Any landlords?

[Zelig]

Yeah, I guess I'm just saying that you need to determine if you can charge x before entering the business, you can't arbitrarily decide to do so afterwards.

Otherwise all very sound advice about not underestimating risk or capital requirements. With condos you end up the absurd situation where a good chunk of them consistently lowball the required reserve fund they need in order to attract tenants with lower monthly rates, and then tenants get hit with a special assessment every time there's a big ticket repair to complete.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Condos can be that way, but renting tenants are rarely stuck with big ticket expenses. Landlords pay. One strategy is for the owner who lives in the other half (Narz in this case) to pay rent for a few years to build up the reserve funds. Hopefully, that amount would be less than his previous rent so he saves some money. That money should of course be kept in the business and not used personally by the owner. Unless he runs it as a sole proprietorship, all business revenue and expenses should be kept apart from any personal money. Sloppy accounting will bite your butt.

 

[Samez]

I'd be surprised if that really makes a difference in response time. (Donations after the fact to help someone get back on their feet, sure that would make a difference).

Response time will probably not change in most cases. One exception might be floods/heavy rain when several basements are flooded at the same time in a close area.
In germany fire insurance usually only covers the damage caused by the fire and not the damages caused by extinguishing water/foam. So if nothing else is endangered it is usually better to let the house burn down, but as the decission is in the hands of the fire department it's good to be on good terms with them.

 

[GenMarshall]

My apartment has a landlord-provided microwave that was manufactured six months after I was born. It's over 22 years old. It's so incredibly durable however that it hasn't needed any servicing or replacing.

They don't make em like they used to. Even looking at a microwave oven today crosseyed would make it loose it's marbles.

 

[Farm Boy]

Nobody big big in that market type still makes the Maytag mistake. Namely producing high quality, long lifespan products overwhelmingly manufactured under US labor laws. They're all bought.

 

[Zelig]

Panasonic and GE (though GE has misery-inducing market/region-segmentation) both still make some good microwaves.

 

[Farm Boy]

GE seems like it's either 6 months or 10 years. No happy medium. Parents have a good microwave. We got a crap dishwasher that I can't get to run reliably. I'll stop being stubborn about pretending I'll get it functioning and throw it out one of these years. Takes up space. I'll try to remember to keep Panasonic in mind, haven't tried them before on a major appliance.

 

[plarq]

GE seems like it's either 6 months or 10 years. No happy medium. Parents have a good microwave. We got a crap dishwasher that I can't get to run reliably. I'll stop being stubborn about pretending I'll get it functioning and throw it out one of these years. Takes up space. I'll try to remember to keep Panasonic in mind, haven't tried them before on a major appliance.

The problem is that I am not very handy type of man. Repair is difficult, and even install one new dishwasher takes too much time and trouble for me

 

[Farm Boy]

Mine's an island washer on wheels. Kitchen is too old to have a spot for one of those newfangled things installed without doing plumbing renovations. Not really worth it, I went back to hand washing when presented with the choice. Should still probably try ripping the thing apart to the point where I'm not sure I can get it back together and see if I can pull it out. Not like it's running now anyways. I'm really not all that handy either. Just stubborn enough that, every once in a blue moon, I actually manage to fix something. Can't say I've ever considered actually installing a mounted unit like that.

 

[Zelig]

GE seems like it's either 6 months or 10 years. No happy medium. Parents have a good microwave. We got a crap dishwasher that I can't get to run reliably. I'll stop being stubborn about pretending I'll get it functioning and throw it out one of these years. Takes up space. I'll try to remember to keep Panasonic in mind, haven't tried them before on a major appliance.

I've no idea about appliances bigger than countertop-sized, so don't anybody take my recommendations to apply to anything other than microwaves. Panasonic and GE are the mediocre best of a bad bunch.

My favourite kitchen appliance is my Korean-made ****oo rice cooker.

edit: Uh, I guess cfc filters my rice cooker brand... Amazon link so anyone who cares can actually see what I'm talking about.

 

[Farm Boy]

Now that's the hardest I've laughed at a CFC post in a while. Thank you even if it was unintentional!

 

[plarq]

That is serious lol, just after the F*cking, Austria and B*tche, France.

 

[Farm Boy]

Still glad it's censored.

 

[Borachio]

****oo

Ooer!

I can't understand why a bird which likes to lay eggs in other birds' nests would be censored.

I suppose it must mean something different in Americaland.

I mean, it does mean crazy or bonkers too, to me. But I still don't understand why that would be censor worthy.

 

[Synobun]

****oo

Ooer!

I can't understand why a bird which likes to lay eggs in other birds' nests would be censored.

I suppose it must mean something different in Americaland.

I mean, it does mean crazy or bonkers too, to me. But I still don't understand why that would be censor worthy.

The first four letters became a very popular insult from the alt-right and gradually bled over into CFC. A few politically charged words have been censored until members can manage to hold discourse without trying to go for a witty machination of a political term or using insults born out a certain political demographic.

Usage of these words has gone dramatically down since being censored so it's working, for now.

 

[Borachio]

Oh. OK.

Something, something... born out of insecurity, I guess.