Our complex had turned a blind eye to residents occasionally having their laundry on view. However when one resident started to hang their laundry all day everyday in public view it started rumors that they had set up a commercial laundry such was the amount of washing. Then a notice came out notifying residents that they cannot have their laundry visible from common areas and to use their own clothes lines. A week after this notice the unit next to the laundromat went on the market. Prospective buyers would have had to stand at the front door of this property with the neighbours undies flapping in the breeze next to them if this notice didn’t come out. So did the sellers complain? Or was it finally one of the other owners whose visitors commented on the complexes resemblance to a third world country they had visited when the path leading to their front door became one temporary clothes line after another? Appearances count.