I should clarify some things: - I fully acknowledge that my situation is 100% my responsibility. (Blame is a different matter, but assigning blame is usually pointless.) - I also acknowledge that if one is unable to uphold a responsibility that is theirs, that does not mean that someone else is required to take on that responsibility. When I can't be properly responsible for myself, I do not expect anyone to take up that responsibility (although, it's nice when people are willing to. If anything I've said came across as contrary to the above points, it was not my intention. Furthermore... I am fully capable of, at the very least, improving my current financial situation. I have been doing so for many years and I plan to continue. There are choices I could make that I'm confident would quickly elevate me to at least solidly middle-class, and possibly into wealthy territory. However, I find those choices unacceptable because... - I'd have to take a good, thorough fucking in the process; - I'd have to fuck a lot of people over; - and/or there's too much risk. Slow progress/minimizing setbacks is a better option right now than risking years of progress, compromising my integrity, or letting people take advantage of me. My life is often far more frustrating than is reasonable, but I'm fine, and I will most likely continue to be fine. There's a good chance I'll manage better than fine. If anyone's capable of pulling themself up by their own bootstraps, it's me. I'll probably have to build some sort of contraption with pulleys and such to pull it off, but that's going to take some time. In the mean time, I could do without the constant crowd of people standing around telling me to build it faster. If you're not going to help, at least get the fuck out of my way. And for fuck's sake, stop telling me that standing around telling me to work faster is helping because otherwise I wouldn't be building at all, because we both know that's bullshit.
I am pretty sure that is what is presently going on. CO2 is the active ingredient of earth shampoo. It seems to do the job of eliminating the life that lives in her atmosphere above ground. She got it special delivery from space Amazon once, and most of the time she secretes the stuff herself, but this time her human lice are nice enough to be providing it for her. Carbon actually seems to get rid of a lot of pests and bad odors, including humans.
We are, and it is called CO2. Harful to the present life on the planet, but not going to harm the planet itself in general. The nuclear radiation option would be the next treatment if this one does not work.
Supposed to be cold tonight. Local news led with a story about how rough this will be on bums and hobos. In other news there was a wood burning stove in the garage of the last house I bought, my tin shed is rigged for a stove, and I have a "yard barn" almost overflowing with firewood. So tonight I fired up the wood burning stove in a dry and sheltered place with electricity that houses my A-Team van and rare vintage motorcycle and thought good thoughts about the hobos that live under a nearby bridge.
Another funny story: My former renters just paid $300 for a pair of $10 garage door remotes--that they don't even have a garage door for. I mean, it's good for me, because they stiffed me on the last month's rent, but how does it make sense to them? Drop a pair of garage door openers off at the office and get $300. Keep them and lose $300. And get...nothing. Because when I spend $20 on new garage door openers I'm going to take 5 minutes to change the code on the door. This is why poor people are poor. They make stupid decisions.
I'm still waiting on you to make good on your empty threat to me. The only conclusion I can draw is that either you're scared to come find me, or you're too poor to get to Florida. Bitch.
So trying to figure this out... did he charge them a key deposit that they gave up by not returning them and now he's bragging about once again being a parasite? Also seems to me that if they stiffed him on the rent then he's still out whatever the difference is between that amount and the deposit which from their perspective would be the lesser loss. No matter... he's jsut making this shit up in a failing attempt to be as aggravatingly stupid as UA.
I have no idea. He's quibbling over $300. I spend more than that on dinner for my family at Disney World. It's funny to me because he keeps talking about poor people, but the numbers he throws around are Hilariously small. Like he doesn't actually understand what qualifies as wealthy.
I know, right? It's like me lording it over the tenants at work without factoring in that their RGI is about what I spend on coffee and lunches in a week.
The reality I have learned is the landlord will try and nickel and dime everything in the security deposit, while the renter will try and get everything they have in the security deposit back, or make the landlord use up the money. Her is bragging about things that end up being normal. This is also Volpone. He is probably a shady landlord. Maybe you just fuck the deposit and make sure he has to change the openers anyway because you do not want to be accused of breaking in later. This way he has to change the openers anyway, and you know you never have to deal with him again. If I knew I wasn't getting my deposit back because he is a scumbag, I keep them just to make sure he has to replace them. Small claims BS has to be filed and tried where the defendant resides. If I am moving a good distance and do not have time to go to court and deal with all that crap I just consider the deposit a PITA fee and make things as hard on him as possible.
This becomes the reality with a lot of security deposits. To go quibble about this and that in court because the landlord has the money and is going to make you fight for it back makes no sense. It really trains people to be shit renters and not bother with cleaning the place when they leave. I got screwed a couple of times on the security because you have to fight the landlord. Now if I ever leave the place I consider the security the actual cleaning and restoration fee and I don't bother with doing anything. Even though that sounds bad, a good landlord would probably do their own cleaning and lock changes anyway. You lived there for a long time and got use of it, and just leave the security and the mess for the landlord. As a landlord I would be on the opposite side unless the tenants really made the effort to clean up. They almost never do in my experience. I always consider the locks have to be changed anyway. You do not know if the idiot made a copy, and a new door lock is easy peasy.
While I agree in general, State and local laws often favor landlords over renters and those laws make it very easy for landlords to weasel their way out of their obligations including paying back security deposits.
we don't have security deposits here. Instead it's "last" month rent. technically, this is held in trust and accrues interest so if a tenant leaves after paying their final month of tenancy the LL is obligated to return this money with that interest. the reality is that most folks just don't pay the rent their final month and the LL keeps the "last month" money that was paid at move in.
Really depends on the landlord. When I moved out of an apartment back in 2009, my Mum and I spent a couple of days scrubbing the place clean and the fucker STILL tried hitting me with a £250 cleaning fee ("oh, we needed to deep-clean the oven!!" - no, you fucking didn't. That thing was cleaner than when I moved in).
It does not work when your roommate's idiot girlfriend blows off taking pictures with the landlord's maintenance guy during the final walk through and he takes credit for fixing the things you fixed, and she does not give a fuck because she did lay down the deposit and neither did he. Lucky for me I remember things. Revenge came at the worst possible moment in her life. I felt so bad for her when she lost her kids because she ran back to her abusive drug addicted baby's daddy after fucking my friend over and trying to get him to pay for her home after she broke up with him and moved back to PA. It was the least I could do, and it was not the only thing. Best 800 dollars I ever lost.
It’s always a crap shoot. I’ve moved out of apartments and left them in worse condition and gotten the deposit back. As well as left it in better condition. I always just assume it’s a poor tax and I’m not getting it back. That’s the world we live in. Everyone is out to accumulate as much capital as possible. In doing so, they fuck over every one else. But hey, CAPITALISM!!! FUCK YEA!!
Except with my job. It’s weird. The corporation is capitalist and terrified of “socialist” policies such as healthcare et al, but when it comes to us, they think it’s okay to load down the floor so we can share the largesse. And that’s the way of it. The corporate types are capitalist while the working stiffs are forced to be commies. “Don’t you want to share? Shithead needs it more than you because they have breathable abortions to feed” And that’s the bottom line. The poor are a multitude and they constantly vote for policies that directly harm by and keep them in poverty. If they were to know prosperity, who would work bc their crappy jobs? Felons and illegals.
By now I've come to understand that you're moderately/severely retarded, but what the hell, I'll ask: Point out where I actually threatened you. You strut around here, waving your micropenis in the air and then piss yourself and run and hide behind Mommy the first time anyone looks at you harshly and then tries to act like the badass. We both know the truth. Pussy.
It must burn, that you don't even intimidate me one bit. All your bragging about your guns and what not, but you still hide behind a screen. Yeah, I reported you. So do something about it. You know where to find me. Or you could continue what you've been doing, coming back every few months to brag about minor financial gains to prop up your own fragile ego. So go ahead and hurl insults about my dick. Any time you want to show me you're not just a little bitch with power fantasies, I'll be waiting. In the meantime, I will enjoy laughing at you and your macho posturing.
