Comments on: People Don’t Like You Reaching In To Their Bank Account

By: Living Off Dividends & Passive Income

Living Off Dividends & Passive Income — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:47:14 +0000

maybe going forward, the community should charge $25/mo.

that way in the next 40 years they’ll have saved up about 20K per lot (12k plus interest) to pay for the next upgrade.

By: Susy

Susy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:16:39 +0000

It’s funny that the residents are mad about something that they do themselves. Chances are they are upset because they haven’t saved for such emergencies just as the allotment didn’t save for upgrade costs.

I live in a lake community that is very similar, we had to fix our dam several years ago and we all had to pay $1,500, they did offer payment plan (with interest charged) for those who couldn’t come up with that amount.

Perhaps you can convince them to charge extra on each water bill from now on, so that in 40 years when it needs done again, they’ll have all the money saved up already.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:44:09 +0000

Can’t they just put it on their credit cards?

I always wonder about statements like “There is also the belief that hundreds of thousands of gallons are leaking out of the system each year due to unknown leaks.”

What’s *wrong* with hundreds of thousands of gallons leaking out?

By: devil

devil — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:56:43 +0000

Getting a $3000.00 charge anytime can be difficult, but in this economy it’s gonna hurt a lot of people. Rather than say they can’t afford it, they’ll just whine and holler and threaten. As if throwing a tantrum saves face.

I’d shut up and pay it too – not like you won’t have to pay sometime, anyway. Life is expensive and that’s why we should all have emergency funds and not spend ourselves to death.