Willa Rogers posted:

I'm fine doing housekeeping and lawn care in exchange for $100/month rent. Childcare too, if I need to get a granny-nanny gig, which has also crossed my mind in a pinch.

I don't think I've adequately conveyed how earth-shattering it was to have been homeless nearing my 60th bday, especially since it was due to poo poo beyond my control (except maybe for trusting those I shouldn't have trusted). Things have gotten better since then, but I've also gotten older, and I have no family left, so when the money runs out so do I.

eta: this isn't a pity play; I'm perfectly fine going to lie down in the forest when it's my time.

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1758642415567819019?s=20

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1758642415567819019?s=20

quote:

BOURNE, Mass. —Massachusetts couple facing threat of eviction from mobile home park over handicapped ramp

A Massachusetts property manager is taking steps to evict a woman living with an aggressive form of brain cancer after her husband had a wheelchair ramp installed to help her get in and out of their Cape Cod home.

George Frigon now spends most of his time caring for his wife Phyllis, who has glioblastoma, which is one of the deadliest and most aggressive forms of brain cancer.

"After the second day of the heavy dose of chemo she had no response," Frigon said. "She couldn't lift her hand."

"Can you describe for me what the last few months have been like as you're taking care of your wife?" 5 Investigates' Brittany Johnson asked him.

"Turmoil," Frigon replied. "My mind is racing. I don't know what to do. I don't need this hassle, you know."

The hassle Frigon is talking about is over a temporary wheelchair ramp that he hired a contractor to install outside of their home-- a mobile home in The Park at Pocasset mobile home community.

Phyllis needs a wheelchair to get around because of her cancer and aggressive chemotherapy.

"If I didn't have the ramp, I would have to call the rescue squad, which I've had to do already because I took her (Phyllis) out, and she fell getting in the car," Frigon explained.

How did we get here?

The Frigon's own their mobile home but they do not own the land that it sits on.

The land is owned by The Charles W. Austin Trust, and Phil Austin is the property manager.

Phil Austin sent the Frigons a 30-day notice to Quit, a legal document and a first step in an eviction process, which informs a tenant they have 30 days to leave.
....
There's also another legal fight involving Frigon and other tenants trying to block the sale of the mobile home park to a private company.

Frigon and others wonder if the eviction threat is connected, something Austin's attorneys denied.

quote:

Fears of a systemic credit event are growing among fund managers as alarms sound in property markets around the world.

About one in six of those polled considers such a crunch to be the biggest tail risk facing markets, compared to about one in 11 in December, according to Bank of America Corp.’s latest Global Fund Manager survey. The deepening disquiet in US commercial real estate and Chinese property markets means it’s now the third-biggest worry for respondents, lagging higher inflation and geopolitics.

Hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates and alleviate some of the pressure on real estate were dented by stronger-than-expected inflation numbers this week. Traders are now wagering on less than 90 basis points of cuts this year — almost half of what was expected in January. Meanwhile, more than $900 billion of debt on US commercial and multifamily real estate will require refinancing or property sales this year — a 40% jump from an earlier estimate — after banks extended loans among other factors, and as building values fall.

Smaller banks seem to be on a trajectory toward 8-10% default rates in their CRE loan books, warned Bruce Richards, Chairman of Marathon Asset Management, in a LinkedIn post this week. Those lenders are particularly vulnerable to the downturn in CRE after ramping up their exposure in recent years. By contrast, bigger banks “are as strong as the Rock of Gibraltar,” Richards said by phone.

A 10% default rate on CRE loans would result in about $80 billion of additional bank losses, according to a research paper on US bank fragility published in December. The paper warns that CRE distress could leave more than 300 mainly smaller regional banks at risk of solvency runs.

“We will continue to see upticking levels of distress,” said Omar Eltorai, director of research at data provider Altus Group. “It’s one of those variables that people can call early but there’s a delay before it passes through,” he said, adding that this can sometimes be measured in years.

Click here to read a charticle about the CRE debt crisis

For now, the Fed is coordinating with lenders with concentrated CRE exposure on a plan to work through expected losses. While the losses are a concern, US regulators are trying to ensure that loan-loss reserves and liquidity levels are adequate to cope, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this month.

Still, nearly 40% of fund managers see US CRE as the most likely source of a credit event, the BofA survey found, with a further 22% seeing Chinese real estate as the biggest threat. The survey took place from Feb. 2 to 8, just days after New York Community Bancorp slashed its dividend and stockpiled reserves, in part because of weakness in the office and multifamily markets.

Read More: NYCB’s Talks With Watchdog Led to Moves That Rocked Market

The turmoil has since spread to German lenders with exposure to US CRE. Bonds of Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG fell further into distressed territory on Thursday after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the bank, citing its high exposure to the beleaguered market.

RadiRoot posted:

getting a visit by the fbi isn’t so bad lol. seriously

Willa Rogers posted:

I'm fine doing housekeeping and lawn care in exchange for $100/month rent. Childcare too, if I need to get a granny-nanny gig, which has also crossed my mind in a pinch.

I don't think I've adequately conveyed how earth-shattering it was to have been homeless nearing my 60th bday, especially since it was due to poo poo beyond my control (except maybe for trusting those I shouldn't have trusted). Things have gotten better since then, but I've also gotten older, and I have no family left, so when the money runs out so do I.

eta: this isn't a pity play; I'm perfectly fine going to lie down in the forest when it's my time.

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIIKnow/status/1748372726635491460?t=_AjB13ldLxXCpH549M1JKg&s=19

Willa Rogers posted:

I'm fine doing housekeeping and lawn care in exchange for $100/month rent. Childcare too, if I need to get a granny-nanny gig, which has also crossed my mind in a pinch.

I don't think I've adequately conveyed how earth-shattering it was to have been homeless nearing my 60th bday, especially since it was due to poo poo beyond my control (except maybe for trusting those I shouldn't have trusted). Things have gotten better since then, but I've also gotten older, and I have no family left, so when the money runs out so do I.

eta: this isn't a pity play; I'm perfectly fine going to lie down in the forest when it's my time.

Joey Steel posted:

CIA are the real fuckheads/dead eyed psychos. FBI are just cops with a wider jurisdiction.

Fuligin posted:

This seems like the appropriate time for 'goonbucks' or wever its called

Joey Steel posted:

CIA are the real fuckheads/dead eyed psychos. FBI are just cops with a wider jurisdiction.

Willa Rogers posted:

the last time I started getting scared about being old & poor I came across silvernest.com, in which olds offer to share their homes with other olds, and sometimes their listings look cool, like this one:

https://www.silvernest.com/room-for-rent/il/glenview/24878

lookit this cabin in the middle of nowhere, wisconsin, for only $100/month. It's gotta be a scam, right?

https://www.silvernest.com/room-for-rent/wi/brodhead/35102

Fuligin posted:

Ur a good poster willa. Keep on posting on

Vox Nihili posted:

Narrower, really

Joey Steel posted:

CIA are the real fuckheads/dead eyed psychos. FBI are just cops with a wider jurisdiction.

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

thinking one type of horrific secret police is somehow less evil than another (albeit more domestic) type of secret police is


..its.

... it's just par for the course for this forum, honestly

DaysBefore posted:

Smytheh....

Rexicon1 posted:

we will all be in Willa’s shoes soon enough. just let me pick out a good spot in the forest and I’ll be happy.

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIIKnow/status/1748372726635491460?t=_AjB13ldLxXCpH549M1JKg&s=19

lumpentroll posted:

lumpentroll posted:

PlushCow posted:

I know someone who was involved in something like this, there was no direct rent paid, but there was a contract for so many hours of "work" a week that ended up being mostly cooking and some light cleaning. I think the kind of work expected was spelled out explicitly in the contract.

lumpentroll posted:

Biplane posted:

Sorry to say but theres no forest left. It's all walmart parking lots now and if you try to lay down there to die, the police arrest you.

anonumos posted:

I figure I'll either be able to retire or I'll die hunting down the 1%. I see no middle ground.

Biplane posted:

Becoming an honorable and noble freedom fighter in my old age, bombing landlords and assassinating billionaires, does sound loving awesome.

Biplane posted:

I think I would rather die in the street like a diseased dog than have to live with some demented old person.

webcams for christ posted:

misanthropy FTL

Biplane posted:

I think I would rather die in the street like a diseased dog than have to live with some demented old person.

Rexicon1 posted:

we will all be in Willa’s shoes soon enough. just let me pick out a good spot in the forest and I’ll be happy.

Biplane posted:

Sorry to say but theres no forest left. It's all walmart parking lots now and if you try to lay down there to die, the police arrest you.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

The advice it gave is nearly the opposite of the static page,



Which makes me think, Air Canada could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by just using the webpage.