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A venture-funded startup for putting up $1500 living room dividers that manages to run at a loss may be peak San Francisco.
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Reddit users are like a swarm of zombies sometimes. If something negative gets shared about a person or company, you can be fairly certain that there will be hundreds to tens of thousands of Redditors expressing their anger. That anger, whether deserved or not, results in everything from DDOS attacks, phonecalls from thousands of people, people contacting employees at home, death threats, etc etc. There's also the ta…
Calling those who did the Boston Marathon detective work "Reddit" is like calling those who hailed the NZ mosque shooter "4chan".
Maybe the lesson to be learned is that the media needs to know what they are dealing with before going with the "Reddit says" storyline.
Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
Happened to me. I paid rent for a couple of months to a lady that I thought owned the appartement. Then one day someone knocked on the door, asked who I was, why I was living in his appartement, and why his tenant stopped paying rent. In retrospect, it was eye opening how gullible everyone involved was (myself included), and how little the police did about it. For every appartement I've since rented I checked the off…
Sorry for the stupid question, but what does this mean? How does one check this?
Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
Happened to me. I paid rent for a couple of months to a lady that I thought owned the appartement. Then one day someone knocked on the door, asked who I was, why I was living in his appartement, and why his tenant stopped paying rent. In retrospect, it was eye opening how gullible everyone involved was (myself included), and how little the police did about it. For every appartement I've since rented I checked the off…
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Happened to me. I paid rent for a couple of months to a lady that I thought owned the appartement. Then one day someone knocked on the door, asked who I was, why I was living in his appartement, and why his tenant stopped paying rent. In retrospect, it was eye opening how gullible everyone involved was (myself included), and how little the police did about it. For every appartement I've since rented I checked the off…
> I checked the official register Sorry for the stupid question, but what does this mean? How does one check this?
Do you have a deposit protection scheme like we have the the UK? Our refundable deposits don't sit with the landlord or letting agent, they go to a separate company. At the end they release the funds unless there is some sort of damage in which case they investigate and decide whats a fair payment to the landlord.
In chicago the land lord must tell you exactly where the money is deposited pay you interest, and provide a precise disclosure from the city (even if there’s no deposit) or the whole lease is invalid. Most land lords therefore charge non-refundable “move in fees”. Other cities are different.
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> Make the tenants whole through at least April, if not April and May. Are you saying that organizations that just happen to be in the same general business should be covering for the fraud of unrelated companies? Should Stanford be paying back the students of Belford University?
It depends whether your industry wants to have a good reputation or not. If you're OK with all being seen as scum who try to get whatever they can, I guess not. Suppose an airline collapses, leaving passengers stranded. Better run airlines _could_ say "Sucks to be you, choose a better airline next time" and charge full fare to anybody stranded trying to get home. But actually they mostly don't do that, usually "rescu…
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Happened to me. I paid rent for a couple of months to a lady that I thought owned the appartement. Then one day someone knocked on the door, asked who I was, why I was living in his appartement, and why his tenant stopped paying rent. In retrospect, it was eye opening how gullible everyone involved was (myself included), and how little the police did about it. For every appartement I've since rented I checked the off…
How's that work? In every situation I've been in, the landlord opens the place for me, gives a tour, and eventually gives me a key.
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Reddit's rules against giving out personal information, so thousands of Redditors don't bombard the startup with angry comments or worse.
The name of a company is not personal information.
Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
Subletting is entirely legal is it not? And it’s not a free ticket to do whatever you want with the property either.