Comments on: Day 5 – Whoa. http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/ Me, rebranded. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Spacemonkey http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Spacemonkey Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:37:06 +0000 http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/#comment-62 Hey Tim, Keep the $2k apartment and consider it a great start to your life here in the city. Rent stabilized means cheap, but it can also mean: 1) constantly broken elevators 2) non-existent maintenance people 3) ZERO hot water 4) broken laundry machines in basement 5) psycho neighbors (more than you'd expect) I once had an apartment on the upper west side that was sharing some rent stabilized units in the building. What I learned was that the owner of the building had zero initiative to take care of the place, and our 1 year there was absolute hell. For example, the sewage backflow opened up right in the middle of the basement, in the middle of the room with the laundry machines - you had to carefully step over human excrement to get to your 'clean' laundry. Yuck. Speaking of pictures, check the ruby-talk list for an announcement/teaser on an updated gallery rails plugin ;-) Welcome to the city Tim! -- Mitch Hey Tim,

Keep the $2k apartment and consider it a great start to your life here in the city. Rent stabilized means cheap, but it can also mean:

1) constantly broken elevators
2) non-existent maintenance people
3) ZERO hot water
4) broken laundry machines in basement
5) psycho neighbors (more than you’d expect)

I once had an apartment on the upper west side that was sharing some rent stabilized units in the building. What I learned was that the owner of the building had zero initiative to take care of the place, and our 1 year there was absolute hell. For example, the sewage backflow opened up right in the middle of the basement, in the middle of the room with the laundry machines – you had to carefully step over human excrement to get to your ‘clean’ laundry. Yuck.

Speaking of pictures, check the ruby-talk list for an announcement/teaser on an updated gallery rails plugin ;-)

Welcome to the city Tim!

– Mitch

]]> By: Dad http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Dad Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:04:57 +0000 http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/#comment-60 Tim, When will we see some pictures on the blog? That would be cool! Dad Tim,

When will we see some pictures on the blog? That would be cool!

Dad

]]> By: Dad http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Dad Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:02:42 +0000 http://www.oneofthewolves.com/2007/08/22/day-5-whoa/#comment-61 Wow Tim! The $1650 one would have been nice! But who know that needle was so shiny. Everyone was going for it at the same time and someone beat you to the punch. Just make do with what you can get now and work on something better down the road. Good luck on the $2000 apartment! I will be calling soon. Dad Wow Tim! The $1650 one would have been nice! But who know that needle was so shiny. Everyone was going for it at the same time and someone beat you to the punch. Just make do with what you can get now and work on something better down the road. Good luck on the $2000 apartment! I will be calling soon.

Dad

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