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bawfuls posted:Around 2008-2010 I lived with two friends in an apartment and our landlord was running some tax scam through us by claiming our unit as her primary residence, so all kinds of official notices/mail would show up. She owned a bunch of the condos in that building and we had huge stacks of mail piled around that she never claimed. We moved out before anything came of it but I always wondered what exactly the deal was and if she was overleveraged or something. if you're not intentionally destroying the house you rent so that your rent money goes solely to fixing the things you're damaging, you're missing out. i would have been burning those letters in late night effigy rituals.
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my landlord sucks but also hasn’t raised the rent since summer 2020, and when I asked the other day to give me an estimate of an increase so I know what my price range is gonna be in searching for a new place, they said they’re not planning any increase unless I really want. idgi
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i am harry posted:if you're not intentionally destroying the house you rent so that your rent money goes solely to fixing the things you're damaging, you're missing out. i would have been burning those letters in late night effigy rituals.
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May 31, 2022 18:26
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My first apartment was half a duplex (the other half was rented out too) and I had to pay my rent by check made out to (and delivered to) the State Farm branch/franchise/whatever our landlord owned. At the time i just thought it was How Things Were but now that seems somewhat sus. Now i have an apartment in a big complex owned by a management firm 800 miles away and pay online
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May 31, 2022 18:39
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i zelle my roommate a grand a month, he's probably safe from the IRS sending him a random 1099
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May 31, 2022 18:48
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I don't remember how I paid rent at my first apartment, but I do remember how they gave me a 14-day notice because they thought my cat had destroyed the apartment. they gave me my full security deposit back, as they should have, because he didn't do poo poo. then they harassed me and signed me up for all those old CD clubs, magazine subscriptions, and "free info" for credit cards and insurance and all kinds of poo poo at my new address. you know, mail fraud
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May 31, 2022 18:59
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my first apt was a 2 room (no living room, just 2 bedrooms, and a kitchen/bathroom) i split with someone at 400 bucks a month each until my roof caved in. this was like 2007-2013 i now pay 1800 in an area that costs 2600 for a 2br.
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ah, apartments. Lived in a 1-bedroom but huge (1200 SF?) attic apartment with my girlfriend in college, it was around $500 a month that we split. The building started accepting section 8 housing, then was sold to a slumlord company that didn't do poo poo, and we ended up basically fleeing the apartment after our 1st-floor neighbor, who we knew to be a sex worker who used hard drugs (but we never had any problems with her; the crackhead who lived between us and would periodically scream for an hour at 3am was more worrying) told us the building had gotten "too dangerous" for her and asked us to drive her across town with all her belongings in 2 black plastic garbage bags at like 11PM one night. We were pretty  and she led me into parts of Buffalo I had never seen on the way to her cousin's (and I used to go to places other college kids thought were "bad" or "too dangerous" to get cheap weed pretty often). Anyway this rattled us so we hit the bricks, moved out and just never paid the last month's rent, told them to keep the deposit. They threatened legal action, and I told them sure do it and they never did.So, 2005, we got a nice 2 bedroom in a much less sketchy area, $595/mo, maybe 900-1000SF, basement space, allowed pets. Just based on inflation that $595 would be $880 now, but Buffalo has undergone a "renaissance". There's a ton of similar houses in that area which were converted into similar units at around the same time, and they are all $1200+, ex https://buffalo.craigslist.org/apa/d/buffalo-available-upper-june-1st/7490299294.html that one is comparable to what we had (basement space, parking) but we also had attic space and a working fireplace. Man, I had a lot of happy saturdays, snowed in while my girlfriend was working, off my tits on MDMA, petting cats and staring into the fire.....  now I am getting nostalgic
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I paid 550 a month for smelly one bedroom across the hall from a world war 2 vet without any teeth (claimed they'd been kicked in by nazis). He used to keep a luger in his front pocket and according to his car was a HUGE Ben Carson fan. He started having auditory hallucinations, he thought that I was practicing drums or something in my apartment at 2am so he'd turn off his hearing aide and put on incredibly loud pop radio, waking all four tenants. This happened maybe four or five times before the landlord ended up calling his son and trying to figure out another situation for him. It was... unnerving.
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May 31, 2022 19:42
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External Organs posted:a HUGE Ben Carson fan. i mean it’s hard not to love the guy.
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Anyone who gets their core policy proposal from mewtwo is good in my book.
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projecthalaxy posted:Anyone who gets their core policy proposal from mewtwo is good in my book. Wait, wasn't that Herman Cain (rip)
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projecthalaxy posted:Anyone who gets their core policy proposal from mewtwo is good in my book. External Organs posted:Wait, wasn't that Herman Cain (rip) yes lol
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May 31, 2022 20:10
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well. this is "not a good look".
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my cheapest rent was a 4 bed 2 bath in montana with a garage and (shared) yard for $895/month TOTAL
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https://twitter.com/taylorfor20th/status/1531718663526653952
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Sounds like the Biden-Harris administration got you affordable access to housing you should thank them
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i’d just like to thank joe biden and jpow and the crew for the fact i will rent forever
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:It will be cool when the bubble pops and my houses' entirely bullshit value goes away like the fever dream it is.
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I don't get it, is that OJ?
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I'm closing on a mobile home in some land in the sticks. Gonna remote work a save on rent while living my dream life. Had issues because apparently nobody will finance a home that's too small, and ended up with over 6% Apr.
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I had a $550 apartment in an absolutely terrible part of Houston where I couldn't order delivery at night and there were murders happening in the complex across the street. I had a terrible bug problem despite being relatively clean and then one day before I moved I heard a ton of commotion above me and looked out to see guys in to those hazmat type outfits taking out bag after bag of who knows what from the unit above me
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For some reason listings for the billionaire luxury condos in NYC pencil skyscrapers are visible on Zillow. Assumed they'd have some exclusive listing service but guess not: Trying to sell your condo for 100+ million dollars over half a year without any takers seems bad. That building is reportedly a nightmare to live in too.
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i'll live in it. i'll take that bullet.
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Nocturtle posted:For some reason listings for the billionaire luxury condos in NYC pencil skyscrapers are visible on Zillow. Assumed they'd have some exclusive listing service but guess not: there are exclusive services for super high end apartments but those buildings are loving awful and even rich idiots don’t want to waste their money on living there, so they’re publicly listing out of desperation
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here’s an article about the exact building those listings are from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html
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Nocturtle posted:For some reason listings for the billionaire luxury condos in NYC pencil skyscrapers are visible on Zillow. Assumed they'd have some exclusive listing service but guess not: these are investment scam opportunities for ukrainian dirt magnates that just take the form of blade runner condos if you wanna see the real poo poo go to sotheby's and check out all their price upon request listings
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Bro Dad posted:these are investment scam opportunities for ukrainian dirt magnates that just take the form of blade runner condos that is correct. its purely various forms of money laundering, wealth off-shoring, speculative asset line items that are never visited, and various permutations of the two. no one is actually going to live in a lovely nyc condo like that, they aren't made to be lived in except only the dumbest of rubes rich people are doing this like this https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/int/historic-lstyle and buying 12 bdr penthouses on the water of lake coumo or a spanish island and poo poo.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:there are exclusive services for super high end apartments but those buildings are loving awful and even rich idiots don’t want to waste their money on living there, so they’re publicly listing out of desperation Good, as long as they're desperate. Those Zillow listings tell a story at least.
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I remember reading about how big mansions and stuff for the super wealthy are difficult to sell because they're all custom jobs so you not only have to find someone with 8 figs to drop on a dream home but one of those that wants to drop 8 figs on your dream. Like Carmelo Anthony spent years trying to sell his house in the Hamptons because people who wanted a $30m mansion in the Hamptons didn't want half of it to be a gym and weight room.
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Schmeichy posted:I'm closing on a mobile home in some land in the sticks. Gonna remote work a save on rent while living my dream life. Had issues because apparently nobody will finance a home that's too small, and ended up with over 6% Apr. i got rejected for a mobile home loan because of my student loans 
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Rauros posted:i got rejected for a mobile home loan because of my student loans I'm sorry friend
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oi mate, nondischargeable debt nicked me mobile
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Rauros posted:i got rejected for a mobile home loan because of my student loans 
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enjoy 20 cop visits a month bc there arent any rv parks left that allow people under 55 years of age (yes! this is a valid discrimination end run!)
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Jonny 290 posted:enjoy 20 cop visits a month bc there arent any rv parks left that allow people under 55 years of age (yes! this is a valid discrimination end run!) Yeah. RV parks can get pretty expensive too. They were around $800/mo locally when I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago. Gotta be getting nuts now.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Yeah. RV parks can get pretty expensive too. They were around $800/mo locally when I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago. Gotta be getting nuts now. Just pay the 5 bucks or whatever to get on the turnpike and then boom free rent for life at all the rest stops.
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Rauros posted:i got rejected for a mobile home loan because of my student loans try a different lender if you can.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Yeah. RV parks can get pretty expensive too. They were around $800/mo locally when I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago. Gotta be getting nuts now. The place where I used to work almost 20 years ago is still probably 10 bucks a night because it was government run and that's what it's been forever. Most of the regulars pay half price if they're old/disabled enough. Only think keeping people living there full time is that there's a 2 week limit in the summer, and some of them still manage it in the places where there's a couple campgrounds close together they can bounce between.
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