i wanted to state this yesterday in the 1500 rentals thread but it was too late in the day when i read it.
anyway i have beef with the 1 and 2 months free baloney. why you ask? because they still do the “you must make between 40 and 45 x the rent” thing.
they stated in the apartments… 1700 a month, but after the free months and concessions and stuff it works out to 1300 a month. here’s the sphinctitious part of it that i do not like. someone like me could perhaps quality for a 1300 dollar apartment, but NOT the 1700 dollar one, even tho you pay 1300 dollars a month. and the free months rent is stupid. why not just make it 1300 a month to begin with? so one or two months a year i dont have to pay the rent? but when you are paycheck to paycheck like a gazillion people at there, scrounging to pay 1700 a month is annoying when in reality it’s 1300.
i know the owners, developers only do the free month thing so that when the economy picks up they can jack the rent up to 1800 instead of 1400.. it’s just f’ed up and im thinking about starting a citizens lobby to petition this renting practise which i believe SHOULD be illage.
Yes, Cargar…I say we put him in the corner today. Which is best since he’s sick and we can’t have him tossing germs all willy nilly around the OT. Did he clean up the clam chowder?
It’s also interesting how there were some pretty far out Forum posts back then in the Wild West days of The Forum.
Scroll through and see from the pictures some of the wackier ones from October 2008:
“I’d like the nominating committee to know that I am still anxiously awaiting my statuette for yesterday’s Great PLUSA Truce of ’09…I’ve already cleared a spot on my display shelf. Ahem….”
Snappy, I suggest we wait at least a day before bequeathing you the award. Truce’s have been known to be, how shall we say, short-lived around here. Keeping fingers crossed, however…
“Sphintitious” – great coinage, Rob!
Biff! Don’t be a kill-joy! I’d like to think this truce will at least last through the week.
btw, you can order chinese beef meatballs at all the places that serve dim sum here in NYC, HK, and probably most metro cities in china
Biffers – When you post the party on the Forum today, why don’t you give a call-out to some of the Forum regulars by name to try to entice them?
i wanted to state this yesterday in the 1500 rentals thread but it was too late in the day when i read it.
anyway i have beef with the 1 and 2 months free baloney. why you ask? because they still do the “you must make between 40 and 45 x the rent” thing.
they stated in the apartments… 1700 a month, but after the free months and concessions and stuff it works out to 1300 a month. here’s the sphinctitious part of it that i do not like. someone like me could perhaps quality for a 1300 dollar apartment, but NOT the 1700 dollar one, even tho you pay 1300 dollars a month. and the free months rent is stupid. why not just make it 1300 a month to begin with? so one or two months a year i dont have to pay the rent? but when you are paycheck to paycheck like a gazillion people at there, scrounging to pay 1700 a month is annoying when in reality it’s 1300.
i know the owners, developers only do the free month thing so that when the economy picks up they can jack the rent up to 1800 instead of 1400.. it’s just f’ed up and im thinking about starting a citizens lobby to petition this renting practise which i believe SHOULD be illage.
*rob*
Yes, Cargar…I say we put him in the corner today. Which is best since he’s sick and we can’t have him tossing germs all willy nilly around the OT. Did he clean up the clam chowder?
It’s also interesting how there were some pretty far out Forum posts back then in the Wild West days of The Forum.
Scroll through and see from the pictures some of the wackier ones from October 2008:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/forum/archives/2008/10/
Included in there was a wrap up after the End of the World (Or Maybe Not) Party:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/forum/archives/2008/10/heres_to_our_fu.php#comments
http://tinyurl.com/ylqp6vq
“I’d like the nominating committee to know that I am still anxiously awaiting my statuette for yesterday’s Great PLUSA Truce of ’09…I’ve already cleared a spot on my display shelf. Ahem….”
Snappy, I suggest we wait at least a day before bequeathing you the award. Truce’s have been known to be, how shall we say, short-lived around here. Keeping fingers crossed, however…
Benson – Kudos!