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my apartment automatically went month to month at the end of my first year lease and they didn't increase the rent and aren't planning to. i have never heard of this happening in the bay area. really hope the old couple owners don't get covid and die, because their kid has no interest in landlording (good for him) and the building would end up being sold to some rent gouging vultures i'm sure
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May 5, 2020 22:10
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DELETE CASCADE posted:my apartment automatically went month to month at the end of my first year lease and they didn't increase the rent and aren't planning to. i have never heard of this happening in the bay area. really hope the old couple owners don't get covid and die, because their kid has no interest in landlording (good for him) and the building would end up being sold to some rent gouging vultures i'm sure yeah one of my old coworkers had a pretty nice landlord that didn't jack up the rent constantly; I guess its the rare inverse case of the Small Landlord Tyrant I think my first 1 br apartment in Santa Clara was like $1800/mo (I almost moved to one in Sunnyvale before I found that one, for like $2100/mo I think, but I was able to back out of that) and then when the lease came up it was like $2300/mo and then I had a 2 br here for a while and that went from like $1700/mo to maybe $2000ish/mo and I was debating just letting it go month to month before moving out because I had a gap between living there and moving to my new place but the month to mont was going to be like $3000+/mo and lol so I lived with my wife's parents
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May 5, 2020 22:16
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like nobody is getting raises to keep up with this poo poo so its all just seeing how hard they can squeeze and using the constant inflow of new people to gently caress over while pushing all the old ones out
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May 5, 2020 22:17
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gently caress landlords housing is a human right and I hope they all get their drat heads chopped off /daydrinking
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May 5, 2020 22:19
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Endless Mike posted:will they not let you go month to month? Oh poo poo this is a good call, I should find out.
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May 5, 2020 22:25
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Realized today that I am going to have to search for an apartment during this pandemic since my lease expires and I have no interest in renewing. That's probably going to be an exciting experience. probably lots of vacancies though
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May 5, 2020 22:39
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President Beep posted:probably lots of vacancies though
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May 5, 2020 22:47
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President Beep posted:probably lots of vacancies though
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May 5, 2020 22:55
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:/daydrinking AnimeIsTrash posted:Oh poo poo this is a good call
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May 5, 2020 23:03
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:yeah one of my old coworkers had a pretty nice landlord that didn't jack up the rent constantly; I guess its the rare inverse case of the Small Landlord Tyrant they're rare but small-time landlords that know what the gently caress they're doing understand the value of avoiding tenant churning
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May 5, 2020 23:18
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May 5, 2020 23:31
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I'm getting unbuzzed now so I'll probably have to drink again for dinner the good thing is that anymore I can get well buzzed on 16 oz of 6.0% abv the bad part is that it doesn't last long enough and I don't want to walk that line of just being day-drunk
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May 5, 2020 23:34
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President Beep posted:probably lots of vacancies though This is something I feel incredibly guilty about. There are a ton of folks that are losing their jobs and becoming unable to pay rent, mortgage, whatever. Meanwhile my overpaid computer toucher rear end is still employed.
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May 5, 2020 23:38
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its certainly laying bare our economic stratification
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May 5, 2020 23:39
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Cold on a Cob posted:they're rare but small-time landlords that know what the gently caress they're doing understand the value of avoiding tenant churning Like suppose people move from lovely property manager complexes every 2 years and from good rentals every 10 years: even if the good rentals were 25% of the units they'd only look like 1/12 the market when you went out looking for places.
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May 5, 2020 23:42
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yeah my landlords haven't raised my rent once the whole time i've been here (knock on wood) and it seems to be sort of an unspoken deal that if they don't screw me over, they get a tenant who's a quiet professional who doesn't cause them any problems and helps them with their computer when it breaks. like landlords are definitely all scum, sorry mrs. mikhailovich, but when neither of you wants the situation to change it's at least, like, a sort of detente
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May 6, 2020 00:08
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Sagebrush posted:they get a tenant who's a quiet professional who doesn't cause them any problems oh your moving out then!
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May 6, 2020 01:36
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:lol month to month rent in the Bay Area is absurd pandemic will be on for another year. move to the desert, get fibre, and move back when you have to start working in the office again
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May 6, 2020 02:05
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I don't rent (self- )
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May 6, 2020 02:09
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:lol month to month rent in the Bay Area is absurd hell yeah oakland limiting rent increases to some small % yearly for older units the landlord still reliably increases it the max permissible amount every year and does their best to make themselves as inaccessible and useless as possible, but i figure the alternative is that they're still inaccessible but increase the rent more
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May 6, 2020 02:53
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Strict rent control encourages landlords to put the price up the maximum amount they're allowed to by default, because they can always drop it back later if it's now too high but they can't increase it by more than that if it's too low. It also encourages landlords to invent ways to boot tenants out as a roundabout way to increase rent by more than what's allowed. It can be useful as a short-term policy to limit the immediate effects of a housing crunch, but the goal should be to solve the underlying housing issue to the point where rent control is no longer needed. Trying to sustain it long-term results in something utterly dysfunctional.
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May 6, 2020 03:29
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ugh so i work for a library i dont see how we are going to be reopening anytime in the foreseeable future hashtag furlough forever
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May 6, 2020 03:42
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i've been slightly considering joining the hordes leaving the bay area for austin. like you get 85% of the pay but the rent is like less than half and it's still like a real city with people and things in it
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May 6, 2020 04:07
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in other news the update on thisquote:product requirements say the time for the product to perform a certain action is x. thus far the latency has been 4x but that was without tuning. after all kinds of tuning and (brittle) optimizations, we've been able to hit a latency of 2x, and there is some hope of approaching 1.5x if everything goes well and some speculative stuff turns out to work. actually reaching a latency of x is probably impossible with the hardware and software architecture decisions that have been made thus far quote:sort of, it's a hardware product where you mash a button in an app and then the device is supposed to wake up and do some stuff my name now features prominently on a spreadsheet being passed around management. the pressure is dropping at the centre of this tropical storm of bullshit and home depot is all out of plywood sheeting.
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May 6, 2020 04:10
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:gently caress landlords housing is a human right and I hope they all get their drat heads chopped off I remember posting something in a New Zealand forum saying that people shouldn’t be able to own over a hundred rentals in the city and they were like “why the gently caress not??” all angry at me for it
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May 6, 2020 04:51
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DuckConference posted:in other news the update on this idk how hurricanes work is this good or bad
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May 6, 2020 04:54
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Jabor posted:Strict rent control encourages landlords to loooooool
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May 6, 2020 06:01
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sorry to be the “well here in Australia” guy but here I go anyway- they changed the law last week so that for the next six months our landlord can’t evict us (even for non payment) and can’t increase our rent. however as some sort of weird conciliation to the landlord class I am not allowed to move out of the property either without going through a court process, even though my lease ended a year ago and it’s now month to month. sucks if I wanted to buy a house or something.
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May 6, 2020 06:11
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:loooooool you'll note that when there's no rent control, landlords do not raise the rent an infinite amount every year
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May 6, 2020 06:14
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Jabor posted:you'll note that when there's no rent control, landlords do not raise the rent an infinite amount every year #whoa #wow the free market is truly the best steward
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May 6, 2020 06:24
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It's scary how competent the Ausgov response to COVID-19 is and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop
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May 6, 2020 06:28
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Jabor posted:you'll note that when there's no rent control, landlords do not raise the rent an infinite amount every year there's no commercial rent control in nyc and every so often you hear about a spot that had to close down because the landlord raised the rent 50%
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May 6, 2020 06:33
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I'm just now renewing my lease and was strongly considering just loving off to a cabin in the woods, or somewhere in the countryside since WFH anyway
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May 6, 2020 07:40
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abigserve posted:It's scary how competent the Ausgov response to COVID-19 is and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop the liberals saw how well it’s going in the states and realised hey maybe being a complete knob isn’t the greatest idea after all
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May 6, 2020 11:55
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Jabor posted:you'll note that when there's no rent control, landlords do not raise the rent an infinite amount every year landlords are going to crank the wheel on price as hard as they collectively think they can every time a new lease comes around, rent control or not; they don’t need any help or excuse at least with rent control you won’t get hit while you have a place to live — that’s why they hate it anything else they present is in bad faith
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May 6, 2020 13:58
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my rent doubled one year when i was living in a city with no rent control my rent in ontario goes up usually around 2.5% per year i'll take the rent control over the benevolence of a faceless corp or wanna-be real estate mogul any day
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May 6, 2020 14:12
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i once rented one of my extra bedrooms to a random dude on reddit who lost his job out of state and found a job near me in MI. his plan was to get situated with his job then find a place of his own and move his family in. he was wary of me at first because on the first night he was here i drank a fifth of scotch and passed out on the couch playing dark souls. pretty soon he was having fun just hanging out and not being around his wife and kids all the time. his wife eventually started hating the stories she was hearing about me at the time, and after like 6 months she made him move back home. that's my one and only experience as a landlord
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Falcorum posted:I'm just now renewing my lease and was strongly considering just loving off to a cabin in the woods, or somewhere in the countryside since WFH anyway lol your internet connection is gonna be slow
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i once rented one of my extra bedrooms to a random dude on reddit who lost his job out of state and found a job near me in MI.
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