Palladium posted:

imagine you as a kid watching OG star trek and lived to 2024 to see a big deal made over loving mugs

WrasslorMonkey posted:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder-we-cant-we-dont-know-how-to-do-it

the popes toes posted:

I showed you pics of my Stanley cup. Please respond.

Nonsense posted:

Yeti’s have more variety, Stanley cup is too big

Nonsense posted:

Yeti’s have more variety, Stanley cup is too big

quote:

Rents have skyrocketed at Woodland East Mobile Home Park; now residents want to buy their park but are running out of time

“Now what’s happening because of rent increases … is people have to make a choice between their medicines”

WOODLAND — Helplessness washed over Woodland East Mobile Home Park residents last fall as they watched the eviction of their neighbor, a woman in her mid-70s.

They stared at the woman as she sat outside the home she owned but resting on the land she could no longer afford to rent. They wondered who would be next.

Rents at the 55-and-older community have increased by about 250 percent since mobile home park mogul Michael Werner of Vancouver bought the property in 2017, residents say. The seniors, many on fixed incomes, are struggling to pay the $1,050 charged a month per spot — and rents are slated to go up to $1,250 in March.

Senate Bill 5198, which took effect in July, was supposed to change things for tenants like them. It aims to give mobile home park residents a chance to buy their parks and have a say in their future.

So when Woodland East was listed for sale, residents thought that law was their savior — a chance to slow the seemingly endless rent hikes. Instead, their effort to buy the park has exposed cracks in the new law.

Woodland East Homeowner Association President Meg Freimarck, 77, is still holding out for a chance to buy the park, but she knows the residents are running out of options — and time. She’s asked lawmakers how they plan to help seniors in their position. More affordable housing, they tell her.

“Goodness gracious, they want more affordable housing when we have to get out of our own affordable housing because of rent gouging,” Freimarck said. “We thought this would be our forever home.”

Woodland East residents know some of their neighbors struggle to afford food due to rising rents. Some grow food in their gardens so they don’t have to buy produce. Residents place extra food on their mailboxes for their neighbors.

It didn’t used to be like this.

When Kay Knutson, 74, moved into the park 20-odd years ago, two local men owned the property, she said. They maintained it and hardly ever raised the rent. But when Werner bought the park in 2017, residents began worrying about changes. Knutson formed a homeowner association.

“We knew there were going to be issues. We needed someone to stand up for our park,” Knutson said.

Those issues quickly turned into what Knutson describes as a “nightmare.”

That first year, tenants paid a more than 70 percent increase in rent (from $352 to $600), according to receipts provided by a resident.

Now residents are paying more than three-quarters of fair market rent for a one-bedroom in Clark County — just for the land on which their homes sit. Some are also paying on the loans they took to buy their homes. Most residents say they’ve reached a breaking point.

“Now what’s happening because of rent increases … is people have to make a choice between their medicines,” Freimarck said.

Jim Roseman, 71, said the rent increases have left the community on edge. He had only lived in the park one year before the rent increases began.

“Everybody’s on pins and needles until the first of (the month) trying to figure out how much we’re going to be hit with for rent increase,” Roseman said.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We’ve discussed before how private equity is buying up trailer parks in order to raise the rents to unaffordable levels and take trailers from the previous occupants who can’t afford the rent and can’t afford to move their homes.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024...ng-out-of-time/

Shageletic posted:

Love that the future is centered around increasingly lovely products instead of anything any sci fi author predicted. They should have been reading Marx.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSNwuL7x7/

Braver than the troops

Salvor_Hardin posted:

It pains me to see that so many people buy those lovely pre-shredded cheese bags.

DancingShade posted:

I'm imagining a Steam survival game where before you can build a bamboo hut to shelter from the elements on your deserted wasteland island that you must first get planning permission from several different statutory authorities and wait 6-12 months for a surveyor and environmental impact assessment.

In Training posted:

Kraft shredded cheese ftw.

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1746452111666102693?s=20

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Eco?

Willa Rogers posted:

mouli grater for cheese ftw



someone showed me one of these 50 years ago at a rummage sale & I never looked back. They have a newer version out but it's not as good as the OG mouli.

uninterrupted posted:

doesn't cleaning that thing suck?

blatman posted:

just grind a soapy sponge through it every couple of weeks

uninterrupted posted:

doesn't cleaning that thing suck?

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSNwuL7x7/

Braver than the troops

blatman posted:

just grind a soapy sponge through it every couple of weeks

Woke Mind Virus posted:

What's the deal with those cups? Yeti for libs?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Zenni Optical wants $120 for glasses in my prescription. this is bullshit

fits my needs posted:

what’s ur prescription

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Zurtilik posted:

drat, that boy is blind.