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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

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Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

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Post by perlpimp »

gentleman11 wrote: post #318
AJRF wrote: post #302

I recently moved house. I was previously living with my friend, and we had an agreement I pay sometime before the end of the month. He gave me a contract and said you'll need this, just because when you go to the next place they will ask you for your previous contract. He found it online, it was boiler plate and we agreed verbally I pay him whenever during the month. We we're really good friends, and I lived there fo…

All my online dashboards I deal with for various things are buggy and inflexible. Whatever the problem is though, you can usually phone a human who can fix it. If you get rid of humans, it’s just creating a nightmare

We already know how this happens when Google cancels your account, without any warning.

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Post by newsclues »

NoOneNew wrote: post #332
AJRF wrote: post #302

I recently moved house. I was previously living with my friend, and we had an agreement I pay sometime before the end of the month. He gave me a contract and said you'll need this, just because when you go to the next place they will ask you for your previous contract. He found it online, it was boiler plate and we agreed verbally I pay him whenever during the month. We we're really good friends, and I lived there fo…

Humanity is the sickness. Only through software and bureaucracy can humans cure their ailment and achieve the proper goals. It's 2021, get with the times.

Humanity is fine but we’ve tolerated cancers that have gained control of the brain and are running the show.

Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

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Post by greenshackle2 »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #257
Robotbeat wrote: post #193

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Singapore has “social housing” except the government builds the housing and sells it to people for cheap: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-singapore-plan-for-publi...

My understanding is that the median condo in Singapore costs $1M USD. Is this not true, and if it is, then how is $1M USD for a condo considered cheap? You can get condos next to The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for that price...

That's for private condos. 80% of people in Singapore live in government built public housing. The cost of the average public apartment is more like $300k which is not that bad for a city like Singapore.

As far as I can tell most comparisons for "the price of housing between Singapore and X" only look at private condos, probably because X doesn't have anything like Singapore's public flats to compare with for almost all values of X.

(When you "buy" a public apartment from the government, you get a 99 year lease, which you can resell. There are restrictions on buying public apartments, if I remember right you have to be a citizen or PR, and you have to be married or 35+. They cannot be bought by corporations.)

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Post by nicbou »

NoOneNew wrote: post #332
AJRF wrote: post #302

I recently moved house. I was previously living with my friend, and we had an agreement I pay sometime before the end of the month. He gave me a contract and said you'll need this, just because when you go to the next place they will ask you for your previous contract. He found it online, it was boiler plate and we agreed verbally I pay him whenever during the month. We we're really good friends, and I lived there fo…

Humanity is the sickness. Only through software and bureaucracy can humans cure their ailment and achieve the proper goals. It's 2021, get with the times.

I am far more concerned about software automating what used to be left to human judgement. AI will judge us just the same, just faster and with no way to appeal to common sense.

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Post by yunohn »

colinmhayes wrote: post #308
yunohn wrote: post #186

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> This is correct in almost all cases (outside of highly commoditized goods) and it's crazy how people don't understand it. What are you on about? Of course McD will change prices relative to input expenditure. You can even see this across all the countries they serve. If there were to be a significant impact on margin, they can increase prices. All fees are passed onto customers, that’s how you calculate profit marg…

You're not really right at all. The percentage of fees that are passed on is completely dependent on elasticity. >All fees are passed onto customers is not even close to correct.

Most business only absorb the minimum amount of margin loss they can, and for very short terms. No business aims to operate at a loss unless propped up by outside investments.

All businesses will increase prices to maintain the profits they need, up until what the market will bear - which is why taxes will also not end up pushing it too far, the gov isn’t stupid.

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Post by handmodel »

ipaddr wrote: post #349
handmodel wrote: post #286

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Do you think taxi drivers are making more money than uber drivers considering they: - Taxi drivers (outside of NYC) in the US are going to get less rides per hour than uber drivers - Taxi drivers traditionally have to give a larger share to the taxi company than uber drives give to Uber. If they are independent then they have identical car expenses as an uber driver. I 100% believe that a lot of Uber drivers barely b…

He wore down his car and had to pay higher insurance. He ended up making slightly over 9 dollars an hour. Better than a busboy.. perhaps but at least after bus boying he will have a car that still works.

I can't claim to know all his finances - but his car was a 10 year old ford sedan that must have cost less than 9k when he started. Considering he did Uber for multiple years and the car is still his vehicle I'm pretty sure it is mathematically impossible that depreciation could make it a bad deal - or even close to a bad deal.

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Post by seneca »

kreeben wrote: post #217
seneca wrote: post #197

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> Your comments are the perfect example of the short term positive news wave they can generate. Thank you for validating. This kind of lazy snark comment degrades this community.

Absolute free speech, however, empowers this community. I say, let each and everyone speak their mind, even the snark.

Indeed, I agree. By no means am I advocating the removal of their ability to post, simply using my own to point out that perhaps they ought to think a bit more about their content.

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Post by goldcd »

compsciphd wrote: post #324
gentleman11 wrote: post #312

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The purpose of the medallions, in theory, is to improve the chances that the average cab driver can make a living wage. Can the average Uber driver live a middle class income from this “gig”? > When accounting for the ride-sharing company’s commissions and fees, vehicle expenses and a modest health insurance package, Uber drivers end up earning just $9.21 in hourly wages, according to a new study from the Economic Po…

the average cabby can't buy a medalion, he therefore has to pay a fee to someone who owns a car with a medalion to rent the car for a period of time (+ probably paying the owner a percentage of his take). As opposed to using his own car and keeping everything that uber lets him to keep which might be less than what the medalion owner would have taken. hence, increase in money into pocket for the uber/lyft driver. wit…

I believe they could - and they took out quite horrifically large loans to do so.

It maybe made sense though, as your payment was your license to work, and selling the medalion on was your retirement plan. Uber screwed this up - but my feelings are mixed.

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Post by squeaky-clean »

jollybean wrote: post #340
AJRF wrote: post #329

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OP here - Estate agent asked for 6 months bank statements, which I assume was requested by the referencing agency. I don't think is common practise in the U.K, but I asked around and lots of people told me it is more common that the larger agencies ask for it, plus it was for an apartment in a very competitive development so I feel like it might have been a forcing function to reduce the amount of applicants but that…

"Estate agent asked for 6 months bank statements, " WTF. That's a crazy practice. Paystub maybe, but bank statements? My gosh.

I've been looking for a new apartment in NYC and the place I applied for wanted 2 month's of paystubs and 2 month's of bank statements. Most agencies I've seen request this or more. It's insane but if you find a place you like things sell so quickly here that you have no choice but to play by their rules or leave the city.

Unrelated rant but the reason I've been looking is my current landlord has taken over 35 days to send me a renewal contract. Go figure that 10 minutes after texting him I'm going through the credit check for a new apartment he sends me the updated document.

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