wife was working late. as I was eying the water on the flr, I was wondering should I be like Cobble – ie leave it there so wife can see it? Got wise as my wife is not as easy going as BH cause my wife would slap me for that decision, chew me out, and then make me mop it up. By I really clean it up cause wood flrs would bulge (vs. scared of wife) if water there too long
LOL! bedbug ridden apartments are now gonna be had for cheap!!! landlords you BETTER be honest!!! i wonder if people will actually intentionally infest their apartments to get rent reductions cuz of this new law?
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Will Bedbug Disclosure Law Lead to Discounted Rentals?
091610bedbugs.jpg A new law has gone into effect requiring landlords to disclose to prospective tenants any history of bedbug infestation in the apartment building and individual unit within the past year. The law has some people in the real estate industry a tad concerned that the stigma of bed bugs will leave them stuck with empty units, but at least nobody’s getting hyperbolic. “This is like AIDS in the beginning,” says Gus Waite, vice president of rentals at The Real Estate Group of New York. “They just skeeve people out totally.” (Somewhere in New York, an aspiring playwright is hard at work on Bedbugs in America: Millennium Recedes)
Speaking to Brick Underground, Waite describes the new law as a “scarlet letter” and wonders “what are the landlords going to do?” now that they have to tell tenants their building is cursed with the infamously resilient blood-sucking parasites. (Speaking of AIDS, even that doesn’t kill the bastards.) What landlords are going to do, Waite suspects, is offer apartments at discounted rates. How low would your rent have to be to move into a building that has had bedbugs, which can sometimes live for over a year between feedings? Looking at it from another angle, how much extra are you willing to pay to score a fancy, bedbug-free domicile?
Look at the ant, it’s pretty tiny. It takes them about three days to cross the street. After a few generations of this crap, some of them decided they’d had enough, and they screwed up their little ant faces and pushed and pushed, and voila, wings. Now they can get around much faster, and leave their pokey ant cousins in the dust. See what you can do when you put your mind to a task? You’re looking at superior ants there, rob.
quote: Have I learned you nothing? After I had to bail you out of jail for painting tree branches and tagging your building, you’ve reverted to your old ways???
that was NOT me who used my paint to tag the building!! grrrrr. i think im going to stop doing stick art because nothing good ever comes out of it!!! no wonder artists seem so tortured.
WOO WOO we get to leave at 4pm today!
*rob*
hahahahha MM good theory
*rob*
I love that M4L is sooooo whipped and he’s not embarrassed to admit it.
speaking of AIDs and bedbugs…serious question…can bedbugs carry STDs and infect another person?
“grrrrr. i think im going to stop doing stick art because nothing good ever comes out of it!!!”
And this is what I’m saying.
wife was working late. as I was eying the water on the flr, I was wondering should I be like Cobble – ie leave it there so wife can see it? Got wise as my wife is not as easy going as BH cause my wife would slap me for that decision, chew me out, and then make me mop it up. By I really clean it up cause wood flrs would bulge (vs. scared of wife) if water there too long
LOL! bedbug ridden apartments are now gonna be had for cheap!!! landlords you BETTER be honest!!! i wonder if people will actually intentionally infest their apartments to get rent reductions cuz of this new law?
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Will Bedbug Disclosure Law Lead to Discounted Rentals?
091610bedbugs.jpg A new law has gone into effect requiring landlords to disclose to prospective tenants any history of bedbug infestation in the apartment building and individual unit within the past year. The law has some people in the real estate industry a tad concerned that the stigma of bed bugs will leave them stuck with empty units, but at least nobody’s getting hyperbolic. “This is like AIDS in the beginning,” says Gus Waite, vice president of rentals at The Real Estate Group of New York. “They just skeeve people out totally.” (Somewhere in New York, an aspiring playwright is hard at work on Bedbugs in America: Millennium Recedes)
Speaking to Brick Underground, Waite describes the new law as a “scarlet letter” and wonders “what are the landlords going to do?” now that they have to tell tenants their building is cursed with the infamously resilient blood-sucking parasites. (Speaking of AIDS, even that doesn’t kill the bastards.) What landlords are going to do, Waite suspects, is offer apartments at discounted rates. How low would your rent have to be to move into a building that has had bedbugs, which can sometimes live for over a year between feedings? Looking at it from another angle, how much extra are you willing to pay to score a fancy, bedbug-free domicile?
Look at the ant, it’s pretty tiny. It takes them about three days to cross the street. After a few generations of this crap, some of them decided they’d had enough, and they screwed up their little ant faces and pushed and pushed, and voila, wings. Now they can get around much faster, and leave their pokey ant cousins in the dust. See what you can do when you put your mind to a task? You’re looking at superior ants there, rob.
quote: Have I learned you nothing? After I had to bail you out of jail for painting tree branches and tagging your building, you’ve reverted to your old ways???
that was NOT me who used my paint to tag the building!! grrrrr. i think im going to stop doing stick art because nothing good ever comes out of it!!! no wonder artists seem so tortured.
*rob*