Posted on 10/20/2020 9:33:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
We actually found an article in the Albany paper about this management company raising some single mother’s rent by 15% at the beginning of the COVID outbreak. So this company is run by a bit of a slimeball.
Apparently any increase > 5% is supposed to have at least 90 days of notice in NYS. Our notice was 85 days. However, we were thinking we wouldn’t stay anyway for other reasons so it’s just a way to make the decision easier.
Sometimes, I think business owners base their price increases on how they perceive the buyer. Or renter, as the case may be. As the late Igor would say, “Maybe it’s just the way my face hangs.”
Well, the landlord switched management companies on 1 Jan for some reason. Naturally, I tend to think it’s because the other management company didn’t have as good a cost/benefit proposal as this one did. However, since coming in the new management company has sent emails with huge spelling/grammar mistakes, sent emails out of order (here’s your new rental agreement - you can expect your new rental agreement to come in the next few days), and not handled the snow in the parking lot at all well.
They have also added the benefit of a business center (during the COVID lockdown?), reimbursement of some pool membership if we join in the summer, and still not reopened the fitness room.
Anyway, the rent increases are probably based on this perceived addition of value - none of which I care about. But I’m sure telling the landlord they will bring in this much more revenue each month went over very well.
Today’s special animal friends are the Cockeyed Squid, a group of seventeen species and subspecies belonging to the genus Histioteuthis and the family Histioteuthidae. They are only one of thousands of members of the super amazing Cephalopoda class, which includes octopi, cuttlefish, nautilus, and other molluscs, some of which we will explore in future episodes, unless I take a sledgehammer to this computer – which is driving me MAD - and run off to live in the wilds with Son B (”Thor”).
Anyway, the Cockeyed Squid get their name from the fact that their right eye is small, round, blue, and sunken, while their left eye is more than twice as large, tubular, and yellow-green, and it bulges out, turning toward the top of the head. Weird and gross, right? But everything in nature has a purpose – except maybe the peacock’s tail ... get a job, fellas – and that includes these eyes. In 2017, researchers at Duke University, which looks like Hogwarts, discovered that the larger eye is used to see ambient sunlight, while the smaller eye detects bioluminescence, including the glow of some species of this squid. Honestly, don’t you wish your eyes could do that?
One species is Histioteuthis reversa, the Reverse Jewel Squid. It has a mantle (the thick part that encloses the body mass) length of about 7-1/2” inches. Then there’s its head, with the different kinds of eyes. The head extrudes four pairs of arms and two tentacles; these are somewhat longer than the mantle. The arms and tentacles have suckers with gripping teeth. This species is bioluminescent. There are many light-emitting photopores on its mantle and around its eyes.
The Reverse Jewel Squid is found in the Mediterranean Sea, the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. It is found mainly at depths between 1,500 and 2,500 feet. Predators of adults include sharks, whales, and dolphins.
Not much is known about the feeding habits of cockeyed squid, but some species are known to eat fish, crustaceans, and other squid. They search for prey by sight and catch it with their tentacles, which bring the prey in reach of the arms, which carry it to their sharp, tearing beak. They eat the flesh off and throw away uneaten remains.
All the species of Histioteuthis are uniquely weird. Many have membranes between their tentacles, giving them a bat-crossed-with-Cthulhu appearance that you don’t want to see in your dreams. To the extent their populations have been evaluated, they are species “of least concern” to environmentalists.
My mother would never raise the rent on a tenant who was paying. One month of vacancy cancels out a year of gain from the higher rent increment.
Kathleen and I are going to the park with friends. It’s in the 40s and cloudy, but we have warm clothes.
As Robert Burton would opine, “Penny wise and pound foolish.”
It boggles the mind that a company can be accepted as valid when they have no inkling of English grammar and spelling. But don’t get me started.
I suspect you won’t be the only renter to vacate permanently in the near future.
Very interesting! Thanks!
As for me, the sun is actually coming in my living room window! For about another five minutes, but it’s a start! Spring is on the way! *happy dance*
Kathleen and I had a nice walk in the woods with her friends. After lunch, I’ll come up with the next thing, which could be Nap With Jake.
As are all the instances of homo sapiens.
Actually, at the current vacancy rate the prices they are posting on line seem rather ridiculous. The building is one of those "make it look fancy but don't waste money on quality" places. The issues get old fast. It's right next to a "beverage center" but the only beverages are brands of beer. Somehow the beverage center, and our parking lot, attract more than a few homeless. So it doesn't feel as safe as an expensive building should.
I would say they really don't understand what they're doing and trying to make/save money in all the wrong ways. But I've never managed an apartment building so .
I went to the library (in the cold sun) and saw to my surprise that the trees around the building are beginning to show signs of budding. Whoa!
And more birds are singing!
So then the question comes to my mind — does the landlord have a good command of the English language?
A thunderstorm landed on my nap with Jake, but he was far under the covers and didn’t care. It’s been raining steadily for about an hour now.
Excellent point.
Every morning of my High School life...
Dr. Don Rose is now immortal; something I know for a fact.
https://airchexx.com/dr-don-rose-on-610-kfrc-san-francisco-april-18-1986/
I remember radio ...
What a sweet little face!
Good morning.
The Favorite Daughter sent me a text yesterday, a couple of hours before I fell asleep, and when I woke up a little after 2100, I couldn’t go back to sleep for thinking of it.
It seems that things are so bad in Coloradistan that she and The Guy have had to change their political affiliation from R to D. The Guy was verbally attacked, evidently viciously, by a co-worker for being conservative. People there are being targeted and losing their jobs because they’re Republicans.
She’s scared, and ready to move someplace else, like SD.
Anyway, I was awake for three hours because of that, and had to reset my alarm so I could get another 90 minutes of sleep. Unngh.
In a way, I’m not surprised, although it seems quite extreme.
I have a doctor appointment this morning and will be leaving in 15 minutes or so. I’ve assigned James and Vlad to write the Special Animal Friend for today; we’ll see how it goes!
Don’t be confoosed, kitteh. Iz Fridai!
Happy Fridai!
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