investiture into something like an army of Returned, since Breaths are just investiture?

Also something like Devotion and Dominios investiture that was shoved into Shadesmar . Can that somehow escape into the physical world if someone opened a Perpendicularity or some portal right where the power is located in Elantris?

I'm still a bit confused how the Elantris power is location based and how other beings are able to use it off world somehow.

Looking for an idea of the best reliability car for high mileage . I know Toyota, Honda, but what about outside this? Is it worth the little lower price to go with a company other than these 2? I'm seeing older Honda Civic and Corollas with 200k miles for like $3-3500 and not sure if that's a decent price but that's about what we want to pay .