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Ashcans posted:I haven't had the Expedit range in particular, but it's worth noting that the whole Expedit range seems to be made from particle board and foil veneer. IKEA still does that construction better than, say, Walmart but at the end of the day it just isn't a durable material. FWIW, I have 1x5 and 2x2 expedit shelves that made it across the country without any dings. tarepanda posted:I like a lot of IKEA's stuff but it really bugs me that... well, it's popular and everyone has the same poo poo. Check out http://www.ikeahackers.net/ M42 fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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I'm moving from CA to Louisville, KY, does anyone have any good experiences with inter-state movers or have any good methods of choosing non-scam companies? Every company that has given an attractive quote has just been setting off the scam alarms in my mind, anything from tons of reviews with the past month and nothing before, to companies with similar names having horrendous reviews. I'm not trying to rely solely upon reviews as they are kinda sketchy at best (though Yelp seems pretty good). Any input is appreciated.
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ColonParade posted:I'm moving from CA to Louisville, KY, does anyone have any good experiences with inter-state movers or have any good methods of choosing non-scam companies? Every company that has given an attractive quote has just been setting off the scam alarms in my mind, anything from tons of reviews with the past month and nothing before, to companies with similar names having horrendous reviews. I'm not trying to rely solely upon reviews as they are kinda sketchy at best (though Yelp seems pretty good). ABF U-Pack. Decent prices and are really flexible if your moving dates change around. I used them and a few other people I know used them an no one has any complaints. They drop off a truck trailer at your house and they'll either send movers to load it or you can load it yourself, then you call them when it's all packed up and they'll come get it, drive it to your new place and drop it off again and you call them to come get it when you're done unloading. They charge by the trailer foot, so if you don't have that much stuff you don't have to pay for an entire truck. They also put coupons in the post office change of address packets.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:ABF U-Pack. Decent prices and are really flexible if your moving dates change around. I used them and a few other people I know used them an no one has any complaints. They drop off a truck trailer at your house and they'll either send movers to load it or you can load it yourself, then you call them when it's all packed up and they'll come get it, drive it to your new place and drop it off again and you call them to come get it when you're done unloading. They charge by the trailer foot, so if you don't have that much stuff you don't have to pay for an entire truck. Thanks, I had actually seen them recommended on a different moving forum. I think I found a pretty well recommended mover that is a few hundred less than U-Pack and includes free storage. If he falls through I will definitely be going with U-Pack.
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Oh man I put down my referencing+holding fee on the place I looked at on Monday, and the landlord is willing to work with me regarding my current lease, which is awesome. According to the agents, I've already had two requests to come view my current place, which is in no way ready to be shown. It's gonna be a busy weekend; I'm gonna need to get so many boxes to pack the stuff which has kind of just arrived at its current location via continental drift because I don't have an actual place for it to get the apartment viewable. The entire second bedroom has been used as general storage and I'm gonna need to get basically everything out of there. I suspect my garage is going to get a fair amount more full this weekend. I also need to start booking mvoers to come and see how much it's gonna cost me to move. 
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Trauma Tank posted:I suspect my garage is going to get a fair amount more full this weekend. I also need to start booking mvoers to come and see how much it's gonna cost me to move. You can request lube, but it's unlikely to be granted.
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So while mopping my bathroom floor today (linoleum sheet vinyl), we picked up the plunger and noticed that it somehow... ate away at the vinyl underneath, leaving red marks where the plunger touched the floor. What the heck? Why would this happen? Unfortunately, it looks like that tile is now destroyed. Is this an expensive fix? I would hate for it to eat away at my damage deposit...
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Costello Jello posted:Chains like West Elm and CB2 are less expensive than Crate & Barrel, but still significantly more expensive than IKEA. And you can always do the legwork of shopping often in thrift and antique stores, and re-finishing the furniture yourself. The cheapest option for the best furniture is always going to be the one that takes the most effort. If you have the time and ability to do garage sale/thrift store/Craigslist type shopping, you can furnish your apartment for super cheap. Refinishing not always necessary (but a nice option). I looked to Ikea for essential boring stuff (bookshelves, kitchen racks), did the legwork locally for anything expensive (couch, bedframe, chairs), and then used West Elm and Crate and Barrell to add some style.
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vonnegutt posted:The cheapest option for the best furniture is always going to be the one that takes the most effort. If you have the time and ability to do garage sale/thrift store/Craigslist type shopping, you can furnish your apartment for super cheap. Refinishing not always necessary (but a nice option). You do not want bedbugs; they are incredibly difficult to get rid of.
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I need a better resource to find rental homes in my area than Craigslist. The links in OP didn't come up with anything but apartments, and I've never really house hunted before; my wife is wanting us to have an actual house so we don't have upstairs neighbors loving at 3 AM and going 'URRRNAWNGH' in the throes of sweaty college-aged passion. Every single ad we've responded to on Craigslist has set off our scam alarms for one reason or another. One wanted us to do some background check through some website that had, in small print, a notice of a subscription fee. Another wanted us to do a credit check and asked for my SSN. The most recent one, and the one that made me just laugh and throw my hands up in surrender, was this: quote:Hi John, Yeah sounds totally legit, thanks 'Leta.' Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to house hunt? We're wanting to rent and we're in a college town, so it seems like there's just an overload of apartments.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:02
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Go to a property management/real estate company in your town and ask them to show you their rental houses.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:08
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Credit checks are fairly common in the rental world, which means you might have to give your SSN to a prospective landlord. You can always refuse, but that might mean they won't rent to you. As always, use your best judgment, but that's not an unreasonable thing to be asked for.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:32
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Maybe I'm missing something but it just sounds like their "virtual tour" could be in flash? You could check it out from a library computer if you think it might have some kind of auto-downloading malware, but seriously, don't underestimate brokers'/landlords' ability to have horrible websites.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:33
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Drunk Tomato posted:So while mopping my bathroom floor today (linoleum sheet vinyl), we picked up the plunger and noticed that it somehow... ate away at the vinyl underneath, leaving red marks where the plunger touched the floor. What the heck? Why would this happen? I've always just reported things like that to the landlord/leasing office and had it fixed without being charged. Sometimes things break or get messed up. That seems like normal wear and tear to me.
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Tao Jones posted:Credit checks are fairly common in the rental world, which means you might have to give your SSN to a prospective landlord. You can always refuse, but that might mean they won't rent to you. As always, use your best judgment, but that's not an unreasonable thing to be asked for. Oh, I know, I'm renting right now, but I've never had a landlord send me to a website via a redirect.com/gibberish link in an email to get it. They've either taken an actual, handwritten application or done it themselves in front of me. Something about being sent a gibberish link and being asked 'PLEASE GIVE SSN AND CC INFO' set off an alarm for me. Anne Whateley posted:Maybe I'm missing something but it just sounds like their "virtual tour" could be in flash? You could check it out from a library computer if you think it might have some kind of auto-downloading malware, but seriously, don't underestimate brokers'/landlords' ability to have horrible websites. I clicked it out of curiosity (and the fact that yeah, you're probably right and it might just be a lovely website) and it went to a generic page with a 'FOR RENT' sign image that wants me to download 'WINDOWSCODECPACK.EXE' to view any other pictures. Costello Jello posted:Go to a property management/real estate company in your town and ask them to show you their rental houses. I feel stupid because this should have been obvious.
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Apr 23, 2013 01:56
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Haha, WINDOWSCODECPACKTOTALLYLEGIT.EXE is amazing. If you're running into a ton of crap, are you maybe lowballing? When I was apartment-hunting in New York, looking for a cheap place, probably 90% of listings were fake or scammy (lots of "I'm out of the country so just wire me money and my buddy will drop off the key"). At higher price points, the ratio is dramatically different.
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John Dyne posted:I feel stupid because this should have been obvious. Also, just go to Google and type in (Your City) real estate. Or (Your City) rental agency. Most will have a website that show current listings, pictures and prices. The real estate places in my town have really good websites, always up-to-date with lots of pictures. Also have you tried Zillow? You can filter the results so it just shows you places for rent.
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Even if they don't have good websites, call around to local realtors and tell them what you're looking for. They'll want to help you. Rentals may also pick up as we get closer to summer.
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marshmallard posted:Am I a total dick for repeatedly reporting my neighbour to the letting agency for smoking weed in his flat? Yea.
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I'd say yes that makes you a dick if you haven't already talked to them in person about it and given them a couple warnings yourself. If you've talked to them about the smell and they repeatedly dismiss you then I'd say it's fair to report it to someone. Most weed-smokers would be VERY EXTREMELY HAPPY and will bend over backwards to not bother you if you talked to them about it first instead of going straight to the authority figures. I don't know where you live but getting caught with weed can be A Big Deal. If you report someone because they're smoking cigarettes that's fine, no big deal. They might get a talking to and a warning but that's about as far as it can go. Get caught with weed and you can go directly to jail.
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Even if someone doesn't go to jail for smoking weed, they can get kicked out of their apartment. I know that's been a clause on every lease I've ever signed. (Indiana and Kentucky)
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About a month ago, I posted here about moving in with my girlfriend this summer, and how she was going to let her lease expire and just pay rent for a couple of months until I found a job and we got a bigger place. I wondered if she was legally allowed to rent the place without a lease, but she insisted that it was OK and goons gave me an explanation for it. Fast-forward to today, and her landlord informed her that the apartment is going to be shown off to someone on Friday. Now I know that this doesn't mean that they're planning to sign someone else to lease her unit once her lease expires (and I told her such), but I know that this is by far the most likely explanation for why they're showing the unit off, considering that this place has "demo" units for showing. I asked her again about renting without a lease and she gave me the same general answer, but got mad at me when I asked for specifics. She says she's going to talk to her landlord tomorrow and also look through her lease, but I'm not sure if anything in her lease can help her once it expires. What should she do and what can I do to help her? She says that her school offers free legal counsel for grad students but I tried to get her to look these sorts of laws beforehand and be ready to tell her landlord about them if they try to evict her for someone else, without lawyering up until necessary. Eventually she gave me this page on tenants' rights, but she lives in Illinois so I don't know if the laws on this matter are the same everywhere. Even so, they make sense as general rules of thumb ("can't be evicted if the place isn't a wreck, you aren't a nuisance, and you pay rent on time"). I also don't see why they'd sign someone to a higher rent than what she's paying now, as in my experience rent always starts low and ticks up as you stay longer. But the fact that she couldn't say "they can't evict me because of these laws stating X, Y, and Z" troubles me. I didn't see any links in the OP about tenant legal woes, can anyone point me in the best direction to search these issues? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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I'm a little confused about what the situation is. Eviction's a totally different thing than a landlord not renewing a lease - it's about the landlord going to court to have the sheriff forcibly remove a tenant from the property, which in most places can only happen if certain conditions are met, like the tenant stopped paying rent. If her situation is that the term of her lease is about to be up and it seems like the landlord doesn't want to renew it, looking up stuff about how to fight eviction won't be of any help. Your girlfriend should ask the landlord what their plans are regarding her apartment, and, if necessary, start looking for a new place to live.
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C-Euro posted:What should she do and what can I do to help her? She says that her school offers free legal counsel for grad students but I tried to get her to look these sorts of laws beforehand and be ready to tell her landlord about them if they try to evict her for someone else, without lawyering up until necessary. She doesn't need legal counsel, why does she think the landlord doesn't have have just as much right to give her 30 days to vacate, as she will have towards him, once the lease is up? May-August is prime moving season, so he probably wants to have someone sign a new one year lease that starts during his regular time period, rather than potentially having to offer a reduced rate during off-peak months.
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C-Euro posted:About a month ago, I posted here about moving in with my girlfriend this summer, and how she was going to let her lease expire and just pay rent for a couple of months until I found a job and we got a bigger place. I wondered if she was legally allowed to rent the place without a lease, but she insisted that it was OK and goons gave me an explanation for it. Laws in Illinois are going to be different than laws in Maine, so I wouldn't take anything on the page on Maine and assume it applies, even if it seems like common sense. Honestly, there's no point in lawyering up. If she has not talked to the landlord and asked about a month-to-month, the landlord is going to assume she's not staying, because that is what happens in most cases. And, again, if she has not talked to the landlord, she does not know if they're even willing to do a month-to-month. Like Costello Jello said, summer months are peak renting months, especially to college students in college towns, so the landlord very well might not want to get off his/her leasing schedule. I'm fairly certain the last time you posted I advised talking to the landlord to figure out if he/she was willing to let your girlfriend stay on a month-to-month basis, because there was the potential she could not stay and the landlord would lease to someone else. If she talks to the landlord, maybe she can still work something out (I believe I talked about how some might let you stay for an extra fee, for example), but she does have to talk to the landlord. Again, if she does not talk to anyone, she does not know. A lease guarantees she has the place--no communication about going month-to-month does not.
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And when you said that, I told her to go talk to her landlord about renting without a lease! And she gave me the same response of "oh they'll let me do it and can't kick me out if I keep paying." Ugh, I told her to just sign an extension and to just sublet it once we moved. We'll see what her landlord says I guess, she said they were going to talk today. E: She has three weeks to move. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaart. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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So your girlfriend's lease is up, she knew exactly when it was going to be up, she never signed a new lease or bothered to talk to the landlord about extending the lease, and now everyone's upset that the landlord rented out the place to someone else after your girlfriend's lease was up? Uh dude, that's what's supposed to happen. Sorry your girlfriend took zero initiative to find out anything about her own living situation I guess, but this isn't a legal issue. It's a "too lazy to call the landlord" issue.
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Yeah, she made a big dumb mistake in conflating eviction rules with "living without a lease" rules. You can't just stay somewhere and refuse to leave because you're paying rent. A lease also protects the tenant with those fancy eviction laws; with a lease, you CAN'T be forced to leave. Without a lease... You're at the whims of the landlord
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The landlord would need to give her 30 days notice in most states if she's on a month to month lease, but that's it. And any landlord would want someone committed to staying there a year, and not someone who could leave with 30 days notice at any time.
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I'm not surprised, but I am upset that she never bothered to make sure this was possible after I first questioned her on the matter. Now I have no place to move next month unless she finds somewhere and moves into it by this time next month, except we can't afford a two-bedroom place until I get a job, but I can't find a job until I'm actually up there, but I can't move up there until I have somewhere to live, and... gently caress. Well, thanks anyway goons. VV She actually already has a potential sub-let lined up 
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Apparently your girlfriend lives in a college town, and it's actually pretty easy any to find a temporary sub-letting scenario during the summer when undergrads are back home or off doing summer internships, but they don't want to pay on their empty apartment. That could buy you some time. And cheer up, things could always be worse, it's not like your girlfriend's getting a graduate degree in the humanities, right?
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Costello Jello posted:Apparently your girlfriend lives in a college town, and it's actually pretty easy any to find a temporary sub-letting scenario during the summer when undergrads are back home or off doing summer internships, but they don't want to pay on their empty apartment. That could buy you some time. This. Also, a lot of places will have 3 month "summer special" leases at cheaper prices because they're desperate to have people in their apartments til the next school year.
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Any advice on a good place to shop for quality couches? A friend if mine is moving and taking the opportunity to upgrade from his old stuff. He doesn't like the modern/minimalist look of stuff from IKEA, and we already looked at Crate & Barrel, CB2, and Pier 1 already with no luck. Price is not really an issue, quality and comfort are. We are in the Milwaukee/Chicago area (moving from A to B) so chains or stores local to either area would be great.
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If price isn't an issue, you could go all out and go to Restoration Hardware. I imagine after looking at furniture there price might become an issue, though.
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Wow, everything there is white. From what I've picked up, solid, rich, deep or jewel tone colors would be the ideal.
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Apr 27, 2013 14:38
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Check out the leather sofas.
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I am interested in this Umbra sofa. However I live way out of their delivery range. Are there any similar sofas I could be looking at? My town only has the standard Leon's/The Brick and some local furniture stores.
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Finally bought a new bed. We splurged and went for the West Elm Midcentury bed while it was on sale. Gotta say, I was expecting it to turn out like poo poo but I'm pretty happy with the quality. No loose fittings and the veneer is gorgeous, especially on the headboard. We've never had furniture delivery service before, but I gotta say, it's loving awesome. There's nothing like having two dudes haul the heavy poo poo inside, build it, and then take the trash with them. They screwed each slat into the side rails. Not sure if that's just an added bonus, if they do that because West Elm wants them to, or if they did it after seeing that I'm not a small guy. Regardless, it wasn't in the documentation but I love that kind of thoughtful service. I never want to go to IKEA again. (Don't worry, I wasn't a douche, I provided water and gave a good tip.) We have the matching nightstand coming Monday via UPS (why can't I just pick up a small nightstand at the store?  ) To make this post relevant, anyone have a lamp suggestion? How about bedding? We obviously trend toward the retro. The orange walls are pretty powerful so both items need to be simple. I'm thinking simple and Scandinavian for the duvet cover and the Crate and Barrel Boka lamp in pea green: 
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