u/__alpenglow

Hi friends. I’m a seasonal firefighter and have the winters off - starting now.

I’ve been mulling over all summer offering to shovel snow for folks during the winter for donations since times are hard, and I’d like to earn a little cash on the side. My main reason not getting a “real job” is to maintain the flexibility to come & go as I please, like making random trips to sunshine and warmth.

I wanted to get a pulse on how successful or unsuccessful this venture could be. Do you think I could hang flyers in town and would it interest people?

I don’t have many other skills other than knowing how to do manual labor. But I figured snow shoveling could be a start. Ideas and feedback are welcomed.

This is my third year living in Fairbanks - I’m a wee baby newbie, relatively speaking.

I recently purchased the dry cabin I’ve been living in and I’ve been thinking about how hard life can be up here - between hauling water, intermittent showers, sporadic laundry, cost of gas, heating oil, and groceries (and lackluster quality of fresh food), cost of upkeep to home & vehicles, and of course, the tumultuous natural aspects like 24 hours of daylight and mosquitoes. (Guess which season is my favorite lol).

In my short time living here, I’ve come to know how dedicated and resilient one must be to live this lifestyle. You have to be creative, resourceful, and capable of troubleshooting anything. You have to be patient while you integrate into the community. It’s taken me three solid years to start to develop a network of people.

All of this has me wondering what keeps you here? I’ve lived in three other states and life is so much easier down there.

I stay because this lifestyle is earned; there’s pride in adapting to an inhospitable environment and thriving; there are just enough amenities to make life comfortable, while also feeling like you live in the middle of nowhere; and goddamn if those beautiful pastels of prolonged sunset in winter don’t make my heart feel unmatched joy when I’m out on the trails.

I have my objective parameters set up for my applications:
-650 or greater credit score
-3x monthly rent in gross income
-No evictions or criminal history

The area I live is utilized heavily by college students and fall semester is about to begin. A neighbor just rented out her spare cabin and told me she had a TON of college students apply, which leads me to believe I will get the same, as I am listing my rental in two weeks' time.

I have a pre-screening form that asks if they have a 650 credit score or better. I just added a box asking if they are a student. Students also won't make 3x the monthly rent in income either.

So I don't know what to do. I know I can ask them to add a parent or someone as a co-signor, but that seems like a lot of extra work I don't necessarily want to do. They won't meet the income requirements likely...

I feel a bit lost. How do I sort this out with students?

Last month I purchased the cabin I live in and it was a package deal to include the rental cabin next door. Both cabins are on one lot, one deed, and could not be separated out.

In researching setting up an LLC for my new rental cabin, I came across information that says you transfer the title of the rental property to the LLC. But I’m confused, because the title for the rental property is the same title for my primary residence.

Can I set up an LLC if the rental property is on the same deed and same title as my primary home?

I’ve checked all over town and seems no one stocks them. The only website they are available from does not ship to Alaska. Someone has to sell these locally since they’re installed in homes here…

I expect to be roasted, and that’s fine.
I’m about to be a landlord for a dry cabin in town. The outhouse basin is tiny compared to others and I want the tenant to be responsible for the cost of pumping it.

I’ve been reading and re-reading the Alaska Landlord-Tenant Act and it seems there are gray areas or room for interpretation about what I should be responsible for as the landlord vs. what I can ask the tenant to be responsible for.

Am I allowed to write a clause in my rental agreement that the tenant shall be responsible for costs of pumping the outhouse?

Any advice from other local landlords is appreciated here.

EDIT: I assure you this is an outhouse and the basin is a 55gallon drum with no holes. I have one identical to it and I, as a single person, who only uses it for poop and not pee, fill it up in 12 months by myself. The pumper told me when I had it pumped that this set up is not common and the basin is tiny. I think I need to get bigger holes/basins installed.

36F, 30 days post-op, 8mm full-thickness labral repair and femoroplasty.

I wish my protocol had been to stay on crutches completely for at least two weeks post-op. I see now that my surgeon is liberal in the mindset of “you can’t mess up your surgery.” This is a renowned surgeon at a metropolitan university hospital in the U.S.
My protocol was to weight bear as soon as I wanted and start PT 3-5 days post op. The care team assured me that anything I do would just be a pain tolerance thing and couldn’t screw up the repair. No running up mountains, of course, but do whatever I want.

I was off crutches on Day 3 and PTing at home every day thereafter. Day 5 I walked four miles for fun. I was feeling good other than mild aching. Day 12 arrives and I have my first PT appointment. Mind you, the PT I had been rehabbing the injury with the last several months quit and so I had to begin from scratch with someone new at a different facility. The new therapist is fresh out of college and tells me in the evaluation to do a deep squat. I told him absolutely not. As the session wears on, he’s having me do all sorts of single leg weight bearing stuff on my operated hip. Red flag city. Next day I wake up in excruciating pain and things have been going downhill since then.

I had an emergency virtual consult with my surgeon as I live 3,000 miles from him. He ordered X-rays, and told me to go back to bed rest & full crutches for the next two weeks. He gets the xray back and calls me at 10pm from his personal cell: “I need you to go to the ER and get a CT scan right now. I believe you’ve broken your hip.” CT scan comes back negative for broken hip, thank god. But what a roller coaster. Now I’m awaiting the final step, an MRI in mid-July to complete the story.

I’m in the middle of bed rest and the pain is so much worse than it ever was prior to surgery. I’ve been reading the stories on Reddit about failed surgeries and never returning to once-beloved sports/activities. This seems more than a “flare up.” It throbs and twisting even a centimeter the wrong way sends me doubled over in pain.

I cannot afford for this surgery to have messed me up forever. My job is completely physical and my happiness depends on biking, running, hockey, and yoga.

Am I screwed up forever? I’m so scared - it wasn’t supposed to go this way.