I now have to figure out how else to deploy the $50/month that had been going to Comcast toward my condo building's bulk cable tv package!
YES! That is right! Finally the condo board in my building voted to get rid of that trash! Ever since I moved in, they had a "bulk agreement" with Comcast, where every unit owner was required to pay for the service. In exchange, Comcast gave us a discount on the price of the TV service.
For years, owners have been complaining about it at meetings -- since a lot of people are cord cutters now and have no interest in paying for that garbage. Surveys were sent out, the board ignored the will of the owners for several years! I was on the board at one point and tried to push for ending it... But it always stalled by delay/stonewall tactics by the "older" members on the board who wanted to keep their sweatheart cable tv deal -- -- even if OVER HALF THE BUILDING didn't want to pay for it. Basically, in my mind, their mentality was: "everyone else can go to hell, I get what I want since I'm on the board."
If you send out a survey to all owners with a direct question "Do you want the building to have a bulk cable TV package, forcing everyone to buy it, but in return getting a discount on the price?" and you get back more than 50% of the owners answer with "NO", it is extremely irresponsible (and in being-an-asshole territory, if you ask me) to continue to keep the service purely for one's self-interest of saving a couple bucks on their own package.
In fact, when (another unit owner) directly called out the board members (who still voted to keep the package), some of the absolute BULLSHIT reasons they gave for their vote (instead of admitting what self-centered-assholes they are) were:
1) "I don't think the owners understood the survey properly and weren't well informed", or
2) "Well, the MLS listings when people bought their condos said it should include cable, so we need to keep it"
3) "But Everyone is now going to have to pay almost $100 a month to Comcast now for their TV service!"
Well, the tides finally changed! New members on the board.. and by a razor-thin vote of 3-2, we are not renewing the contract in November when it expires! $50/month now not headed straight for the toilet! MPP: How else do I deploy that fifty bucks?? Oooh that VTSAX over there sure looks nice!