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04/24/2009 21:48 #48495
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04/24/2009 10:35 #48488
Morbid QuestionCategory: flat hunt
Do you ever check if people were murdered or committed suicide in the flat you want to rent? If you find out that a homicide/suicide did happen sometime in the past, in the very flat you are considering, would you back out? Is it odd to scour police records for homicide as a background check for your future flat or home?
I was looking at news reports for the Ambassador building on North Street and found someone had reported a murder in #402 back in 2000-2001. I am speculating about what I might do if I do come across a situation where the flat I am interested in turns out to have a grisly past.
EDIT: I stepped up my flat hunt and posted on craigslist. Does anyone even read the "wanted" section? I wonder...
I was looking at news reports for the Ambassador building on North Street and found someone had reported a murder in #402 back in 2000-2001. I am speculating about what I might do if I do come across a situation where the flat I am interested in turns out to have a grisly past.
EDIT: I stepped up my flat hunt and posted on craigslist. Does anyone even read the "wanted" section? I wonder...
uncutsaniflush - 04/24/09 22:15
I always figured that the longer a place existed, the more likely it was that people died of causes natural or unnatural.
Death is Death. Other than from a safety standpoint - i.e. if the person murdered was in some sort of gang, cartel, or organisation, would the murderer and his/her comrades think I was associated with the viction - or morbid curiousity it doesn't really matter to me how someone may have died.
If I was to worry about stuff like that, I would worry more about disease more than murder.
I always figured that the longer a place existed, the more likely it was that people died of causes natural or unnatural.
Death is Death. Other than from a safety standpoint - i.e. if the person murdered was in some sort of gang, cartel, or organisation, would the murderer and his/her comrades think I was associated with the viction - or morbid curiousity it doesn't really matter to me how someone may have died.
If I was to worry about stuff like that, I would worry more about disease more than murder.
tinypliny - 04/24/09 13:12
@(e:Leetee): Wow, where was this? In Buffalo? Personally, I am fascinated with homicides, intents, causes and circumstance. I mean - what a cool chance to spook everyone out by fabricated horror stories! (not to mention, plenty of blogging material)
@(e:Jason): Yeah, who wouldn't want to hang about in cheerleader locker rooms? According to Hindu myth souls are not touched by trauma. Trauma is a bodily ailment and the minute you are ready to leave, you leave trauma behind. The zombie mortal body might be prone to trauma imprints though. By that argument, maybe you can hang about in cheerleader vicinity in a zombie undead format but not in a soul torture format.
In an odd way, that makes sense, no? :)
@(e:Leetee): Wow, where was this? In Buffalo? Personally, I am fascinated with homicides, intents, causes and circumstance. I mean - what a cool chance to spook everyone out by fabricated horror stories! (not to mention, plenty of blogging material)
@(e:Jason): Yeah, who wouldn't want to hang about in cheerleader locker rooms? According to Hindu myth souls are not touched by trauma. Trauma is a bodily ailment and the minute you are ready to leave, you leave trauma behind. The zombie mortal body might be prone to trauma imprints though. By that argument, maybe you can hang about in cheerleader vicinity in a zombie undead format but not in a soul torture format.
In an odd way, that makes sense, no? :)
leetee - 04/24/09 11:32
I once rented a flat that still had the blood stains in it. The landlord promised to clean it up, and they did. Once all my shit was in the place, i completely forgot about the fact that there was a murder in that room...
I once rented a flat that still had the blood stains in it. The landlord promised to clean it up, and they did. Once all my shit was in the place, i completely forgot about the fact that there was a murder in that room...
jason - 04/24/09 11:29
Diabolical, Tiny. I'd be interested to know how that works out for you. I'm totally BSing here, just go with it hehe, but I would think that if you get offed in your apartment the trauma would bind your soul to the place where it happened. When you get over it someday you can leave. Who knows. If I got murdered and became a ghost I would sit down in a race car during a race, or visit the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader locker room.
Diabolical, Tiny. I'd be interested to know how that works out for you. I'm totally BSing here, just go with it hehe, but I would think that if you get offed in your apartment the trauma would bind your soul to the place where it happened. When you get over it someday you can leave. Who knows. If I got murdered and became a ghost I would sit down in a race car during a race, or visit the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader locker room.
tinypliny - 04/24/09 10:54
Also, why would any ghost want to stay on in cramped quarters when they are free to roam and haunt the finer Victorian mansions in this city?
Also, why would any ghost want to stay on in cramped quarters when they are free to roam and haunt the finer Victorian mansions in this city?
tinypliny - 04/24/09 10:47
Hahaha. That is somehow funny. I was not really thinking about ghosts. (Maybe I should? ;-) I was thinking more along the lines of asking for a rebate in the rent by claiming emotional disturbance due to past shared-space violence.
Now you know about my mercenary and evil streak. LOL
Hahaha. That is somehow funny. I was not really thinking about ghosts. (Maybe I should? ;-) I was thinking more along the lines of asking for a rebate in the rent by claiming emotional disturbance due to past shared-space violence.
Now you know about my mercenary and evil streak. LOL
jason - 04/24/09 10:40
I do think it is a little over the top, Tiny. You don't strike me as a person who is afraid of ghosts.
I do think it is a little over the top, Tiny. You don't strike me as a person who is afraid of ghosts.
04/21/2009 17:44 #48471
Life is often a big fat...Category: art
04/21/2009 02:16 #48463
Tina. Kick it.Category: music
And just because I am in flat-hunt mode...
- The super-awesome Kirstin Chenoweth in what she does best. I love her persona. :)
tinypliny - 04/22/09 19:39
I <3 Pushing Daisies! :D
I <3 Pushing Daisies! :D
metalpeter - 04/22/09 18:29
I really Liked the Intervention one that was pretty good. I know her from a show I really liked called Pushing Daises.
I really Liked the Intervention one that was pretty good. I know her from a show I really liked called Pushing Daises.
04/20/2009 08:33 #48445
Renting and Background ChecksCategory: flat hunt
(e:Heidi), thanks for the tip. I shall be contacting the Kissling interests property manager today. :)
I just got an email from an apartment owner/manager I had written to earlier. I am surprised that she has such detailed requirements for credit scores of prospective renters. (e:Paul), I am posting this for you. She wrote to tell me that I would need to provide her with a credit score report and included these specs in her email:
I think, with the kind of rotten luck you have had with your renters, its time you set some of these rules in place as well.
I just got an email from an apartment owner/manager I had written to earlier. I am surprised that she has such detailed requirements for credit scores of prospective renters. (e:Paul), I am posting this for you. She wrote to tell me that I would need to provide her with a credit score report and included these specs in her email:
Here's how the deposit works based on your credit score:
Credit Score Below 500 - Deposit is $475 + $475 1st month = total is $950 to move in
Credit Score 500-600 - Deposit is $325 + $475 1st month = total is $800 to move in
Credit Score 600-700 - Deposit is $175 + $475 1st month = total is $650 to move in
Credit Score Above 700 - Deposit is $0 + $475 1st month = total is $475 to move in
I think, with the kind of rotten luck you have had with your renters, its time you set some of these rules in place as well.
james - 04/21/09 09:15
Hell, for Paul he should do deposit plus the first month plus the last month.
Hell, for Paul he should do deposit plus the first month plus the last month.
metalpeter - 04/20/09 18:38
Well there are a couple ideas on why people do this. The one is so that if people don't pay there bills you know about that right away. But see to me that seems odd because you would think that you would pay your rent and let the other things go not the other way around but it does set up a pattern of behavior. There is some other thing about credit cards being bad because you can buy more then you can pay back and you pay them instead of the rent or something............
Well there are a couple ideas on why people do this. The one is so that if people don't pay there bills you know about that right away. But see to me that seems odd because you would think that you would pay your rent and let the other things go not the other way around but it does set up a pattern of behavior. There is some other thing about credit cards being bad because you can buy more then you can pay back and you pay them instead of the rent or something............
I know! Nobody wants that sort of fate. :/ That is from the movie "Baraka". Completely awesome, but somewhat disturbing (especially the sections from India).
I don't know why exactly it is that non-Indians have to focus on the negative with almost a compulsive obsession. Tarsem's "The Fall" was inspired by this movie, but thankfully that translated into some of the most beautiful shots ever.
Wow.
(The office chicks are not going to live like that. Neither am I.)