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I'm the president of an HOA and we are getting denied for insurance coverage due to Aluminum wiring. The few times we do get a reason it's because of a fire we had in 2021 even though it wasn't related to Aluminum wiring. We only have Aluminum from the meter to the breaker box and 3 of the 240Vac lines. The rest are all copper. This seems to be the typical construction style for homes built in the late 70s, early 80s in AZ so we certainly aren't the only ones. They are telling us to upgrade the wiring to all copper or consider using Copalum crimping, or installing Alumiconn connections. The latter seems like a reasonable upgrade as it doesn't tear apart people's homes, but I'm not fully con

I've been the board president for over 15 years in Arizona of a 96 unit condo complex. I'd like to think I've handled everything that has come my way quite well but the exorbitant costs of insurance we are all facing has got me very worried. It wasn't long ago our master policy rates were $12-16k per year. Last year they jumped to $50k and now $150k. We are still trying to get more quotes for this year but most are outright denials. Our reserves were once pretty healthy, but they are dropping very fast as $15k/month is going to this policy that started in February. Since we can only raise HOA rates a small amount each year there is no way to keep up and pay our other bills. It basically b

Has anyone had an issue mailing a non-letter with postage paid through Ebay Standard Envelope? I sold a 1 oz coin which I thought was covered in this and put it in a 4" x 6" non-padded envelope and bought the postage through ebay for $0.84 (2 oz to be sure). I brought it to the post office to check if it was okay and the worker there said I will be charged another $4-5 saying you can only mail letters in an envelope. He rudely added that Ebay doesn't make the rules. I usually ship with boxes so this took me a bit by surprise and would like to hear other peoples thoughts on this. Thanks in advance

I recently inherited a bunch of bike stuff. Probably two full bikes and 3 others I've had to completely reassemble. One of those is a 2010 Woman's Felt ZW100. Unlike the other bikes, I only have about 80% of it and upon further inspection the rear brake bridge was removed so I don't see a way to install a rear brake. I've heard of people only riding with one front brake but it seems a bit odd for a road bike. Does anyone know of another brake system that can be installed in the rear or is it truly not needed?

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Is there a muscle building program that doesn't have too many olympic style lifts? I'm just finishing AX1 and looking for something for more muscle building but without the clean and jerk style lifts. I'm 41 and hurt my lower back midway thru AX1 causing me to take a bit of a hiatus. The injury came outside of lifting but I'm still apprehensive as with all my years in the gym I've never felt comfortable with these style of lifts anyway. I've been considering beaxst, old school iron, American muscle but its difficult to see how much these style of lifts would be incorporated. Thanks in advance for any insight.

Is week 4 of AX-1 considered a rest week? Sure, we have two 400 challenges but two days of core that seemed less than the 6 pack add on and one jump rope session. I ended up adding extra workouts from his youtube channel but I'm sort of scratching my head on this particularly since the ab workouts were titled "Hard core training".

Can someone explain to me why pre-shave cream works so well to avoid irritation? I went back to using a pre shave cream from Proraso and my shaves incredibly improved. It just seems like an extra layer of shaving cream, which is already pretty thick for me, but it works so much better.

I was never much for collecting factory sets when younger and somehow forgot about this one until I recently discovered it under my childhood bed. I'd just leave it factory sealed, but as you probably guessed, the Derek Jeter RC card has me curious to know if it is gold or not. Scanning the innerwebs seems to me that the value of the gold Jeter RC seems to be significantly higher than a factory sealed box with the potential of a Gold Jeter. I' be interested to know other peoples thoughts on this though. Thank you.

Has anyone successfully paired a 9Round Heart Rate Monitor with a Peloton bike? The Peloton people say it requires Ant plus but I'm not sure what the 9Round BT Technology is.