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Probably about to do the same with my cat. Pets: BWM, BWEmotions
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My dad just took a 6-hour drive to go make a repair to the dryer in the timeshare they bought this year. Isn't one of the "selling points" of a time share that maintenance and repairs are included?
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Motronic posted:Isn't one of the "selling points" of a time share that maintenance and repairs are included? My thought was "what that gently caress is the maintenance fee going towards if you've gotta fix your own poo poo?"
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Motronic posted:Isn't one of the "selling points" of a time share that maintenance and repairs are included? I have no idea if he was obligated to or not, but they just stayed there for the first time and it broke. He went down this weekend to fix it before the next person was scheduled to go in. I told him it was crazy, but he didn't want to report that they broke it their first time staying.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have no idea if he was obligated to or not, but they just stayed there for the first time and it broke. He went down this weekend to fix it before the next person was scheduled to go in. Ah the ol' "I don't want to involve maintenance" mentality that kept me from utilizing maintenance at my past two apartments half the time out of some sort of shame that things broke 
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One of the best parts of apartment living is maintenance! Our dryer broke once and the guy came and looked at it and was like eh gently caress it and just wheeled the thing out, returning with a new one 15 minutes later. Light bulb burns out? MAINTENANCE! In other news: https://consumerist.com/2017/04/17/bad-news-for-neiman-marcus-rich-people-are-bargain-hunting-online-using-purses-for-multiple-years/ quote:However, the world’s wealthiest shoppers have realized they don’t need to pay more — or even leave the house. The fanciest luxury brands are now all available online, sometimes for less than what you’d pay in a swanky boutique or high-end department store.
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Dr. Eldarion posted:Light bulb burns out? MAINTENANCE! They somehow managed to use old tungsten bulbs at my apartment so if I were to do this I'd be paying more in electricity anyway than just replacing the bulbs with my own LED ones. I kept all the tungsten bulbs too though so I can put them back when I move out 
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Dr. Eldarion posted:One of the best parts of apartment living is maintenance! Our dryer broke once and the guy came and looked at it and was like eh gently caress it and just wheeled the thing out, returning with a new one 15 minutes later. Light bulb burns out? MAINTENANCE! I've been replacing my own light bulbs in my apartment's recessed lighting...am I the BWM? Echoing the above, I have at least been doing it with LED lights as they go and I have noticed a difference in my power bills.
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ate all the Oreos posted:They somehow managed to use old tungsten bulbs at my apartment so if I were to do this I'd be paying more in electricity anyway than just replacing the bulbs with my own LED ones. Apartment owners don't give a flying gently caress about renters utility costs, I moved from a 600sqft apartment to a 2400sqft house and my average annual electricity bill dropped about 30%. I even bought a 65" TV in the house that I didn't have in the apartment, still used less power.
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Nail Rat posted:I've been replacing my own light bulbs in my apartment's recessed lighting...am I the BWM? I haven't rented for a while, but I think most places have it written into the lease that the tenant is responsible for minor maintenance which would include cleaning, changing light bulbs, etc.
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ate all the Oreos posted:They somehow managed to use old tungsten bulbs at my apartment so if I were to do this I'd be paying more in electricity anyway than just replacing the bulbs with my own LED ones. This is what I am doing/plan to do upon leaving/did when I left my last apartment.
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SquirrelFace posted:I haven't rented for a while, but I think most places have it written into the lease that the tenant is responsible for minor maintenance which would include cleaning, changing light bulbs, etc. Our lease says this, but they'll still come and replace the lights if we ask. I guess it's there in case they ever want to cheap out?
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oopsie rock posted:Our lease says this, but they'll still come and replace the lights if we ask. I guess it's there in case they ever want to cheap out? Most leases are massively over-expansive in their terms specifically so they have lots of options if they ever want to evict you. My lease says we're only allowed to have a single car and any guests that come over must park their cars "somewhere off-property" if they want to come visit
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https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/65su1v/a_hired_contractor_took_our_money_and_ran_but/quote:A hired contractor took our money and ran, but check was made out to his daughter. Can we get the money back? (self.legaladvice) "Uhh, I am not scamming you, but please write your checks out in my daughter's name" 
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I bet he pulled permits on all that work he did, too.
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Dr. Eldarion posted:One of the best parts of apartment living is maintenance! Agreed. We have our manager replace lightbulbs, snake drains, replace water filters, fix bathroom fan filters, replace screens, etc...
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Dr. Eldarion posted:In other news: https://consumerist.com/2017/04/17/bad-news-for-neiman-marcus-rich-people-are-bargain-hunting-online-using-purses-for-multiple-years/ Funny how much consumerism depends on people not caring about prices. Given the number of companies focusing on selling luxury goods it must be concerning that even the wealthy don't want to pay a premium for retail stores. I'm guessing there's a lack of economic euphoria in the US.
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Dr. Eldarion posted:In other news: https://consumerist.com/2017/04/17/bad-news-for-neiman-marcus-rich-people-are-bargain-hunting-online-using-purses-for-multiple-years/ Yeah, I remember being astonished overhearing the girls in my high school photography classes (loudly) stating that they spent $120 AUD on a bottle of perfume. In 2007, actually.
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Is that why life feels like it's on easy mode at times? Because the difficulty curve is scaled to account for idiot humans who overpay for dumb stuff? Seriously I'm not the best at financial discipline but definitely don't splurge on poo poo like $150 perfumes even though I could and yeah so far so good. An obviously massive oversimplifiction but I can't help but feel that dumb spending habits being normalized over the last few decades has actually done me a lot of good. It's sort of like when I talk to friends who make a lot less than I do talking about "looking into buying a house." The term adorable doesn't even begin to describe them (I sure as poo poo don't make anywhere near enough to afford a house in the Austin area, though I don't doubt I'd find someone willing to give me a loan no probz). On that note, I best finish sending my tax payment to the irs 
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KingSlime posted:Is that why life feels like it's on easy mode at times? Because the difficulty curve is scaled to account for idiot humans who overpay for dumb stuff? A lot of work and psychology goes into farming the consumer population for money. There's a huge difference when you pay attention to prices at the supermarket rather than blindly select products. I hear what you're saying when people are looking into buying a house. Usually the starting point is that they're heavily in debt and paying stupidly high interest rates and living from pay to pay. However most younger people have given up on the concept of owning a home in New Zealand because the prices have been going up 20% per year which leaves most people unable to save a deposit with the amount required growing faster than they can save.
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KingSlime posted:Is that why life feels like it's on easy mode at times? Because the difficulty curve is scaled to account for idiot humans who overpay for dumb stuff? This pretty heavily depends on how much you make compared to the cost of living in your area, but based on the small sample set I've seen: Yes. If you have friends capable of being entertained by the company of others rather than their cell phone you can have fun on the cheap. Going to a bar is fun, but I don't need to do it every single time I want to have a drink with friends. Going out to a bar can easily add up to $50/pp, but you can pretty easily do a back yard/apartment common room BBQ for 6 people on a $100 budget. That's $200 you as a group just didn't spend. I watch people at work do it 3+ times a week then be confused why their bank account is empty-to-negative.
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H110Hawk posted:Going to a bar is fun, but I don't need to do it every single time I want to have a drink with friends. Going out to a bar can easily add up to $50/pp, but you can pretty easily do a back yard/apartment common room BBQ for 6 people on a $100 budget. That's $200 you as a group just didn't spend. I watch people at work do it 3+ times a week then be confused why their bank account is empty-to-negative. Indeed, some of the best times I've had with mates was playing "Goon of Fortune" in their backyards.
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spinst posted:I live in one of the "top 25 fastest growing metropolitan areas" according to a U.S. Census Bureau report. Against all odds, I got the duplex! I get to cut a $2600 check on Thursday. Super excited! Moving: BWM.
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spinst posted:Against all odds, I got the duplex! USA still using cheques in 2017, BWM
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spinst posted:Against all odds, I got the duplex! So what's wrong with it considering nobody else wanted it
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Their dog pissed itself rather than going inside and the doors need to be fixed so they stop swinging open.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Their dog pissed itself rather than going inside and the doors need to be fixed so they stop swinging open. There is nothing wrong with the doors. That's the ghosts.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Their dog pissed itself rather than going inside and the doors need to be fixed so they stop swinging open. This was the last place I rented, except it was a 19 year old bogan couple that used an approved single cat in the lease to Trojan horse in an additional cat, plus two puppies and a rabbit. Carpets stank for weeks even after two professional cleanings and never quite quit smelling like piss over the ~9 months we lived there, plus were torn up at every door because the dogs would get locked in there and try to dig their way out. There were wine stains in every room as well, and it was pretty 1970s. Despite never doing anything about the carpets, landlord decided to raise the rent 10% on us after 9 months, so we left and found a nicer place for the same amount of money. None of that stopped about a dozen prospective tenants coming to the open house and nearly all of them asking for the lease application paperwork, despite the fact the place was overpriced (for reasons above, plus had a somewhat nonsensical layout). The damage far exceeded the bond, but like in most of those cases, going after the deadbeat tenants is usually more cost than its worth. BWM: being too impatient to get a tenant into your vacant rental and walking back on your original 'no kids, no pets' stipulation. They got talked into it by the small-time leasing office they went with, probably because the leasing office wasn't getting their cut of the rent and had no financial stake if the tenants turned out to be deadbeats. edit: congrats on getting the place though, buy some Glade plug-ins and crank them up to max. Pompous Rhombus fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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ate all the Oreos posted:So what's wrong with it considering nobody else wanted it About 10 people submitted applications for the place within the one hour open house. She picked me because I'm a teacher (her daughter is also a teacher).
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spinst posted:About 10 people submitted applications for the place within the one hour open house. Looks like somebody is getting set up with the daughter. Does she live in the other half of the duplex with this daughter?
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spinst posted:About 10 people submitted applications for the place within the one hour open house.
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reddit, natch posted:Hello! I'm a 25 yr/o female living in Nova Scotia. I have to get my car registered soon which is why this is coming up now. I work downtown and do not have employee parking, therefore I've been parking in 2hr parking every day for the last few years. I have gotten parking tickets every so often over the last 2 years and haven't paid them. I don't know why, I'm an idiot. Now that I have to get my car registered, I called Access Nova Scotia to see what the damage is. Welp. At least in the comments she's like 'welp I hosed up I'll move so I'm on a bus route I guess' but still.
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Why do people share their age and gender when it's completely irrelevant? "I'm a 43 year old married man, how do I pay my car loan???"
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ohgodwhat posted:Why do people share their age and gender when it's completely irrelevant? "I'm a 43 year old married man, how do I pay my car loan???" Do you also like long walks on the beach? Confusing personal finance and dating seems to be an issue.
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Devian666 posted:Do you also like long walks on the beach? Confusing personal finance and dating seems to be an issue. Both good ways to get hosed, at least.
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ohgodwhat posted:Why do people share their age and gender when it's completely irrelevant? "I'm a 43 year old married man, how do I pay my car loan???" it's pretty relevant. we know he's not 104, in which case the advice would be "take it to your grave" and that he's not 13, in which case the advice would be "how did you get a car loan"
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Suspicious Lump posted:haha that is the most insane reason to pick someone imo. I guess when all the applicants are similar you choose what you know. Were the other applicants ethnic by chance
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Hey guys, I found a new subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dropship/comments/63mv9a/do_not_use_dropshipping_for_ebay/ DO NOT USE DROPSHIPPING FOR EBAY!!!!!!!! (self.dropship) Unless you have an online store that specifies extremely long shipping times which of course will lose you customers one way or another if you are upfront or not DO NOT BELIEVE THE DROPSHIP HYPE!! I just got loving cornholed by my "Genius" Idea to list a bunch of aliexpress products on ebay thinking. My first gently caress UP was that I kept the item location as my address and not loving CHINA where the actual Item was. My second gently caress UP was that My behavior on aliexpress set off a red flag because I tried to use 2 different credit cards which put my account under review and this led to even longer shipping time. Long loving story short, after thinking I was the drop ship WIZARD and after making a whopping $150 profit on 50 Sales. I bought a loving nice bag of kush and was celebrating my small business victory only to realize which is actually pretty loving obvious now that I think about it that this was the worst and probably one of the dumbest loving things I ever did. What happens when you get 50 orders from EBAY. Well here is how it goes, 50 people order 50 different items from you, This equals about $1000 in gross income, thats before ebay fees, paypal fees and however much it costs you to buy it from the dropshipper. Now you, One by one Buy the items. and whatever you are left over with is yours right? nope, about 13% of that goes to ebay. Which is normal but its something I wanted to point out. Now, you have 50 Items on the way to your soon to be hostile customers. But Since I was not Upfront about where the poo poo was coming from, everyone was expecting the products in a few days. So what happens next? The first customer complains and opens a case, Ebay puts a hold on the funds in your paypal for the full loving amount of that product say $50, Now another case is open and they put a hold on $25 and this continues until your paypal is in the negative. AND THEY TAKE THAT FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT!!! So yes, and if thats not the worst part EBAY will refund the people and the items are still in transit, good luck getting that poo poo back. I just paid for a fat bitches Electric Cock Zapping Sex Toy in Kentucky and Im am not making any of that UP. Shes probably zapping dicks all day on my dollar. This is bullshit, and she is one of 49 more people. So at the end of it all, not only is that loving $150 gone, I will probably end up paying for all this poo poo out of pocket and Its my girlfriends paypal account so gently caress MY LIFE gently caress US ALL TO HELL. MORAL OF THIS DICK SHOCKING STORY IS I learned a pretty valuable lesson and I hope if this finds you before you make the mistake I did, Well gently caress YOU YOU LUCKY BASTARD. gently caress YOU
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FrozenVent posted:Hey guys, I found a new subreddit: Ummmmm lmao at this whole thing
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