Palm Bay City Ordinance Legalizes The Stealing Of Your Money
Investing in real estate has its drawbacks, especially in today’s market, but one of those drawbacks is the constant unforseen fees you get nailed with. The other day we got a bill from Waste Management for the house we have for sale at 836 Tavernier Dr in Palm Bay. The bill was pro-rated for 3 months of service and was around $38.
Mind you, this is an investment home, we don’t live in it, we will never put out trash cans at the house and we take all the garbage, which is very little, to our other home. Yet, thanks to the City of Palm Bay, we have to pay the quarterly Waste Management fee. It’s a city ordinance that you must pay for waste removal even if the home is unoccupied.
What? This is how our city operates. We elect people to sit on the city council and feed us this nonsense. Excuse my ignorance, but I don’t know who writes city ordinances for Palm Bay, I figured I’d just go after the City Council.
Somebody at Waste Management gets a free dinner at Carrabba’s every three months courtesy of my wife and I. Thanks Palm Bay for no services rendered.
Alan
Tags: waste management, garbage, city council, carrabba’s
December 31st, 2006 at 2:11 am
This has been going on for many years when they introduced mandatory recycling. If you throw away your plastic and glass items, you must still pay for and receive recycling services. Paying one fee, in the form of dollars, is one penalty. My time is yet another penalty. But I can at least control that - and to the regular trash it goes. Who has the time to sort and wash a bunch of containers? I’d love to be able to cancel rural mail delivery since I already pay for a PO box - but the federal government insists on sending an agent to my home six days a week to put papers in my mail box that I eventually remove and deliver to — Waste Management. Couldn’t the postman just go straight to the dump off Sarno with my mail? It sure would save me time.