Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Atomic]

@cobaltasaurus

You need a basement with a flooding problem to lock your doctor and housemate in.

[insomniac7809]

Someone told me that the Cat Lawyer (not Ganymede) was a Milkshake Duck.

This made me sad, and also the fact that I immediately knew exactly what that meant means that maybe I need to go outside more.

[GreenFlashlight]

I just spent a day's wages on getting my car out of a snowbank. On the plus side, I shouldn't need to waste money on a lunch today because I must have gotten a meal's worth of calories because standing out there in the cold so long made me drink so much snot.

[Cobalt]

@cobaltas said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Not sure whether to put this in real world peeves or health thread but:

Had an ultrasound on Monday, got told "your doctor will have the results by this afternoon". Doctor told me "if you don't hear back from us in 24hrs, call us". Didn't hear anything on Monday, so called Tuesday to find out what was up...

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

New doctor has looked over the results and taken the five minutes needed to assure me I am probably not dying.

[il-volpe]

I share cooking duties.

When I cook, I cook a meal. At the very most I ask, "Do you feel like having <insert food> tonight?" before I start.

When the other person cooks, the entire process is accompanied by relentless questions about how to do it. Not technical I-don't-know-how-to-cook questions, but, like, "do you want the carrots cut in strips or discs?"

I'm not picky, I've never complained about shit like that, and what I want, oh please, is for dinner to just not be my fucking problem.

[Tinuviel]

@il-volpe If the carrots are a feature ingredient, or a layer in a layered dish, disks. If they are a component ingredient, strips/julienne. If it is a chunkier dish, like a soup or stew, diced.

Easy.

[Derp]

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@il-volpe If the carrots are a feature ingredient, or a layer in a layered dish, disks. If they are a component ingredient, strips/julienne. If it is a chunkier dish, like a soup or stew, diced.

Easy.

The correct answer is roll-cut triangles.

[Too Old For This]

Or the person cooking could just... cook. And let the person not cooking enjoy a well-earned respite from anything cooking-adjacent.

[Packrat]

Yes, recommended solicitors by the estate agent, of course nearly sixteen hundred pounds to process conveyance is 'very competitive'. No, please stop trying to tell me about all of the details of your fantastic deals because that is roughly double what it should be and I have literally no interest in hearing more of your spiel at this point.

I wonder how much they are kicking back to the estate agent in order to be the recommended solicitors.

[Ganymede]

@packrat

... either the conveyance taxes are exorbitant or someone is screwing with you.

[Packrat]

@ganymede I am selling a leasehold property with a mortgage, so £700-£1,000 is to be expected here. £1,600 is definitely an attempt to rip me off though.

Edit: There is a 20% VAT included in that.

[Arkandel]

We're still renting a house at a relatively low rent since it can only be hiked so much per year, and we moved in before rents went crazy in the GTA.

My landlord sent us a notice to evict in order to move in, which is the only legal way he can do so. However he also wants to show the house since if he can find a buyer he'll cash out instead.

What this actually means is that, during a pandemic, we have to let multiple groups of strangers wander into the house with 24 hours' notice. I'm working from home, which impacts me. The landlord has even asked on a number of occasions if we 'can do something about the dogs' or if we can just not be at the house at all when people drop by.

On top of it the idea that we have to move out to let the landlord move in unless he finds a buyer to be in bad faith, since the eviction date was set under the assumption a buyer won't be found. I can't simply wait to find out what the case will be, since then there might not be enough time to find a new place.

Also I hate moving in general but that's a separate peeve altogether.

[Derp]

@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

We're still renting a house at a relatively low rent since it can only be hiked so much per year, and we moved in before rents went crazy in the GTA.

My landlord sent us a notice to evict in order to move in, which is the only legal way he can do so. However he also wants to show the house since if he can find a buyer he'll cash out instead.

What this actually means is that, during a pandemic, we have to let multiple groups of strangers wander into the house with 24 hours' notice. I'm working from home, which impacts me. The landlord has even asked on a number of occasions if we 'can do something about the dogs' or if we can just not be at the house at all when people drop by.

On top of it the idea that we have to move out to let the landlord move in unless he finds a buyer to be in bad faith, since the eviction date was set under the assumption a buyer won't be found. I can't simply wait to find out what the case will be, since then there might not be enough time to find a new place.

Also I hate moving in general but that's a separate peeve altogether.

I mean, that seems like pretty solid grounds for fighting it.

[tek]

@arkandel Oh nooooo. When we were living in Toronto, we got renovicted and it was the fucking worst. Fight it. Fight it tooth and nail. The Landlord-Tenant board will have your back.

[Macha]

I am trying to find a place and amicably split from my roommates, since they're planning on getting married, etc.

I love the area I live in, I like the apartment layout. A friend of mine who got a job here in my city needs to find a place, but she's hours away, and well, Covid.

My complex, where I've lived coming up on 2 years, won't rent a place to me, because she and I do not make 4 times the rent. I don't mean the two of us together. I mean each of us, separately.

We'd have to make over 80k, combined, to live here. Though my credit is LOADS better than when we got the place originally, and I make more than I did then.

They have empty units that I can SEE from my window. They're not being refurbed or anything, which means no one is moving in anytime soon. So like... WTF?

[Darren]

@macha Here where I live, the vacancy rate for rentals (this includes single family homes as well, not just apartments) is 31%. Rather than lower rents, they just raise the cost for existing tenants. It makes no sense whatsoever.

[Ganymede]

@macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

My complex, where I've lived coming up on 2 years, won't rent a place to me, because she and I do not make 4 times the rent. I don't mean the two of us together. I mean each of us, separately.

We'd have to make over 80k, combined, to live here.

So, if I'm doing the math correctly, your monthly rent is around $833? You live in a city, if I recall, so the amount seems reasonable.

Without judgment, because the landlord wants to be assured that a sudden loss of job won't result in an inability to pay rent, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect both tenants to be fiscally sound.

But if you have vacant units, like, maybe you should reconsider your policies? Because empty units generate zero rent.

[Macha]

@ganymede Our rent for a 2 bedroom is 1035, currently. Which while not awesome in relation, isn't bad, either.

I wanted to STAY in this unit, because the roommates were willing to move out into their own place. But that's when they denied us to stay where I am.

Push come to shove, she or I could afford the rent on our own, short term. But because it's not each of us making over 44k a year, or something ridiculous, they won't allow it.

So maybe they're going to try and hike rents, or something. Someone said maybe they're going to just redo all the buildings and try to go more luxury. But that won't fly, here, if the other places I've seen are anything to go by.

[Ganymede]

@macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I wanted to STAY in this unit, because the roommates were willing to move out into their own place. But that's when they denied us to stay where I am.

Hastily, I point out that I don't agree with your landlord at all. And I represent a large number of them. The sane ones will rent to anyone who can make the payments, irrespective of their income.

But some management companies are persnickety, and ain't no one got time for that.

[TNP]

No idea if this is the case but I'd guess an empty unit can be taken as a business loss and would count as a deduction on their taxes?