[Rae Rae]

I'm soo pist! Our associations INSISTS that we leave our garbage inside our garage..our weekly garbage w/ spoiled food, Rocky's feces, and other disgusting waste. I can't leave it in my garage, that is disgusting!!!! I don't want my garage smelling up (especially after we got the cat pee smell out) and I don't want animals trying to get in our garage, and I don't want to get sick because of all the unwanted bacteria and pathogens coming into my garage. I tried explaining nicely to the assocation why this is disgusting, unsafe, unsanitary, and obsurd and she basically said "oh well". I even told her "Restaurants are not allowed to leave there waste inside the premises due to health reasons, it's a violation of the FDA, would you eat at a restaurant if they left their waste inside for a week!" Her answer was "well it's in the rules" and she also said "other people have lived in your neighborhood for around 3yrs and they leave the garbage in their garage"..I told her "That is them, if they want to live with garbage in their homes that is fine" and she cut me off saying "Its not in their home it's in the garage" and I said "well I payed a lot of money for this house and I don't want it to smell because the association cares more about how the neighborhood looks than the wellbeing of the people who live here". I went on and on about why this isn't right, but she didn't care. I told her I'm unhappy with this, and she kept saying "theres nothing you can do" until I had to ask her "Is there someone else I can speak to" (She shouldve given me info right away). She told me I can write a letter and she will forward it on, and they will contact me.

So my next step is doing research as to why this is an unhealthy rule. I'm trying to contact the FDA, but their menu is so long and I'm having trouble with it. Does anyone else know how else I can go about doing this? You guys are really good w/ telling people who to go to when they post about problems, so I was hoping someone would have an idea for this.