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GotLag posted:I found something that I think belongs in this thread: https://imgur.com/gallery/tci6C Facebook Aunt posted:
The Twinkie Czar posted:I'm amazed that there's so much finished space and only four bedrooms. Not every gently caress party has to finish with everyone in the same room-sized bed and that's way too high class for people to be waking up passed out on couches and floors. Why do you guys keep posting pictures of Graceland?
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GotLag posted:I found something that I think belongs in this thread: https://imgur.com/gallery/tci6C The rest of that gallery is a pro click. The '80s multiline phone and 8-track audio system in the bathroom are what got me. Or maybe the mirrored bed frame. Facebook Aunt posted:
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Darchangel posted:Imagine having to climb those stairs while holding back a monster dump. Or diarrhea. Looking at the state of that carpet, I don't think they ever bothered to hold anything in.
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I want to be Up in the trees In an illegal tree house rental With you https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7z1i0e/the_tree_house_i_was_renting_ended_up_being_an/ The tree house I was renting ended up being an illegal structure. Landlord won't give us back security deposit. (Oregon) (self.legaladvice) submitted 16 hours ago * by Jinjoz quote:Wife and I were looking for a place to rent, a good friend of ours told us her parents have a small house they could rent to us. While the parents own the building their son-in-law is the landlord. The house was a one bedroom one bath tree house, as it was suspended in the air and anchored by four trees. We did a walk through with the landlord and saw that there was no smoke detectors, fire extinguisher, or carbon monoxide detectors and asked those be placed in and and the stairs leading to the bedroom were very steep and there was no railing. Landlord said that would be taken care of and we signed a one year lease. https://imgur.com/gallery/8qUC7 The pictures are AMAZING. How can anyone look at that and think, hmm, yes that looks like a normal and safe structure for humans to live in?
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Because Portland has almost toxically embraced the alternative lifestyle hippy poo poo I grew up with in Austin. There's still an appreciable difference between "non traditional home," and "illegal two story treehouse of horror" but the price could also influence people's decision. Portland's values are insane.
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Guy keeps posting fun nuggets in the comments:quote:So originally they had a septic tank, but eventually it filled up or cracked and it started seeping out. Than they unattached it and just let it flow into a field. Than they shut that off and put it one of those compost toilets that you have to personally empty every two weeks or so When someone asked why they agreed to live in a place without smoke detectors and appeared to be an obvious deathtrap: quote:Gotta do what ya gotta do. Luckily they did give us a decent rate on rent and it's what we could afford at the time quote:Best part is the house is slanted as well. The two trees on one side grew faster than the other ones. So as your walking into the kitchen you can feel the slight down hill quote:My wife's father is a builder and he lost his poo poo when all this went down. The most frustrating part is our landlord is treating us like we're idiots and will just roll and just accept this. I even have a text message from him admitting that the building didn't have a certificate of occupancy and he knew that before we moved in
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:I'm glad someone realized they might need to call three electricians at once.
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That's not how trees grow, the place was either always off level, or is sagging because of poor construction/rot/etc. Or both, I mean, obviously.
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What are you talking about, this is totally a sane place to live.  https://imgur.com/a/s6BhQ Tunicate fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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When I was in a waiting room recently, there was a tv show about professionally built tree houses. I was wondering how many would end up being rented out illegally.
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Tunicate posted:What are you talking about, this is totally a sane place to live. Oh drat, I missed this the first time I skimmed through them: 
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Why is there what looks like a propane tank wedged behind the washer drier?
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Baronjutter posted:Why is there what looks like a propane tank wedged behind the washer drier? Gas powered dryer most like and the local utility wouldn't run a line to a tree.
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I’m going to guess the drier runs off the propane bottle. Otherwise, the electrical service to the shack would have to be way bigger than it is. How do I know how big the electrical service is? Because there is a 1000% chance that the extension cord draped along the bridge is it.
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The stove in the kitchen also runs on gas, so there's probably a second propane tank in the kitchen somewhere (probably under the cabinets.)
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Budgie posted:How, in America, land of the suing culture, are they not suing for the deposit, any fees charged for credit checks/letting, and all their rent back too? And lawyer fees? How were they damaged? They paid to live in a lovely place, they lived in the lovely place, they moved out of the lovely place. The fact that the lovely place was also an illegal place for them to be living doesn't mean they were damaged and are made whole by having all the money they spent living there refunded. Could they get their security deposit back? Probably. But the rent? Hell no. If they were living there and a tree fell down and their house slid into a ditch, then that'd be something. But nothing happened, and "The place could have burned up and killed us all, but it didn't" isn't being damaged. They lived there, paid the rent they said they'd pay, and then moved out when they realized how lovely it was.
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Phanatic posted:How were they damaged? They paid to live in a lovely place, they lived in the lovely place, they moved out of the lovely place. The fact that the lovely place was also an illegal place for them to be living doesn't mean they were damaged and are made whole by having all the money they spent living there refunded. Could they get their security deposit back? Probably. But the rent? Hell no. If they were living there and a tree fell down and their house slid into a ditch, then that'd be something. But nothing happened, and "The place could have burned up and killed us all, but it didn't" isn't being damaged. They lived there, paid the rent they said they'd pay, and then moved out when they realized how lovely it was. Landlords have obligations that these landlords were not fulfilling. It's the same as suing a company that makes exploding flammable fire extinguishers, even if you haven't used the fire extinguishers you bought from them.
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I knew some folks that lived in the middle of nowhere. Electricity was provided by a wind turbine, solar panels, and a back-up generator, along with an enormous bank of lead-acid batteries for storage. All of their major appliances other than the washer, were powered by propane, including the refrigerator. I think it was also self-built out of hay bales. The kids room was up a super steep ladder to a loft that had no railings. God I wish I had pictures.
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A guy I know's dad and friends built a totally off the grid "cabin" almost entirely on their own out in the woods, only getting some help with the electric and plumbing. It was the opposite quality for this thread though. Had a really nice solar/wind electric setup, correctly installed propane appliances, and every single wall was covered in amazingly built built-ins that could often somehow slide or open up to reveal little capsule-hotel like sleeping nooks or murphy beds or entire secret mini bedrooms. The whole site was along a lake that used to be the areas reservoir and they had a whole pump and filter system too for the plumbing.
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Oh god, cleaning all of that grout when someone misses.
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kid sinister posted:
Looks like you could secure a motor vehicle to it.
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Tunicate posted:Landlords have obligations that these landlords were not fulfilling. In that case, you bought a fire extinguisher and got something useless in exchange. If something caught fire and burned down because you couldn't put it out with the extinguisher, you could sue for damages. If the fire extinguisher exploded and hurt you, you could sue for damages. If you found out it was useless and wanted the working fire extinguisher you paid for but didn't get, you could sue for damages. If you just kept the fire extinguisher under your kitchen sink for years until the company did a recall and sent you a new working fire extinguisher, there are no damages to recover. "Thought I had a working fire extinguisher but didn't, and absolutely nothing bad happened" is not an injury. The failure of the landlord to meet his legal obligations did not result in any injury to those people. If he's a dick and doesn't give their security deposit back, they can sue and probably get it. If they were somehow injured as a result of his not meeting his legal obligations (like if the deck collapsed while they were standing on it, or someone suffered CO poisoning and was hospitalized), they could definitely sue for damages. But "paid to live in a place, did live in that place, nothing bad happened to them, then they moved out" isn't something you can recover damages for.
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duz posted:When I was in a waiting room recently, there was a tv show about professionally built tree houses. I was wondering how many would end up being rented out illegally. "Tree House Masters" is the show, my wife loves it; and Bad Munki posted:100% Nah. The majority of the tree houses featured on that show cost $100K+ and are situated on the private property of wealthy people. They're status objects, just the same as a mcmansion. Occasionally someone would rent one as like an AirBnB or something, but for the most part they're either upscale romantic fuckrooms for rich people, or they're absurdly expensive playrooms for rich people's kids. The guy who does them is actually super fun, though, his enthusiasm is infectious and he's such a happy-go-lucky, warm guy, you can't hate him. His work is pretty beautiful, too. e. I'm sure the 10x as many tree houses his company builds that aren't televised are more likely to be rentals, though. The $30k ones that are boring and ordinary that they undoubtedly churn out on the regular but aren't worthy of a half-hour show.
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Phanatic posted:But "paid to live in a place, did live in that place, nothing bad happened to them, then they moved out" isn't something you can recover damages for. http://greensteinmcdonald.com/frequently-asked-questions/illegal-units/ There are special laws specifically for illegal units in many jurisdictions which explicitly include recovery of rent. Essentially, the lease was an illegal contract, and that means the tenant was damaged because he was ostensibly paying for a legal unit, but what he got instead was an illegal unit. When you pay for something and don't get what you paid for, that is a legal basis for recovering what you paid.
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kid sinister posted:
I won't lie, I'd poo poo my brains out in that toilet. While dressed as a pimp. Get some hoes to wipe my rear end. Just needs a cup holder for my jewel encrusted pimp chalice.
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That's Portland for you. I definitely put up with some horrible poo poo to maintain $500/month rent. Some day, maybe I'll stop having nightmares about the smell of dog blood!
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kid sinister posted:
It looks like a giant rear end to me.
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hailthefish posted:It looks like a giant rear end to me. Well now that's all I can see.
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hailthefish posted:It looks like a giant rear end to me. Just swap out those lion heads for some bright red 8" spike heel shoes and the image is complete.
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Why would you want to flush when you poo poo solid gold?
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