Theo Speak

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I lived in Arizona for a few years. In Gilbert, specifically, back when it was just an orange grove next to the desert. I routinely woke up with gigantic wolf spiders crawling on me. It was awesome. Oh, and yes, they really do like to crawl into your mouth.

[CyHawk_Cub]

I routinely woke up with gigantic wolf spiders crawling on me. It was awesome. Oh, and yes, they really do like to crawl into your mouth.

[WrigleyField 22]

Green declined to provide the name of Epstein's dog

 

Protect that poor dogs privacy.

[badger]

I lived in Arizona for a few years. In Gilbert, specifically, back when it was just an orange grove next to the desert. I routinely woke up with gigantic wolf spiders crawling on me. It was awesome. Oh, and yes, they really do like to crawl into your mouth.

 

Spoiler this horsefeathers. :shudder:

[Sammys Boombox]

My grandparents lived in Arizona my entire childhood until they passed while I was in college. We visited them every summer and often on X-Mas break. We went hiking all the time. My grandpa’s property backed up to a big stretch of state park and we’d go quartz hunting. He eventually had a whole garden lined with quartz.

 

That entire time, I never once saw a scorpion. Maybe we were just in the wrong part of the state.

 

And I have a ton of experience with real estate disputes. I absolutely guarantee that the landlord’s complaints are trumped up so that he doesn’t have to pay the security deposit back. That’s pretty much SOP for some (scummy) landlords - don’t return the deposit, if anyone complains, counter with an exaggerated list of damage to the property.

 

Moved into a house 3 weeks after a murder took place. Didn’t know until after we moved in. Actually found specs of blood on the wall...

 

House was definitely in better shape when we left it than when we had arrived 7 months earlier. The guy kept $100 of our $500 deposit. I called to ask why he kept the $100. He would never answer the phone. I finally got his receptionist and asked that he return my call. He called me screaming about harassing his receptionist. He then told me a long list of completely made up damages to the house: cigarette burns in the carpet (brand new carpet because the stab victim bled out on the old carpet, we don’t smoke), said the kitchen counter was completely broken off and in the floor, the door and doorframe was scratched to pieces by a dog we must have had living with us (we did not have a dog, nor did one ever come in the house), etc.

 

When I asked him why he didn’t keep or entire deposit and sue us for me. “Because I’m a nice guy and I also went to Mizzou and I’m trying to help out a fellow alum.”

[Hairyducked Idiot]

When I left North Dakota after abandoning my job so that it could be eventually picked up by Da Bum, the landlord tried to get us for an extra carpet fee on top of the security deposit, sending a notice with a threat to file a lawsuit. I did a bunch of googling about North Dakota tenancy law, some calculations on how old the carpet was when we moved in versus how long it was expected to last, etc. Being young at the time and dumb+spineless to this day, I was prepared to offer them a small settlement based on those calculations. But when I got them on the phone and they quoted the absurd number they wanted, I audibly laughed and said "good luck with that one," hung up, and never heard from them again.

 

Landlords can be second after billionaires against the wall when the revolution comes.

[Andy]

When I bought my house and moved out of my apartment, our landlord (not the one we originally rented from, as he had sold the place) felt the need to sarcastically text me about we must not want our security deposit back. I hadn't left the place in mint condition or anything, but I'd done my best to clean it up and certainly hadn't left anything in egregious shape. I just ignored him and a month or so later he sent me part of my deposit back anyway.

[ConstableRabbit]

When I left North Dakota after abandoning my job so that it could be eventually picked up by Da Bum, the landlord tried to get us for an extra carpet fee on top of the security deposit, sending a notice with a threat to file a lawsuit. I did a bunch of googling about North Dakota tenancy law, some calculations on how old the carpet was when we moved in versus how long it was expected to last, etc. Being young at the time and dumb+spineless to this day, I was prepared to offer them a small settlement based on those calculations. But when I got them on the phone and they quoted the absurd number they wanted, I audibly laughed and said "good luck with that one," hung up, and never heard from them again.

 

Landlords can be second after billionaires against the wall when the revolution comes.

Everyone feels this way until someone trashes an apartment they own.

[jersey cubs fan]

When I left North Dakota after abandoning my job so that it could be eventually picked up by Da Bum, the landlord tried to get us for an extra carpet fee on top of the security deposit, sending a notice with a threat to file a lawsuit. I did a bunch of googling about North Dakota tenancy law, some calculations on how old the carpet was when we moved in versus how long it was expected to last, etc. Being young at the time and dumb+spineless to this day, I was prepared to offer them a small settlement based on those calculations. But when I got them on the phone and they quoted the absurd number they wanted, I audibly laughed and said "good luck with that one," hung up, and never heard from them again.

 

Landlords can be second after billionaires against the wall when the revolution comes.

Everyone feels this way until someone trashes an apartment they own.

 

[ConstableRabbit]

There are a lot of protections against bad landlords and yeah, a lot of them are huge dicks. It also sucks when someone ruins your place.

[NOLA]

When I left North Dakota after abandoning my job so that it could be eventually picked up by Da Bum, the landlord tried to get us for an extra carpet fee on top of the security deposit, sending a notice with a threat to file a lawsuit. I did a bunch of googling about North Dakota tenancy law, some calculations on how old the carpet was when we moved in versus how long it was expected to last, etc. Being young at the time and dumb+spineless to this day, I was prepared to offer them a small settlement based on those calculations. But when I got them on the phone and they quoted the absurd number they wanted, I audibly laughed and said "good luck with that one," hung up, and never heard from them again.

 

Landlords can be second after billionaires against the wall when the revolution comes.

Everyone feels this way until someone trashes an apartment they own.

 

Well, yeah. It's not as if landlords are all rolling around in piles of money.

 

I busted ass doing work on a rental property mostly from info on YouTube videos because I couldn't afford to pay workers to hang sheetrock. I've been burned by tenants who didn't pay rent, money that I depended on to make the house payments. Tenants have secretly sublet my place out for Mardi Gras to frat boys who trashed the place and pissed off the neighbors. It's a vital part of my income, not some scheme to screw over people and get rich. That house is nearly as much a full time job as my real full time job.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Everyone feels this way until someone trashes an apartment they own.

 

Well, yeah. It's not as if landlords are all rolling around in piles of money.

 

I busted ass doing work on a rental property mostly from info on YouTube videos because I couldn't afford to pay workers to hang sheetrock. I've been burned by tenants who didn't pay rent, money that I depended on to make the house payments. Tenants have secretly sublet my place out for Mardi Gras to frat boys who trashed the place and pissed off the neighbors. It's a vital part of my income, not some scheme to screw over people and get rich. That house is nearly as much a full time job as my real full time job.

I'm also a landlord, but my wife is handier than me so she does all that blue collar stuff. (Except for plumbing stuff and electrical stuff, she hates that.) Pretty sweet deal for me!

 

The trick is to get tenants who don't suck, and then when you don't screw them over and respond to their issues, everyone is happy. I don't get why everyone doesn't do it this way.

[NOLA]

 

Well, yeah. It's not as if landlords are all rolling around in piles of money.

 

I busted ass doing work on a rental property mostly from info on YouTube videos because I couldn't afford to pay workers to hang sheetrock. I've been burned by tenants who didn't pay rent, money that I depended on to make the house payments. Tenants have secretly sublet my place out for Mardi Gras to frat boys who trashed the place and pissed off the neighbors. It's a vital part of my income, not some scheme to screw over people and get rich. That house is nearly as much a full time job as my real full time job.

I'm also a landlord, but my wife is handier than me so she does all that blue collar stuff. (Except for plumbing stuff and electrical stuff, she hates that.) Pretty sweet deal for me!

 

The trick is to get tenants who don't suck, and then when you don't screw them over and respond to their issues, everyone is happy. I don't get why everyone doesn't do it this way.

 

My first tenants were awesome and I was great to them. My house was built in the 1870's and flooded during Katrina (which made it pretty cheap, obviously), so the maintenance is a little trickier than the average place. It's been a crapshoot since that couple, though. Sometimes the good ones turn to horsefeathers over time.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Well, yeah. It's not as if landlords are all rolling around in piles of money.

 

I busted ass doing work on a rental property mostly from info on YouTube videos because I couldn't afford to pay workers to hang sheetrock. I've been burned by tenants who didn't pay rent, money that I depended on to make the house payments. Tenants have secretly sublet my place out for Mardi Gras to frat boys who trashed the place and pissed off the neighbors. It's a vital part of my income, not some scheme to screw over people and get rich. That house is nearly as much a full time job as my real full time job.

I'm also a landlord, but my wife is handier than me so she does all that blue collar stuff. (Except for plumbing stuff and electrical stuff, she hates that.) Pretty sweet deal for me!

 

The trick is to get tenants who don't suck, and then when you don't screw them over and respond to their issues, everyone is happy. I don't get why everyone doesn't do it this way.

 

My first tenants were awesome and I was great to them. My house was built in the 1870's and flooded during Katrina (which made it pretty cheap, obviously), so the maintenance is a little trickier than the average place. It's been a crapshoot since that couple, though. Sometimes the good ones turn to horsefeathers over time.

I've had good luck with yuppie stoners. Find them and make them stay.

[minnesotacubsfan]

I'm also a landlord, but my wife is handier than me so she does all that blue collar stuff. (Except for plumbing stuff and electrical stuff, she hates that.) Pretty sweet deal for me!

 

The trick is to get tenants who don't suck, and then when you don't screw them over and respond to their issues, everyone is happy. I don't get why everyone doesn't do it this way.

 

My first tenants were awesome and I was great to them. My house was built in the 1870's and flooded during Katrina (which made it pretty cheap, obviously), so the maintenance is a little trickier than the average place. It's been a crapshoot since that couple, though. Sometimes the good ones turn to horsefeathers over time.

I've had good luck with yuppie stoners. Find them and make them stay.

 

same for our old house in mpls. young, working stoners. perfect as they keep a low profile, take care of the place and generally are great to leave alone

[NOLA]

 

Interesting ideas to improve the game in this article, including this nugget:

Major League Baseball plans to seriously crack down on the rash of pitchers using illegal substances in the next two weeks, with umpires ordered to be vigilant in stopping pitchers from using foreign substances to dramatically improve their spin rate – even if it means embarrassing some of the biggest pitching stars in the game.