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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: MISTER MASSACRE on June 28, 2006, 01:20:07 PM
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I live in an one bedroom apartment in a building that's seen better days.
My water often doesn't work. The elevator in my building scares visitors. My power goes off with the kind of frequency one could expect in occupied Iraq.
I was enjoying one of the power outages about an hour ago when someone slipped an envelope under my door. It was a notice for a hearing about "a rent increase above the guideline".
I had this notice about all the so very expensive upgrades made to my building and how they just *have* to increase rent delivered to me at one of the times it was most obvious how worthless all of these "upgrades" are.
FUNNY STUFF GUYS!
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So you are going to the hearing, right?
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Pffff. Nice!
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So you are going to the hearing, right?
If I'm still living here in August, you bet. I plan on being gone ASAP though.
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Update: power was out again today. Thunderstorms later, so I can expect more of the same.
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Did they actually specify what these *upgrades* are?
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Did they actually specify what these *upgrades* are?
Larger, more areodynamic rodents?
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Did they actually specify what these *upgrades* are?
1 Environmental (that's as specific as it gets) - $61,368.76
2 Exterior Paint (I saw some wet paint signs, but they were inside...) - $21,293.00
3 Fire Protection (as near as I can figure, this consists of the notices and fire drills we get once a month that always wake me up and piss me off) - $1,221.87
4 Entry System (electronic dongles!) - $16,209.92
5 Elevator Upgrade (it hasn't killed anyone AFAIK, so I guess this one was worth it) -
$5,093.20
6 Compactor - $17,719.20
7 Boiler Upgrades (my water has only been shut off three times this month, which I wouldn't really mind if we had any warning) - $2,520.15
8 Electrical (AHAHAHAHA) - $3,488.20
So you see, they've nicely itemized all the improvements without the improvements themselves actually seeming to do anything. :D
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Did they actually specify what these *upgrades* are?
1 Environmental (that's as specific as it gets) - $61,368.76
That amount and description sounds a lot like asbestos abatement.
Do you have a bunch of plumbing pipes in exposed areas with a hard insulation on them? Although they could be in the basement around the boiler.
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Bwahahaha. Nice avatar, dcrog. :)
6 Compactor - $17,719.20
Tell them that WinRAR is a free download.
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Bwahahaha. Nice avatar, dcrog. :)
I knew you would like it. :wink:
Someone suggested a couple of times that I should use it. I'm just a little slow at getting around to things.
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Did they actually specify what these *upgrades* are?
1 Environmental (that's as specific as it gets) - $61,368.76
2 Exterior Paint (I saw some wet paint signs, but they were inside...) - $21,293.00
3 Fire Protection (as near as I can figure, this consists of the notices and fire drills we get once a month that always wake me up and piss me off) - $1,221.87
4 Entry System (electronic dongles!) - $16,209.92
5 Elevator Upgrade (it hasn't killed anyone AFAIK, so I guess this one was worth it) -
$5,093.20
6 Compactor - $17,719.20
7 Boiler Upgrades (my water has only been shut off three times this month, which I wouldn't really mind if we had any warning) - $2,520.15
8 Electrical (AHAHAHAHA) - $3,488.20
So you see, they've nicely itemized all the improvements without the improvements themselves actually seeming to do anything. :D
Maybe it's more of a working plan. They increase your rent now so that they may implement it later when you move out. :roll:
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Wow. This guy must have graduated with honors from slumlord college. That's positively BRILLIANT!
Does he live in the building? I'm guessing not. Does he ever appear in the building? I'm guessing not very often.
And I agree with the post above that suggested something else going on. A lot of money for some rather vague improvements. If you wake up surrounded by people in white bubble suits scraping the walls sprint don't run to your nearest lawfirm.
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Environmental is always expensive. Thanks to those left-wing environmentalists.
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So you are going to the hearing, right?
If I'm still living here in August, you bet. I plan on being gone ASAP though.
Yeah, after reading that lovely "list of improvements" I think you should be gone. (Especially because the largest improvement was the environmental stuff which usually means less water and heat.)
Also, if you landlord is that big of a sleeze ball he/she is probably not going to give you your security deposit back, so I'd trash the plac (or light it on fire) before you go. :wink:
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Also, if you landlord is that big of a sleeze ball he/she is probably not going to give you your security deposit back, so I'd trash the plac (or light it on fire) before you go. :wink:
Don't light a fire. The bastard will collect millions for the Ferrari he keeps in his closet and the fine artwork he'll pretend to have, and not to mention a huge amount of money for all of the "improvements" he has just done to the place. I don't know what it is, but this whole place just sounds like insurance fraud waiting to happen.
I say just cherry bomb his toilet.
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Hey ho0b.
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Don't trash it. If he doesn't give it back, just take him to small claims court.
Make sure to take plenty of pictures of how clean it is when you leave, or he might try and make a mess and say it is your fault. ((You may want to take a picture with a newspaper, to make sure the date is known.))
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Don't trash it. If he doesn't give it back, just take him to small claims court.
Make sure to take plenty of pictures of how clean it is when you leave, or he might try and make a mess and say it is your fault. ((You may want to take a picture with a newspaper, to make sure the date is known.))
Take a picture, put it in an envelope, and mail it to a relative. The post office puts dates on everything. That way they'll know when the pictures were taken.
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Good idea, you could also mail it to yourself.
That way, it stays unopened.
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Hey ho0b.
Hey! How's it shaking Detta?
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Attractively.
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Attractively.
I didn't know there was any other way when you were involved, Detta. But I was looking for something more descriptive, perhaps an equation representing the motion of the shaking.
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Attractively.
I didn't know there was any other way when you were involved, Detta. But I was looking for something more descriptive, perhaps an equation representing the motion of the shaking.
No. :P
Hey ho0b. Good to see you back among us again.
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Hey, h00b. Welcome back!
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I suggest some how finding a way to slip fish and other meat products between the walls before you move out. Give it a week and you have instant revenge.
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Hey ho0b. Good to see you back among us again.
I read that as "hey noob" and I LOLed because DS called ho0b a noob (which would be uncharacteristic and therefore funny), but then I realised he didn't. :-(
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A 'ho0b n00b', if you will. I like it, but it's not very appropriate. :P
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Aww thanks guys!
o btw - can sum1 plz help me hax my ex-gf's hotmail accnt???!11 KTHXBYE!!11one1
Annnnnyway - it is good to be back - I missed you guys.
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No. Absolutely not. What do you think this is? Hack ernetwork?
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Update:
My rent has been raised! My water has been off for two days! HOORAY
Breaking news!
My water has just come back on! There was a sign posted sometime last night (after 10pm, which is when I came home) that the water would be off from the hours of 9pm - 3pm today. I guess the 9pm should have been 9am and the 3 should have been a 4! I'm not sure when I was supposed to read this sign, but I'm glad I didn't have anything to do today that required me to not stink.
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You could always go with the poor man's shower (using lots of deodorant)
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You could always go with the poor man's shower (using lots of deodorant)
Actually, that would probably be more expensive.
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Homeless people usually don't have access to running water. Living quarters cost a lot of money and finding not quite totally used up deodorant in the dumpsters is actually a pretty common find.
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Homeless people usually don't have access to running water. Living quarters cost a lot of money and finding not quite totally used up deodorant in the dumpsters is actually a pretty common find.
Glad to know you've had a lot of experience with that phenomena.
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finding not quite totally used up deodorant in the dumpsters is actually a pretty common find.
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Aww... and all this time I thought used deodorant was phat loot :-(
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Glad to know you've had a lot of experience with that phenomena.
Didn't you say you were in college? Or are you one of those trust fund kids who doesn't have to pay for school?
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Didn't you say you were in college? Or are you one of those trust fund kids who doesn't have to pay for school?
I am a college student who is in debt up to his eyebrows. Although right now I'm doing an internship with a big company making the big bucks. :)
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What kind of internship?
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What kind of internship?
A paid co-op internship.
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Huh, neat little warning we got there.
Update:
Now I live with my girlfriend in a three bedroom house downtown. We have mice. :D
I like to keep this thread alive so you can all sleep easy knowing about my current living conditions.
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Mice I could deal with. No water, not so much.
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We have mice. :D
Are they nice mice?
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My dad got cats to deal with his mice. Problem is, now we're overrun with cats. I'm opting for dogs this round.
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Be careful. That song ends with, "She's dead, of course."
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Are they nice mice?
Yes and no - while they're very cute once I evict them into the harsh Canadian winter (they run around in adorable little circles, wondering where the hell they are), the first mouse was a bit of a jerk. He ate a bunch of chocolate I had left on my desk - this is how we found out about the mice - and I left him a note with the remainder of the chocolate. He ate the rest of the chocolate, and didn't even read the note!
This is the note:
Dear Mouse,
Fuck you. Don't eat my chocolate again. You can have this piece because you already fucked it up.
P.S. Ur dead.
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and didn't even read the note!
So these are the famous Blind Mice from the song? Dude! You can cash in on that Big Time! ...PM me; I know people.
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Yes and no - while they're very cute once I evict them into the harsh Canadian winter (they run around in adorable little circles, wondering where the hell they are), the first mouse was a bit of a jerk. He ate a bunch of chocolate I had left on my desk - this is how we found out about the mice - and I left him a note with the remainder of the chocolate. He ate the rest of the chocolate, and didn't even read the note!
This is the note:
Dear Mouse,
Fuck you. Don't eat my chocolate again. You can have this piece because you already fucked it up.
P.S. Ur dead.
Try braille next time!
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You're supposed to only color in ONE bubble per answer.
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So are you going to bait or go the trap route?
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So are you going to bait or go the trap route?
How does "baited trap" sound? We have these little metal boxes that have a panel in the centre that holds food. When the panel is moved at all, two side panels come crashing down, ensuring the mouse will be bored.
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ensuring the mouse will be bored.
Bored.... to death! *Cue dramatic music*