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THC posted:I'm not sure what you mean by "correctly". But afaict the actual correct way to do it IRL is to constantly spew out huge amounts of the most insulting manipulative lowest common denominator garbage possible Well, let's say I follow some bars or restaurants. They tweet me when they're having special events I might be interested in attending, or if they have promotions on. They get their message out, I learn about something I'm interested in. Same with local shops that might have sales at some point, or get something special or noteworthy in stock. These are mutually beneficial forms of advertising, not some kind of scam or bullshit. Simplicity and authenticity is key. Likewise, I have a local liquor store that emails me from time to time with things I might be interested in -- most lately some rare Spanish wine I've been coveting. Without them taking the time to tell me, I probably wouldn't have made a large purchase. As it is, I got my wine and they got their money. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, and everything else are only means, not ends. They can be used properly, or abused.
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Cultural Imperial posted:I've actually worked at 30 St Mary Axe and it is a poo poo building to work in. Curved fuckin walls are a terrible idea and its only saving grace is a dope rear end bar on the roof. Oh god CI is a London cityboy
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I would just like to chime in that the only social media marketers I ever worked with were literally retarded. No, seriously, one girl was actually mentally disabled and another was so stupid that it boggled me she hadn't accidentally killed her own children. I don't know what it is about that position, but somehow only shockingly intense idiots get hired for it and then make way too much money doing sweet gently caress all. $40k a year to re-tweet memes FFS. 
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Nov 12, 2015 09:50
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blah_blah posted:$40k a year, truly something to be envied. That's probably close to the median individual income in Vancouver so it's something for half of the city to aspire to, yeah.
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Rime posted:I would just like to chime in that the only social media marketers I ever worked with were literally retarded. My neighbour on Queen West is a social media expert and she has a celebrity dog who has 15,000 instagram followers.
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I was a little surprised when my deer butcher, who operates out of a refrigerated trailer behind his farmhouse, asked me to follow his company on facebook. I did but it might have backfired because I didn't even know he had any competition in this area.
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PT6A posted:
This is basically how my landlord and I do things. If things need fixing I fix it myself and deduct my costs from next month's rent.
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Nov 12, 2015 15:32
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The problem enters when you are renting from Asian absentee landlords who are waiting to flip the wreck for land value. My poor (literally) mothers basement and roof are both flooding, and the squinty eyed motherfuckers are just trying to force her to move by refusing to fix anything. It's hard to know the foundation is shot when you're renting the upstairs and they put on the facade of being super caring landlords looking for long term tenants.  Vvv: that's the best poo poo you've posted in months CI. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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peter banana posted:My neighbour on Queen West is a social media expert and she has a celebrity dog who has 15,000 instagram followers. Remember when Moses came down from the mountain with the commandments and found that his people had become debaucherous heathens? This dog is the golden calf and we all deserve to be smote by the hand of God
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Rime posted:The problem enters when you are renting from Asian absentee landlords who are waiting to flip the wreck for land value. My poor (literally) mothers basement and roof are both flooding, and the squinty eyed motherfuckers are just trying to force her to move by refusing to fix anything. Maybe they can't see it with those eyes of theirs, am I right lol???? Casual racism is hilarious!
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IDGAF. This is the second pair of fuckhead mainlanders in a row that's tried to screw around with an old disabled woman.
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Rime posted:IDGAF. This is the second pair of fuckhead mainlanders in a row that's tried to screw around with an old disabled woman. You've phrased it pretty well here without bringing racial stereotypes in, so apparently it is possible...
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I knew a girl who quit her retail job to become a 'social media marketer'. A year and no money later, she's trying to to use facebook to sell essential oils and other multi level bullshit. It can work, but for every person doing a good job there's about 5 who are putting lovely hashtags in everything and trying to convince me I should really like their banal businesses facebook page for ??? reasons.
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attackmole posted:I knew a girl who quit her retail job to become a 'social media marketer'. A year and no money later, she's trying to to use facebook to sell essential oils and other multi level bullshit. Did she start with the pyramid schemes too? Replace books with something else and it's pure gold for these people. quote:I need 6 children and their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc. To participate in a children's book exchange. You purchase one book and mail it to a child and your child will get 36 books in exchange. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you all the details.
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attackmole posted:I knew a girl who quit her retail job to become a 'social media marketer'. A year and no money later, she's trying to to use facebook to sell essential oils and other multi level bullshit. The problem with trying to market yourself as a "social media expert" is that it's essentially like trying to market yourself as a "phone expert" or an "e-mail expert." If businesses want to hire someone instead of taking care of it themselves, that's valid, but there's no magic voodoo you can do to make social media increase your business. It requires constant attention, as would having a phone on your desk. You can't just have the phone sit there and expect it to do anything on its own. You can't install a $5000 phone system and expect it, in and of itself, to do anything better than a $20 phone you can pick up at Staples. It's all in the use of these tools. I hate having that discussion with clients, too. "We need a Facebook and a Twitter!" "Well, why? What do you plan on doing with that? Who's going to care, and what information are you going to put up there?" "Uh, well, we don't know who's going to be interested, and we can't post anything because we're trying to be secretive until launch..." No, then you don't, in fact, need a Facebook and a Twitter. You need a brain.
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eXXon posted:That's probably close to the median individual income in Vancouver so it's something for half of the city to aspire to, yeah. Vancouver is unaffordable at its median individual income, so while you might be better off than a decent chunk of the city it doesn't exactly leave you in a good situation.
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blah_blah posted:Vancouver is unaffordable at its median individual income, so while you might be better off than a decent chunk of the city it doesn't exactly leave you in a good situation. Vancouver is nearly unaffordable at any income outside of the top 10%. What is especially remarkable is how quickly it has changed. My uncle bought his house in Coquitlam around 20 years ago for around $300,000 and is currently selling it for $1,300,000 and there is an "aggressive" bidding war for it. It's hosed up.
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McGavin posted:Vancouver is nearly unaffordable at any income outside of the top 10%. What is especially remarkable is how quickly it has changed. My uncle bought his house in Coquitlam around 20 years ago for around $300,000 and is currently selling it for $1,300,000 and there is an "aggressive" bidding war for it. It's hosed up. He should move to NS with the money and live like a king.
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jm20 posted:He should move to NS with the money and live like a king. He's moving to China. Giving them a taste of their own medicine.
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jm20 posted:He should move to e: beaten
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PT6A posted:Well, you shouldn't do it on the drop of a hat, but if you can't take a shower, and the landlord has been notified and done nothing, you should have it fixed yourself. Basic hygiene is not a luxury. Then, if they don't agree to pay for it, in writing, you should deduct it from rent. Let them take it to court, they probably won't win unless you're obviously trying to gently caress them by submitting an inflated bill. Do not do this. 
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McGavin posted:Vancouver is nearly unaffordable at any income outside of the top 10%. What is especially remarkable is how quickly it has changed. My uncle bought his house in Coquitlam around 20 years ago for around $300,000 and is currently selling it for $1,300,000 and there is an "aggressive" bidding war for it. It's hosed up. Did he buy it outright for $300,000 or did he get a $250,000 mortgage at 1995 prime interest rates at the time around %9.75? A $250,000 mortgage at 9.75% will cost you $408,000 in interest over 25 years. A $1,100,000 mortage at 2.5% will only cost you $378,000. Of course there's no guarantee it will stay at 2.5%. It's great that interest rates went way down for your uncle bringing up house prices but there were probably negative nancies like us back then too saying you've got to be loving crazy to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars at 10% interest a year.
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Kafka Esq. posted:Do not do this. Yeah, I am not sure why everyone thinks this ends up in court. You get an eviction notice and are out the door in 10* days. * varies by jurisdiction
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ocrumsprug posted:Yeah, I am not sure why everyone thinks this ends up in court. No, I mean, do not withold rent! Ever!
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Ikantski posted:Did he buy it outright for $300,000 or did he get a $250,000 mortgage at 1995 prime interest rates at the time around %9.75? Note that turning 300k into 1.3M in 20 years is about a 7.5% annual return on investment. Of course, no capital gains + leverage are nice.
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jm20 posted:He should move to NS with the money and live like a king. My best friend's mom tried this, only NB instead of NS, and was back in one year. She declared bankruptcy and moved into an amazing new social housing tower in Olympic village/SE false creek. I'm jealous.
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Poof, there goes another ~500 jobs in Western Canada.http://www.vancouversun.com/business/finning+global+workforce+close+additional+locations+canada/11511655/story.html posted:Vancouver-based Finning to cut global workforce by eight per cent, close 11 locations in Canada Hope there's still some EI left over for me if my industry goes tits up.
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Reverse Centaur posted:My best friend's mom tried this, only NB instead of NS, and was back in one year. She declared bankruptcy and moved into an amazing new social housing tower in Olympic village/SE false creek. I'm jealous. Not sure how you can declare bankruptcy within a year, probably turned an amazing idea into another Canadian failed business ocrumsprug posted:Yeah, I am not sure why everyone thinks this ends up in court. In Toronto you are looking at 3 months at a minimum just by waiting out to the maximum period, before attempting to postpone hearings. During the time the tenant will likely not be paying any further rent.
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PT6A posted:Well, you shouldn't do it on the drop of a hat, but if you can't take a shower, and the landlord has been notified and done nothing, you should have it fixed yourself. Basic hygiene is not a luxury. Then, if they don't agree to pay for it, in writing, you should deduct it from rent. Let them take it to court, they probably won't win unless you're obviously trying to gently caress them by submitting an inflated bill.  Do NOT take this advice - DO NOT repair or have another party repair something your landlord is obligated to repair - DO NOT withhold rent
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So what? You're just meant to wait around stinky as all gently caress or showering at a gym until you finally get a hold of your lazy-rear end landlord and harass him into actually fixing the thing he's responsible for? You know, considering this thread always goes on about how owning is such bullshit, the more I hear about renting the more I think I'd gladly pay a hefty premium to avoid it. I'm lucky that, when I was renting, my landlord fixed everything within 24 hours (corporate landlords are the best!) but if that weren't an option... gently caress that, pay the money and buy if at all possible.
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PT6A posted:So what? You're just meant to wait around stinky as all gently caress or showering at a gym until you finally get a hold of your lazy-rear end landlord and harass him into actually fixing the thing he's responsible for? Yeah, renting sucks. It's supposed to suck, that's their punishment for not buying a place and stimulating the economy.
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PT6A posted:So what? You're just meant to wait around stinky as all gently caress or showering at a gym until you finally get a hold of your lazy-rear end landlord and harass him into actually fixing the thing he's responsible for? The time without a shower is spent questioning your lack of equity. Also a lot of landlords are dumb and know as little about the law as tenants, so just offering to hire repairmen yourself and deducting the cost from rent (as if you are doing them a favour) can get a lazy landlord off their rear end if it means saving a few bucks.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:The time without a shower is spent questioning your lack of equity. Also a lot of landlords are dumb and know as little about the law as tenants, so just offering to hire repairmen yourself and deducting the cost from rent (as if you are doing them a favour) can get a lazy landlord off their rear end if it means saving a few bucks. It is doing them a favour, though? They're responsible for the repair one way or the other, and unless they're capable of effecting the repair themselves, they're just going to hire a dude the same as you would. If they have someone that they use regularly and get a discount, presumably they would make that information known to their tenant so they don't have to be bothered every time something fucks up.
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PT6A posted:So what? You're just meant to wait around stinky as all gently caress or showering at a gym until you finally get a hold of your lazy-rear end landlord and harass him into actually fixing the thing he's responsible for? If you get your own repair guy to come in and present the bill to your landlord they're going to tell you to stuff the bill and then charge you for having their own person (who also may be their nephew) come to inspect it and charge you for it. PT6A posted:It is doing them a favour, though? They're responsible for the repair one way or the other, and unless they're capable of effecting the repair themselves, they're just going to hire a dude the same as you would. If they have someone that they use regularly and get a discount, presumably they would make that information known to their tenant so they don't have to be bothered every time something fucks up. Have you ever rented before?
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PT6A posted:It is doing them a favour, though? They're responsible for the repair one way or the other, and unless they're capable of effecting the repair themselves, they're just going to hire a dude the same as you would. If they have someone that they use regularly and get a discount, presumably they would make that information known to their tenant so they don't have to be bothered every time something fucks up. We're talking about a bad fictional landlord, assume that none of that information is available. And you're not doing them a favour, you float the idea as if you are, instead of being antagonistic and framing it as 'I'm paying this plumber and NOT MY RENT!' The implied threat being I, as a dummy tenant would just hire the first guy I see in the yellowpages, and not his wink and a handshake shady brother-in-law or whoever he will get to do the fix as cheaply as possible. A $50 fix from that guy may end up being a large chunk of my rent if I hired a legitimate contractor instead. You're just scaring them with that but in a nice 'see, I'm trying to help, aren't I nice??' way. I have never actually had to hire anybody, but i have suggested this idea years ago to a landlord in college, and recently to the guy I rent from now. Both times it went from "I can get a guy there in a few days" to "I have a few hours tonight I'll stop by and see what's wrong. My guy will be there tomorrow." bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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Professor Shark posted:If you get your own repair guy to come in and present the bill to your landlord they're going to tell you to stuff the bill and then charge you for having their own person (who also may be their nephew) come to inspect it and charge you for it. Sure, but in BC at least, if you contact them and they don't do it in a reasonable amount of time you can get the repairs done yourself if it's something like plumbing, heat, leaky roof, etc etc. Then you present them with the bill, if they don't pay in a reasonable amount of time then you can deduct it from your rent. It seems like a reasonable way to go. I have no idea about other provinces. http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/during-a-tenancy/repairs-and-maintenance
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Why would you advertise that you are such a terrible idiot??quote:“I’m very fortunate”: How much an intern and shoe store worker makes, and how she spends it http://torontolife.com/city/life/emily-smibert-cost-of-living/ This is the worst loving country, holy poo poo. e: also lmao the rest of this series allows comments but this article does not I WONDER WHY vyelkin fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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Professor Shark posted:Have you ever rented before? Yes, from a corporate landlord who ensured that all deficiencies were fixed incredibly promptly, because they had their own maintenance staff. I'm saying that if you were renting from a private landlord and if they were either being obstinate or you couldn't reach them, it would be reasonable to get the work done yourself provided it can't wait (access to a shower is pretty much #2 on the list of things I need to live, right after access to a toilet). My friend who acts as an amateur landlord would certainly appreciate his tenants taking care of poo poo themselves, and then withholding the cost (provided it's reasonable) from the rent. They've done this before and there's been no problem; it's one less thing he has to look after.
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