Happy Eviction Day! - Free ride no longer free

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Second Sun said:
Is there a reason all office space hasn't become completely worthless? Are corporations really that morally opposed to keeping work from home?
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It'll get close to that. There's truth in the idea that there's some work that can't be easily remoted, and that'll keep a minimum floor on a lot of this stuff. That which can be remoted, will just take time to shift towards as organizations start to adopt hybrid or full remote options for employees. Building leases are often long term things, 5 or 10 years being more common than 1 year. So as organizations downsize their office space requirements, it'll take time for the market to fall out from under it with those existing commitments.
 
crucifiction009 said:
Here's hoping the non-English speaking hispanic immigrants next door are being evicted so their delinquent son will stop breaking into my goddamn storage unit. That slimy little fuck pissed and came on my girlfriend's dirty laundry. Can't believe the balls on that fucking kid.
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Ewww. I hate enablers more than I hate the actual criminals.
 
Second Sun said:
Is there a reason all office space hasn't become completely worthless? Are corporations really that morally opposed to keeping work from home?
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Some work can't easily be made WFH, as has been mentioned. Other companies have, I've seen, also started moving towards a model where they have a portion of their workers in the office normally with most at home and they bring them all together for meetings and that sort of thing. The balloon's getting the air sucked out of it but it'll still be around.
 
Apartment buildings are the worst. The first and foremost issue to address when confronting how shit apartments and property costs are is overpopulation of society's dregs. Stop importing the unskilled, return to sender, put teenagers back to work to earn their first car and move out, blah blah blah. Fuckloads of western problems stem from this mess; apartment BS/property cost is easily right up there in the top 3 directly affected. Whatever, it's not like we can do shit to fix it at this point.

Oy vey, ve mahst import dah less fortunate. Dahn't vorry abaht dah skyrocketing property cahsts, goyim!
 
crucifiction009 said:
Here's hoping the non-English speaking hispanic immigrants next door are being evicted so their delinquent son will stop breaking into my goddamn storage unit. That slimy little fuck pissed and came on my girlfriend's dirty laundry. Can't believe the balls on that fucking kid.
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Should've give that prick a Chancla treatment.
The spirit of abuela will guide you.
 
If landlords had to continue to eat shit, a shitload of people would wind up evicted anyway because the landlord would have to sell the property to the highest bidder to not go bankrupt over moneypit properties.
 
crucifiction009 said:
Here's hoping the non-English speaking hispanic immigrants next door are being evicted so their delinquent son will stop breaking into my goddamn storage unit. That slimy little fuck pissed and came on my girlfriend's dirty laundry. Can't believe the balls on that fucking kid.
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Why was your girlfriend's dirty laundry in your storage unit?
 
Dysnomia said:
A particular Russian bitch who fleeced an old widow out of her business comes to mind. She tried to get my mom to pay for structural damage she refused to repair for years. The house was 100 years old.

Being homeless is horrifying. Some of the comments in this thread are pretty horrible. Like I know this is Kiwi Farms and I haven't exactly been Miss Sunshine on here either. But not everyone stops paying rent because they want to buy TVs and PS5 instead with their stimulus. The average rent is astronomical in many areas. I can't even afford to live on my own in my own city. I already lost my home due to the incompetence of others. Life is harder than some people think it is.
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The truth of the matter is the amount of lazy bottom-feeders who think they’re too good for the workforce DWARFS the amount of scummy landlords there are in the world. You have no idea the amount of people I personally know that have taken a stimulus rather than get a job because it’s easier.

There are swaths of winging deadbeats online droning on about how hard it is to bus tables (which I’m not discrediting) and how they’re above that and should have a more dignified job. Of course, they’re not above it because they’re living off government assistance and contributing nothing to society. They fail to realize this though and are instead insulated in an echo chamber by other “high value” and “special” individuals who are also too good to wait tables, and instead of taking advantage of the leverage they have in the workforce simply by existing, opt to sit at home wasting government benefits on whatever floats their boat.

Of course, what the government doesn’t explain to people is that the assists are limited and eventually they have to start paying for their lives again. There is no shortage of jobs in the workforce currently. Cashier positions are starting at $15/hr at the Chik-fil-a near me. A cashier (the most expendable position in a company) is averaging $500 a week, in a densely-populated area where the average monthly rent is $900. There is less than no excuse for being evicted. A majority of people are just shortsighted and stupid, wealthy or not.
 
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serious n00b said:
Why was your girlfriend's dirty laundry in your storage unit?
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It's a small basement storage unit next to the public washer and dryer, not the kind you rent in a lot. "Locking closet in the basement" might be a better description, but it's a pretty convenient place to store laundry you're going to wash soon in any case. It isn't Fort Knox though; it's easy enough to break into one by sticking a knife in the doorframe.
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
Easiest change would be to stop zoning cities with the fill bucket tool in paint. Rather than one massive swathe of residential, one massive swathe of commercial, it'd be far better to create regions of medium density mixed use zones, so small apartment blocks zoned in the same immediate area as commercial use, with more dedicated commercial zoning in small, 2-4 city block sized chunks within 30ish minutes walk of most of the medium density. You can still have single house single family zoning in the spaces between, and Industrial zoning should still be elsewhere (real industry, not office parks), but mixed use development helps everywhere. Even just putting a strip mall style area in the heart of a low density residential gives the locals walking options, youth employment options, and basic services in their back yard.

But back yard is the key word, you'd have to absolutely murder or ignore NIMBYism for it to happen.

More radical options would involve explosives, but this is one of those "80% of the benefits for 20% of the work" options.
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That's the easiest way to do it in SimCity or Cities Skylines. Just set aside rectangular areas for residential, commercial, and industrial. Although sometimes I mix a little commercial into the residential area. I should work on my old city some more. All the Cities Skylines buildings look the same though.
 
I'll post this here.
Clockwork_PurBle said:
If landlords had to continue to eat shit, a shitload of people would wind up evicted anyway because the landlord would have to sell the property to the highest bidder to not go bankrupt over moneypit properties.
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I'm one of those landlords that has been raking money in because (As posted before)
1. I put in the work spending thousands of dollars to check on people's references.
2. My properties are 20%+ below what the market will bare.

My value is the properties themselves, the money I get from those properties that I own is secondary.
This is one of the reasons why generally I laugh at people today. Because a majority of people REFUSES to put in the work. For 19 months I've been laughing all of the way to the bank increasing my wealth bracket rating.

Because I put in the work while I was young and made sure laid down a long term foundation of positive wealth that will last a life time. That is what I did.

I see however is the short term mindset of people scrambling to make as much money at the shortest amount of time WHILE living beyond their means. For fucks sakes. In 20 years we have had 3 economical changes in life and nobody thought about sudden changes that can affect their portfolio?

I sure as hell did.

So yea. The REAL winners are people like me who thought ahead about their future in life and the VULTURE capitalists who will buy on those destressed pieces of property and in the end make money.

The rest are just shrapnel damage of the whole current situation.
 
DamnWolves! said:
Sorry, you saved enough for a down payment by delivering pizzas? Where the heck do you live; Nome, Alaska?
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Alaska sounds expensive. Maybe Texas or Midwest
 
DamnWolves! said:
Sorry, you saved enough for a down payment by delivering pizzas? Where the heck do you live; Nome, Alaska?
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You can make decent money by delivering takeout and groceries, especially during the lockdown last year.
People will pay extra if you can get disinfectant wipes or hand sanitizer.
 
mindlessobserver said:
No bank will give you a loan if you had 6 months of unemployment in the last 12
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This is true but not technically true. Banks will also give you a loan if you have the right amount of assets. In other words, if you don't need the loan at all you'll probably get it. (I won't go into the boring financial gameplaying of why someone who doesn't need a loan takes one.)
 
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