Confronted dastardly upstairs neighbor

Just confronted my dastardly upstairs neighbor at the annual HOA meeting. I was shaking, is how much I hate confrontation, but I stayed on message, to wit: a) he needs to put down some damn carpeting already, and b) renting his apartment through airbnb is both point-blank illegal in SF and in violation of the CCRs. I even used the phrase "illegal short-term tenant" in a sentence.

Somebody else brought up the issue of renting BMRs and how that's doubleplus illegal, which was nice.

He was all, well, sometimes I let people sleep on my couch, and I was like, dude, your ad says you're renting out the whole apartment for $250 a night, wtf? I had a printout of the ad on me and waved it around, so, bad tactics on his part. The incoming board was a bit nonplussed. Poor things. The people from the property management company jumped in and said I was right on the CCRs and local law, and next steps were up to the new board.

I then had the partner of the new HOA treasurer in for a drink (while the new board shared out titles) and filled him in on my POV, asked his opinion on where I should hang the peacock print, and went down to check out their place, which is full of excellent art.

Now there's two brand-new messages on my machine, and I'm afraid to listen to them.

Paid property tax

Bought salt