This is one more reason why I won’t buy into an HOA. And I despise insurance companies, their business model is to take your money and do everything they can to not provide the contracted service. Insurance companies are grifters, if it weren’t mandatory to buy insurance the rates would be affordable. Taking away grills is just one more way they’re trying to take away small joys so that our lives will just be pure misery w no bright spots. They already make charcoal grills prohibited in condo complexes and apartments.
Just for example, if I negotiate w the staff at a doctor’s office my charge is less than my copay & I don’t use my insurance. Negotiating w a dentist makes all services less than what dental insurance premiums cost, and those dental insurers don’t cover 100% nor every procedure.
You make a good point. Some offices are more than happy to charge less if you don't go through insurance and on top of it, if you can pay "cash" (wire transfer or check) rather than credit they often will cut the price even more.
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