The best negotiating tool you have is a willingness to move. If you aren't prepared to move, then you will have a tough time. It's a huge hassle to fill a vacant rental property, landlords do not like doing it. So as long as you are prepared to follow through on a threat to move to one of the lower priced properties that you've been able to locate then you should be in a good position to get your current landlord to lower the rent.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
NoiseDesign - Aug 17, 2009 2:09:35 pm PDT #19881 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2009 2:29:37 pm PDT #19882 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's a huge hassle to fill a vacant rental property, landlords do not like doing it.
It's a huge hassle to move, and I do not like doing it!
But I have to at least act like I'm willing to move.
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2009 3:14:42 pm PDT #19883 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've never read anything that supported the blood type diet. Also, I seriously doubt that blood type, at least as this diet defines the ideal diet for each blood type, has much to do with whether people do well on a vegetarian diet or not -- according to that website, Type A, which is about 35% of the population, should be vegetarian, and Type B, which is about another 35%, should never eat chicken and should instead eat goat, lamb, rabbit, and venison.
Calli - Aug 17, 2009 3:38:39 pm PDT #19884 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Type B, which is about another 35%, should never eat chicken and should instead eat goat, lamb, rabbit, and venison.
I'm B+, and while I love the idea that my mom's venison mincemeat pie is my perfect food, I doubt that building my diet around it'll get me down to my skinny jeans any time soon.
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2009 5:41:26 pm PDT #19885 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ow. It's another Tramadol night. I tried going without the ankle brace today, and I guess that was a bad idea.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2009 6:07:17 pm PDT #19886 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does Tramadol make you woozy, Hil? The ER gave me a prescription for it which I finally filled today. I was with a friend once on it and it fucked him up real hard and left him with little memory of the whole thing, but it doesn't seem to do much for me.
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2009 6:10:02 pm PDT #19887 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It definitely makes me woozy. It also doesn't do all that much for the pain, but it puts me to sleep, eventually. Usually after I do something like have a long involved IM conversation about giant squid.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2009 6:22:11 pm PDT #19888 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think that anything I don't get injected makes me woozy anymore--not in prescription amounts, anyway. Thankfully I got the ER to put my dilaudid dosage back up to 6mg per dose--but it still took 12mg and a Tramadol to get rid of the last headache. I was clear for days, though! It was marvellous. Straight through from Thursday until now.
sj - Aug 17, 2009 6:34:02 pm PDT #19889 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ita, are you able to sleep at all? I'm so sorry that no one has been able to come up with anything that truly helps you.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2009 6:36:16 pm PDT #19890 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
are you able to sleep at all?
Only with Ambien CR. The insomnia's particularly insidious.
I'm so sorry that no one has been able to come up with anything that truly helps you.
Thanks. The current regimen of meds leaves many of my headaches more susceptible to Imitrex, so my ER visits are cut almost in half, so that's a big positive. Still, too much.