Is anybody else noticing this? Seems like a lot of inventory, the response to my listing is unusually slow. I thought my rent was right in the middle, but perhaps the wheel is turning to a renter's market, I guess I'll drop it $100.
This is theoretical. I want to sign a lease with a new tenant before verifying the income docs. Do I have to put a clause in the lease that its void in case of document fraud, or is it a given?
At court the tenant agreed to move out in 30 days if I refunded their security. I agreed. This is the first I heard after 3 months that he never got it. So whose problem is this, mine or the tenant? Did the attorney abscond with his money or mine? I no longer had control of it.
We're only talking about $1,100, I was happy to pay it to get rid of them. Not as happy to pay it twice!
I saw this book recommended in a book sub and it sounded interesting. I was expecting a balanced analysis of the pros and cons of how finance has shaped our world. I just listened to the first chapter and it is nothing but an anti-capitalist diatribe!
Nearly an hourlong rant of how bad lenders and debt are without a single explanation of why it is a useful enough tool that is still being used despite its potential for abuse. It's like a book about the history of cars being totally obsessed with how many people die because of them without a word considering their usefulness as transportation.
What am I missing? I'm open to learning from viewpoints that I disagree with, but not to be ranted at. My favorite podcast ever is 2 libertarian economists arguing about whether Democratic capitalism is inevitably corrupt, and concluding yes. But this seems beyond analysis and into polemic.
This new YouTube extolling the meticulous production of the film says that they planned sequels, absurdly saying all 20! Which makes no sense given the cobbled together nature of the script from a number of books. It also says that young male audiences are discovering the film on streaming, attracted by its authenticity, and it has the decency to recommend reading the books.
Engine wouldn't catch after returning from a 10 day vacation. Had it towed to my mechanics and they say the compression is so low the engine is toast. Only like 120k miles! It's been burning oil though.
Should I get a 2nd opinion by having it towed to another mechanic or the dealership? Or just accept the loss and move on?
I know they have been around, they know my car. There was a half inch wide cut in the side wall. I spoke to any of the neighbors whose doorbell cameras might have picked it up, no luck. Am I just going to have to wait for the next time? Seems too little to go to the police with. This is a dense rowhouse city block.
EDIT: for those suggesting I put up a camera of my own, I have one on my property, but this is a city street where you're lucky to find a spot on the block never mind right in front of your building. I'm considering a multi camera dash cam parking monitoring capability.
Flew into Newark at 10 last night and Uber wanted $80, Lyft was like $50 but after 10 minutes still had no car for us. I still had A-1 in my phone from pre rideshare days, and they were there in 20 min for a $38 ride! Clean car, pleasant driver, the dispatcher was a little laconic, but you can't have everything. Next time we need a ride at a heavy usage time I'm not going to the apps. I've waited longer than 20 min for a rideshare car to show!
I'd like to be able dim a large panel like this. but running new cable is pretty impractical. Any products that can be dimmed by just a standard LED capable dimmer? Is wireless a good option? I've been happy with a wireless fan controller for a wall box.
I want to set this Ikea cabinet into a wall to make it a "built in", there's a space on the other side of the wall from this basement apartment where an oil tank had been removed, but I can't just bump out the wall because the gas meters are above. So I can mount this 40"h cab below 48". This is a "lipstick the pig" project, trying to add value to a fairly nasty but legal basement studio. The previous tenant had been there 20 years, lots to do!
I was hoping to find a face frame unit so the frame could sit proud of the wall with no trim needed, but no dice. I am skilled enough to build a cab, but when this is ~$300, that makes no sense. So, I'm thinking just mount it proud like 13/16" and frame it with some 11/16 casing. Are there any better ideas out there?
FWIW, this cab is 15" d, 40" h and 30" w. I was unable to find a stock cabinet deeper that had doors taller than 30".
I want to do some 'built ins' that are flush with the wall but extend into unused utility room space. Can't use space above 4' as there's gas meters there. Optimal would be 2 units 33w x 42h x 24 d with 2 doors per. There's just so many RTA vendors out there it's hard to tell who can actually do custom work.
Last week I sent an small box from northern NJ to a client in Eastern PA, usually delivered overnight on ground service. It took a week! Last week I ordered something from CA, it's been 25 miles from me in Parsippany since 4 am Sunday, the status changed today, Wednesday, to 'delayed'. WTF?
I was trying to get to Lowes last week and the damn jug handle was closed for construction. There was literally no way to get there other than mess with the 440 & Communipaw intersection, which was the usual disaster!
Just one little view of how JC and Hudson County are tax dollar vanishing machines. How does a guy with a racketeering conviction become Hudson County Parks Department Director? Well, he's a made man twice over, once in the Genovese family and once in the HCDO!
Usually I never pay attention to these notices, I'm a YIMBY guy, but this is too weird. Got a notice that there's a variance request for 30 Waverly to set back 65 ft with 0% landscaping, and set back 10' in the back. WTF? That's a 25' deep 2 family! Seen it, but no one would build that today.
There's something odd going on here. Sat photos seem to show a irregular shaped lot next to the NJ Transit ventilation shaft. The lot has no number, when I looked up the block and lot tax records it's listed as a 15x100 lot that is assessed for $300k and sold in 2020 for $1,250,000! But that sale is a "NU#30", apparently for multiple parcels not listed. Now I'm like a dog with a bone and have to know what's going on here.
I tried to access the city website, what a mess! Just the fact this letter asks you to type out a 63 character URL is so fucked up. As per the 2nd image I thought I finally got to the right place and there's "no record" when I type in the case number or 30 Waverly. Any tips?
I am really getting fed up with this, It happens nearly every time. Yesterday I was absolutely home all day, no ring. Not the first time either. But the gall to tell me literally it's not their job, " the law doesn't say thats what they have to do ". So instead of them taking a moment to ring the bell, I have to take 45 min to get down to the post office and wait in line just to get the damn letter.
Note, this is the same city post office where checks issued by banks regularly disappear. It's not like those are being fished out of the corner drop box.
The crazy thing is there's absolutely no reason most of these legal notices can't be done electronically. I can't wait. In fact there is very little that comes in the mail that couldn't be done online. The whole institution is obsolete.
EDIT: this is actually funny, I just opened up the online NYTimes to see an article about New York's Governor commissioning a project to get rid of exactly this kind of obsolete crap! She cites requirements for notification by telegram and fax too. If I can e-sign a contract to sell a home online, surely I can get a notification that somebody is asking for variance by email.
For most of my herb pots I just use a 2L emitter in the middle and it's fine. They're usually like 2 store bought starts excepting the perennial mint. But I've started a cilantro pot with scattered seeds and plan to let it reseed rather than mulch it, so it will dry out fast. Right now I have a swirling microspray that give way too much water, but I wanted to be sure they germinated given how shallow they're seeded. I'm afraid the plants at the rim will dry out with one emitter in the center. Most micro-sprinklers I've used put out tons of water, often over a much larger area. Is there any good for smaller area like this?
I'd love to see it, but not be a sardine 8 rows back from the railing of the walkway! However I'm wondering how actually crowded it will be? There's only so much parking for 2 miles of walkway, and suburbanites aren't very likely to do what it takes to get there via mass transit. We'd be biking, like we often do for the fireworks.
Even for my 450 ft one bedrooms I usually put in a standard 18 cu ft fridge, they are not that expensive. But for my only <300 sq ft studio that I'm turning over for the 1st time ever after 14 years, I wonder if I should just put in a little under cabinet one. I'm planning on marketing it to college students. It's a legal basement apartment and nobody's idea of fabulous.
I do all the lock work for my small apartment buildings. Originally I used classroom locks on the outer main entrance so that the tenants could leave the outer door unlocked for deliveries and such, but since I added a video smartphone door system that is irrelevant. Now I want to make it a smartkey so I can rekey easily if there's any problem with an ex tenant or a contractor who was given a key.
All the Kwickset locksets I see have the unlock knob on the inside. That's not usable since any guest leaving would be able to unlock the doors. Do I have any other options? And yes I know all about the flaws of the smartkey system, but I've been pretty happy with it and have even taken apart and reset the one or two cylinders that had problems.