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My uncle passed in May and left his house near Cedar Hills to me and my sister. The place is in rough shape, roof is leaking, subfloor in the kitchen is completely rotted, and the HVAC is from 1994. Got a contractor quote last week for $48k just to make it presentable for an agent to list it, which neither of us has sitting around right now.

Sister wants to just cut our losses and sell to one of those cash house buyers so we don't have to keep driving out here every weekend to haul junk and deal with repairs. I'm just paranoid about getting ripped off by those random postcard fliers that come in the mail.

For anyone who dealt with a heavy fixer-upper around Beaverton, did you bite the bullet on fixing it up or just sell off-market?

That fact helps explain why their union continues to swim publicly against the current in its support of one of the lowest-polling institutions in the country, data centers.

Profiles in Dunthorpe Douchebaggery

I am a mid career professional with an AA and a BA having a hell of a time finding work locally and remotely.

I am interested in learning more about the accounting and paralegal tracks at PCC, and in learning more about how these certificates are perceived in the local community.

PCC Academic Advising wasn’t able to engage with this question and punted me to Career Services. That was in May and nobody has replied to my emails or calls. I’ve cold called several local law and accounting firms but have not been able to speak with anyone for an informational interview. I called my alma maters to see if they could offer general help and they both don’t have any alumni services; one must be a currently enrolled student to access either advising or career services. I also reached out to private career coaches locally but was told they only offer a general career exploration service that wasn’t a good fit for someone who has narrowed down their search to two options.

Does anyone have any advice or leads? I’m not particularly keen going back to school for something I have zero interest in but I would like to get out of (f)unemployment purgatory after four years of shooting out hundreds of applications and not getting any interviews.

Thanks darlings

Hi Portland! I’ve been working on a cat café concept called Purrlandia, and I figured it was probably time to introduce it here.

One thing I want to clarify up front: the goal is for Purrlandia to be a full café and taproom, not just a cat lounge that happens to sell coffee. The cat lounge would be a separate part of the space, and you would not need to visit the cats to come in for coffee, food, or a drink.

Ideally, I want it to be somewhere people would actually stop in regularly even when they aren't planning a cat lounge visit. The cats would be a major part of the concept, but not the only reason the business exists.

I’m still in the planning and site-search stage, so I’m not announcing an opening date or pretending I have everything figured out yet. A lot of the work right now is figuring out what will actually make sense for the Portland area, especially when it comes to location.

A few things I’d be curious to hear from people here:

Where would you realistically travel for something like this? Would you strongly prefer Portland proper, or would somewhere like Beaverton or Tigard still appeal to you if the location were easier to access and had good parking?

How much does easy parking matter? A lot of the neighborhoods that seem like an obvious fit for this kind of business are primarily street parking, so I’m trying to figure out how much weight to give that in the site search.

And for people who have visited cat cafés before: what would make you actually come back regularly rather than visit once for the novelty? That could be the café itself, events, atmosphere, pricing, the cat experience, or something else entirely.

I’m interested in both the positive and critical answers. I’d rather figure out what Portlanders actually want while I’m still building the concept than after everything is set in stone.

If you want to follow along as Purrlandia develops, I’ll be posting updates on Instagram at purrlandiapdx

I have spent a fair amount of time assuming the city of Portland is incapable of responding to basically anything, so today I would like to formally recognize an extraordinary achievement in municipal government.

They fixed my pothole.

This pothole was driving me crazy, right where you turn onto the street, positioned so perfectly that there was basically no way to avoid hitting it without entering the opposite lane.

I reported it through the city’s pothole reporting site, mostly so I could say I tried. I submitted it and assumed it would disappear into whatever vast administrative void receives these things.

Then something incredible happened: they came and filled it within a week.

I drove around the corner today like normal, prepared for impact, and was greeted by a beautiful patch of fresh asphalt where the thing used to exist. I could not believe my eyes.

So, city of Portland: thank you. I am extremely proud of you. I knew there had to be something you were good at.

They identified a deficit and eliminated it within a week. Unfortunately for the city’s finances, it was a single pothole.

If anyone has any info on a brown Great Dane that was lost around Frog Lake on Mt Hood over the summer please send me a DM. Thanks! Not sure why the downvotes. But to clarify we did not lose the dog, we have found it and trying to find the owner or any info that could help find the owner.

if you had an unlimited budget, what would be your ideal neighborhood to live in?

By no means do I have unlimited budget. I'm just curious, my husband and I are planning on moving to portland from austin. When we visited (i've been twice) I really loved the Hawthorne area alot, but is it realistic to want to live there?

I work from home and my husband would need to commute (not sure where yet, we aren't in the job hunting phase just yet) no kids, 2 small dogs, would love a really walkable area to live in. Proximity to restaurants and bars would be nice. Maybe a neighborhood park in the area wouldn't hurt.

What is your favorite neighborhood?