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I give my money to netflix for Pay-TV... Ive been cable free for 1 year and 3 months now... ]]>Mar 10th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/Mar 10th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/Mar 10th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/
I used to subscribe to Netflix too. A lot cheaper at $10/month. I am paying $40/month for Dish now!]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/
One step ahead of ya. It's actually one of the main reasons I ran to be on the board. Lots of people were trying to get satellite dishes banned from the neighborhood. They even had the lawyers draft up the additions to the rules and regs documents for the association until I told them that they couldn't do that and showed them the FCC OTARD rules. They still fought it, but I managed to get on the board and now whenever someone tries doing something anti-dish, I'm there to squash it.

Not quite an "exclusive" contract deal, but close. :)]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/
We are still free to have dishes if wanted, but the Comcast spigot is on in every unit in our association. Not that I'm a huge proponent of Comcast, but at least it's better than poor quality HD coming down from either of the two satellite providers.

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The association shouldn't be forcing people to pay money for television, that's not their job.

And as the article says, when people start foreclosing, the association takes in less money, and if there's a contract in place for cable TV then you're going to lose things like lawn care and tree replacement before you lose the TV which is just stupid.]]>Mar 10th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/Mar 10th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/Mar 10th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/
An uncompressed 720p signal would be 165 megabytes per second. FIOS/U-Verse deliver much less bandwidth than this.]]>Mar 10th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/You are not correct. FiOS is one of the only providers that doesn't compress the signal any further.

FiOS is much closer to a traditional cable co, then to U-Verse, they are nothing alike. FiOS doesn't even use VOIP for anything but VOD, while U-verse uses it for everything.]]>Mar 10th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/Mar 10th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/

I specifically avoided buying a home in a HOA area, and I passed up a good deal on one home due to the neighborhood covenants.


Read those things people, when they pass 1000 pages (like the one I passed up), they take more value than they add.]]>Mar 10th 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/10/your-neighbors-foreclosure-may-raise-your-cable-rates/
Like I said, our HOA was trying to reduce homeowners rights to satellite dishes -- they even had the rules written up saying that homeowners could only have one dish, that it had to be 1m in length, that it had to be in a specific location, that it couldn't be on a patio, etc, etc, etc. All those rules were unenforcible so when it was time, I ran for the Board and am now the VP. First order of business? Repealing all the stupid dish rules.

Most HOAs have monthly meetings as well - ATTEND them and voice your concerns!

A lot of crazy people join boards because they love the power. I don't understand it personally -- but I've seen it in my own neighborhood. You need to fight those crazy people and make sure they can't screw crap up. :)

There's a lot of benefits to HOAs -- not having to worry about plants, lawns, neighbors parking rusty old cars on their lawn, etc. So get out there and be the voice of reason to stop them from being crappy. :)

/soapbox]]>Mar 10th 2008 7:35PM