u/GuyWComputer

do u think it would be possible trade pool services to live in an apartment?

I’ve heard of a few apartment complexes that want daily maintenance and I think that many pool companies won’t do that bc it is logistically not really worth it. I’m not sure what a pool company would cost but I think it would be well in excess of the rent for a 2 bedroom, especially if u factor in the included chemicals, repairs and/or multiple pools year round.

I am a professional in the pool service industry and I ran a pool business in another state before moving here. I still technically own it and could get insurance and a certification easily if needed. Also I could change my service agreement to fit this particular arrangement since this is obviously outside the scope of a normal lease. I’m considering reaching out realtors and offering a fee if they found me a landlord. Ik they have rules around kickbacks but since I’m not a title company or anything I think it’s allowed.

Also since cash is not being transferred, will I owe any kind of income tax from this? Can I write off the cost of chemicals and equipment while receiving $0 in revenue for years, that just seems like asking to be audited.

Just an idea. Tell me if I’m bonkers or if it could actually be feasible. Thanks.

To any realtors, leasing agents, or other professionals in the real estate industry, do u think it would be possible trade pool services to live in an apartment?

I’ve heard of a few apartment complexes that want daily maintenance and I think that many pool companies won’t do that bc it is logistically not really worth it. I’m not sure what a pool company would cost but I think it would be well in excess of the rent for a 2 bedroom, especially if u factor in the included chemicals, repairs and/or multiple pools year round.

I am a professional in the pool service industry and I ran a pool business in another state before moving here. I still technically own it and could get insurance and a Colorado certification easily if needed. I’m considering reaching out realtors and offering a fee if they found me a landlord. Ik they have rules around kickbacks but since I’m not a title company or anything I think it’s allowed.

Just an idea. Tell me if I’m bonkers or if it could actually be feasible. Thanks.

Has anyone ever struck a deal with an apartment complex where u take care of their pool in exchange for an apartment there?

I’d like to offer a daily maintenance with chemicals and repairs included. I live in a major city and it seems something like that would cost an apartment much more than rent for a 2 bedroom, especially when u factor in free repairs and if they have more than one pool.

If so, how did it go and how did u go about soliciting landlords? I’m thinking about going to a realtor and offering realtor fees if they found someone.

I recently started working for a pool company that is ran by basically a guy who has a pool in is backyard and wanted to get into the business. It’s their first year in the business and they put pool rx black and white in the skimmer of every pool. There are a few pools that are precipitating copper and I think it’s bc of the copper pipes. I always thought copper pipes are a gimmick and probably don’t do a lot and just open the door to trouble. Why bother with it when u can keep a pool sanitized without them.

I’ll see what Reddit thinks before I say anything to them about it

I just wanted to know what others think about my degree. Im currently studying chemistry in community college and im wondering how useful my degree will be. I feel like a lot of the deeper parts of the “pool chemistry iceberg” are nice to know but in practical terms it’s not that useful bc all u need to know is what chemicals to use when and how much.

In your company, is there a guy with deeper technical knowledge on chemistry? Would a company value that? If so then it could be a good combination with pool tech skills and I could be paid well immediately, or would it be better to move on to something like a water treatment plant once I earn an associates.

For reference, the managers at the place I work at now make I think 36/hr (high cost of living area) and by the time I get an associates I will probably be promoted to manager and I will have more chem knowledge than anyone else. Would it be possible to earn even more with my technical knowledge or would it just not be as useful. I think water treatment will start me in the low 20s. Once I’m done with college I want to go to uni and get an engineering degree. I’ll get raises over time with water treatment but by the time I get to mid 30s I will graduate from uni and I can find my final form.

So should I just max out the hourly with pools and just do that until I graduate from uni or should I find something more closely aligned to my field so I have more relevant experience when I graduate. I would like to spend a little less time out in the hot sun.

I have about 3 years of experience as a pool technician and I recently took a job at a start up pool company that is run be 2 guys who don’t really know a ton about pools.
It’s pretty cool bc they really wanted someone with some experience and they treat me very well, however they are over the top about having any air at all in the vac hose when u connect it, and when u are done vacuuming I can’t lift the vac head out so the pump empties the hose. He keeps saying “air bad” and yea air is bad, but to my understanding the reason air is bad is bc the seal between the pump and motor is cooled by moving water and if there is no water the seal heats up and will fail, allowing water from the pump to mix with the grease in the motor bearings and that is were the screech comes from. There is also something that can happen with tiny bubbles that damage the impeller but to my understanding it would take like 2 minutes of the pump running dry for overheating or impeller damage to happen. Tbh I don’t think he even knows what an impeller is. Today we went to a pool with a pentair Intelichlor and the salt was only 2600 and he did not know it needed salt. I said it’s gonna need about 6 bags at least to get to 3500 which is the bottom of the range and he questions whether that is too much, just to show his level of knowledge.

So my question is: is having air in the hose really that bad? I usually put a water in the hose by holding it by the return and I try not to let it loose prime.

I watched him empty a pump basket today and instead of manually priming it he lets it prime on its own. Imo that is worse than a little air in the vac hose, but still not really that big of a deal most of the time.

He also has a few other inefficiencies that I’d like to bring up to him. for instance, he wants to use the disk series chem tester, but those discs cost like $5 each, and a test strip is only like $.25. Yea they can test for metals and phosphates and imo it is the best test for those things, but it’s hardly necessary at each pool each week, since I’m still gonna put the same amount of chemicals. Whether the chlorine is .4 or .8 or the pH is 7.8 or 7.9 makes no difference. I’m gonna use 3 pounds of shock and 3 pounds of bisulfate.

He’s also having me use SKIMMER out in the field and I find it so annoying because it kills my rhythm and there’s not always cell reception, and he copies the stuff from SKIMMER to add to invoices anyway so I could just do it on paper. But at least I don’t have to take a before and after picture of the pool and the skimmers and the pump basket and everything else.

The idea behind all the stuff is that he wants to have an Above & Beyond pool service. I can get behind that, but some of the stuff is just busy work and doesn’t really add any value. I feel like he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he doesn’t even know that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

I have about 3 years of experience as a pool technician and I recently took a job at a start up pool company that is run be 2 guys who don’t really know a ton about pools.
It’s pretty cool bc they really wanted someone with some experience and they treat me very well, however they are over the top about having any air at all in the vac hose when u connect it, and when u are done vacuuming I can’t lift the vac head out so the pump empties the hose. He keeps saying “air bad” and yea air is bad, but to my understanding the reason air is bad is bc the seal between the pump and motor is cooled by moving water and if there is no water the seal heats up and will fail, allowing water from the pump to mix with the grease in the motor bearings and that is were the screech comes from. There is also something that can happen with tiny bubbles that damage the impeller but to my understanding it would take like 2 minutes of the pump running dry for overheating or impeller damage to happen. Tbh I don’t think he even knows what an impeller is. Today we went to a pool with a pentair Intelichlor and the salt was only 2600 and he did not know it needed salt. I said it’s gonna need about 6 bags at least to get to 3500 which is the bottom of the range and he questions whether that is too much, just to show his level of knowledge.

So my question is: is having air in the hose really that bad? I usually put a water in the hose by holding it by the return and I try not to let it loose prime.

I watched him empty a pump basket today and instead of manually priming it he lets it prime on its own. Imo that is worse than a little air in the vac hose, but still not really that big of a deal most of the time.

He also has a few other inefficiencies that I’d like to bring up to him. for instance, he wants to use the disk series chem tester, but those discs cost like $5 each, and a test strip is only like $.25. Yea they can test for metals and phosphates and imo it is the best test for those things, but it’s hardly necessary at each pool each week, since I’m still gonna put the same amount of chemicals. Whether the chlorine is .4 or .8 or the pH is 7.8 or 7.9 makes no difference. I’m gonna use 3 pounds of shock and 3 pounds of bisulfate.

He’s also having me use SKIMMER out in the field and I find it so annoying because it kills my rhythm and there’s not always cell reception, and he copies the stuff from SKIMMER to add to invoices anyway so I could just do it on paper. But at least I don’t have to take a before and after picture of the pool and the skimmers and the pump basket and everything else.

The idea behind all the stuff is that he wants to have an Above & Beyond pool service. I can get behind that, but some of the stuff is just busy work and doesn’t really add any value. I feel like he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he doesn’t even know that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

Ai says that u need consistent bank statements where u pull money out for 2 years but i feel skeptical. Does anyone have experience qualifying for a mortgage or a loan using covered call income either solely or adding it to your income so your debt to income is lower?

The responsibility for the economic problems we face lie with non other than the federal reserve and the policies of Alan Greenspan God rest his soul, and his predecessors; Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell. Greenspan kept interest rates down during the dot com bubble and he left them there and blew up a housing bubble. Bernanke yellen monetized the debt by buying treasuries during the 08 recession so the us government could bail out the banks who made such risky loans because of the policies set by the fed in the first place. Private gains, public losses. Jerome Powell attempted to shrink the feds balance sheet but bc there is now 20 years of mal investment caused by cheap interest rates the economy will crash if you take that away by easing interest rates. It’s like monetary heroin. U can give drugs to someone and they feel great but when the drugs wear off they feel bad and they need more drugs to feel good again. Over time they become more and more addicted and before you know it, they need a dose of drugs so large that they OD and we have hyperinflation. For 25 years new money poured into assets like stocks and real estate and after Covid it started to make its way into the cpi, now a bag of groceries is like $100.

Of course it was congress that cut taxes and refused to cut spending and it was the fed that allowed them to do it by buying government bonds. Both are to blame. However politically independent the fed pretends to be they are beholden to the president. They probably have to make promises to him to be appointed. The fed chair will always lower interest rates, increase the balance sheet and allow congress to keep increasing the national debt bc it’s the economy stupid. They will always choose the kick the can down the road bc doing the right thing by raising interest rates and shrinking the balance sheet is too painful. The longer they wait to deal with this problem the worse it will be when it eventually unravels.

Taxation is theft. End the inflation tax. End the fed.

No other Colorado sub Reddit is gonna let me post so I came here.

I’m from out of state and my ID expired. I’ve been trying to transfer but the dmv keeps sending me to the wrong place or telling me I don’t need something when in fact I do. The dmv is his a load of horse shit but whatever. I finally decided after months of the dmv screwing me around to just go to my home state and renew online.

So now I have my expired id. A file of my temporary id and a photograph of the new id. All out of state. I also have a birth certificate and an expired passport.

So is this enough?

On I side note why are the bartenders nazies about IDs here? Like u know my name and u already poured the beer and u still don’t wanna serve me?? I don’t get it.

I recently moved out of the southeast and I kinda feel like I have trouble fitting in. I do have an accent but I try to tone it down, I feel like maybe this is a factor.

Alabama to Colorado

I have loads of restaurant experience. My parents owned several restaurants, I worked in restaurants for like 3 years in high school then I went into another industry and eventually started my own business that I ran for 2 years before I decided I wanted to go back to school, and I’ve been a server for another 3 years. So I have about 6-7 years of restaurant experience and I have 2 years of leadership experience. The only thing I lack is scheduling, payroll, hiring firing sort of experience since I never needed to hire anyone, and bartending experience. Other than that I feel like my resume is pretty strong. Most of the places I apply to don’t even have a bar anyway.

I’m just not sure if there is something else I need, maybe a certification or something like that but I don’t want to spend 12 months on something I only plan to use for the next 5 years while I get a degree.

I am doing some hypothetical research and I am curious, if Zelda the Wind Waker came out today in its current form as an indie game, how much should it cost? I was thinking $35 but my friend said $45+ and another said $20

In my old city I had a job as a server in a Thai restaurant. I really miss it and I’m looking for a job like that again but I haven’t really seen any white servers at Asian restaurants. I know that a lot of these places might not want to hire me, so I ask, have you been to a good Thai restaurant and have seen a white server.

Also what are good Thai restaurants around here? All of the places I have been to seem to what to capitalize on every Asian cuisine and it becomes inauthentic and over generalized.