Category: landlord
07/08/06 02:17 - 79ºF - ID#32685
Firm Hand Rental
Dear Tenants,
Before I renew everyone's leases for August I just wanted to make it clear that I am not running a rooming house and that the rent for the apartments is for the total apartment regarless of how many tenants reside inside.
Upstairs:
1. Good news, the rent will remain the same $550 for upstairs. ($183.34 per person for 3 people, $275 per person for 2 people, or $550 for 1 person).
2. Starting in August you can mail checks to my new residence. I need all rent checks in one envelope - saves you two stamps and saves trees.
Starting Next Month;
24 Linwood AVenue,
Buffalo, NY 14209
3. Thank you to those of you that have paid on time this year. I am no longer going to be allowing people to pay late without penalty. As before, the penalty is $5 per day after the 5th of the month. As before, the penalty is $5 per day after the 5th of the month. It will be strictly enforced and late payment penalities are required to be paid with that month's rent. Failure to comply will result in eviction.
4. I am taking the dining room set out, however, I will be replacing the table with a new table for you to use.
5. If any of this is not agreeable to you, please consider this a 30-day notice.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: mobile
07/08/06 12:02 - 75ºF - ID#32684
Two days of mobl living
I went to my cousins graduation party in East Aurora. Their house is no nice with lots of land. It is a log cabin that they built back in the 80s. I still can't imagine living that far from the city. As usual we played boccie ball.
Missing Image ;(
Met a guy who was a Roswell patient and got cured only recently - he loved Roswell.
Speaking of Roswell. I Marie Curie at Roswell when walking to the server room the other day. She looked somehow different than I expected.
The other day I went with (e:Matthew) and (e:terry) to southpark next to the botanical gardens on route 62 in Lackawanna.
A crazy bug we saw of a type I never saw before, at least I don't think so.
Here is (e:mattehw) taking a picture of it too.
Went to go see Indie Arie at Thursday in the Square. I believe it was even more crowded than Pat Benetar for those of you that were there. They even closed off the square part way through and shut down the subway so no more people could come and it couldn't run anyone over.. I got stuck behind the stage most of the evning.
(e:eknot) knew some woman who had a store that had a bathroom so I went to go pee but some 13 y/o drunk girl went in before me and messed the bathroom up really bad. It was yucktastic.
Afterwards, I saw (e:ladycroft) and (e:nejifer) and we walked over to my house which took a while but we got to go past the new mansion. At 10PM (e:theecarey) came over and she came with us and then out to dinner at Panos. Then (e:theecarey) and I planned our business super universe and get rich schemes till about 4am. Someday you will be say, "Hey I knew those bizzilionaires when they were just estrippers, before they bought Disney and Microsoft"
We signed our lives over to the new house. Apparently, the patriot act has something to do with buying a house too.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: programming
07/05/06 11:58 - 62ºF - ID#32683
Updates SurbertCom
strings: ltrim, rtrim, trim
arrays: drop, random, unique, combine, inject, substrCount, strstr, stristr, walk
I still haven't documented everything but strings and array methods are fully documented with examples. Same with sound, events, and ajax. Check it out if you are a javascripter.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: holiday
07/03/06 10:04 - 73ºF - ID#32682
Super Lame Fireworks
The finale was a little better but still kind of blah, sorry about the blair witch effect at the beginning, it was windy.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: animals
07/03/06 05:26 - 78ºF - ID#32681
I guess sometimes they aren't too fast
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: thesis
07/03/06 02:25 - 78ºF - ID#32680
Mob-ility
I started reading some more of Howard Rheingold, "Smart mobs" in which he talks about mobile communities that have formed around the world and the effects they have on society. Lots of concentration is on mobile networks that help users share real time information. An example was a group of people in Scandanavia that all scammed the subway (I am not promoting this) by having a cell phone network that would alert the users where the train conductors were. When you saw one, you would send a message with the location of the conductor which would then be sent to the other users.
There are hundreds of examples in his book. One of the most famous mobile socialo networking groups is called upoc - it lets you create a mobierl social network that works similar to the tarin conductor example above. One of their most famous is a celebrity stalker mobiel network in NYC which send all the user sthe locations of NYC celebrites when other movbile users send those lcoations to the list. Exmaple, you see julia roberts at a restaurent and send a message everyone else gets it and rushes to her. Freaky and scary - i think.
The one thing I have hated about living in Buffalo is the lack of public willing to accept mobile internet. I really don't understand it at all. I provides the benefits of instant information access with benefits of social networks. Something as simple as being able to look up a recipe at the grocery store, or to record an event as it is happening.
Being horrified that I was a super failure by not being able to create a mobile network I decided to check out upoc communities that were centered around buffalo. There were not very many and the ones that were had few users and even fewer messages. The largest group was of course one that sent messages about the bufflao bills.
Even crazier is that there was a mobile user group for upstate NY - yes - all of upstate - Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, etc. It had only 44 users across hundreds of miles and these were the messages:
Jun 05 10:11PM
Fr: cliffr39
dude chill out with the whorin 4 times in 3 hours is aggressive
Jun 05 10:05PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any cute white single moms here?
Jun 05 10:04PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any cute white single moms here?
Jun 05 7:49PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any cute white single moms under 30 here?
Jun 05 7:48PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any cute white single moms under 30 here?
Jun 04 4:05PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any cute single white moms under 30 here?
Jun 03 9:28PM
Fr: Supermanmax
Any single white mom here in her 20s?
So maybe Buffalo just isn't ready for something like this. But why? That is a question I really just cannot answer. I really wanted to build a mobile empire, a temporary reality layered on top of the city, in which people shared their lives and and radically changed each others perception of local community. Instead we have a journaling community which shares many of the same benefits in terms of building community but has gotten all of these people stuck at their computer screens.
Although, the average user of estrip.org has not reached the level of mobility/portability that I desire, it has laid the foundation for a community which continues to grow and adopt new technologies as they become available and afforable - ultimately helping to make these technologies socially acceptable in a mobile technology unsavy town.
Ironically, I made plans from my phone in the chat to meet (e:joshua) and (e:libertad) right after this. Maybe it does work, but I am th emobile link, lol.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: harbor
07/01/06 09:03 - 79ºF - ID#32679
Quick trip to the harbor
While I was there I saw ther replica of the nina - one of Christopher Columbus' ships. It was about the size of a large SUV. I hope that it was a not to scale replica. If it was to scale, I don't understand where the hell they slept. There is no way I would cross the Atlantic in that ship.
This is the kind of bike I wouldn't want to pop a tire on.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: housing
07/01/06 03:41 - 79ºF - ID#32678
The mansion saga continued
We really need to get in there before July is up. It is a long journey to destroy the dander.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: design
06/29/06 11:34 - 68ºF - ID#32677
Design Nixed
Still think their idea is great, everyone should order cards from them this holiday season.
My final design.
Their final design.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: housing
06/30/06 07:12 - 71ºF - ID#32676
Bad Weather, Buying a Mansion
This is a windowsill in a bedroom
It's so annoying to me. I am getting very nervous about the situation because they are serious cat scummers and I need time beofre I can even live in the house. There house is coated in cat hair in the nastiest way you could imagine. It is necessary that I have plenty of time to clean it out during the warm months when the windows can be open. When measuring the other day at the house, I opened up a furnace vent and found a cat hair matt the size of about a basket ball. Everything is sick and disgusting liek that. The whole house has that nasty cat amonia smell. NOw I know you all know how much I hate cats, but even for a cat lover this house is pushing it.
The other thing is that these people have so much freakin stuff, that even if they find a place and move, it is going to take forever. This is really bad because I cannot live there while any of there stuff is there. I don't want them to leave anything. Not even a doormat. They simply have to go and all their crap too.
I mean who keeps a filthy litter box in the fucking dining room. It pretty much smells like the cats just piss on the rugs.
I though we would have plenty of summer time to tear out all the carpets and clean but now he is taking his time as the contract said the closing date is July 11th. Then he made it sound like he might be ready in september or something. I am so freakin angry about this right now.
He also took an old sink that matched the house and replaced it with a new modern one. He had to do it for his ailing mother who lives there but he made it sound like he was gonna tak ethe original sink with him. The laywer said he can't do that.
On another note, what is up with the weather today. It was basically snowing with hail, followed by sunny sky. I heard in Cheektowaga there was a tornado, it even flipped a truck
Hail
Followed by Sun
I also have a cyst in my arm that hurts. I think I am falling apart.
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So, does that mean everybody should "own" their own living space? Or that those who do "own" should support those who don't for life? Or is there some other option I haven't thought of. I'm really curious.
p.s. to (e:Paul) - maybe if I get a bumper sticker I'll send you a housewarming gift, haha.
p.p.s. - I can't believe I have to resort to extortion to get a gol'darn (e:bumper)-sticker. Doesn't anybody else have an extra?
p.p.p.s. to (e:shawnr) - wow, that's pretty brilliant! Yeah, the 5-day grace period is really just a chance to procrastinate. Although, as a master procrastinator, I thank god for it every month, haha. But I'm even more of a cheapskate than a procrastinator, so that would work on me.
He says the rent is $500/mo, but then allows us to pay only $475/mo if we pay before or on the 1st of the month, in full of course. It's caused me to run out and drop a check in a mailbox so it gets postmarked the 31st numerous times, where before I may have delayed because of the 5 day window.
He also has a clause that after 5 days there is a late fee per day, too. But that's never been a remote issue because of the first clause.
Funny, i can't imagine an apartment that allows more than a specific number of tenants... and the idea of a 5 day 'grace period' is completely foreign to me. Then again, other than a short period of time here in Buffalo, i have only ever rented in Canada.
In Halifax, the house we lived in would only allow 4 people to live in the 3 bedroom apartment and if the rent was late (as in after midnight on the last day of the month!), we were charged 10% per day.
Ever considered hiring someone to be the strong arm with your tenants and managing the place for you? I know it would mean you would have less of a profit, but then, you wouldn't have to deal with as many of the hassles...