A/C working properly? Cost -> lower temp?

Prior to that, I did not know that this was not your first summer in this apartment. Faced with that new information, I would say your air conditioner is in fact broken.

- Logan

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Logan Shaw
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I've been pretty negative about tenants rights. I had forgotten that part of that stems from my experience with my mother.

Some cities have tenants rights organisations which are a quick and pretty easy way to get information from a tenants pov about what his rights are. If I lived in a small city or rural area, I'd try to find out if the big city in that area had one, and they would know if protection was state-wide, county-wide, whatever.

If there is no tenants org, there are much more likely to be legal clinics for the poor, and even if one is not poor, I don't see an ethical problem getting a few minutes of basic information from a place like that. Landlord/tenant problems one of the biggest sources of legal problems for the poor, and I would expect that most of these people sympathize with the needs of even those tenants who are not poor. What they don't want to do is get a new client that needs hours of their time, when he's not within their income level. Ask for a person who specializes in landlord problems, or stop by and they may have pamphlets which summarize the tenants rights laws. They have minimum income requirements for some things, but I'd be surprised if they wouldn't give yuou a brochure and then answer questions for five minutes, or maybe even 10.

In the case of my mother, she lived in Allentown, Pa, and was going to move here because I lived here. She lived in a garden apartment area, and the rental office did not permit month to month tenants. She had to sign a new one year lease every year. She or her husband had negotiated with them and arrangged, by paying a premium, to sign

3-month leases. But that really didn't help her much. She spent her whole life being thrifty, and was determined to move into her new place here the day after her lease expeired in Pa. and to not pay the same months rent at two different places, or maybe it was not not pay more than one month's rent at two different places. So if she didn't find a good place to live, she had to wait 3 months for another time to look.

The place had lots of vacancies, and would have actually benefitted by letting someone like her be month to month. She might have hunted for the best apartment for 6 more months and continued to pay rent at the old place alll that time. Instead she rushed to find something acceptable at the end of the first and second 3-month periods.

I thought she just didn't negotiate right, because at leaset in her dealings with me, she could be a little testy. So I called the office and got no further than she did. They wouldn't tell me who owned the property.

So I called the county clerks office, and asked the woman if she would look it up, and asked if I called back in two hours, if that would be enough time for her to find it, and she said yes, and when I called back she gave me 3 names and business addresses, out of state.

So I used the telephone information to find out one or two of the phone numbers, at their business, and one guy told me was a silent partner, and gave me the other guy's number, and I talked to him and explained that my mother was 80 years old and this would be her last apartment, and I wanted her to have as much time as needed to find a good one, but that she was rushing to not pay extra rent and that it was in his financial interest to let her be month to month.

And he gave me a one-time one month extension. Which might have helped, but turned out not to. He woudn't just make her month to month. All the fights I had with my landlord in NY didn't have nearly the effect of understanding the hostilitiy of tenants to landlords as this experience.

As it turns out she moved to a place that ended up being disastrous for my mother, although I don't know that she would have found a seemingly better place if she had mroe time, or that she wouldn't have picked the same place (which didn't have any problems that one could see), or that the same thing couldn't have happened anyplace else. And when she was having these disastrous problems, it didn't occur to me that it was the apartment she chose that caused them, or that if she had had a more relaxed time to pick. That is, it wasn't the place per se exactly, it was things that happened there that might possibly have happened anywhere, even if a little less likely. Actually I only thought about the possible relationship between her lack of time and the bad results tonight, but I did think at the time I called the landlord, how selfish I thought her landlord was. I think being a landlord brings out the worst in some people, and attracts the worst kind of people iln other cases. What fraction of all landlords these two categories form, I don't know. What fraction of landlords are bad, I have no idea. I know they are sorely tested by tenants, including tenants who rented from your landlord before you got there.

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Reply to
mm

First, it sounds like the outdoor unit needs to be cleaned.

Second, it's not possible to really accurately predict your power bill.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Actually you did miss it...in my first post I told her

"Clearly your AC unit is not working........"

much more information in that line than in all of your posts.......

I must have missed your revealing diagnosis when you pronounced it because it was camouflaged by your bile.

btw have you figured out mute vs moot? :)

too bad you're not mute

Reply to
BobK207

Then you are 100% wrong. Real people, (you kow, those of us with SATs of 1500 back 47 years ago before score inflation made scores like the one you boasted about meaningless) living in the real world understand 12:00 PM to mean Noon 99.8 % of the time.

But with all your great knowledge and demonstrable interpersonal skills, have you gotten your AC working yet?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

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jJim McLaughlin

SNIP HAPPENS

Since you were too stupid to understand it the first time, let me repeat it for you:

YOU ARE AN ANNOYING AND SELF DEFEATING FOOL.

Watching a train wreck happening in slow motion can be entertaining.

You have ceased being entertaining.

YOU ARE NOW MERELY AN ANNOYING AND SELF DEFEATING FOOL..

I your AC working yet?

Didn't think so.

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

SNIP HAPPENS

Used- past tense, no use.

Try to learn correct grammer. You might get better SAT scores with which to impress us all.

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

LOL! Try learning to spell GRAMMAR.

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anyone

SNIP HAPPENS

You go girl. Write that letter. It will certainly fix your AC unit. Amazing what can be done with a stamp amd an envelope.

In the mean time, you will have yet another $ 320 - 350 power bill to pay.

A smart persom would get a real repair person in to fix the unit and pay that person directly, thereby avoiding the ongoing excess power bills.

But, as you stated, your IQ is 135, so you are obviouly not smart enough to figure that out.

Not too smart, clearly wrapped too tight.

As spomeone els said, it must suck to be you.

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

If you go back and read my post you will see that I did not say my IQ was 135. There's a minimum intelligence limit where I can relate to someone.

Reply to
carie_r

Complaining about newsgroup grammer and spelling... Why am I replying? Well, my CLEP w/essay was above the 99th &... (that was standardized based on test results from people who just completed English 101). Didn't take English 101...

Reply to
carie_r

Still reading?

Reply to
carie_r

This is a standard juvenile pissing contest, and you have both succeeded in drenching each other, as well as yourselves. This would be a really good time for both of you to take a time out, before somebody drowns, or the rest of us die laughing at you.

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anyone

?? You previously stated "And you are wrong about the use of 12:00 PM to universally mean Noon." And now you say "Real people living in the real world understand 12:00 PM to mean Noon 99.8 % of the time." The second quote is a rephrasing of what I said, which was a reply to your first quote.

Regarding SAT scores, I read they correlated about as well to IQ (pre-1995 SAT) as different types of IQ tests correlate to each other. I mentioned the SAT because a lot of people don't know their IQ.

I never boasted about my SAT score, and I never said what it was. I only implied it would be higher than that, and the motivation wasn't boasting, it was about compatibility.

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carie_r

SNIP HAPPENS

Again, since you are too stupid to figure it out, I'll repeat:

YOU GO GIRL. WRITE THAT LETTER. IT WILL CERTAINLY FIX YOUR AC UNIT. AMAZING WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH A STAMP AMD AN ENVELOPE.

IN THE MEAN TIME, YOU WILL HAVE YET ANOTHER $ 320 - 350 POWER BILL TO PAY.

A SMART PERSOM WOULD GET A REAL REPAIR PERSON IN TO FIX THE UNIT AND PAY THAT PERSON DIRECTLY, THEREBY AVOIDING THE ONGOING EXCESS POWER BILLS.

BUT, AS YOU STATED, YOUR IQ IS 135, SO YOU ARE OBVIOULY NOT SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE THAT OUT.

NOT TOO SMART, CLEARLY WRAPPED TOO TIGHT.

AS SOMEONE ELSE SAID, IT MUST SUCK TO BE YOU.

Getting warm there this afternoon?

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

SNIP HAPPENS

Umm humm, yeah, right.

You're about as compatable as a scorpion.

And have he interpersonal and problem solving skills of one as well.

Getting warm there tis afternoon?

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

Wow. I'm impressed. Not.

Is your AC working yet?

Have you figured out how to get it fixed now?

Or are you still waiting for your letter, envelope and stamp to fix the AC?

Not too smart, and still wrapped far too tight.

Reply to
jJim McLaughlin

Too bad you're an IDIOT.

Must suck to look in a mirror, Eh?

Reply to
<kjpro

Well done,every one of your replies did not address the content of post to which you replied...must take a fair amount of effort to do that.

No substance, just insults & name calling ......keep up those valuable contributions.

Reply to
BobK207

Having an advanced degree in liberal arts only means you don&#39;t have to wear the paper hat when you ask "Do you want fries with that??"

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Noon-Air

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