landlords can only raise the rent by a certain percentage per year. I want to say 3% is the maximum. But, again, not sure if that applies here.
In CA, it wouldn't.
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
juliana - Dec 04, 2007 7:37:36 am PST #5347 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Ginger - Dec 04, 2007 7:41:37 am PST #5348 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
This is why I don't like giving gift cards.
I don't like giving gift cards because you trade convenient money that you can spend anywhere at any time for inconvenient money that in some cases expires.
beekaytee - Dec 04, 2007 7:42:02 am PST #5349 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Heh -- right-handed and a Cancer on the cusp of Gemini. But I'm not discounting the possibility of a shared brain....
Weird. Totally opposite charts. (Literally) Hmph. Must be radioactive spiders.
Allyson - Dec 04, 2007 7:42:19 am PST #5350 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Kat, what sizes are the kids in, now? And can K come with me to see Gracie this weekend?
Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2007 7:45:04 am PST #5351 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
that in some cases expires
it is AMAZING to me that this allowed
Vortex - Dec 04, 2007 7:45:35 am PST #5352 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Beej, a quick gander at the law seems to suggest that if the landlord owns less than 4 units, the rent ceiling law doesn't apply.
beekaytee - Dec 04, 2007 7:46:20 am PST #5353 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Are you on a month to month lease?
Since I write the leases (see the above mentioned moronness), I suppose i could make it anything I want.
I have read the 3% thing too, which is why the 10% seemed unreasonable.
Today was the very first time I've ever gotten anything in writing from him. When he brought this up, in October, I put my foot down. No more scribbled notes shoved through the door. Honestly, I wonder if he's running drugs out of the store given how adverse he is to doing business in any sane way.
Kat - Dec 04, 2007 7:46:50 am PST #5354 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat, what sizes are the kids in, now? And can K come with me to see Gracie this weekend?
They are both sort of in 3-6months now. More or less.
And yes. K can come with you to see Grace. I'll email you both.
beekaytee - Dec 04, 2007 7:47:35 am PST #5355 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Beej, a quick gander at the law seems to suggest that if the landlord owns less than 4 units, the rent ceiling law doesn't apply.
Curse your sudden but inevitable confirmation.
Thanks for checking Vortex. At least I can now officially feel defeated and get on with it, having done all I could.
Susan W. - Dec 04, 2007 7:47:48 am PST #5356 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I like getting gift cards as long as they're to places I actually like to shop (like bookstores!) because they're permission to be self-indulgent. When people give me money, I feel like I really ought to put it toward our debt, but with a B&N gift card I have no choice but to buy books.
And I'll be getting gift cards for my older nieces and nephews. I have too many and am too broke to afford to get them anything elaborate, but at least I can pay for a few of their Starbucks runs or something and feel like I'm showing them I care, and they'll get more enjoyment out of that than out of some random knickknack I could get for the same price--living on the other side of the country, I don't necessarily have a good sense of what they read or listen to or how they're currently dressing.