‘They Threatened Me With Eviction’ : Man Installs Personal Doorbell Cameras in Violation to (Hypocritical) Condo Board Rules, They Swiftly Come After Him, Neighborly Revenge Ensues

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    Font - Posted by u/Wiltron 22 hours ago 32 I can't have a doorbell camera? You can't have a computer lab.. 2 I live in a cooperative - this means reduced rent payment in exchange for building upkeep and services - someone cuts the grass, someone shovels the snow, etc. My job, is parking enforcement, and management of the public computer lab for our residents to use - since a good chunk of them are low income and can't even afford internet service. So, way back in September, I saw some expose vid
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    Font - anything - so I bought expensive doorbell cameras for myself, my sister who lives in the same condo building as me, and my parents who are about an hour away. I also bought the service for person detection and cloud storage, all that premium stuff, total, $1200. EDIT: Knife Lady Reddit Post Please recall that it is September at purchase, and these are xmas presents - so, bye bye return window. The company gave me 3 months of premium service free so there was no real loss of service from S
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    Font - I'm installing the doorbell camera on my door. I've already run the wires inside, so the last step is only a 5 minute job - two screws, one hole, feed the wires through. By sheer coincidence, during this 5 minute window, my neighbour, who unfortunately is one of the frequent users of the computer lab, is taking their dog out for their duty. We say our pleasantries and that's it. Before they're even inside, and before I can even finish setting up the software for it on my phone, I have an
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    Font - I staunchly defend my purchase stating I can disable the motion detection and keep it so it's only "active" when someone physically presses the button - but to no avail, they were adamant on not having it and not allowing it, even threatening eviction on me over a few texts of me trying to save my purchase - nothing rude or anything - willing to even post them publicly. I decide to leave it up overnight, because it's like 9pm at this point and I don't want to rip it all apart. I wake up t
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    Font - So, I tear it all off, and stew about it for a few days, until I remember that every laptop in the computer lab has at least one camera on it. It's a public space. I have remote control over these because I work in IT and know how to set that stuff up. I remotely lock every machine, and mozy on downstairs and my neighbour is trying to mash the keyboard trying to figure out why it's not working anymore and suddenly. I walked over, unplugged it right away, and removed it, along with every s
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    Font - +2 20 hr. ago Does your building allow peep holes (wide angle viewer so you can see who's outside your door)? If so, there are cameras that look like ordinary peep holes from the outside. wolfie379 2.1k Reply Share ctrlaltdelete 285 - 18 hr. ago This- and install late at night so less likely to be caught ↑ 769 Reply Share
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    Font - Wiltron OP 21 hr. ago edited 21 hr. ago Kinda "AITA" comment, but like, I offered to turn off the expensive cloud features I paid for for 2/3's of the purchase (mine and my sister's, we live in the same building) - I think that was a reasonable compromise to keep them installed, but nope. Small update: They have countered with "we can install camera shields over the laptop cameras" - the little slide open things that are like 5 for a buck - to which I replied "I also offered a physical de
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    Font - doorbell camera, in the form of a button press to activate it, and was denied, so no, camera shields are inadequate as per the bylaws being enforced." EDoot: Grammars 5.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Gorilla1969 +3.20 hr. ago Whoops. I guess they're gonna have to buy a slew of brand new computers that don't have cameras! 696 Reply Share night-otter edited 18 hr. ago +4- 19 hr. ago. Good luck finding a laptop without a camera. 526 ETA after several comments: Without making a special order and most likely paying extra for the special order. Reply Share

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