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Ashcans posted:No, the whole point of an eviction is to remove you before the lease is up. Once the eviction goes through, they can have the sheriff throw your poo poo on the curb Skunkrocker posted:I think you guys aren't seeing what I'm saying. By the time an eviction actually goes through my lease is up anyway. So what is their end game to evict me? Either way I have to leave. I'm confused. You sound like my dumbass younger brother. Stop trying to get one over on the people who have the power to make you homeless and move on/out
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Ciaphas posted:It's about 110 fahrenheit outside. I got home two hours ago with the AC set to 82; I set it to 77, business as usual. I just checked it, and it's cooled just under one degree in those two hours. This is with all the windows closed, blinds shut, vents open, and the sun behind a tree nearby. In my experience, yes, especially if you're the top floor like ladyweapon asked. My place is at the top of a firetrap enclosed stairwell and it just spends all day accumulating heat and feeds it in all night. The only solution I've found is strategic window opening/fans/nudity.
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I'm moving from LA to Sacramento very soon and I could use a quick sanity check to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. This isn't my first apartment move-out but it is the first time I'm moving out alone, and first time as the sole name on the lease; before now I always just co-habitated. Here's my checklist, am I forgetting anything?
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Sep 23, 2015 17:32
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I just moved into a new place that's about 50% each hardwood/carpet. I already have a standup vacuum for monthly deep cleaning but space is at a premium and I keep it stowed away most of the time. What's the current goon go-to for hand vacuums for crumbs and such?
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Oct 16, 2015 06:26
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Thanatosian posted:I'm living in a place with stall-style shower doors for the first time; they seem to be leaking, allowing water to spill out onto the floor. Is some leaking to be expected with that style of door, or should that be looked at by maintenance? I'd have them come take a look at it if it's a significant amount of water, you don't want to end up liable for water damage down the line. Otherwise maybe a bath mat to absorb and hang it over the side once you get out?
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Dec 8, 2015 23:51
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:My new house has a gas fireplace but I cannot find an igniter switch for it. It has the gas on/off knob, but no way that I can find to turn the gas into fire. Do I just throw a match in there to start it? That seems kinda dangerous, but I can't find any other method of ignition. My parents' gas fireplaces have no built-in igniters, they use one of those long trigger-pull lighters for lighting barbecues. I get the feeling this is normal, just buy some long matches or a BBQ lighter or find your courage and chuck a lit match in the general direction of "fire here"
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Dec 13, 2015 02:30
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Double post for a new question: 
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Jan 21, 2016 06:31
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I'm the only one here, my husband is out of town, and the dogs definitely didn't do it.
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Spring's coming, and in my new apartment I have a big balcony that gets full/partial South-facing sun all day so I want to grow an herb garden. Anyone have a recommended site for figuring out when and what to plant?
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Feb 25, 2016 21:32
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Thanks for the ideas. Gonna cultivate the hell out of living things and then eat them 
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Feb 26, 2016 04:35
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They are also handy to have for emergencies and other unexpected expenses. I got caught out a bit between two apartments early after school and only had enough in liquid funds to cover rent , but thanks to a credit card I was able to eat for two weeks until payday. Didn't even pay any interest then IIRC.
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Jun 2, 2016 23:38
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photomikey posted:My first move would be, every time the guy stacks a mountain of dog food in front of my storage locker, to go up and ask him to move it so you can access your locker, then put something in your locker the size of a pencil box. When he stacks the mountain in front of your locker again, repeat the process and retrieve the pencil box. He should get the idea pretty quick, or get tired of moving all his poo poo every day and find a new place to put it. Actually you should probably start by just asking politely that they store it somewhere else instead of doing passive aggressive antics like that. It's a totally valid request to be able to access something you pay for in your rent without asking a neighbor for what boils down to permission. If they say no you get the landlord involved.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:48
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We're all going to at least need some details about this area because you appear to live in a some kind of medieval pantry. Not that that's bad necessarily but I think it's fair to ask what's up. npe: taxidermy may be your friend for this environment
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Jul 6, 2016 07:01
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That's cool as hell. It looks like at least one of your windows looks out onto a pretty nice lawn, I'd try to build around that natural light if I were in your place. The storage tub tower isn't ideal but you could put a screen or something in front and take care of it. Landscape paintings, plants, natural kind of things to alleviate the dungeon vibe, and indirect lighting (a row along part of the roof above the headboard might be nice)
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Jul 6, 2016 07:19
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EL BROMANCE posted:What could these electrical sockets halfway up my wall be for? The only thing I could think of is for a TV to hide the cables, but there's a ton of cable points here and none by there. I think I'm going to find a way to mount that little light there to cover it, but I'm curious as to whether they're meant for something else. I can't really tell from your picture but if there is not a lamp above there it may be for one of those hanging plug-in lamps? I have one of those not six feet from where I'm sitting and a mid-wall outlet would make things look significantly less cable-y in here.
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Oct 29, 2016 01:46
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I live in a month-to-month in LA for like three years and rent only went up twice, on a yearly basis. YMMV, It comes down to landlord discretion I think.
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Oct 29, 2016 05:39
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I could use some advice, if anyone else has been in this situation. Last month I re-upped my lease because I like the place and it's close to work. Rent went up a few bucks but nothing huge. However they also changed the utilities distribution - now in addition to my base rent I get a postcard with water, sewer, trash, pest control... and something called CAM CHARGES. CAM charges is 50% of my bill (total for the month was about 62 bucks, so 31 in CAM). Turns out, that's "Common Area Maintenance". To my mind, that's not a freaking utility, that's a fee associated purely with living there. I'm annoyed because at no point was this disclosed in advance. In fact, over the course of a month and half (since early September) and maybe a dozen in-person visits and phonecalls I basically had no info on the utilities situation until this card arrived over the weekend. No one in the office could/would give me any inkling on what I'd be paying, just that it's calculated based on my "usage" (i.e. solo occupant vs. large family) as a percentage of the entire bill for the complex. I even called the billing agency on the advice of the office, they gave me an estimate that turned out to be fairly close, but later the office says I shouldn't have been given that information? That's not unusual, unfortunately. My question, goons: has anyone run into this kind of maintenance fee, especially when it's included as a utility? I do not want to pay it. It's not going to break me but frankly the front office has been a nightmare since I moved in (just ignorant of basic info, messing up details repeatedly, giving inaccurate info) and I wish that I hadn't re-upped but I'm stuck now. I'm hoping to speak to the property manager today so anything I can take in with me would help.
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Oct 31, 2016 16:46
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Ah, I should say this is in Sacramento CA. I believe each apartment has an individual meter for water, and my electric is a separate bill. I'm really only concerned with the CAM charges since it dwarfs the other items on the bill.
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Oct 31, 2016 17:16
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I'm probably up a creek - I did sign the lease, and now I'm shocked that this one fee is so much higher than anyone indicated it would be. I spoke to the PM earlier, she said she's requested clarification from the billing agency and will call me back before close of business. The actual language on the lease is very vague, I presume by design. Here's the relevant bit: Resident shall pay for Common Area Maintenance fees as prorated on a monthly base as described in below. Formula for calculating service: [Total bill for property divided by the number of units and then split according to unit square footage and occupancy.] In theory I don't object to paying some portion of communal maintenance , but the numbers just don't seem to line up. I pressed the PM pretty hard about what they're including but all I could get was "mainly landscaping and water for the grounds" - maybe I've been missing the hedge maze and topiary garden all this time, but otherwise I don't see how they could be spending that much.
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Oct 31, 2016 19:51
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Update on CAM fees situation: talked to an agent in the office who talked to the billing agency and what the agency says they're charging is completely different from what's on my lease. Also, not everyone in the complex is paying this fee, based on when their renewal was. lol i guess  Mocking Bird posted:I rent half of a duplex from an old hippie who owns three houses. Maintenance is his old burnout buddy but besides that it's great! I'm in the east bay of San Francisco. So, uh, not that I'd surreptitiously take your place and identity or anything, but uh, what's your address?
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Nov 2, 2016 03:37
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Mocking Bird posted:I stole this lease from someone who moved in back in 2007 and I have their rent control I cast my gauntlet down
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Nov 2, 2016 04:03
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Ha! Double ha!quote:Hi Chard- Take that, leasing office that can't find its rear end with both hands and never fixes common areas to begin with.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:28
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I sleep on a thin futon and my back has never felt better. e: this one but I payed a lot less https://www.amazon.com/Futon-Furnit...79103113&sr=1-4
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photomikey posted:If you live in the USA, home of the Obamaphone and never-ending unemployment, where anyone with a hangnail can get permanent disability, no, you're not hosed, they basically have to provide you with heat. Call and make a stink. Call one of these "tenants rights" folks. They will do it by nightfall. Wow dude you have certainly got some opinions here huh??
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photomikey posted:It hits kind of a sore spot with me. He sort of owns up to the fuckup, which is commendable. After being a landlord for a while you have really heard every version of this, and it always ends with "but there's nothing I could have done", and there's always something you could have done. Oh right you're that guy, figures.
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Dec 9, 2016 20:27
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For those with itemized utility bills, what's your average for sewer service? My bill just for that component was ~15 these last two months and now it has tripled to ~45, with the only notification being the postcard that arrives like three days before rent is due. Leasing office is claiming that the billing company didn't do their homework and massively underestimated what the city charges. I don't think that holds water for a number of reasons, but I'm curious what others pay? This is a single occupancy one-bedroom apartment and apparently they're just dividing the total by doors and not usage (ostensibly the whole point of switching to this billing company!).
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extravadanza posted:Probably depends a whole lot on your municipality and how they have decided to handle it. Generally I pay around $40 (Indiana) for combined sewer/trash and the cost only wavers by $2 or $3 per month based mostly on how many trash pickup days they have. Perhaps did you get miss-charged for somebody else's large item pickup somehow? I think my trash service will tack on $30+ for pickup of large items depending on size/type of item. Also the price you pay only includes pickup for so many bags of trash... did you go over that number? No, no large pickups or anything like that - it's a large complex and there are dumpsters around that everyone just throws into, so no way of checking usage. Actually I looked at the bill again and trash is a separate 4.99 fee.
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Renegret posted:I loving hate apartment hunting. It is the worst, goondolences.
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May 16, 2017 02:40
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Just wear a sexy maid outfit all the time
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May 28, 2017 05:45
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Blackchamber posted:What's the best gently caress off lock I can get? I don't know but I bet this guy does: https://www.youtube.com/user/bosnianbill
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Oct 8, 2017 05:54
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Apartment hunting in/around Sacramento right now. poo poo is getting pretty brutal with expanding Bay Area influence  For real if anyone has a lead on studio/1br within 20-30 miles hit me up.I hate my life.
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ilkhan posted:Suburb or city? And yeah, bay area is loving Sacramento up pretty badly, and it's only getting worse. At this point, whatever. I haven't had to move in the last two years and it's amazing how much things have changed. But, I have a showing on Tuesday for a sweet upstairs 1 br in an old farmhouse-looking thing, hopefully that comes together.
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ilkhan posted:Depends on how far out you want to go, and in which direction. sent you a PM
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Chillyrabbit posted:So think I finally got my new place figured out, but it comes with no furniture. I can probably muddle my way through most of it but the big ticket item I worry about is the mattress and a little on the bed frame. Don't give your money to Big Mattress, just get a mat of some kind and sleep on the floor. Spinal health and better sleep awaits you.
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Oct 21, 2017 04:09
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:when i lived in an upstairs apartment i would usually leave for work super early. apparently walking the few steps to my staircase/walking down the stairs would wake my bottom neighbor's child and they had trouble getting him to sleep after that, so when they told me about the problem i just started putting my boots on on my porch instead of upstairs. crazy how that works! way to express basic consideration for the needs of others, loving owned and cucked 
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California renter here. Today is the third (non-consecutive) day this month my unit has not had hot water. Do I have any way to request a partial refund for the time that they do not provide this portion of the rental agreement?
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photomikey posted:Just ask for a rent credit. What's the worst that will happen? They'll say no? away with you Toshimo posted:I'm sure you know the answer to that is that so much worse can happen. this is why I am asking here, are there any legal recourse here?
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Thanks for the reply, and yeah, they definitely got a polite voicemail the first day. More recently they left a note on our door on the 8th that the replacement part won't be arriving until tomorrow earliest. Fortunately I have access to a shower at my office but this loving sucks.
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RabbitMage posted:Tl;dr: I feel I need to talk to management about some extreme behavior from a neighbor, but other neighbors already think I'm a narc and I worry about retaliation, and I'm not sure what to do. You're paying management to deal with poo poo like this, it is literally their sole - and insufficient - justification for existence. That being said have you tried talking to the upstairs neighbor?
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George H.W. oval office posted:Kill your landlord Strap them to the toilet seat and give them the Torture of 1000 Drops
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what is the best way to just get the gently caress rid of some furniture i can't physically dispose of by myself?
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