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when a landlord REALLY doesn't want to pay the water bill
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Jun 21, 2021 15:35
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What in God's name is this atrocity. Please, burn it.
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Jun 21, 2021 18:55
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PurpleXVI posted:What in God's name is this atrocity. Please, burn it. Pretty sure if you tried, it would put itself out.
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Jun 21, 2021 19:00
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Platystemon posted:mods plz change thread title to this tia What he said
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Jun 21, 2021 19:02
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What the gently caress is this place supposed to be?
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Jun 21, 2021 19:13
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deoju posted:What the gently caress is this place supposed to be? The internet
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Jun 21, 2021 19:21
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A series of tubes.
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Jun 21, 2021 19:51
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I don't see how else you'd do it
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Jun 21, 2021 20:04
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Vim Fuego posted:I don't see how else you'd do it Lutha Mahtin posted:when a landlord REALLY doesn't want to pay the water bill Failing that, there at least has to be a less haphazard way to do the profit-seeking option.
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StormDrain posted:Cw: animal abuse. Edit:I'm serious. Don't read if you love pets. I don't want to be too specific and cause unneeded harm. Reprehensible animal cruelty (form someone who runs an animal rescue!) aside: I'm especially a fan of a comment in the article about it: Denver Post article posted:All of that led Foster on Tuesday to list the 3,598-square-foot home on 4525 Churchill Court in Colorado Springs at $590,000. If the home was fixed up, it could probably sell for about $700,000. The price tag to fix the damage ranges from $150,000 to $230,000, according to four different contractors, Foster said. So... you're selling a $700K home for $590K, which will require $150K-230K, costing one $740K-$820K to make it a $700K home again? Classic. The property management for the out of state owner hosed up big time, not evicting her properly, and letting her back in to vandalize the house. That said, from realtor Mimi's video, the house was mostly wrecked before the tenant moved out, just from neglect , animals, and general weirdness. kid sinister posted:Just say no to pots. Proteus Jones posted:
FTFY. Gordian Knot plumbing. deoju posted:What the gently caress is this place supposed to be? Letmebefrank posted:The internet GreenNight posted:A series of tubes. NICE. 
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Jun 21, 2021 21:05
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Wow I skipped like 20 pages because I don't care about bad decor and got behind and Uh That abomination at the top of the page makes up for everything, Jesus tap dancing Christ
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Jun 21, 2021 23:28
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deoju posted:What the gently caress is this place supposed to be? I saw this also posted on reddit. Somebody said it might be an building that was converted into apartments. That would explain all the meters.
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Jun 22, 2021 01:42
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My friend rented an apartment in a house that had been split into 4 units. When the weather got cold he realized there was no thermostat in his unit. he got heat (or not) depending on what his downstairs neighbor set it to
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Jun 22, 2021 01:45
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deoju posted:Answering my own question incase anybody else is curious... On one hand, I'm not super fond of summer meaning "on a good day, you may be able to go outside in just a t-shirt". On the other hand, I do love living somewhere that has never heard of residential water meters.
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Jun 22, 2021 02:24
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Another successful job by Howard, Fine, and Howard Plumbing.
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Jun 22, 2021 02:31
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What's Trypophobia but for things with too many legs etc? I have it now.
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Jun 22, 2021 03:00
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Someone write the SCP entry about the new york coop building infested with ever-multiplying alien pipes (but the rent is cheap!)
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Commander Jameson posted:What's Trypophobia but for things with too many legs etc? I have it now. tripophobia
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Jun 22, 2021 03:40
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Jusupov posted:It's a wick john Yeeeessssssssssss
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GotLag posted:tripophobia 
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Vim Fuego posted:Someone write the SCP entry about the new york coop building infested with ever-multiplying alien pipes (but the rent is cheap!) We already know how that ends. http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-015
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SkyeAuroline posted:See: I mean, if we ignore the loving stupid pipework, then usually the method here, is to just put the water meter in each tenant's apartment, so there isn't a loving forest of meters on top of each other that need their eventual locations deciphered. Plus that way you can just have one pipe rising for each vertical slice of apartments, splitting off each time it reaches one, rather than splitting them all at the point where it generates the most extra pipeage, like a moron.
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Crap construction:the most extra pipeage, like a moron
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Final Blog Entry posted:The three little pigs, except the wolf has the shits and is destroying toilets of increasingly better construction.  
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Jun 22, 2021 09:17
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Nah, that's just a one-wire thermostat.
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Sometimes you need Camouflage stairs to protec yourself from robits
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Stairs that are safer to use in the dark?
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Post that in the interior design thread. Never put horizontal stripes on stairs, it's downright dangerous! Edit: proof 
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the one thing i want to know about the spider pipes is whether the landlord could have just charged everyone a flat share of the water bill. where i live (minnesota) landlords are allowed to put a utility bill in their own name and then split the total evenly amongst all tenants who receive that utility. you're also allowed to do a rolling average where you just tell each tenant to tack on $x each month to their rent based on how much the average monthly bill is. tenants then do have the right to request copies of the utility bills that are charged like this, to verify that the landlord is being truthful, but i feel like this would be an opportunity for a crummy landlord to try and skim a few bucks from ignorant tenants each month. that's because most people i have ever talked to about this didn't know they had the right to request copies of the bills that are charged this way, and i personally never bothered with it the couple of times i was in that kind of renting situation, because i never thought the quotes sounded very wrong, and it seemed like a hassle to build a paper trail if it was just going to end up with me being owed a few nickels in overcharges
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That's basically how you do garbage, I guess? Everyone may use/produce different amounts, but the cost gets pooled and split evenly. I mean, at least where I've lived. Now I wonder if anyone tries to charge tenants based on how much garbage they produce.
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Vim Fuego posted:My friend rented an apartment in a house that had been split into 4 units. When the weather got cold he realized there was no thermostat in his unit. he got heat (or not) depending on what his downstairs neighbor set it to I rented in a rowhouse-duplex, I got through about 90% of the summer before I figured out that the other guy didn't have a separate thermostat up there. But the electric was metered separately, so it's the landlord's problem if I want to set my thermostat to 82 while I'm at work. Upstairs still got some free AC I paid for the other times.
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A Rohm & Haas thermostat?
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the one thing i want to know about the spider pipes is whether the landlord could have just charged everyone a flat share of the water bill. where i live (minnesota) landlords are allowed to put a utility bill in their own name and then split the total evenly amongst all tenants who receive that utility. you're also allowed to do a rolling average where you just tell each tenant to tack on $x each month to their rent based on how much the average monthly bill is. tenants then do have the right to request copies of the utility bills that are charged like this, to verify that the landlord is being truthful, but i feel like this would be an opportunity for a crummy landlord to try and skim a few bucks from ignorant tenants each month. that's because most people i have ever talked to about this didn't know they had the right to request copies of the bills that are charged this way, and i personally never bothered with it the couple of times i was in that kind of renting situation, because i never thought the quotes sounded very wrong, and it seemed like a hassle to build a paper trail if it was just going to end up with me being owed a few nickels in overcharges In Massachusetts you can't charge tenants for any utilities unless they are metered to the unit; cost-sharing like you're talking about where an overall bill is split between units isn't permitted. If a landlord doesn't provide individual metering and controls for a utility, they can't charge for it beyond the rent itself. A lot of big buildings here avoid doing what this guy did, and simply charge higher rent while centrally controlling heat/water/etc.
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~Coxy posted:Nah, that's just a one-wire thermostat. *none-wire
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Ashcans posted:In Massachusetts you can't charge tenants for any utilities unless they are metered to the unit; cost-sharing like you're talking about where an overall bill is split between units isn't permitted. If a landlord doesn't provide individual metering and controls for a utility, they can't charge for it beyond the rent itself. A lot of big buildings here avoid doing what this guy did, and simply charge higher rent while centrally controlling heat/water/etc. You can also install meters at each unit that radio readings to a central terminal and become your own utility. It was brought up earlier, I have direct experience in it now. They're fairly small and much, much cheaper than that was.
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StormDrain posted:You can also install meters at each unit that radio readings to a central terminal and become your own utility. It was brought up earlier, I have direct experience in it now. They're fairly small and much, much cheaper than that was. cities use the new fancy meters too, it allows you to take readings without sending out meter readers
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